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                 atchPro provides business intelligence for owners, operators and deci-
                 sion makers in the US watch industry.
                   This market-leading monthly magazine is the only publication target-
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                 ed at this sector.                                                                                                                                                                                                                           Monthly circulation
  In addition to providing news and exclusive interviews, comment and analysis, de-                                                                                                                                                                           to US watch industry
bate and examples of best practice and innovation, WatchPro supports the industry and                                                                                                                                                                             professionals.
drives its news agenda with insightful reports and research.
  WatchPro is published by Promedia Digital, a global publisher headquartered in
Dubai, with offices in London, India and Bahrain.
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ADVERTISING IN WATCHPRO OFFERS NUMEROUS COMMERCIAL BENEFITS:
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               15%
  CREDIBILITY                                                                 INTEGRITY                                                           FREQUENCY                                                   AUDIENCE                                       10%
 WatchPro is published by                                              WatchPro is built on an                                                  WatchPro is published 12                                 Our database is fully researched                          20%
Promedia Digital, a leading                                        editorial policy that places                                                times a year, providing the                                 from scratch and maintained,
global publisher with some                                             huge emphasis on the                                                   market with a monthly digest                              giving you the guarantee that your                                      40%
  of the most respected,                                                integrity, quality and                                                 of original news, trends and                                message is being seen by the
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               15%
  sector-leading B2B and                                           richness of its content. Our                                                features. We will work with                               most influential buyers of watches
   consumer magazines                                                 team work hard to bring                                                 you to create a campaign that                               and services in the US. Some of                    Managing director
  within its portfolio, and                                        the market the information                                                 delivers a consistent message                             these operations and procurement                     Owner
 offices in London, Dubai                                           it needs to know, creating                                                 that is read by prospective                               professionals are responsible for                   Purchasing manager/director
         and India.                                                  a compelling publication                                                    buyers of your products                                 multiple sites and annual budgets                   Procurement manager/director
                                                                   that suppliers benefit from                                                      month after month.                                        that run into the millions.                    Other
                                                                       being associated with.
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             SA.WatchPro.com is the only dedicated web portal                                           Leaderboard
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             for the US watch industry, representing a truly
             valuable opportunity for business advertisers. By
             advertising on USA.WatchPro.com and within the
site’s associated daily news alerts, organizations of all sizes can      Wallpaper
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                                                                                                                                                                                   Over    90,000
now communicate information about their company, products,                                                                                                                           page impressions per
services and promotions to highly-targeted watch industry                                                                                                                                   month
professionals working in the US, predominantly watch buyers
from jewelers.                                                                                                          Tower Banner
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USA.WatchPro.com is also a huge platform for watch collectors
and enthusiasts across the States to see news, reviews and
opinions on everything watch-related, including new launches,                                                                                                                     Over    47,000
store openings and celebrity ambassadors. This is why visitor                                                                                                                      unique users per month
numbers to the site are up 50% year on year.                                               MPU
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This combination of business intelligence and accessible
information for the end consumer is why WatchPro is the most                                                                                                                       Daily news alert goes to
influential watch title in America.

                                                                                                                                                                                     over   1,300
                                                                                                                                                                                       watch industry
  DIGITAL                                                                                                                                                                          professionals every day
ADVERTISING ONLINE AND IN THE DAILY NEWS ALERT OFFERS NUMEROUS COMMERCIAL BENEFITS:

     METRICS                         FLEXIBILITY                                BRANDING                                                   PROMOTIONS
     Digital advertising               Digital artwork can be           Your digital artwork on this                                       Online campaigns take place         A quote from the industry
      packages include           changed, updated and rotated         100% dedicated watch portal                                         in real time, so if you advertise   Over the past few years, WatchPro has
    clickthrough reports              on a weekly or monthly              will ensure your brand is                                      digitally, buyers can immediately    built itself up into being the authoritative
 that explain how visitors          basis, offering you a unique         at the forefront of buyers’                                          take advantage of your          voice of the watch industry, providing daily
     responded to your               opportunity to customise           minds, helping to increase                                      company’s offers and promotions.      news updates on every topic relevant to
campaign, giving you full         your campaign, communicate           awareness of your products                                       With banners, wallpaper and MPU       the industry. It has become a key source
   analysis of how many               multiple messages and             and enhancing the profile                                       positions available on the website    for news and information, which is now
people it reached and the          promote different offers. With          of your company to the                                       and daily news alert, we can help     absorbed internationally. Its desire to
   level of engagement.          digital advertising you can drive       industry’s most influential                                      you choose the online medium        empower, recognise and celebrate the
                                  traffic straight to your website.       procurement specialists.                                       that best delivers your message.     achievements of the industry is honourable.
                                                                                                                                                                              Marcus Braybrook, Head of Marketing &
                                                                                                                                                                              Communications at RAYMOND WEIL
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SOCIAL MEDIA                                                   YouTube allows WatchPro to share great interviews and with the series currently on offer including Originals and
                                                               Educates, the video footage looks set to reach even more subscribers and users when shared across the whole Watch-
                                                               Pro platform of over 300,000 visitors every month alongside all content published on IGTV.

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                                                               Instagram coupled with IGTV is a growing platform for WP, allowing the platform and the watch-related business-
                 atchPro has a growing social media
                                                               es it works with to share even more content than on the wbsite with a number of pictures gallery, images, videos and
                 presence across all major platforms,          IGTV content available to work with the WatchPro team on.
                 allowing the WatchPro team to offer
                 even more in terms of content for watch       @watchpro has almost 20,000 followers and growing. Constantly interacting with the world’s biggest brands,
businesses all around the globe. The power of social           retailers and experts on the latest news and opinion form the global watch market. Experience shows this is also a
media allows WatchPro to incorporate all markets when          great place to be sharing video content from Youtube and Instagram.
working on a package as well as giving an added boost on
                                                               Facebook is where we post all of the news stories posted on the watchpro.com site. Here the best and most important
watchpro.com, usa.watchpro.com and de.watchpro.com.
                                                               stories are shared among thousands of watch enthusiasts, collectors and industry professionals allowing the market
It also allows the platform to offer more to retailers, with   to discuss and learn about the latest trends and business insight.
growing thousands of watch aficionados, enthusiasts
and collectors visiting every day. The following gives an      WatchPro is very well connected across LinkedIn and Rob Corder, co-founder and managing editor, is regularly
insightinto how and why tapping into the entire WatchPro       keeping his 6,500 followers informed with the latest news and gossip from the global industry. This is in addition to
platform is so important for so many brands.                   Daniel Malins and Alex Douglas’ frequent activity. WatchPro’s official page also continues to grow.

BESPOKE EVENTS                                                                                                                    FUTURE OF WATCH TECH WITH CASIO / ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION   ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION / FUTURE OF WATCH TECH WITH CASIO

• Roundtable opportunities
  As a multi-platform publisher, we can work with you to organise
  events tailored to your specific needs, including roundtables.
                                                                                                    TECHNOLOGY
                                                                                     ROUNDTABLE
• Roundtables allow you to gain thought leadership on
  an industry topic whilew providing a platform for you to
                                                                                      WITH CASIO
                                                                                     LAST MONTH CASIO AND WATCHPRO HOSTED A ROUND TABLE DISCUSSION AT COVENT GARDEN’S PRIVATE
  communicate your message objectively and network with key                            MEMBERS’ CLUB, THE LIBRARY. WE INVITED A NUMBER OF UK RETAILERS TO LUNCH TO HEAR THEIR
                                                                                       VIEWS ON SMART WATCHES AND TECHNOLOGY-ENABLED WATCHES, LEARN WHAT THEIR CUSTOMERS
                                                                                      WANT FROM TECH-BASED WATCHES AND GATHER VALUABLE INTELLIGENCE ON THE LIKELY COURSE OF
  individuals.                                                                                                 THIS EMERGING, UNPREDICTABLE SECTOR.

• You choose the topic to be discussed, and then work in
  partnership with WatchPro to decide on panellists, before                                                                                                                                 DO SMART WATCHES SELL SIDE-BY-SIDE WITH TRADITIONAL WATCHES?
                                                                                                                                                                                            RU: “The easy answer is yes because you have two different types
                                                                                                                                                                                            of people. Someone like myself, we’ve just taken on G-Shock for
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      RU: “Someone mentioned Polar and brands like this, a lot of these
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      companies – and [Casio] fortunately hasn’t fallen into this category,

  setting out the agenda for the session.                                                                                                                                                   that one reason, because we have people coming in who want
                                                                                                                                                                                            watches that do something else or are robust. You guys [Casio]
                                                                                                                                                                                            have got the right idea because it looks like a rough, tough ‘do
                                                                                                                                                                                            anything’ watch, which people will accept. The TAG Heuer one,
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      because you have been a watch company that has supplied watch
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      retailers. A lot of these companies are supplying sports shops and
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      technology shops and then they come into jewellers. I’ve had the
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      same thing with Animal and Nixon.
                                                                                                                                                                                            you’ve got people buying into it at the moment. Give it four or five         Now I love Nixon, I think as a concept and a brand it is really,
                                                                                                                                                                                            years and I think [the TAG] is going to slip and people will go back      really cool and the same thing with Animal as well, I bought into
                                                                                                                                                                                            into mechanical.”                                                         the whole thing, I had the truck and everything. But I wouldn’t have

• Debates are lively and engaging and a great way to be seen
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      the watches because they are sold in sports shops, unless you can
                                                                                                                                                                                            JB: “It’s not a bad looking watch. We did the HD3 Slyde for a             turn around and say this is for jewellery retailers. Because we’re
                                                                                                                                                                                            while, and it sold, not bad. We had Devon from America, so we’ve          then opening our market against all the sports retailers and they

  as a real thought leader in your sector.
                                                                                                                                                                                            had quite a few watches that do both. They did okay, the main             discount every year. So you’ve got to be very careful where you
                                                                                                                                                                                            problem you get is when you start paying four, five, six thousand         put the technology product as well as the training and what you
                                                                                                                                                                                            pounds for a watch at that level – and we sold quite a few – and the      can offer us.
                                                                                                                                                                                            technology goes wrong, it’s not a pleasant conversation to have              “I’d have the Apple Watch in my store but I wouldn’t have a
                                                                                                                                                                                            with the client. So I think up to a certain level, four or five hundred   dedicated area for it, it would be exactly the same as any other
                                                                                                                                                                                            pounds, it’s easy to accept and exchange.                                 brand, it would have a space in the window or a space in a
                                                                                                                                                                                              “Jacob & Co did the Ghost, which was 36 timezones and when              cabinet, first of all I haven’t got room. You don’t need a dedicated

• All roundtables are followed by extensive post-event print and
                                                                                                                                                                                            that initially launched it did fantastic. The biggest problem was         area, you need people who know what they’re selling. If you’re
                                                                                                                                                                                            you had to charge it, two days in most of the guys couldn’t be            selling it like a watch then it has to compete with the other watch
                                                                                                                                                                                            bothered. Once they took it off they wouldn’t put it back on again.”      brands.”

  online coverage and photography.
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