Advertising & Promotion
2023 Product Offerings
- Extend your brand’s awareness through display advertising in the print journal. Additional High Impact opportunities include cover tips, bellyband wraps around the journal, and inserts/outserts polybagged with a journal issue.
Digital
- Online Banner Ads - Interact with your audience online with a leaderboard, medium rectangle, or skyscraper banner ad placed on a Journal website hosted on the SAGE Journals platform. High Impact digital solutions may also be available.
- eTOC and Online First Alerts - Bring your product to the forefront by placing a banner ad on a Table of Contents Alert or Online First Alert email, the first touch a subscriber receives when a new issue or new content is made available online and prior to the print issue mailing.
Industry Education Opportunities
- Sponsored Collections - As an industry partner, you have the opportunity to provide open access to leading peer-reviewed content from SAGE journals. This Journal sponsored collection allows you to highlight specific articles and research pertinent to your business and product lines. You will receive Sponsor recognition on the journal home page with links to the Collections page, where your company will be recognized through a leaderboard or skyscraper banner ad.
- Article Reprints - Provide your target audience with article reprints discussing specific products, therapies, or topics related to your company as additional marketing collateral. Reprints can be provided in print, online, and even translated into a local language for a key market.
- Supplements - Peer-reviewed journal supplements provide you with a credible, objective means to publish themed-articles on topics related to your company’s business.
- Sponsored Subscriptions - Partner with a SAGE society journal and identify yourself as an educational partner in your field by sponsoring a full-year print subscription for your target audience. Your sponsorship will be recognized with a company-specific communication polybagged with the first issue as well as recognition on each cover issue throughout the year.
- Microsites - Brand your company as the leader in the field by developing a destination website that focuses on a specific topic in your industry. Relevant journal content from all SAGE journals and links to Sponsor-specific information such as webinars, product information, and corporate sites, will populate this microsite.
- Custom Webinars - Educate your target audience by partnering with SAGE for your next webinar, podcast or vodcast and take advantage of an extremely cost-effective way of engaging with our online readers and subscribers. Showcase your company, products, or services and drive traffic to your corporate site.
Advertising Rates
The following advertising rates apply to all SAGE Journals listed in the full list of journals EXCEPT those with links to individual rate cards, which have special rates.
Black and White
| Ad Insertions/Year | 1x | 3x | 4x/6x | 8x/12x | 24x |
| 1 page | $1,546 | $1,388 | $1,207 | $1,147 | $1,033 |
| 1 page | £1,029 | £926 | £806 | ||
| 1/2 page | $1,235 | $1,213 | $1,054 | $1,000 | $901 |
| 1/4 page | $743 | $727 | $634 | $601 | $541 |
Full Color
| Ad Insertions/Year | 1x | 3x | 4x/6x | 8x/12x | 24x |
| 1 page | $2,696 | $2,538 | $2,357 | $2,297 | $2,183 |
| 1 page | £1,794 | £1,691 | £1,571 | ||
| 1/2 page | $2,385 | $2,363 | $2,204 | $2,150 | $2,051 |
| 1/4 page | $1,893 | $1,877 | $1,784 | $1,751 | $1,691 |
Frequency Discounts
Rates based on total ads run in a specific journal during a 12-month period. Space purchased by a parent company and subsidiaries may be combined for an earned rate.
Post-publication rate changes will not be accepted. Changes in frequency must be applied to future insertions.
Agency Commission: 15% for US // 10% for UK
Payment Terms: Terms for invoices are Net 30. Publisher reserves the right to withhold advertising from delinquent advertisers.
Cover and Preferred Position Rates (Non-Cancelable)
| Inside Front Cover | Earned B&W Rate + 35% | Facing Table of Contents | Earned B&W Rate + 25% |
| Inside Back Cover | Earned B&W Rate + 25% | Facing First Text Page | Earned B&W Rate + 25% |
| Back Cover | Earned B&W Rate + 50% | Other Specified Positions | Earned B&W Rate + 10% |
Digital Advertising
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Website Banner Advertising:Interact with your audience online with a banner ad placed on a journal’s website
High Impact Banner Solutions:Enhance your digital advertising with these rich media options
Other Digital Solutions:
Visit our Digital Advertising page for more information. |
Artwork Specifications
Full Page
Half Page
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REQUIREMENTS FOR ELECTRONIC DELIVERY:
Image Size/Crop:
Digital art files should be cropped to remove non-printing borders. Art should be created or scaled to the size intended for print. Image orientation should be the same as intended for print. For ads that are intended to run off the page, a 1/8” minimum bleed is required on all sides.
GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS:
A High Resolution Press-Ready PDF is required for all electronic ad submissions. All fonts must be embedded. Minimum required image resolution is 300 dpi for color or grayscale images and 900-1200 dpi for line art (1-bit) images. All color files must be created and submitted to publisher in CMYK color mode. Publisher will convert ads submitted in RGB but is not responsible for color reproduction on these ads. 2-color ads (standard) must be provided as black plus 100% cyan, magenta, or yellow.
PROOF INSTRUCTIONS:
Color Ads: An identifiable SWOP-certified proof (Specifications Web Offset Publications—www.swop.org) must be supplied with the final digital file. If a SWOP-certified proof is not supplied, then the publisher cannot guarantee correct reproduction of color. Any omissions or color deviation from a submitted proof, other than a SWOP-compliant proof, will not warrant compensation to the advertiser.
B&W Ads: A hard-copy proof the same size as the digital art must be supplied with the final digital file.
FILE SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS:
Please supply files on one of the following media: CD-ROM or e-mail. Please include a SWOP-certified proof with your digital submission. If e-mailing artwork, then send the proof in a separate package in the mail.
BIND-IN CARDS AND INSERTS:
All bind-in cards and inserts are jogged to the head. All bind-in cards and inserts must have 1/8” trim beyond the crop mark area of the Head, Foot, Gutter and Face of the advertisement. Perforations must be 3/8” from gutter.
All live copy should be no closer than ¼” from the trim.
For inserts, 70# coated stock is the minimum weight and 110# coated stock is the maximum.
POSTAL REQUIREMENTS OF BUSINESS REPLY CARDS:
Final size of all BRCs must be 4 ¼” h x 6” w.
Minimum paper weight is 7 pt.
Recommended stock is 75# hibulk. It meets the requirements set forth by the USPS for reply cards.
Publisher is not responsible for any errors in reproduction if artwork is not provided according to the above specifications.
Contact Information |
| For Advertising Inquiries: | For Artwork Delivery: | Deliver Pre-Printed Inserts: | For Reprint and Supplement Sales: |
| Commercial Sales Department SAGE Publishing 2455 Teller Road Thousand Oaks, CA 91320 USA Email: advertising@sagepub.com |
Commercial Sales Department SAGE Publishing 2455 Teller Road Thousand Oaks, CA 91320 USA Email: advertising@sagepub.com |
(list journal name, issue # and quantity on boxes/skid) Please contact SAGE to verify this address |
Stacey Wayne SAGE Publishing 2455 Teller Road Thousand Oaks, CA 91320 USA Phone: 805-410-7065 Email: reprint@sagepub.com |
| Commercial Sales Department SAGE Publications Ltd 1 Oliver's Yard 55 City Road London, EC1Y1SP Email: ukadvertising@sagepub.co.uk |
Commercial Sales Department SAGE Publications Ltd 1 Oliver's Yard 55 City Road London, EC1Y1SP Email: ukadvertising@sagepub.co.uk |
Commercial Sales Department SAGE Publications Ltd 1 Oliver's Yard 55 City Road London, EC1Y1SP Email: ukadvertising@sagepub.co.uk |
Commercial Sales Department SAGE Publications Ltd 1 Oliver's Yard 55 City Road London, EC1Y1SP Email: reprints@sagepub.co.uk |
