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More Reasons To Visit. More Ways To Connect.

By Anesa K. Chastain Jones • October 14, 2026 • Oklahoma's Choice Weekly
Oklahoma sunset over a wheat field with a windmill

If you haven’t visited Oklahoma’s Choice Weekly online lately, we have a lot to show you.

Our new website and app bring together the things OCW readers look for: auctions, businesses, classifieds, community events, recipes, and the latest edition. We’ve built a place where you can browse the paper, explore a business, find an upcoming sale, and discover something you weren’t expecting along the way.

The weekly digital edition remains at the heart of it. Open the latest issue or revisit previous editions, with more of OCW just a click away. Our Auction Hub helps readers explore upcoming sales and connect with auction companies. The Marketplace organizes classifieds so visitors can browse jobs, equipment, services, property, and more. Featured business pages offer room to learn about the people, products, and services behind the advertising.

For Oklahoma’s agricultural community, our new Farm & Ranch Hub brings together hay and forage, livestock, machinery, rural property, fencing, and farm services. It gives readers a focused starting point for the things they need to keep their operations moving.

Beyond the marketplace

There’s plenty to explore beyond the marketplace, too. Our Community section connects readers with events, the Recipe Collection, Hunt Oklahoma, and tribute pages honoring loved ones, cancer fighters, survivors, and caregivers. New Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas pages add seasonal activities, holiday events, shopping inspiration, interactive coloring pages, and Letters to Santa.

OCW Network adds audio and video to the experience, creating additional ways to hear from businesses and explore what they offer. Advertising Insights provides practical ideas for business owners, while our advertising pages and Client Portal make it easier to explore options and connect with our team.

What does all of this have to do with advertising?

Quite a bit.

People visit with different interests and different needs. Someone checking an auction might also need a trailer. A reader browsing holiday events may be planning dinner, shopping for gifts, or looking for something to do close to home. Bringing those interests together creates opportunities for businesses to be discovered in the course of everyday life.

That is the purpose behind the work we’ve put into this website: make OCW useful, easy to explore, and worth returning to.

Take OCW with you

Our new app puts that experience on your phone’s home screen. It’s free to add and opens the same current content as the website, giving readers quick access wherever they have an internet connection. If you have the older OCW app, be sure to add the new version separately.

Together with our weekly digital edition, monthly printed publication, and social media promotion, the website and app give businesses more ways to build a connected advertising plan. The right combination depends on what you’re promoting and who you want to reach.

We’re proud of what we’ve built, and we invite you to explore it.

Read an edition. Browse the marketplace. Find an event. Meet a business. You might come for one thing and find several reasons to return.

Visit oklahomaschoiceweekly.com and add the new OCW app. Ready to put your business in the mix?

Oklahoma’s Choice Weekly

ANESA K. CHASTAIN JONES,
General Manager/Graphics Director,
918-285-1314, graphics@oklahomaschoiceweekly.com

JONATHAN TINNIE,
Sales Director,
918-906-7593, jonathan@oklahomaschoiceweekly.com

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About The Author

For more than 30 years, Anesa K. Chastain Jones has helped businesses grow through strategic advertising, graphic design, branding, publishing, websites, and digital marketing. As General Manager and Graphics Director of Oklahoma's Choice Weekly, she combines decades of real-world experience with a passion for helping local businesses become more visible, build stronger brands, and connect with their communities. Through Advertising Insights, Anesa shares practical ideas, creative inspiration, and honest marketing advice that business owners can put to work immediately.

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