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Powered by RKC.me, the community media brands I Love the Burg and That’s So Tampa make up the largest independent social media network in Tampa Bay. We’re also purveyors of noms and cool stuff galore.

Est. 2009

I Love the Burg

I Love the Burg is the who, what, when and where of St. Petersburg, Florida. A celebrated part of our community, the love always feels mutual.

Est. 2014

That's So Tampa

Founded in 2014, That’s So Tampa has been slinging culture left and right ever since. Follow our social media accounts to grow with us and this great city!

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Why Advertise With Us

Independence

Largest independent social media network in Tampa Bay reaching nearly 1.5 million monthly impressions via Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, email subscribers and direct traffic to iLovetheBurg.com and ThatsSoTampa.com

Community

Unlike traditional media outlets, local readers view I Love the Burg and That’s So Tampa as a member of the community and trusted source for local events and businesses to support.

An Experienced Approach

Owned and operated by a creative digital agency, we are fully adept at creating a plan for marketing your brand, product or service that will resonate with viewers and drive results.

Reach

With multiple channels of distribution, I Love the Burg and That’s So Tampa reach a wide demographic, leading with 25-45 year-olds and a 60:40 ratio of women to men who engage with us daily.

Multi Channel

I Love the Burg and That’s So Tampa uses its social media effectively to spread editorial and video content to large followings on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, growing email distribution and daily website traffic.

Media Kit

Contact us for a media kit or call 727-896-3435 for more information.

Digital Media Placement

The biggest brands in Tampa Bay and beyond have tapped RKC.me to build great digital campaigns with. With an unmatched expertise in paid media on Facebook, Instagram, Google and other top platforms, our results continue to defy key benchmarks for reach, interaction and cost. If you’re planning to increase your social and digital media budget, you should be working with RKC.me. We may be able to manage placements for a percentage of overall budget.

Paid Media Benchmarks

Average CPM: $14.72
Average CPC: $1.52
Average CTR: 1.95%
(via AdStage)

Our Results

Average CPM: $9.75
Average CPC: $0.47
Average CTR: 3.24%

Creative Services

From design and copywriting to social media and email marketing, quick advertising bursts to prolonged campaigns, big or small, we’re creating brand experiences.

How to make an impact on a city and community known for its thriving arts scene? Given St. Pete’s penchant for eye-catching street art, RKC came up with idea of creating a mural that would serve as Pilot Bank‘s love note to St. Pete at its newest location on 4th Street, its first in the city! […]
Making a Mark with Pilot Bank’s Mural
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Restaurant Clients RKC.me works with a variety of hospitality brands across the Tampa Bay Area, recently completing photoshoots with some long-term and newly acquired clients including Bella’s Italian Cafe, Cassis and 2nd and Second. Rich photography allows team RKC.me to build digital campaigns that continue to deliver measurable results. Not to mention, make us hungry.
Using Rich Photography to Build Digital Campaigns for Hospitality Clients
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Locals love their dogs. To promote Sundial’s restaurants as a doggie dining destination, while boosting happy hour awareness, RKC.me combined well-rounded digital and branding campaign with an influencer event. Popular social media pooches and their humans enjoyed drinks, dinners and happy hours on what we dubbed the Sundial “Doggie Dining Deck” while sharing their experience […]
Sundial Doggy Campaign Boosts Restaurants, Foot Traffic
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2nd & Second The anticipation around 2nd & Second, St. Pete’s only 24 hour downtown diner, was building from the moment the news was announced. RKC.me helped brand the new restaurant, designing its logo, a fun menu, and funky placemats. We also captured the amazing atmosphere through photos and developed a visual centric website to […]
1st Appearances for 2nd & Second
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As agents of digital engagement, the biggest brands in Tampa Bay and beyond have tapped RKC.me to build great content and winning strategies. Recent industry reports solidify that our results continue to defy key benchmarks for reach, interaction and cost. Paid Social Benchmarks According to AdStage Average CPM: $14.72 Average CPC: $1.52 Average CTR: […]
RKC.me Slays New Digital Advertising Benchmarks
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Tampa Bay Rowdies Moving to the USL for their first year, the Tampa Bay Rowdies made a strong playoff run. We created clean, bold green and gold graphics to catch the eyes of fans and encourage them to get behind their team to “bring it home.” The branding was successfully used across social ads with […]
Cheering on the Tampa Bay Rowdies
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Cassis A staple of St. Pete’s foodie scene from before there was such a thing, Cassis American Brasserie was evolving to better serve the demands of a culture they helped cultivate. Dropping the “American Brasserie” from their name and doing a bit of renovating, Cassis 2.0 enlisted RKC.me to help spread the word of the […]
Not Letting the Dust Settle at Cassis
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image by Joey Clay Kahwa Coffee It all started with a tweet; when longtime Kahwa Coffee customer Evan Longoria @’d the company on Twitter, he set the ball in motion to fast becoming a business partner. In launching the special collaborative coffee blend, Signature Series No. 3, RKC.me was tasked with designing the bag and […]
Good Coffee for a Good Cause
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I Love the Burg If there’s one thing we love at I Love the Burg, it’s dogs. Okay, living in St. Pete, we also are enamored with each sunrise and sunset. Therefore, we tapped National Dog Day as a reason to come together for a photo opportunity to celebrate our love for both with the […]
Pup with the Sun Instameet
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Pilot Bank One of Tampa Bay’s oldest community banks, Pilot Bank wanted to create a special CD rate to “recognize great achievements.” Teaming up with legendary Tampa Bay Buccaneer Jimmie “88” Giles, RKC.me created branding, branch signage and a digital campaign touting two exceptional options, both using the player’s well-known jersey number, for personalized investing strategies.
Jimmie Giles
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With HIV on the rise in Tampa Bay, we ran our first Grindr campaign to help spread the word about PrEP, a daily pill that can reduce exposure to the virus by up to 92%. … after a month-long campaign, RKC.me client METRO went from nearly zero inquiries about PrEP to dozens which also led […]
Grindr PrEP’s Tampa Bay Gay Males
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Anthony Sullivan Working with legendary pitchman Anthony Sullivan, RKC.me helped adapt his TV campaign for the Hurricane Spin Broom to a social universe. Our effort increased viewership from only 5% completion to nearly 70% of viewers watching the entire 12 second social infomercial while also sending thousands of new users to the website to shop.
RKC Takes Spin Broom to Social
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Kahwa Kudos to the husband and wife team behind one of the Tampa Bay’s fastest-growing brands. Their dedication to participating in our elaborate April Fools launch of Caféine, is representative of their dedication to the craft of making great coffee. Launched the morning of Saturday, April 1, the video was seen and shared by thousands […]
April Fools
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City of St. Petersburg Reimagining baseball in a modern world means envisioning an entertainment and lifestyle hub with a built-in sports team. Our proposal to the Tampa Bay Rays on behalf of the City of St. Petersburg not only took into account the technical vision but how life would be lived within this city inside […]
To the Rays, Love St. Pete
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Copa Competitive fares, shorter routes, connections, and complimentary hot meals and adult beverages make Copa Airlines the gem of travel to Central and South America. Our campaign for the largest airline in Latin America promotes destination travel and provides a peek into the experience of flying through Copa, with all of its bonuses. While the […]
Copa Campaign
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Kahwa Ever trendy and hip, coffee will never go out of style. Introduced in just a handful of stories, high demand for Kahwa’s nitro was almost immediate once our campaign began and created a fast track rollout to more locations.
Kahwa Nitro Blasts Off
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Museum of Fine Arts In a world of Instagram photos and Snapchat stories, a photographic journey of the great American road trip presented a great opportunity to expose a fine art museum to the next generation of patrons. Our Open Road trailer not only engaged a whole new social audience for the Museum, the MFA […]
Open Road Campaign Drives Younger Visitors to MFA
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Pilot Bank How do you make finance, cool? Align one of the area’s oldest community banks with the fast-growing city it operates in for a feel good local campaign that reflects the Tampa Bay economy coming to life. Our Pilot Bank postcards inspired thousands of interactions and shares across social media, engaging consumers to help […]
Pilot Bank Postcard Series Inspires Brand
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The Mahaffey It’s true that working with artists can be difficult. What’s more difficult is promoting shows in a social media world with highly limited print and TV assets. Through its partnership with RKC.me, we combined the forces of The Mahaffey Theater’s lineup with that of I Love the Burg’s reach to bring highly expanded […]
iLtB Newsreels Spike Interest in Mahaffey Shows
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Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Florida RKC.me is thrilled to be working with the Museum of Fine Arts on what’s certain to be one of the biggest exhibits of 2017 in St. Pete, Tampa, Florida and possibly the entire Southeastern U.S!. Opening November 11, Star Wars and the Power of Costume makes the MFA it’s rebel […]
MFA: Star Wars and the Power of Costume
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Pilot Bank Proving that a community bank is actually about community, Pilot Bank works with several big hearted organizations in Tampa Bay. In addition to giving their time for volunteer efforts, the bank looks to share great stories about those they work with via mini-documentaries on social media. PS… Best to admire Joseph a distance. Big […]
Emphasis on “Community”
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Healthy St. Pete Proving moderation is all about picking this over that, without the heaping helping of preaching, Healthy St. Pete asked us to launch a virtual progressive dinner partnership with local restaurants. The resulting tours prove that being mindful of what you take in when you eat out can still be a lot of […]
Food for Thought — and Fun!
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Diamonds Direct The bus is a great place to meet people. No, really! Just ask this young man who gets to propose to thousands every year, serendipitously. From downtown St. Pete to the beaches via Central Ave, this engaging *wink* *wink* bus wrap gets beach to bay visitors hopping aboard to say “I do” to […]
An Engaging Bus Wrap
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Tampa Bay Rowdies Soccer and Snapchat are both fast paced and without pause. An efficient way to enlist peer-to-peer advertising, we were one of the first Tampa Bay agencies to tap into the social network’s audience by creating custom geofilters Tampa Bay Rowdies home games– Adding value to fans’ live Snaps and multiplying the team’s […]
Snapchat That!
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Kahwa Coffee Good coffee deserves the very best design and packaging! We gave Kahwa Coffee’s bags a sleek overhaul just in time for a national TV appearance on HSN’s American Dreams and Kahwa’s debut on the shelves of select Winn-Dixies across Florida.
Coffee First Impressions
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Sundial St. Pete With the emergence of Facebook Live, social media users are expecting brands to deliver even more behind the scenes programming. Could Sundial tap into this kind of content to meet their goal? Sundial LIVE, a regular 7-10 minute broadcast featuring the tenants of Sundial St. Pete that’s part backstory, part informational and […]
Live, from Sundial!
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Square 1 Prospect Building Spread out over the course of six months, RKC.me’s contest software engine has secured thousands of new email and mobile subscribers for Square 1. That in addition to doubling social media engagement, delivering traffic to strategic website pages and resulting in tons of user generated content is just the start. From hospitality to sports teams, we’re […]
Contest Software Engine
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METRO HIV Awareness With a new generation unaware of the scary realities of HIV, rates have been rising fast in Hillsborough and Pinellas counties. To highlight the seriousness of the disease and encourage those at high risk to access METRO’s free HIV testing, we conceptualized PSA videos for the client using bold text, language, and […]
Addressing HIV Rise Head On
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BellaBrava Looking to capture the essence of family fun dining, we wrote a script for the commercial and then put a call out for local talent through I Love the Burg, casting people of all age ranges and walks of life. Upon release, people were so excited to see their friends and family on social media […]
Mangia, Mangia!
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DOGS!
Because…
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CONTACT US

Whether you just want to say hello or have business opportunities, we’re always available. Reach us at 727-896-3435, by filling out the form below or emailing us.

Our Communities

Est. 2009

I Love the Burg

Est. 2014

That's So Tampa

Why Advertise With Us

Independence

Community

An Experienced Approach

Reach

Multi Channel

Media Kit

Digital Media Placement

Paid Media Benchmarks

Our Results

Creative Services

Making a Mark with Pilot Bank’s Mural

Using Rich Photography to Build Digital Campaigns for Hospitality Clients

Sundial Doggy Campaign Boosts Restaurants, Foot Traffic

1st Appearances for 2nd & Second

RKC.me Slays New Digital Advertising Benchmarks

Cheering on the Tampa Bay Rowdies

Not Letting the Dust Settle at Cassis

Good Coffee for a Good Cause

Pup with the Sun Instameet

Jimmie Giles

Grindr PrEP’s Tampa Bay Gay Males

RKC Takes Spin Broom to Social

April Fools

To the Rays, Love St. Pete

Copa Campaign

Kahwa Nitro Blasts Off

Open Road Campaign Drives Younger Visitors to MFA

Pilot Bank Postcard Series Inspires Brand

iLtB Newsreels Spike Interest in Mahaffey Shows

MFA: Star Wars and the Power of Costume

Emphasis on “Community”

Food for Thought — and Fun!

An Engaging Bus Wrap

Snapchat That!

Coffee First Impressions

Live, from Sundial!

Contest Software Engine

Addressing HIV Rise Head On

Mangia, Mangia!

Because…

CONTACT US