HM | The Hard Music Magazine

HM Advertising Cafeteria-style list of options:

Here is a PDF of our mini media kit 2012.

• Banner Ads [$249/month or $400/2 mo. or 50,000 views, whichever comes first] at hmmag.com with 115,000 unique visits/month (they come in 2 sizes – 468×60 or 125×125, mult. file formats):

• Email Blasts [$500] sent to 8,800+ of our e-subscribers (html direct email or text/enewsletter):

• HM Magazine Podcast [$250 – 30 or 60-second spot or song] at podcast.hmmag.com (an average of 800 listens/episode and growing):

• Social Media [$175 – 4 tweets + facebook comments] at twitter.com/HM_mag, facebook.com/HM.Magazine (4,600+ fans/followers/friends):

• Online Survey [$100] at hmmag.com (throw a giveaway and you collect the demographic data. see a sample):

• Text Message [$100] (175+ subscribers):

• Online Ads [open or download the media kit for a breakdown on all sizes. The prices basically range from: $550 – full-page color ad in digi-edition; $378 - half-pg; $313 - third-pg; $300 - quarter-pg; $67 - eighth-pg]. Preview digi-edition (2,650 active e-subscribers). Contact us for login details:

• Tower Banner Ad [$600 – permanently attached exclusively to a given issue] to left of digi-edition browser (2,200 active e-subscribers. Size = 120×600, multiple file formats avail.):

Ad Specs/Sizes

Full-Page
trim size = 8.5″ wide x 11″ tall
bleed area = 8.75″ x 11.25″
**LIVE AREA = 8″ x 10.5″
**(keep all “live matter,” as in stuff you don’t wanna see trimmed off, within this space)

Half-Page
ad size = 8″ wide x 5.125″ tall

Third-Page

ad size = 3″ wide x 10.5″ tall

Quarter-Page
ad size = 3.875″ wide x 5.125″ tall

Sixth-Page
ad size = 3″ wide x 5.125″ tall

Eighth-Page
ad size = 3.75″ wide x 2″ tall

Delivery: Send all ad files via email to advertising(at)hmmag(dot)com. Questions? Email same addr.

What about HM Magazine? Where does it advertise?

Check out these 3 video commercial spots:
HM Spots 1 & 2 & 3
Here is HM Spot.1, filmed and edited by the fine folks over at Endeavor Media (Owl City’s “Fireflies” video, videos for Project 86, The Devil Wears Prada, Pillar), which features the singer for Gwar (Oderus) mismatched against some more “normal” people.

Here’s another one [spot.2]. Whattya think?

And here’s the third [spot.3]. Whattya think?