PUZZLE BONANZA 2021
Puzzles
Newspaper Readers LOVE Puzzles! Find your revenue gold mine with Premium Puzzle Products from King Features! King Features provides the world’s highest quality and most entertaining puzzles and games. Whether you need crosswords, word games and anagrams to brain-teasers and head-scratchers,
King Features offers the most delightfully fiendish and fun puzzles and games to actively stimulate and entertain puzzle enthusiasts of all ages.
2
Puzzle Books Give your mind a workout!
KING FEATURES PUZZLE BOOKS • • • • • • •
Creates reader engagement and loyalty Challenges the brain Long shelf life Flexibility in content Subscription premiums Advertising sales Reinforces subscriber retention
Available in tabloid and quarterfold format on any publication schedule Size ranges from 12 pages minimum to open-end maximum Fully paginated and digitally delivered
Preview our most popular book here 3
Paginated Puzzle Pages
KING FEATURES PUZZLE PAGES • • • • • •
Daily or weekly Adult puzzle pages Kids diversions pages Tabloid and Broadsheet Premium content Black & white or color
Fully paginated Digitally delivered Custom to your size specs Preview our most popular book here 4
KING 3-PACK MICRO-PUZZLES
A TRIPLE PLAY OF DAILY FUN FOR PRINT AND ONLINE •
• • • • • •
Three puzzles rotate daily through the week
Puzzle
Frequency
Dynamic Double Cross Plus One King-Micro Crossword
3 per week 2 per week 7 per week
Includes both print and digital puzzles Quick, easy and fun Great for that 5-minute break Drive website engagement Perfect for newsletters Max print size 3.1” x 4.43”
Try the digital version! Link to Triple Play Puzzles
5
KING MICRO-PUZZLES FOR PRINT
Flexible enough to use as filler or for new daily and Sunday puzzles!
6
MEGA Crossword
Categorical Pursuits MEGA Crossword A page-buster, this trivia crossword is designed to run on the inside spread of 4-page broadsheet double-truck with ads all around. Six trivia categories, 43x43 grid, 958 total clues. (Print only)
7
Holiday Double Truck Crosswords
Thanksgiving & Christmas Holiday DOUBLE TRUCK PUZZLE PAGES • • • •
Themed crossword, Hocus-Focus, Super Quiz, Word Sleuth & Sudoku Double-truck spread with 2” ad space at bottom of both pages Sold individually or as a package Each comes bundled with broadsheet and tabloid layouts (Print only)
8
MAIN EVENT CROSSWORDS
College Football
Puzzles Built to Monetize!
The Masters
Main Event Crosswords are sports-themed puzzles. Each crossword has a 21 X 21 grid with 250 clues. Designed to monetize, each puzzle takes up two-thirds of a broadsheet with 10.7in x 4.75in ad space below. Also fits tabloid! (Print only) Product shelf-life should be outstanding for advertisers who tie-in to the event and would provide a great vehicle for
"coupon" advertising! 9
Premium Format Puzzles Release Timeline
Type Main Event MEGA Crossword Main Event Double Truck Double Truck
Type Main Event Main Event MEGA Crossword Main Event Main Event Main Event MEGA Crossword Main Event Double Truck Double Truck
Delivery Available Available 12-Sep 31-Oct 5-Dec
2020 For Use 7-Sep 1-Sep 1-Oct 25-Nov 25-Dec
Content College Football Categorical Pursuits #3 World Series Thanksgiving Christmas
Delivery 17-Jan 31-Jan 21-Feb 14-Mar 23-May 27-Jun 22-Aug 12-Sep 31-Oct 5-Dec
2021 For Use 7-Feb 14-Feb 14-Mar 8-Apr 17-Jun 23-Jul 12-Sep 1-Oct 25-Nov 25-Dec
Content Super Bowl Daytona 500 Categorical Pursuits #4 The Masters US Open Summer Olympics Categorical Pursuits #5 World Series Thanksgiving Christmas
10
For rates and availability, contact your local King Features sales representative: *Rebecca Kaplan Haase, Vice President, Sales & Distribution, 212-969-7590, rebecca.haase@hearst.com *Randy Noble, National Sales Director, 319-329-2693, rnoble@hearst.com
*Dennis Danko, Inside Sales Manager, 877-658-2424, ddanko@hearst.com
*Ohene Opong-Owusu, Senior Sales Executive, 347-433-3226, Ohene.Opong-Owusu@Hearst.com
*Jack Walsh, Senior Consultant, Printing & New England Newspapers, 603-661-3652, jwalsh@hearst.com
*Curtis Trammell, Western Region Sales, 312-961-2789, ctrammell@hearst.com
*Robin Graham, International Sales Consultant, 416-528-6930, Robin.Graham@hearst.com