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Media Kit
20 SEP 2019 royalauto
LIVING TR AVELLING MOVING
Victoria’s largest circulation
publication and the state’s
most read magazine.
Photo: Great Ocean Road, Oliver Munoz.
Welcome
RACV is the largest member
organisation in Victoria with more
than 2.2 million members and a
reach across 70 per cent of all
Victorian households.
Advertise with us.
Photo: The Murray River, Anne Morley
RACV has been proudly
supporting Victorians and
their communities for 115
years.
With products and services across Through the RACV Community
travel and leisure, motoring and Foundation, RACV provides a source
transport, and the home, RACV of philanthropic funding for not-
delivers a broad range of benefits for-profit organisations that help
and experiences to its members. marginalised and at-risk Victorians.
RACV has a long history of advocating We update and keep in contact with
for public safety and transport our members through the RoyalAuto
infrastructure improvements and magazine, e-newsletters, apps and
provides Victorians with information the RACV website; and your business
and advice to help build a safer and can as well.
more resilient Victoria.
Photo: Yarra Valley, Shannon Morris
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Contents
5 RoyalAuto media brand
6 Content pillars
7 RACV member profile
Advertising rates, specifications & deadlines
9 Print rates & specifications
11 Classifieds
12 Inserts
14 Print deadlines
15 eNews
16 eNews rates & specifications
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RoyalAuto media brand
FEB - MAR
2019 royalauto Winner, Single Article of the
Welcome to the new
LIVING TR AVELLING MOVING
Year – Large Publisher 2017
RoyalAuto October
look RoyalAuto 2016 edition
Winner, Association or
Published since 1922, RACV’s member magazine RoyalAuto Member Organisation
The Rural relaunched in 2019. Magazine of the Year 2013
Dilemma RoyalAuto
$200,000 houses. The new look magazine is a wide-reaching and authoritative
Runner Up, Most
multi-platform brand.
A three-minute
commute.
Why aren’t more Successful Audience
people moving Development Campaign 2013
to the country? Leading Victorian discussion on home, transport and leisure,
RoyalAuto
+
RoyalAuto features stories, information and independent advice
HOPE
AND GLORY designed to help Victorians live their best lives, whether they’re at Finalist, Custom Magazine
of the Year 2013
Moana Hope is kicking goals
on and off the oval.
home, on the road, or taking a well-earned break.
RoyalAuto
GREAT COASTAL DRIVE
Taking the slow road from
Melbourne to Sydney.
COMMUTER
CHALLENGE
RoyalAuto reaches more Victorians than any other magazine*. Source: RACV membership data,
Bike, car and tram. Who
will reach the CBD first? October 2018
*Source: AAMA Mar19
Association or Member
Organisation Magazine
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FINALIST
PRINT DIGITAL ENEWS SOCIAL Association or Member
Organisation Magazine of the
Year, Publish Awards 2014
magazine website eNews RACV social media
1,462,240 200,000+ 390,000+ 210,000+
Member Magazine of the Year,
finalist, Australian Magazine
Awards 2016
HOME-DELIVERED UNIQUE USERS SUBSCRIBERS FOLLOWERS
CAB Mar19
(third-party audit or GA) TWICE-MONTHLY Finalist in 3 categories, awarded
RACV Facebook Special Mention, Australian
260,000+ 50% 98,800+ Magazine Awards 2014
PAGE VIEWS OPEN RATE LIKES
(third-party audit or GA)
(Figures accurate as of Sep19)
10% Winner, TAC Towards
CLICK THROUGH Zero Quill 2016
Impact
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Content pillars
RoyalAuto tells stories
that inspire and inform
so that Victorians can PROPERTY PROTEGES GROWING NATIVE ON A ROLL LIGHTS, CAMERA.... LIKE OLD TIMES BEYOND THE BEACH A FINE RHINE
improve their lives in the
How to get a foothold in Grow your own Indigenous Rollerskating is back, You’ve seen the film, A tiny town rich in The Gold Coast’s A fairytale road trip in
the property market. ingredients at home. in parks, rinks... and bars. now visit the location. gold and nostalgia. cultural tide is turning. Germany’s Mittelrhein.
Page 24 Page 30 Page 32 Page 40 Page 48 Page 52 Page 56
THE REAL COST OF DRIVING HATCH MATCH UNDER REVIEW
What it really costs to own and Toyota Corolla, Mazda3 and Jaguar I-Pace Page 73
News News run your vehicle. Hyundai i30 compared.
home, on the road and
Learner motorbikes Page 75
Page 64 Page 68
News
Seeking
at leisure. Check out the
inspiration for
a greener way
of living? On
THE NUMBERS
15 September
Global car colour
popularity 2018:
UP IN THE AIR
hundreds of
householders
HIDE AND SEEK Global ride-sharing
38%
new sections.
Can you find the operator Uber has
who’ve built or
‘invisible man’, Chinese announced plans to
renovated with
photographer Liu Bolin, trial a flying taxi service
sustainability in White
in this picture? Bolin in Melbourne, shuttling
18%
mind will open
“turns disappearance people from rooftop
their doors to
into an active expression to rooftop, by 2023. It
visitors. More
of resistance” in his Black claims its Uber Air service
than 33,000
12%
Camouflage exhibition at will cut a CBD-to-airport
people took
the Ballarat International commute to 10 minutes.
GREEN DAY
part in last year’s
Foto Biennale, from Do you think this big
Sustainable House Grey
24 August to 20 October, idea will fly?
Day. You can
register at:
sustainable
co-headlining with
Indigenous artist
Fiona Foley.
12% facebook.com/racv
houseday.com Silver
7%
ballaratfoto.org
Blue
5%
Source: Axalta Coating Systems (American paint manufacturer).
Red
Members save
5%
Brown/beige
10 per cent on
Ballarat Foto
Biennale tickets.
Go to racv.com.au/
3%
tickets Yellow/gold
1%
Other
ILLUSTRATION: Frank Maiorana
PHOTO: Platform Eight Photography IMAGE: Balloon No.1, Liu Bolin, 2012
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Living well doesn’t have to mean living Modern travel is about so much more A booming population, sustainability
luxuriously, increasingly it means living than mod-cons or luxury – it’s about the concerns, emerging technology and
sustainably and healthily. richness of experience. infrastructure investment are all combining
to comprehensively transform how
In this content pillar we focus on offering Although interstate and international travel Victorians get around.
members the resources and ideas to help have their place and will still be covered in
reduce their ecological footprint while each edition, the heart of this pillar is our Moving Well will tackle the question of
saving money. From fun projects around own backyard – Victoria. Travelling Well will how this can best be done on a policy and
the home to practical energy-saving tips, help RACV members discover more – from personal level – think in-depth explanations
Living Well is designed to help RACV novel road trips to off-the-beaten-track of the trends shaping Victorian transport to
members enhance their lifestyles and destinations. car reviews and snappy portraits of the quirky
boost their budgets. ways some people commute.
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RACV Member profile
668.4K
RACV membership is growing, with younger 30.3%
611.6K
27.7% 536.5K
Victorians making up the bulk of new memberships. 24.3%
305.8K
13.8%
86.9K
3.9%
34 is the average 60 per cent of all Gender
Blue Bronze Silver Gold Gold 50
age of new RACV new members are Male 50.6%,
members under 39 Female 49.4% Members by Card Colour
17.9% 25.1%
22.7%
16.0% 16.4%
14.2%
12.1% 16.5%
12.0%
11.6%
10.3%
7.0%
6.8%
2.6% 3.3%
1.8% 2.8%
0.9%
Null
Advertising rates,
specifications & deadlines
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Print rates & specifications
ROYALAUTO SPECIFICATIONS
Our large home-delivered audited SIZE TRIM SIZE TYPE DESIGN AREA BLEED
circulation and competitive prices
DOUBLE PAGE SPREAD* 275 mm x 203 mm 259 mm x 175 mm 5 mm (outside trim)
give advertisers the lowest cost per
thousand print ad prices in Victoria. FULL PAGE 275 mm x 203 mm 259 mm x 175 mm 5 mm (outside trim)
HALF PAGE 135 mm x 203 mm 119 mm x 187 mm 5 mm (outside trim)
OUTSIDE BACK COVER^ 275 mm x 203 mm 259 mm x 128 mm 5 mm (outside trim)
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Print specifications (cont)
ROYALAUTO RATES
The RACV and
RoyalAuto names
($AUD) CASUAL 3x 6x
cannot be used in
advertising unless
DOUBLE PAGE SPREAD $45,400 $44,000 $42,600
advertisers are
approved RACV or
FULL PAGE $22,900 $22,300 $21,700
AMS partners.
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when invoicing. RACV does not accept print files via email. All print advertising must be sent as a high-res PDF file
via Adstream portals QuickPrint Web (Adstream Print) or Adsend, the service providers for electronic delivery
of digital files. Visit adstream.com/au/solutions/asset-delivery/print-ad-delivery or call 1300 423 787 for more
information. Subscription is required and cost to upload not included in ad price.
Advertising rates are agency commissionable. 30 day accounts available.
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Up front COVER STORY
Up front COVER STORY
recent government investment to work by In 2011 a car-sized boulder closed the past three years). Almost all of them head
rebuilding damaged surfaces, upgrading Great Ocean Road for a week; rockslides straight to the main attraction: the Twelve
bridges and improving intersections. “We’ve between Wye River and Separation Creek Apostles. Visitor numbers there balloon
also completed extensive geotechnical caused about six weeks of pain in 2016, on peak days such as New Year’s, Easter
One of Australia’s most loved attractions is under works – any regular visitor along the road with traffic diverted from Lorne to Apollo and Chinese New Year. According to The
serious threat from over-tourism, inappropriate will have seen our team abseiling down the Bay. It forced Shaun to make regular one- Age, on Christmas Day 2018 the Twelve
cliff face removing loose rock, soil-nailing hour road trips to pick up basic staples such Apostles hosted more than 15,000 selfie-
development and, ultimately, being washed into the sea. and installing kilometres of rock netting as milk for the cafe, and it took tourists taking tourists, 3000 cars, 170 buses and
Will a new plan be enough to save it? and erosion-control matting.” from Melbourne some time to realise when 11 coaches. It sounds like a nightmare.
For locals, rock falls are part of everyday the road was open for business again. This kind of heavy visitor traffic has not
STORY: Peter Barrett PHOTOS: Oliver Munoz
T
life. “You’re kind of always driving along Meanwhile, tourism bodies say on only damaged roads but also stretched the
with your eyes slightly up and to the left, if average up to 30 buses and coaches use the limited public facilities, including toilets.
you’re going north,” says Shaun McKinlay, road every day, although the figure can be Locals complain about rubbish, toilet paper
who manages the Wye River General Store up to 80 at peak times (state government and other unsavoury things being left
hey lowered themselves alone to grow by 260 per cent to 737,000. “We’re
and Cafe and drives the road every day. figures show a 30 per cent increase over the behind at popular stops along the route.
down the cliff on ropes. looking at phenomenal growth,” he says.
Beneath them, Bass Strait’s But until a sorely needed $153 million federal
cold blue waters swirled and and state cash injection five years ago, 30 years
63%
surged as they chipped away at the hard rock, of successive governments had failed to invest
cutting footholds so they could build a platform in the maintenance and safety of the road. “To Beach erosion at
History of the Great Ocean Road
GREAT OCEAN RD
Apollo Bay
0.5
30%
to stand on. From here they were able to hack put it into context, to maintain the road requires
Erosion at Apollo Bay. PHOTO: Lisa Luscombe
further into the cliff, until they reached the something like $20 million every year,” says 1919 Construction starts near closures; Victorian government
required width. Wayne. “So, we’re playing catch-up.”
increase in international Lorne. commits $53 million to improve
The men – about 3000 returned Australian
soldiers from the Great War – were building
It’s not just increased traffic that is creating
headaches. Heavy rain and flash flooding caused visitor numbers in 10 2012 1922 Toll introduced to help
meet construction costs.
road surface and repair rock
walls.
years to 2017 9 centimetres
what would become a national treasure: the
Great Ocean Road.
landslides near Wye River in 2016, while a
government report showed Apollo Bay beach
‘In 2018, a storm 1923 Road deemed wide enough
to allow for two-way traffic.
2017 May Research reveals
annual Apollo Bay beach erosion
surge caused chunks
2.7 million
But the work was back-breaking, dangerous erosion had increased from nine centimetres 1932 Officially opened by up to one metre in 2016.
and slow. “In the early days it [was] all done per year in 2012 to one metre in 2016. In 2018 Lieutenant Governor Sir William November Drones used by
increase in of an Apollo Bay car Irvine on 26 November. VicRoads to monitor extent of
by hammer and chisel,” says Lorne historian a storm surge caused chunks of an Apollo Bay
visitors per year 1936 Great Ocean Road Trust erosion; dedicated weather
Peter Spring. “Because many of the returned
servicemen were suffering from shellshock they
car park and a whole toilet block to collapse onto
the beach, leaving only a five-metre sliver of land
buses and park and a toilet hands over road to state stations monitor rainfall to help
$1.4 billion coaches in block to collapse government. predict rockslides.
2016
didn’t detonate charges due to the effect it had between sea and the road.
1979 Local outcry prevents plans 2018 June Storm surges cause
on them.”
Stretching 243 kilometres from Torquay to
Paul Northey, Regional Roads Victoria’s chief
officer, says his team has been busy putting the > annual contribution to past three onto the beach.’ to demolish memorial arch at a toilet block and parts of Apollo
Allansford, near Warrnambool, the road officially the economy years 1 metre
Fairhaven; truck knocks it down
accidentally.
Bay’s Tuxion Road car park to fall
into the sand.
opened in 1932 but this year marks the 100th 1983 Ash Wednesday bushfires October Government releases
anniversary since construction began. Although Add to that the threat of sea-level rise caused
‘To maintain the road destroy memorial arch near Great Ocean Road Action Plan.
Who will save the diggers didn’t build all of it, the road remains
an enduring memorial to them and many people, requires something like
by climate change and the road is facing a
perfect storm.
Lorne.
1990 London Bridge collapses,
2019 January Government rules
out rerouting three sections of
THE GREAT
including Peter, are calling for at least a section So, what to do? In 2018 a state government becomes London Arch. threatened road.
to revert to its original name of Anzac Highway. $20 million every year, so taskforce found the problems stem from 2005 Twelve Apostles’ Ninth June-August Government seeks
Generations of people have used it to access Apostle (known as Judas) submissions on objectives of
some of Victoria’s most beautiful and rugged we’re playing catch-up.’ having 30 different organisations managing
various parcels of land. In October 2018 it collapses; Great Ocean Walk new authority and strategic plan.
officially opens.
OCEAN ROAD?
coastline, including natural attractions such as announced plans to create a single marine
the Twelve Apostles and London Arch. 2009 Eighth Apostle collapses.
and coastal parks authority to manage
Wye River General 2011 Added to National Heritage
Today, the Great Ocean Road is Victoria’s top and protect the Great Ocean Road’s land,
Store’s Shaun List.
tourist attraction with 2.7 million visitors – more McKinlay. seascapes, visitors and “coordinate associated 2013 Victorian and federal
than Uluru and the Great Barrier Reef combined government investment projects”. governments begin investing
– responsible for boosting the economy by Director of the reform project, Jason Borg,
PHOTO: Cormac Hanrahan
$100 million to upgrade and
$1.4 billion in the year to March 2019. says legislation is well under way to create improve safety and visitor
And there has been a spike in international the new authority, which should be up and experience.
visitor numbers, up 63 per cent over the decade running by mid-to-late 2020. Right now his 2015 Wye River bushfire.
to 2017, according to chairman of Great Ocean team of seven are collecting feedback from the 2016 September rain and flash
Road Tourism, Wayne Kayler-Thomson. By the community and stakeholders on what a 50- flooding causes more than 120
landslides and multiple road
end of 2027 he expects Chinese visitor day trips year vision for the region might look like. >
PHOTO: The Anglesea & District Historical Society
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