You too can have your company featured in this slot if you wish, call the office on 01922 415233 if you're interested in this.
Advertising
Our Display and Advertising Rates: Print
Display Colour per month
– Double page £5500
– Whole page £3300
– Half Page £2000
– One-third page £1650
– Quarter Page £1110
Classified recruitment per month
– Double page £5800
– Whole page £3300
– Half Page £2300
– Quarter Page £1100
Eighth page advertisements at publisher’s discretion. Prices are available on request.
Directory of Services: £650 for one year (one column wide by 6cm deep)
Increased size rates: £100 per scc per year.
Loose inserts per insertion
£150 per 1,000 up to 10 grammes
Extra cost for more than 10g: increase by £25 per 1000 per 10g
Stitched inserts, printed on 130g paper: £4000.
Cancellations must be notified at least six weeks prior to copy date.
Other Advertising Opportunities
Spotlights (advertorials)
Prices per month: double page £5500,
full page £3300.
Belly bands £5500.
Polly wraps £5500.
Sponsorship page headers: £550 per page per month.
Tip ons: front cover, £5500. Inside magazine £3000 (must be on a page owned by the advertiser).
Online Newsletters
Online, a regular commercial newsletter will be sent out to our circulation, which currently has anything up to 28,000 people. Naturally this number is growing month on month. It is the opportunity for companies to launch product or talk about case studies and any other relevant news.
Newsletter subjects range over private security – CCTV, alarms, access control and biometrics, identity cards and accessories, physical and perimeter security, and markets such as schools, transport and public space. In May we do IFSEC show previews and a review.
Rate card costs: £330 per news item.
The item will be placed on our site Professional Security online and the first four lines will be shown on the newsletter with a picture. There will be a link from the news item to our website to read more and a further link from the full article to your website.
Special positioning = extra cost of 20 per cent.
Banners
Header – £440
Side – £220
Skyscraper – £495
Bottom – £220
E-blasts
We can do a bespoke eblast to our full circulation. Customer to supply the HTML documents.
Cost £1650
Series discounts: Discounts are available for series bookings.
All rates are based on artwork being supplied as requested and to the correct dimensions. Any additional work carried out by the publishers will be charged at cost. For layout and artwork format please see below.
Some Stats
Average open rates 12 per cent; average click rates 12pc; highest click rate 35pc;
lowest click rate 2.5pc; highest open rate 17pc; lowest open rate 7.41pc.
Layout: Display
Page type area – 186 x 273mm
(safe area for text and images – will not be close to the gutter)
Trimmed size – 210mm x 297mm (A4)
(final size of page after trimming)
Bleed size – 216mm x 303mm
(Area of advert that gets cut off to prevent white edge to page)
DPS (double page spread) bleed – 426mm x 303mm
(area of advert that gets cut off to prevent white edge to page)
Trimmed size – 420mm x 297mm (A4)
(final size of page after trimming)
Bleed explained ...
1. Bleed size – 3mm outside page size
(this 3mm gets cut off)
2. Full page trim size
(final size of page)
3.Safe work area 12mm inside trim size
(text too close to the edges both looks untidy and can get lost in the page gutter)
Half page landscape – 184mm x 128mm
Half page landscape bleed 216mm x 145mm
Half page portrait – 87mm x 264mm
Half page portrait bleed 106mm x 303mm
Quarter page – 87mm x 128mm
Special Sizes
Sponsorships page banners – 210 mm wide by 30mm high
One-third page strips – portrait 66 mm wide by 303mm high (bleed)
Quarter page strips – landscape 186 mm wide by 64mm high (page type)
Our display and advertising rates - online
Last year, in July 2022 the website saw some 46,000 visitors in just one month. We have an average of 28,000 monthly visitors
Main (MPU), all sections: £2200 per month.
Header, all sections: £1320 per month.
Skyscraper, all sections: £825 per month.
Small side advert, all sections: £495 per month.
Tender: £825 per month
Recruitment advert: £825 per month.
Training course: £825 per month.
A personalised web page: single page, £2200. For multiple pages, £550 per additional page.
Enhanced directory of service (DoS): £210 per year. Link: £110 per year.
Blog: £825 per month. Featured: Make your item stand out, by making it featured. Extra cost £110.
Email: [email protected]
Header: £1320 per month,
header banner – 636 px by 64 px.
Main (MPU), £2200 per month,
336 px by 280 px
Skyscraper, £825 per month
160 px by 600 px
Small side advert, (small side banner),
£495 per month
160 px by 120 px
Online magazine advertising area
We are able to offer a number of advertising opportunities with our online magazine.
You can take a skyscraper banner either side of the magazine and or have a left of front page advert adjacent to the front cover. Likewise we can animate your advert, add a video, or turn your advert into your web page. We can also host your leaflets, brochures or catalogues online for you and give you a unique url to share with your customers.
Rate card:
Skyscraper banner on left hand side of the magazine = £550 per month (160×600)
Skyscraper banner on right hand side of the magazine = £550 per month (160×600)
Left of front page advert = £1650 per month
Animation on adverts = £550 per advert
Video on page = £440 per advert
Web page embedded on page = £440 per advert
Host your brochure/catalogue = £550 per month
App sponsor banners = please ask for details.
What we can do with the online magazine for you.
- The online monthly magazine is a replica of the print magazine; and, we can make your adverts interactive. That enables readers to click on your email addresses and web urls
- We can also put up videos and animations on your adverts, to bring them alive.
Top: video on double page spread advert
Above: A right hand avdert becomes a web page
Left: left of front page skyscraper
