Advertising information

The Festival activities provide three main advertising opportunities:

1. Display advertising in the Programme
2. Banner advertising on the web site.
3. Link Button advertising on the web site.

In 2009 we are offering three levels of advertising at our 2006 and 2007 prices:

• Quarter page display in the Festival programme for £25
• Half page display in the programme plus a banner advert on the website for £45
• Full page display in the programme plus a banner advert on the website for £80.

Please email , or telephone him on 01865 858534 if you would like to discuss the sponsorship and advertising opportunities available.

Programme display advertising specifications:

The A5 Programme and adverts are printed in single colour black only, with a self-coloured cover.

The inside front cover (IFC) and outside back cover (OBC) are the only advert positions available with bleed.

Trim size: 148mm x 210mm (wxh)
Bleed size: 151mm x 216mm (wxh)
(Bleed should be 3mm on three outer edges only).

All other adverts are either:

Full page: 124mm x 180mm (wxh) or
Half page: 124mm x 87mm (wxh)
Quarter page: 59mm x 87mm (wxh)

Please ensure that all artwork is prepared to these sizes and bear in mind that existing coloured adverts will not always have the same impact when reproduced in black ink only.

Programme artwork can be emailed direct to

Artwork presentation:

Artwork is preferred as electronic file sent either as email attachment or on disk / CD.

Files and media should be PC compatible and in one of the following formats:

Encapsulated PostScript (.eps)
[Fonts to curves / rastered]

Portable Document Format (.pdf)
[Press quality / 300dpi with all fonts embedded]

Tagged Image File (.tif)
[300dpi at final size, greyscale]

Joint Photographic Experts Group (.jpg)
[300dpi at final size, greyscale]

Native PhotoShop (.psd)
[Fonts rastered / flattened file, 300dpi, greyscale]

Native CorelDraw v11 or below (.cdr)
[Fonts to curves]

Native Adobe Illustrator v9 or below (.ai)
[Fonts to curves]

Please DO NOT SEND:

Adverts prepared using elements taken from web sites (these will not be of sufficient resolution to print well)

Advert files with fonts still 'live' – we probably haven't got that special font you always use; and we won't necessarily know that it's missing!

Word .doc files (make a high res pdf of the file)

Adverts prepared in Publisher (make a high res pdf)

Adverts prepared in PowerPoint (make a high res pdf)

If in doubt, please phone Peter Cox on 01865 858107

Artwork proofing:

Advert artwork will not generally be proofed back to the author / advertiser prior to publication since the preferred formats shown above should not be prone to font substitutions or other formatting reinterpretation.

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Web site banner advertising

All main pages on this site will be displaying advertising banners at the top of the page. Banners will be rotated in random order on page loading but, on average, will be given equal overall displays as other banner adverts. Banners may be linked to a single URL which advertisers must provide at the time of ordering.

Banners will remain active on the web site until May of the following year.

Banner files can be emailed direct to

Banner and button artwork presentation:

Main banners should be provided as standard 468px x 60px jpegs, gifs or animated gifs and should not exceed 20kb.

Button links should be provided as standard 174px x 150px(max) jpegs, gifs or animated gifs and should not exceed 20kb.

Please be sure to also provide the required link URL when supplying your banner. Banners with no available ink URL will be linked to a page showing a duplicate of the printed advertisement appearing in the Progamme. If no advert artwork is available then no link will be added to the button

Individual exclusive web page sponsorship 'Button links' are also available. Please let us know if you would be interested in this additional advertising opportunity.

If in doubt, please phone Peter Cox on 01865 858107

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