The Media Offer

Globalcom Publications offers a wealth of media opportunities to advertisers keen to reach all facets of the DVD industry and, in particuliar, the content owners seeking to generate revenues from DVD.

The media portfolio includes the following platforms:

– The DVD and Beyond 2008 magazine (formerly DVD Primer) provides a yearly top-level-eye-view of the major developments in the DVD and related industries across Europe and, looking ahead, identify the industry's opportunities and challenges.

– The www.dvd-intelligence.com website, Europe's premier online source of information, data and analysis for professionals involved in DVD and related sectors.

Advertisers can elect to use any one of the platforms. However, many choose a spread of media in order to project themselves more widely and effectively over time. Presented below are various attractive advertising packages for consideration.

In the printed publications, on the Internet and in the conference hall, Publisher Jean-Luc Renaud is committed to providing editorial that is useful, valuable and timely, and that seeks to increase both knowledge and understanding about the key issues confronting the industry.

DVD AND BEYOND 2008

A special issue celebrating its 10th anniversary, overall circulation of the DVD and Beyond 2008 will target content creators, distributors and rights holders. It will also reach those who commission, create and manufacture DVDs as well those who service the industry by providing the software and equipment. And, each year, we ensure corporate end-users of the DVD format get access to the magazine.

The opportunity for advertisers

Advertisers in the DVD and Beyond 2008 benefit in several ways. First, from the positive editorial environment generated by this much-used and retained publication. Second, from the continuous exposure they receive from the www.dvd-intelligence.com website. Third, on their association with our Conferences and Seminar. Most advertisers are continuing with their commitment to build on the impact they have achieved within the magazine over the past nine years. They believe in the high level of continuous visibility they are buying at affordable rates.

This is why advertising in the DVD and Beyond 2008 is worth your consideration.

– Heightening levels of interest in DVD companies, production companies, publishers, content owners, services and developments mean your target market will be highly receptive to your marketing message.

– The publication's top-level strategic analyses address the opportunities inherent in the various market sectors, thus guaranteeing executive readership. It examines DVD and its next-generation versions in the wider context of HDTV, online, broadband.

– Tightly focussed on DVD in Europe, DVD and Beyond 2008 builds on the hugely successful format of previous issues. Firmly established over eight years as a market-leading, must-have information resource devoted exclusively to DVD, it provides another important opportunity to reach companies involved in every aspect of DVD. Perhaps even more important it reaches independent content publishers wishing to embrace the DVD format.

– Free distribution to key individuals by direct mail and at selected industry events.

– A frequently-used reference tool covering a continuously expanding market, the DVD and Beyond 2008 magazine provides advertisers with multiple-user impacts.

– Advertisers can secure additional copies for their own distribution free of charge.

– The DVD and Beyond 2008 is edited and published by Jean-Luc Renaud, Publisher of www.dvd-intelligence.com, Europe's leading news-based website for the DVD industry.

WWW.DVD-INTELLIGENCE.COM

The aim of www.dvd-intelligence.com is to provide information, knowledge and understanding of the DVD and related industry across Europe. The material available throughout the site comes from a variety of sources – from our in-house analysts, commentators and correspondents, from material collected at conferences, exhibitions and other events, and from a continuous programme of browsing hundreds of websites. The ultimate goal is to offer a totally independent and timely repository of information relevant to professionals active in the variety of facets of Europe's DVD industry.

www.dvd-intelligence.com is a commercial site, financed by both advertising and subscription. The advertising-supported sections are free to every user while a subscription is required to access the site in full.

Top Banners on rotating carousel as well as Right-hand Banners come with their own Microsite, allowing advertisers to customise – and occasionally modify – their message to be relevant to DVD-involved website visitors.

The site features a high quality Video Streaming facility for showreels, product demos, executive messages, etc. Advertisers spending at least £1,500 (2,250 Euro) on any package can have a video clip (up to 3-minute long) posted free of charge.

The Statistics

The site has been in operation for three and a half year, the statistics are impressive. During the month of November 2007, the site generated

. . . 480,500 hits from 17,800 visitors in 91 countries.

Visitors clicked on the Top Banners (rotating) between 4,500 and 7,200 times during the month.

Clicks on the Right-hand Banners range from 1,500 to 2,900 times a month.

Advertising rates (12 month contracts)

SATURATION ADVERTISING PACKAGES
(12-month contract)

Gold Package £5200 / 7300 Euro

Silver Package £3700 / 5200 Euro

Publisher's Package £1900 / 2700 Euro