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Links
SUMMER 2018
Media Kit
Golf, Craft Beverages & Travel Destinations DIGITAL MAGAZINE
Featuring Enhanced Advertising
Libations MAGAZINE
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Voice for the Small Craft Industry
Industry Partners
Extensive Distribution Platform
A Luxury Travel Magazine, Celebrating Life.
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Links & Libations is the ultimate guide for how to enjoy life in between rounds. Links & Libations is a digital magazine that is distributed electronically through a national distribution network of partnerships, offering a mobile-first platform for marketers targeting affluent consumers with high disposable incomes. With authority and a quirky sense of humor, every monthly issue engages readers, featuring unique golf travel destinations and the best places to wine and dine and stay after a round. From golf tips to tours of craft breweries, distilleries, and wineries, Links & Libations delivers golf on demand and life on tap.
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Media for a Digital Audience
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Links & Libations is distributed through an innovative national network of company-specific social media sites. More than 1000 partner companies, comprised of golf equipment manufacturers, craft brewers, distilleries, wineries, travel companies and associations, have opted in to distribute the magazine on an on-going basis to their own newsletter and social media followers. The network currently reaches more than 20 million consumers who have already demonstrated a strong affinity for the distributing partners’ brand.
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Enhanced Ads Embed a video link in your ad to compliment and reinforce your message! Video, audio, and website links open up without leaving the magazine app. Drive customers directly to your landing page, online store, social media page, or video clip. Check out the ad on the next page to see how it works.
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www.thedistillerychannel.com
Featured Writers Randy Weckerly
Tim Bona
Randy has an extensive 45 Year career in golf and media as well as a former company spokesperson featured on Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom Production.
The storyteller in Tim is fully evident through the excitement and energy that his writing conveys. Even more evident is his passion for sharing the unique sense of “place” for each and every destination he visits.
President Golf/Travel Writer
Randy has traveled to multiple destinations worldwide stretching from most of Europe, Dubai, Canada, Japan and Virgin Islands. He has also visited over 500 different producers of beer, wine, and spirits. This combined with his passion for travel within the United States having visited all but five of the contiguous 48, plus extensive travel to Hawaii, gives him a concrete fabric from the top down in golf, sipping, and travel.
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Editor-In-Chief Travel Writer
Oblivious to seasonal changes in the weather, Tim is most comfortable in shorts and flipflops, which can be challenging for the Univeristy of Florida alumn who made Wisconsin his home. Which brings to mind one of Tim’s favorite Jimmy Buffet lyrics, “…going where the weather suits my clothes!” So down the road he goes in search of authentic, experiential, lifestyle content for our readers to enjoy.
Art Stricklin
Nate Love
Art has covered every professional and most major amateur golf tournaments in the state of Texas. He has covered both the Byron Nelson and Colonial PGA Tour events for the last quarter century, plus the Texas and Houston Open more than a decade. He has covered every Champions Tour event in the state along with the Nationwide and LPGA Lone Star tournaments.
Nate spent ten years in resort and conference management, as well as may years in the recreation industry. His observations of destinations is more than skin deep. Knowing what to look for and where to find it, he finds the great and the not so great of any destination.
Golf Writer
On the national scene, he has achieved the domestic grand slam, covering the Masters, U.S. Open and PGA Championships on multiple occasions along with the U.S. Amateur, the Tour Championship and dozens of other professional golf events.
Creative Director Travel Writer
As the creative director for Links & Libations, he communicates the elegance and luxury of each destination through the design from the front cover to the back cover. When not travelling, Nate can be found on the local cruise line as ship Captain, or at the nearest hole in the wall chasing the perfect bourbon cocktail.
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Demographics
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500,000
43
Electronic Delivery
Serving Millenials to Baby Boomers in a rich travel savvy market who travel in groups and become loyal patrons
Ratebase
$155,530
Median HHI Average household income is 260% greater than the national average
60/40
Male/Female
Median Age
Education & Career
Over 50% have some level of college degree Over 40% are managers, professionals, or executive level
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Pricing
Video or Audio enhanced ads: +15% to listed Rates.
Full PAGE
$2,100
Discounts Available for multiple issue contracts.
2 Page SPREAD
$3,750
Ad production services available @ $50 per hour
2/3 Page
$1,575
1/2 Page
$1,125
1/3 Page
$825
1/4 Page
$600
IFC
$3,000
Alternative advertising available to target industry partners - b2b
Issue
Materials Due
Publish Date
March
3/8/2018
3/15/2018
May
5/8/2018
5/15/2018
July
7/10/2018
7/15/2018
2nd Cover
$2,700
August
8/10/2018
8/15/2018
3rd Cover
$2,400
September
9/10/2018
9/15/2018
October
10/10/2018
10/15/2018
November
11/10/2018
11/15/2018
December
12/10/2018
12/15/2018
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Ask about Links & Libations Podcast Advertising Rates
Ad Specifications PAGE SIZES
Live
Trim
bleed
PAGE
8.25” x 10.75”
8.75” x 10.875”
9” x 11.125”
SPREAD
16.5” x 10.75”
17.5” x 10.875”
17.75” x 11.125”
2/3 Vertical
5.25” x 10.75”
5.5” x 10.875”
5.75” x 11.125”
1/2 island
5.25” x 7.125”
5.5” x 7.375”
5.75” x 7.625”
1/2 HORIZONTAL
8.25” x 5.25”
8.75” x 5.25”
9” x 5.5”
1/3 SQUARE
5.25” x 5.25”
5.5” x 5.25”
5.75” x 5.5”
1/3 VERTICAL
2.75” x 10.75”
3” x 10.875”
3.25” x 11.125”
1/4 page
4” x 5.25”
4.125” x 5.375”
4.25” x 5.5”
Proofs: One SWOP-Certified proof & one ruled proof as a positioning guide Safety: Keep all LIVE matter, not intended to trim, 1/4” from TRIM edges. Offset for registration marks should be set at .1875. Format: PDF/X-1a format files required for submission. Files should conform to SWOP guidelines. View specifications online at www. swop.org Send all artwork to: ARTWORK@liveecostyle.com
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Links & Libations is produced by Excited Minds Media. www.LiveEcoStyle.com Publisher Randy Weckerly President of Excited Minds Media Nate Love VP Excited Minds Media Editor Tim Bona Excited Minds Media Design and Layout Nate Love National Sales Kira Peterson Rob Ladd Director of Technology Nate Love All editorial inquiries: editor@liveecostyle.com
Distributed By:
Live Eco Style Media The Distillery Channel Your Local Beverage Producer P.O. Box 893 Lake Geneva, WI 53147
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TERMS AND CONDITIONS The following are certain terms and conditions governing advertising published in Links & Libations, distributed online and by print, owned by LiveEcoStyle,Inc. Submission of insertion order for placement of advertising in the Magazine constitutes acceptance of the following terms and conditions. No terms or conditions in any insertion orders, instructions, or documents other than this Rate Card will be binding. 1. AGENCY COMMISSION AND PAYMENT Submission of insertion order by advertising agency on behalf of advertiser constitutes agency’s agreement to pay all invoices for placement of advertising in the Magazine pursuant to such insertion order. Notwithstanding the foregoing, submission of insertion order constitutes agreement that advertiser guarantees prompt and full payment for such advertising in the event of material default by agency. Agency and advertiser are jointly and severally liable for the payment of all invoices arising from placement of advertising in the Magazine. Agency commission (or equivalent): fifteen percent (15%) of gross advertising space charges, payable only to recognized agents. Invoices are rendered on or about the on-sale date of the Magazine. Payments due: 50% upon order and 50% final payment one week prior to publication. No agency commission is payable, and Publisher will not grant any discounts, on production charges. Any discounts received by advertiser on advertising space charges may not be applied to production charges. 2. CANCELLATION AND CHANGES Publisher expressly reserves the right to reject or cancel for any reason at any time any insertion order or advertisement without liability, even if previously acknowledged or accepted. Advertisers may not cancel orders for, or make changes in, advertising after the closing dates of the Magazine. The rates and conditions of advertising in the Magazine are subject to change without notice. 3. PUBLISHER’S LIABILITY Publisher is not liable for any failure or delay in printing, publishing, or circulating any copies of the issue of the Magazine in which advertising is placed pursuant to an insertion order that is caused by, or arising from, an act of God, accident, fire, strike, terrorism or other occurrence beyond Publisher’s control. Publisher is not liable for any failure or delay in publishing in the Magazine any advertisement submitted to it. Publisher does not guarantee positioning of advertisements in the Magazine, is not liable for failure to meet positioning requirements and is not liable for any error in key numbers. The liability of Publisher for any act, error or omission for which it may be held legally responsible shall not exceed the cost of the advertising space affected by the error. In no event shall Publisher be liable for any indirect, consequential, special, or incidental damages, including, but not limited to, lost income or profits. 4. DIGITAL REPLICANT APP All full-page national print advertising will receive static placements. On select platforms, visible URL’s in the ad will be hyperlinked in appropriate replicant app at no additional cost. Unless otherwise specified by the advertiser, we will pick-up print creative and run it exactly as it appears in the Magazine. Advertisers also have the option to opt out or provide alternative tablet creative to run in lieu of print creative. See tablet specs for details on how print creative is displayed in the app, opting out, and supplying alternative tablet creative. If Magazine does not receive a request to opt-out or alternative creative by issue close date, the ad will run exactly as it appears in the Magazine. 5. MISCELLANEOUS Advertising agency and advertiser each represents and warrants that each advertisement submitted by it for publication in the Magazine contains no copy, illustrations, photographs, text or other content that may result in any claim against Publisher. Advertising agency and advertiser each shall indemnify and hold harmless Publisher from and against any damages and related expenses (including attorneys’ fees) arising from the content of advertisements, including, but not limited to, claims of invasion of privacy, unauthorized use of names or pictures of living persons, trademark infringement, copyright infringement, libel, and misrepresentation. Publisher’s acceptance of an advertisement for publication in the Magazine does not constitute an endorsement of the product or service advertised. No advertiser or agency may use the Magazine’s name or logo without Publisher’s prior written permission for each such use. The word “advertisement” will be placed above all advertisements that, in Publisher’s opinion, resemble editorial matter. This agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Wisconsin without regard to its conflicts of laws provisions. Any civil action or proceeding arising out of or related to this agreement shall be brought in the courts of record of the State of Wisconsin in Walworth County. Advertiser and agency consents to the jurisdiction of such courts and waives any objection to the laying of venue of any such civil action or proceeding in such courts.
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