Advertise in The Big Takeover

Following is information for print advertisers only. Please contact us for information on online advertising.

Circulation

25,000, published every Spring and Fall.

Subscribers: 5,000

Distribution

Tower Magazines, Source Interlink, Ingram, Ubiquity, Newsways, Speedimpex Canada, FAB Canada, Scratch Canada, Small Changes, Media Solutions, Darla, Get Hip, Lumberjack, Newbury Comics, Parasol, Revolver, Bull Moose, Carrot Top, Not Lame, Media Solutions, Pennyblackmusic England, Choke, and more.

NOTE: We also get into Barnes & Noble, Books-a-Million, Hastings, Shinders, Tower, Newbury Comics, and Borders!

Sizes

Quarter page: 3.75” wide by 5” high

Half page: 7.5” wide by 5” high or 3.75” wide by 10” high

Full page: 7.5” wide by 10” high (for ads that bleed: that is live area; the final crop will end up around 8.25” wide by 10.75” wide, so we recommend art that extends to at least 8.75” wide by 11.25” high)

Art specs

We accept e-mailed Photoshop .tiff files at 300 DPI resolution (we use Mac). If that is not possible, we also accept Acrobat .PDF files. If your file is more than 8MB, please stuff it first. Please use your label’s name in the file name!

Contact us and we’ll tell you where to e-mail the files.

How to Reserve Space

Use our contact form to reserve space.

Contact us for pricing. Then, make your check out to “The Big Takeover” and mail to:

Jack Rabid
Editor/Publisher
Big Takeover Magazine
Room 5-2
1713 8th Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11215

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