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About the Guide print magazine

General Information
The Guide is published monthly with a continuously growing press run. Currently at 32,000.
The Guide is sold at newsstands (vendor inquires) and distributed by our advertisers (ad rates) free-of-charge throughout North America and in selected European and Australian cities. Materials from The Guide are also available over the World Wide Web at www.guidemag.com.
The Guide has been growing for over twenty-five years to become one of the United States� largest gay magazines.
The Guide�s always up-to-date travel features on exciting domestic and international destinations along with continually updated city maps make The Guide indispensable for the gay traveler.
The Guide�s insightful editorials and commentary have won awards from the Gay and Lesbian Press Association and Q-Syndicate as well as a loyal following among regular readers.
The Guide is packed with travel information, entertaining articles, thoughtful editorials, photo features, steamy video reviews, a hot international personals section, provocative columnists, book and movie reviews, along with advertising from around the world- no wonder more and more people are reaching for The Guide!

Advertising

Magazine ad rates in US$ (contact us for rates in other currencies)

Display ad rates:

Size Width x Height $US/Month

back cover 7.75" x 10.25"
(19.96 x 26.04 cm) Contact us for rates

inside front cover,
inside back cover,
page 3 6.55" x 8.76"
(16.64 x 22.25 cm) Contact us for rates

double 2(6.55" x 8.76")
2(16.64 x 22.25 cm) Contact us for rates

full 6.55" x 8.76"
(16.64 x 22.25 cm) Contact us for rates

two thirds 4.31" x 8.76"
(10.95 x 22.25 cm) Contact us for rates

junior page 4.28" x 6.55"
(10.87 x 16.64 cm) Contact us for rates

half 6.55" x 4.28"
(16.64 x 10.87 cm) Contact us for rates

one third 4.311" x 4.28"
(10.95 x 10.87 cm) Contact us for rates

quarter vertical 3.175" x 4.28"
(8.07 x 10.87 cm) Contact us for rates

quarter horizontal 4.311" x 3.175"
(8.07 x 10.87 cm) Contact us for rates

sixth 2.072" x 4.28"
(5.26 x 10.87 cm) Contact us for rates

eighth vertical 2.072" x 3.175"
(5.26 x 8.07 cm) Contact us for rates

eighth horizontal 3.175" x 2.04"
(8.07 x 5.18 cm) Contact us for rates

Travel Listings and Steam Heat

Up to fifty words in either our Travel listings or Steam Heat (saunas & health clubs) listings cost $375 for six issues (six months) or $525 for 12 issues (12 months).

Please note: postal codes, telephone numbers, and abbreviations each count as one word. Be sure to include the name of your business as part of the 50 words.

The Guide magazine contains two sections arranged geographically: Travel Classifieds promote destinations and travel related business, while the Steam Heat section promotes saunas and health clubs. Information from Travel listings and Steam Heat listings are also included in our on-line web profiles at no additional charge.

Payment options

We accept cash, checks, Visa, MasterCard, Amex and international money orders; for information regarding electronic bank transfers, or if you are paying by credit card, please contact us.

Submit a display ad electronically

We prefer that all artwork be supplied by email as a press quality PDF file (PDF version 1.3 (Acrobat 4). The final ad should be cropped to the active area only and there should be no additional white space or extra information outside the active area. Send PDFs to guide.bookings@xtra.ca.

Artwork is sent best if scanned at 300dpi. Halftone screens must be no more than 100dpi.

We also accept digital artwork in high resolution EPS, TIFF formats. However, we cannot make any text changes to these files.

We also accept QuarkXPress 7.31, Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator files for MacIntosh. Please include all supporting images and fonts.

Artwork that does not conform exactly to the modular sizes provided will be re-formatted, reduced, enlarged or framed at the discretion of The Guide.

We do NOT accept ads submitted in Word or other processing software such as CorelDraw, Powerpoint or Microsoft Publisher. We cannot use images that are less than 200 dpi or that have been highly compressed.

Please include with your file - the client name, a contact phone number and the date of the issue in which the ad should run. Please provide a proof of your digital file by fax: 416-925-6674 to the attention of Erin Booth.

If you have any questions or for FTP information, please contact Erin Booth, Advertising Production Coordinator at 416-925-6665 xt 214.

Deadlines, specs, and other info

Prices listed are based on camera-ready ads
Please contact us for ad deadlines
All materials should be 150 lines/inch (60 lines/cm)
Bleeds available on all pages; provide 1/4" (.7 cm) margin beyond trim size
Spot color and four-color process are available at extra cost

For information about what our travel destinations will be for coming months, contact us.

Distribution
Businesses interested in selling The Guide should contact our distributor:
Ubiquity Distributors Inc.
607 degraw street
Brooklyn, NY 11217
(718) 875-5491

info@ubiquitymag.com
or contact us
Subscribing
One year (12 issues) costs $30(US) for standard mail or $45(US) for first class mail for addresses in the United States, $45 (Canadian) for addresses in Canada, and $75(US) or 90 Euros for airmail to overseas addresses.
Mail payment to: The Guide, P.O. Box 990593, Boston, MA 02199 USA
We accept cash, checks, or money orders (sorry, no credit cards).
MaleBox personals (print personals)
To place an ad in the MaleBox personals which appear in The Guide print magazine, follow the directions at the beginning of the MaleBox section in the magazine: we need 1) your name and address (which do not appear in your print ad unless you want them to), 2) your ad headline and text, and 3) payment-- cash, check, or money order only, no credit cards; every block of fifty words costs $10 per month or $25 for three months. (Thus, ads with 51-100 words cost $20 per month or $50 for three months, ads with 101-150 words cost $30 per month or $75 for three months, etc.) Return your ad text and payment to: The Guide, PO BOX 990187, Boston, MA 02199. Your ad will appear in the next issue of the print magazine, but not online.
To answer an ad appearing in The Guide magazine, follow the instructions at the beginning of the MaleBox section in the magazine; be sure to include loose, unattached stamps (enough to post your letter(s)) if you're replying from the United States or Canada (either US or Canadian postage). Guys replying from overseas need not include postage. Send your replies-- in their own numbered envelopes-- along with loose postage in a larger envelope addressed to: The Guide, PO BOX 990187, Boston, MA 02199.

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