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KEY POINTS
- National coverage
- Four issues per year
- Minimum pages – 48
- £1 cover price and distributed free with any purchase to every CHIPS’ customer
- Minimum print run – 40,000 per issue
- More than 3,000 PDF magazines downloaded in six weeks
- By Spring 2008, CHIPS had more than 30 outlets from Glasgow to the south coast with more stores planned
- Features key titles; covers both new and current top releases; hardware and accessories plus back catalogue
- Opportunities for sponsorship, co-promotions and competitions
DEMOGRAPHICS
- Core customers are 18 to 35-year-old males
- More than 500,000 customers visited CHIPS in 2006
PUBLICATION DATES 2008
| Issue | Copy Deadline | Publication Date |
|---|---|---|
| 28 – Autumn | Friday Oct 3 | Tues Oct 22 |
| 29 – Winter | Friday Nov 28 | Tues Dec 16 |
PUBLISHER
Steve Faragher of FaragherJones commissions, designs and publishes the magazine on behalf of CHIPS – Tel: 01225 319799 Email: steve@faragherjones.com
EDITOR
Debra McCabe, CHIPS Marketing Manager edits the magazine. Tel 01642 658001 or email: deb@chipsworld.co.uk
ADVERTISING
Debra McCabe on 01642 658001 Email: deb@chipsworld.co.uk
RATECARD
Prices are for press-ready artwork only
| Full page | £1,000 | 10% discount – series bookings of 5 insertions |
| Outside back cover | £1,500 | 10% discount – series bookings of 5 insertions |
| Double page spread | £1,800 | 10% discount – series bookings of 5 insertions |
| Other sizes | POA | We are able to offer half and quarter pages, strips and sponsored sections |
MECHANICAL DATA
| Trim | Bleed | |
|---|---|---|
| DPS | 297 x 420mm | 303 x 426mm |
| Page | 297 x 210mm | 303 x 216mm |
OTHER PROMOTIONS
Also available:
- Covermounts
- Bellywraps
- Loose Inserts
- Bound-in inserts
- Bound on outsert
- Sponsored polywrap (mono)
- Sponsored polywrap (colour)
- Poster single-sided
- Poster double-sided
- Supplements/guides
Please contact us to discuss your requirements and we’ll be happy to get you a competitive price.
SENDING ADVERTISING TO US
- Send ad pages on CD or DVD to Faragher Jones, 3 Monmouth Place, Bath BA1 2AT.
- Or via email, if the file size is under 10Mb, to ads@faragherjones.com
- Copy can also be supplied to the Faragher Jones FTP site. Please contact us for details of how to access the site. Please note we have a 100Mb limit.
- You can also Skype documents to us, please call 01225 319799 to set this up.
AD DESIGN
- FaragherJones offers a competitive ad design service. They have a great deal of design experience and have prepared adverts for a wide range of companies and industries
- They have designed advertising for Nintendo, Microsoft, Sony and many others for inclusion in CHIPS Magazine.
- Ad design rates are available on request
AD SPECIFICATION
We prefer to accept advertising in Pass 4 Press PDF format. The pass4press job options file can be downloaded from www.pass4press.com and put in your Acrobat Distiller settings folder. Please contact us about other file formats.
- Files should be PDF version 1.3.
- Supply files as composite CMYK.
- The file should not contain any transparent elements.
- Files should contain crop marks.All images contained within the PDF should be high resolution (300dpi recommended) CMYK format.
- All fonts should be embedded.
- Files should not contain TrueType or Multiple Master fonts.
- Pseudo italics and pseudo bold fonts should not be used.
- Any trapping requirements should be applied by the file creator.
- Combined colour ink density should not exceed 300%.
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