The Bowdoin Orient
 
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The Bowdoin Orient Business Office
2008-2009

The Bowdoin Orient
6200 College Station
Brunswick, ME 04011

orientads@bowdoin.edu
Phone: (207) 725-3053
Fax: (207) 725-3975

Business Manager: Jessica Haymon Gorlov

Advertising in the Orient

The Bowdoin Orient is the student newspaper of Bowdoin College, located in Brunswick, Maine. The Orient has an average circulation of 2300 copies per issue and reaches people of all ages locally, nationally, and internationally. All of the readers are connected to Bowdoin College in one way or another and most will at some point be in the area to use the community’s resources—hotels, restaurants, and stores. Your decision to advertise with The Orient will without a doubt help broaden your customer base and open doors for your business in the immediate and distant future.

Advertising Rates

Publication Frequency: Every Friday while classes are in session (see below for production schedule).

Average Circulation: 2300 copies, read by on-campus by students, faculty, staff, and local residents, and off-campus by parents, alumni, and friends of the College.

Columns: Five columns, each 1.84 inches wide with a 0.25 inch margin between each column.

Deadlines: All ads should be received by 5:00 p.m. on the Monday of the week they are to run.

Submission: We prefer ads submitted digitally via email (as a .tif or .pdf file, for example), but we also accept ads at our above mailing address.

Pre-payment Discount: We offer a 5% discount for pre-payment.

Frequency Discount: We offer a discount of 50% on every fifth ad.

On-campus Discount: All campus organizations receive a 50% discount on every ad.

Non-camera Ready Ads: Our staff can design and typeset an ad for you. We charge an additional 10% of the cost of the first ad for this service.

Payment: Invoices and one tear sheet will be sent out after the publication of each issue (unless the advertiser requests additional sheets or a whole issue).

Description
Camera Ready Advertisement
Per Column Inch
$9.25 per vertical inch
Full Page Ad
10.25 x 15 in.
$565.00
Half Page Ad Horizontal
10.25 x 7.5 in.
$295.00
Half Page Ad Vertical (small)
3.94 x 15.0 in.
$240.00
Half Page Ad Vertical (large)
6.04 x 15.0 in.
$355.00
Quarter Page Ad
6.04 x 6.0 in.
$166.50
Classified Ads and Inserts
The Orient does not accept Classified Advertising or Inserts.
Business Cards
Can be run as ads at a flat charge of $20.00.

Production Schedule

Dates in gray are non-publication dates.

Fall 2008
Spring 2009
Date
Issue
Notes Date
Issue
Notes
September 12
1
Back To School Issue January 23
13
 
September 19
2
  January 30
14
 
September 26
3
  February 6
15
 
October 3
4
  February 13
16
 
October 10
 
Fall Vacation February 20
17
 
October 17
5
Homecoming Issue February 27
18
 
October 24
6
  March 6
 
Spring Break
October 31
7
Parent's Weekend Issue March 13
 
Spring Break
November 7
8
  March 20
 
Spring Break
November 14
9
  March 27
19
 
November 21
10
  April 3
20
 
November 28
 
Thanksgiving Break April 10
21
 
December 5
11
  April 17
22
 
December 12
12
  April 24
23
 
December 19
 
Winter Vacation May 1
24
Graduation Issue

For further information involving local ads, please contact our business team.
Jessica Haymon Gorlov & Lizzy Tarr
Bowdoin Orient Business Team
Phone: (207) 725-3053
Email: orientads@bowdoin.edu

For further information involving national ads, please contact our representative.
Marie Pierce
Account Manager
Toll-Free Phone: 1-888-897-7711 x 112
Phone: 1-603-898-7711 x 112
Fax: 978-231-0300
Yahoo SN: Workscreenname
AIM SN: RieB28
Email: mpierce@mymediamate.com

 

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