Media Kit 2019/20 - Australian Geographic

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Media Kit 2019/20 - Australian Geographic
Media Kit 2019/20
Media Kit 2019/20 - Australian Geographic
Brand Statement
                                     Australian Geographic has been the nation’s     MAGAZINE
                                     foremost geographical destination magazine      A bi-monthly quality magazine that celebrates the very best of Australia’s nature, culture,
                                     for 30 years. It captures the essence and       people and places. The magazine is predominantly subscriber-based and many have subscribed
                                     spirit of Australia through its meticulously    from the first edition in 1986. The magazine is renowned for its photography, maps and stories
                                     crafted and beautifully presented stories       that cover Australian rural life, natural history, adventure, science, culture, innovation and travel.
                                     and photography. The highly respected,
                                     authoritative and much-loved brand seeks        HERITAGE
                                     to inspire, educate and entertain, connecting   Dick Smith formed Australian Geographic in 1986, and it has been going strong for 30 years.
                                     readers to Australian landscapes, plants and    The brand has over 60 retail stores, documentaries, a digital platform and its own charity – the
                                                                                     Australian Geographic Society, which financially supports adventure, conservation and
       “At Australian Geographic,    animals, science, industry and people. The
                                                                                     scientific research.
 we’re passionate about sharing      brand supports conservation, adventure and
  the very best of Australia, and
                                     community projects through its foundation,
we’re committed to seeking out                                                       EDITORIAL FEATURE SECTIONS
    fresh and original stories and   the Australian Geographic Society. It’s
                                                                                     Each month the following content provides multiple entry points for advertisers:
bringing them to our subscribers     readers are loyal and over 85% are
                                                                                     • Geobuzz covers topics from Australian innovation, technology, nature, science and culture.
  through the highest standards      subscribers and have been for many years.       • Extended features that cover destinations, natural history, geology, culture and history.
          of writing, photography,
   illustration and cartography.”    Editor-in-Chief, Chrissie Goldrick              • Wild Australia features essential wildlife highlights that can’t be missed.
                                                                                     • Walkabout has travel, visit, listen, view, read and download sections.

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Media Kit 2019/20 - Australian Geographic
THE BRAND
                                     TV, documentary
                                      and content
READERSHIP                             production

620,000
                                       E X PL O R E S

Magazine

             447K
              FOLLOWERS

             138,000       63
              FOLLOWERS   RETAIL
                          STORES
              15k                  Expeditions

              FOLLOWERS
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New                 Highest traffic sections AG Society and Events
                      HOMEPAGE  WILDLIFE  SCIENCE & ENVIRONMENT

Visitors
                      HISTORY & CULTURE  BLOGS  NEWS

                     Most read articles
  87.3%               AUSTRALIA’S 10 MOST DANGEROUS SPIDERS
                      TOP 10 MOST DESTRUCTIVE TSUNAMIS IN HISTORY

                      AUSTRALIA’S 10 MOST DANGEROUS SNAKES

                      AUSTRALIA’S 30 MOST DANGEROUS ANIMALS

                      AUSTRALIAN INVENTIONS THAT CHANGED THE WORLD

  UNIQUE
 AUDIENCE            Time spent on page
655,272              (AVERAGE SESSION DURATION): 1 MIN 09 SEC
                     Average page views
                     PER SESSION: 1.82

                                             E- NEWSLETTER
            PAGE VIEWS                       SUBSCRIBERS              Commercial and education
            1,031,979                        65,280
                                   SOLUS
                                55,301
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Editorial Pillars
PEOPLE                                              TRAVEL                                                 EXPEDITIONS
We have been covering the extraordinary lives of    We know Australia backwards and love to share          We partner with our travel advertisers to create
ordinary Australians for more than 31 years. We     our knowledge of the best places to enjoy the          unique adventures that we believe will appeal
travel the length and breadth of the continent      rich, natural heritage that we are so lucky to be      strongly to our readership, and then use these
to uncover original stories of real people.         surrounded by here in Australia.                       expeditions as means of raising funds for our
                                                                                                           charity, The Australian Geographic Society.

PLACES                                              ADVENTURE
Beautiful photography is one of the defining        Adventure is in our DNA, whether it’s getting out of
features of Australian Geographic. We celebrate     our own comfort zones and out into nature, or hear-
the amazing Australian landscape in every edition   ing the inspiring stories of our brightest and best
with well written and thoroughly researched         explorers and adventurers whose epic projects we
stories and detailed maps.                          support through the Australian Geographic Society.

NATURE                                              DOCUMENTARIES
We focus on Australia’s unique native fauna both    We create travel documentaries for tv in
in the pages of the magazine and through the        partnership with domestic and international
fundraising efforts of the Australian Geographic    tourism bodies and travel partners.
Society to help our native wildlife in trouble.

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2019/20 Editorial Calendar

     ON SALE                   ON SALE                     ON SALE                    ON SALE                ON SALE                 ON SALE
    29/8/2019                 7/11/2019                  30/12/2019                  27/2/2020              7/5/2020                2/7/2020

      SEP/OCT                NOV/DEC                      JAN/FEB                  MAR/APR                MAY/JUN                 JUL/AUG

  Photography Winners          Awards Issue                  Foxes                 Rediscovering the       Explore Tasmania    Australian snow fields
                                                                                      Endeavour                                       : Road trip
     Victor Vescoco              Road Trip                  Jellyfish                                     Waste Management     : Environmental study
      5 Deep Dives                                                                   Celebrating the
                             Great Barrier Reef            Jervis Bay               Budawang People       Venomous Snakes          Nature writing
      Torres Strait                                Booderee National Park, NSW   Milton and Morton, NSW
                               Bush Schools                                                                   City Birds      Koalas - creature feature
Dutch History of Australia                              Cape York Special        The town of 1770, QLD
                               Cassowaries
        Forrestry                                                                  Queensland Special
                             Living off the grid

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Key Properties
Australian Geographic subscribers        AUSTRALIAN GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY AWARDS
automatically become members of          Every year the Australian Geographic Society honours Australia’s brightest and best
the Australian Geographic Society, the   adventurers and conservationists. Past winners have included Bob Brown, Bindi Irwin, Jessica
magazine’s not-for-profit arm, which     Watson, Tim Jarvis and Cas and Jonesy. Sponsorship of individual awards are available.

proudly supports scientific research,
                                         SOCIETY EXPEDITIONS
adventure, wilderness and wildlife
                                         The Australian Geographic Society partners with selected travel companies to promote
protection and community projects.       unique destinations in Australia and across the world to our members. The expeditions usually
Advertising in the magazine or           include an expert in the Australian Geographic family who will contribute to the expedition
taking part in sponsorship initiatives   and host the group with the travel partner. Opportunities exist to partner with the Society
below, contributes to the Australian     in 2016 and beyond for these expeditions. Brand licensing opportunities are available.

Geographic Society initiatives.
                                         AUSTRALIAN GEOGRAPHIC NATURE
                                         PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR COMPETITION
                                         Australian Geographic is a pillar of excellence in photography. Australian Geographic partners
                                         with the South Australian Museum to present the Australian Geographic Nature Photographer
                                         of the Year competition. The photo competition has grown steadily since it began 10 years
                                         ago, and the new partnership has seen it attract a much larger audience. 2016 now sees
                                         2171 entries.

                                         Contact: Rebecca Cotton - Australian Geographic Society Administrator
                                         ph. 02 9263 9828, or e. RCotton@australiangeographic.com

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Supplying Advertising
Australian Geographic only accepts       QUICKCUT
digital advertising files via digital    Quickcut is a service provider for electronic delivery of digital advertising files and
                                         has proven to be an efficient method of receiving and tracking digital advertising
advertising delivery services            files at Australian Geographic. As Quickcut provides the facility to check your file for
that comply with AG’s technical          errors before it arrives, it is a preferred provider to Australian Geographic.
specifications and that appropriately
                                         For more information regarding Quickcut’s services please contact Quickcut on:
interface with AG’s advertising
                                         +61 2 9467 7500 (reception) or +61 2 9467 7602 (fax)
bookings system. Such services           1300 768 988 (Tech Support) Via the Web - http://visit.adstream.com.au/au/print
include Quickcut and Adsend. Digital
advertising files will not be accepted   ADSEND
                                         Adsend is a web-based delivery system that offers PDF validation that won’t allow
on disk, via email or by any content     the digital advertising file to be sent until it’s fixed, by you or by the system itself.
delivery system that does not comply
with AG’s technical specifications and   For more information please contact:

that does not appropriately interface    Nicola Timm
                                         National Brand & Partnership Manager
with AG’s advertising booking system.
                                         T +61 2 9136 7213
                                         M 0424 257 527
                                         ntimm@australiangeographic.com

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Casual Rates           Positional loading/rate
FULL PAGE    $13,421          IFC   $32,208
      DPS    $24,024          IBC   $15,434
       HP    $7,432          OBC    $16,104
      TVP    $6,886
  2PP INS.   $175
  4PP INS.   $263
  8PP INS.   $369
    12PP     $478
    24PP     $573

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Technical Specifications Print
    INSERTIONS         BLEED (h x w)    TRIM (h x w)    TYPE (h x w)
     Full Page         288 x 220 mm    278 x 210 mm    255 x 190 mm
Double Page Spread     288 x 430 mm    278 x 420 mm    255 x 400 mm
 Half Page Vertical    288 x 115 mm    278 x 105 mm    255 x 85 mm
Half Page Horizontal   149 x 220 mm    139 x 210 mm    119 x 190 mm

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Digital Rates
                    ROS CPM       COST                                                      Advertorial               COST
Standard Mrec,LB,Mobile Banner    $39                                                  Online Article                 $6,000
           Video 15 sec preroll   $60                                                                  Gallery        $4,000
           Video 30 sec preroll   $75                                                                     Video       $5,000

                 Social Media     COST                                                         EDM Cost               COST
                     Facebook     $2,500                                                                      Solus   $6,250
                    Instagram     $1,500                   E-Newsletter includes MREC                                 $4,650

                                                  CPM Sponsorship of Sections
                                                        Standard Mrec, LB, Banner                                     $75

                                           NB: All of the above video and digital assets are to be supplied

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                                           by client. Any additional production produced by Australian
                                           Geographic will be costed and quoted individually.
Schedule 2019/20
                                                                   INSERTS
                                      CANCELLATION    BOOKING     DELIVERED     MATERIAL
ISSUE                 ON SALE DATE      DEADLINE      DEADLINE    PRINTERS      DEADLINE

151: Jul/Aug 2019      4/7/2019       13/5/2019      7/6/2019     10/06/2019   11/6/2019

152: Sep/Oct 2019     29/8/2019       8/7/2019       6/8/2019     5/8/2019     6/8/2019

153 Nov/Dec 2019      7/11/2019       9/9/2019       4/10/2019    7/10/2019    8/10/2019

154: Jan/Feb 2020      30/12/2019     12/11/2019      5/12/2019   5/12/2019     7/12/2019

155: Mar/April 2020    27/2/2020      7/1/2020        1/2/2020    11/2/2020    5/2/2020

156 May/June 2020     7/5/2020         11/3/2020      5/4/2020    15/4/2020    9/4/2020

157: July/Aug 2020     2/7/2020        13/5/2020      7/6/2020    10/6/2020    11/6/2020

158: Sept/Oct 2020     27/8/2020      08/7/2020       6/8/2020     5/8/2020     6/8/2020

159 Nov/Dec 2020      5/11/2020       9/9/2020        4/10/2020    7/10/2020    8/10/2020

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Contacts
Advertising and Sponsorships
Nicola Timm
Mobile 0424 257 527
ntimm@australiangeographic.com

Editor in Chief
Chrissie Goldrick
02 9136 7202
cgoldrick@australiangeographic.com

Managing Director
Jo Runciman
0403 091 433
jrunciman@australiangeographic.com

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