Promotions
ncjMedia and GMC offer unique opportunities to promote your goods and services by in paper competitions, reader offers and sponsorship throughout our titles.
Undertake a promotional offer or reader competition in our titles and you will be offered increased consumer awareness and footfall, depending on your objectives.
Competitions
Competitions can be run in the Evening Chronicle, Sunday Sun, Evening Gazette and The Journal, subject to approval.
A minimum prize value of £1,000 applies for the Evening Chronicle, and £500 for the Evening Gazette, the Sunday Sun and The Journal.
In return for the prize value, the sponsor would receive equivalent to a quarter page space in paper, featuring 180 words, an image and a logo.
Plus the money can’t buy opportunities of front page plugs and A2 newsbills to newsagents across the region depending on the prize.
Various entry mechanisms are available including postal to include data collect, telephone and text and email.
Such activity would secure one day in paper, if the prize value exceeds the minimum prize value, the competition can be ran over a number of insertions.
To further support campaigns, ncjMedia and GMC will consider investing in other media such as radio adverts, streetliners, metro advertising to increase awareness of a campaign.
Reader Offers
Reader Offers allow readers to purchase a product or service at a discounted rate, the minimum requested discount is generally 50%, although this is depending on the value of the offer.
Reader Offers can stimulate increased sale for your business by a specific targeted promotional incentive.
Sponsorship Opportunities
If your business is looking for a unique sponsorship opportunity to create customer awareness and strengthen your brand, there are a number of promotion sponsorship opportunities available in ncjMedia and GMC titles, in the form of both commercial sponsors and prize sponsors.
Sponsorship is the financial or in-kind support of an activity, used primarily to reach specified business goals. The increasingly important role played by sponsorship in the marketing mix has given rise to the view that it should be considered a strategic activity with the potential to generate a sustainable competitive advantage in the marketplace.
Sponsorship can enhance the image of your business and shape consumer attitudes to your brand. Often companies are looking to improve how they are perceived by their target audience. Sponsorship can generate a positive influence of a company's product in the minds of their consumers and therefore regularly support events they feel can influence consumer opinions, such as our Baby Idol competition. Click here to view the Case Study.
Every sponsor is seeking wide exposure in both electronic and print media. Positive publicity helps create heightened visibility of products/services.
Contact the team...
Consumer Marketing Manager
Andy Naylor
0191 2016092
Andy.naylor@ncjmedia.co.uk
Senior Consumer Marketing Executive – Evening Chronicle
Janet Das
0191 201 6087
janet.das@ncjmedia.co.uk
Consumer Marketing Executive – The Journal
Stephen Farrell
0191 2016022
Stephen.farrell@ncjmedia.co.uk
The Journal Culture Club Manager
Jayne Walsh
0191 2016369
Jayne.walsh@ncjmedia.co.uk
General Enquiries
Lynn Raine
0191 2016019
Lynn.Raine@ncjmedia.co.uk