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PAYMENTS CARDS AND MOBILE ADVERTISING
Targeted advertising
More options, closer targeting, attention grabbing impact and global reach. From the leading payment card and mobile payment industry publication to agenda setting conferences and up-to-the-minute digital media, Payments Cards & Mobile gives you a wide choice of routes to its high value global audience.
Published bi-monthly, Payments Cards & Mobile is the leading magazine covering the payment cards and mobile payments business globally. No other publication comes anywhere near its combination of authoritative editorial coverage and broadly-based circulation to all the major players in the payment cards and mobile payment industry.
Circulation
Payments Cards & Mobile mails out more than 11,000 copies per issue with many more distributed at targeted events throughout the year. Together with its electronic distribution, Payments Cards & Mobile has the highest distribution globally of any payment card and mobile payment industry publication. Validated by (ABC) Audit Bureau of Circulation.
Audience
Payments Cards & Mobile’s readers are senior industry executives with responsibility for managing all types of payment programmes. Payments Cards & Mobile is also required reading for central bankers, regulators, card association executives, telecommunication executives, consultants, vendors and service providers.
Advertising
Get your company’s message to a worldwide audience of senior executives in the mobile and cards industry. Advertising to suit your strategy and requirements, tailored to your budget. All sizes from a double page spread down to a quarter page with single or multiple insertions.
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Advertorial
Get your company's message to a worldwide audience of senior executives in the mobile and cards industry. Advertising to suit your strategy and requirements, tailored to your budget.
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Enhanced Advertising
Use eye-catching ways to get your message noticed. We offer loose inserts, cover tip-ons, belly bands, false covers etc. If you have a new idea, please come and discuss it with us.
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Loose Inserts
Loose inserts are available at *£425/€525 per 1,000 up to 20gm weight. For heavier inserts or specific country distribution-price on application.
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Supplements
PCM publishes regular supplements covering specific payment subjects. They are posted to our readers with the magazine, distributed at targeted worldwide events and are available online for download. Sponsorship, advertising and advertorials are available in each one. There will be three supplements in 2010.
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Buyers Guide
Setting new standards of quality in its field. The annual Buyers Guide will be published with the July/August issue on 21 July 2010. As well as 10,000+ mailed out worldwide, a further 4,500 copies will be distributed at key exhibitions and mailed to new readers.
View the 2010-11 Buyers Guide
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Advertising Design Service
We offer a full creative design service for your company’s advertising or promotional materials. Logo design, pagination, advert and banner adverts are all offered at competitive prices.
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Research, Consultancy and PR
If you need help evolving your product or business in the payments market, we have partnered with other industry experts to deliver a range of tailored services specifically for the payment cards and mobile payments industries.
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Website
Banner advertising is available in various sizes and positions on a month by month basis with no minimum contract. Cost depends on position, size and number of banners booked.
PCM Website stats
Average Monthly Hits: 278,460
Average Monthly Visits: 35,788
Average Monthly Pages: 159,105
(1 Jul 2009–1 Feb 2010)
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Circulation and Readership:
by Organisation
Banking & Financial Institutions 53%
Retail 10%
Telco 7%
Solution Providers-Cards 7%
Solution Providers-Mobile 6%
Third Party Processors &
Other Service Providers 5%
Transport 5%
Equipment & Software Suppliers 4%
Health 3%
by Region/Country
Western Europe 37%
North America 21%
Asia Pacific 19%
Africa/ME 12%
Central and Eastern Europe 8%
Latin America 3%
by Job Title
Card Programme Director/Manager 35%
IT Director/Manager 13%
VP/Director 14%
Development Director/Manager 11%
Programme Director/Manager 10%
Project Director/Manager 10%
CEO 7%
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Bonus Distribution
January/February 2010 Payments Cards & Mobile issue bonus distribution
• Mobile World Congress, Barcelona 15-18 February
• European Card Acquiring, Berlin 23-25 February
• CIT, Madrid 10-11 March
• CEE Cards, Budapest 15-16 March
• Cards Africa, Johannesburg 15-19 March
• CTIA Wireless, Las Vegas 23-25 March
March/April 2010 Payments Cards & Mobile issue bonus distribution
• ETA Annual Meeting, Las Vegas 13-15 April
• Cards Asia, Singapore 19-23 April
• WIMA, Monaco 20-22 April
• SIMposium April
• Cardist, Istanbul 12-13 May
• Cards Middle East, Dubai 16-19 May
May/June 2010 Payments Cards & Mobile issue bonus distribution
• Prepaid Card June
• GSMA Mobile Money Summit June
July/August 2010 Payments Cards & Mobile issue bonus distribution
• EFMA Cards & Payments September
• Smartcard India September
• Mobile Payments World Asia September
September/October 2010 Payments Cards & Mobile issue bonus distribution
• Cards Latin America, Florida 4-6 October
• CTIA Wireless IT & E October
November/December 2010 Payments Cards & Mobile issue bonus distribution
• Cartes Paris 7-9 December
• KARTA 2010 Warsaw December
• Omnicard 2011 Berlin January
• Nordic Cards 2011 Stockholm January
For more information on marketing opportunities
Wendy Sanders, Head of Business Development.
Tel: +44 1263 711801; Email: wendy@paymentscm.com
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Payment Card Yearbooks have published their latest editions - European Payment Cards Yearbook 2009-10, containing 33 individual country profiles and Russia and CIS Payment Cards Yearbook 2010-11, containing 10 individual country profiles.
