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Sage Journals Advertising Rates & Specifications





2025 Product Offerings

Digital Advertising


Banner Ads
Standard Banners £65 €80 $100 AUD $125
Geotargeted Banners £75 €90 $105 AUD $145
Sticky Banners £96 €115 $130 AUD $185
Expandable Banners £85 €105 $125 AUD $165
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Prices are gross CPM. Minimums may apply. Minimum of 10,000 impressions per month.

Website Banner Advertising:

Interact with your audience online with a banner ad placed on a journal’s website

  • A: 728x90 Leaderboard (pictured) top of page ad position for immediate exposure
  • B: 300x250 Banner Ad (pictured) middle right of page to engage the most invested users
  • C: Either 300x250 banner ad (pictured), 160x600 skyscraper, or 300x600 expandable skyscraper lower middle, right of page

High Impact Banner Solutions:

Enhance your digital advertising with these rich media options

  • Interstitial Banner Ad
  • Pushdown/Expandable Banner
  • Sticky Banner

Other Digital Solutions:

  • Email Alerts reach audiences from around the world who have registered to receive alerts from their favorite journals.
  • Custom eBlasts enable you to target a specific number of journal readers, so it’s easy to meet your objectives and budget. Custom emails can be entirely dedicated to sponsor content or they can contain curated content with
    a special sponsor section.
  • Channel Buys boosts your reach with a therapy area. Your banner ad rotates across multiple journal websites maximizing exposure to your targeted audience. Take advantage of discounted CPMs for a high-volume purchase.
  • eArticle Advertising helps you create multiple touchpoints that engage readers as they consume Sage content, boosting brand awareness and driving leads along the way. Place ads in PDFs or ePubs, choosing full-page cover and super leaderboard positions. This premium sponsorship opportunity off ers 100% exclusivity, high click-through rates, and measurable metrics.
  • Retargeting maximized your digital campaign’s reach, frequency and ROI by leveraging proprietary first-party data collected from Sage journal sites’ visitors. Data is captured when a user visits a Sage journal site and sees your ad. When the user leaves the
    site to browse the internet, your ad is displayed on the other reputable sites they visit within the Google network.
Visit our Digital Advertising page for more information.

Content Sponsorships

  • 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/ePrints - 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.
  • Podcast Sponsorship - Choose from custom and pre-roll sponsorship.
  1. Sage produced: Let Sage do the heavy lifting! From scheduling guests to providing transcripts, Sage handles the production from start to finish.
  2. New peer-reviewed podcasts: Pre-approved topics as well as the podcasts themselves are hosted on the journal website and published with their own DOI.
  • Webinar Sponsorship - Sage offers a turnkey marketing solution for webinars--managing everything from production to advertising
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Advertising Rates and Artwork Specifications

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 and specifications.

Print Advertising

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.


Full Color 

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)
Ad Insertions/Year 1x 3x 4x/6x 8x/12x 24x
1 page $2,860 $2,693 $2,501 $2,437 $2,316
1 page £1,848 £1,742 £1,618    
1/2 page $2,530 $2,507 $2,338 $2,281 $2,176
1/4 page $2,008 $1,991 $1,893 $1,858 $1,794
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 + 35% Other Specified Positions Earned B&W Rate + 10%

A TRIM SIZES OF 8” X 10 7/8” TO 8 1/2” X 11”
NON-BLEED
Full page 7”w x 10”h
1/2 page horizontal 7”w x 4 7/8”h
1/2 page vertical 3 3/8”w x 10”h
1/4 page vertical 3 3/8”w x 4 7/8”h
B TRIM SIZES OF 7” X 10”
NON-BLEED
Full page 6”w x 9”h
1/2 page 6”w x 4 1/4”h
C TRIM SIZES OF 5 1/2” X 8 1/2” TO 6” X 9”
NON-BLEED
Full page 4 1/2”w x 7 1/2”h
1/2 page 4 1/2”w x 3 1/2”h


Full Page

Full page, bleed

286mm (h) x 216mm (w)

Full page, trim size

280mm (h) x 210mm (w)

Full page, type area

250mm (h) x 180mm (w)


Half Page

Horizontal, Type Area

120mm (h) x 180mm (w)

Horizontal, Trim Area

140mm (h) x 210mm (w)

Vertical, Type Area

250mm (h) x 85mm (w)

Vertical, Trim Area

280mm (h) x 105mm (w)








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:
Email: [email protected]
For Reprint Inquiries:
Email: [email protected]
For Supplements and Special Sales Inquiries:
Email: [email protected]

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