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Guardian Weekend Magazine

United Kingdom

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Notes

Publication Day: Saturday
Copy Deadline (Display & Classified): Friday 8 days prior to publication

This page has sizes for both display and classified advertising. Please ensure you have picked the right section for your ad. Sections are clearly marked.

For a list of approved repro houses, Bureaus and advertising delivery methods please see the links below:

Delivery Methods: http://www.guardian.co.uk/advertising/electronic-ad-delivery

Approved Senders: http://www.guardian.co.uk/advertising/advertising-specifications

For some general guidelines to designing your ad to make it suitable for print, please see this link: http://specle.net/uk/guardian-news-media/notes/general-guidelines-for-guardian-print-advertising

WE DO NOT accept emailed advertising of any type. You must use one of our approved delivery methods.

We never accept any advertising copy with crop marks, colour bars or other printers marks of any description. Advertising should be supplied to exact dimensions only.

Weekend Magazine Display

Full Page

Ads should only ever be delivered to bleed or type sizes, never to trim, which is for information only and represents the physical size of the finished product after bleed has been removed during printing

If you don't wish to have bleed on your ad it should be supplied to the exact type size measurement only

Trim: W 246mm x H 292mm

Bleed: W 256mm x H 302mm

Type: W 213mm x H 260mm

Half Horizontal with bleed

Bleed measurements are supplied for all four sides so that ads can be placed at either the top or the bottom of the page. Physically, only bleed from three sides can ever be removed for fractional ads.

If you don't wish to have bleed on your ad it should be supplied to the exact type size measurement only

Trim: W 246mm x H 144mm

Bleed: W 256mm x H 154mm

Type: W 213mm x H 129mm

Half Vertical With Bleed

Bleed measurements are supplied for all four sides so that ads can be placed on either a left-hand or right-hand page. Physically, only bleed from three sides can ever be removed for fractional ads.

If you don't wish to have bleed on your ad it should be supplied to the exact type size measurement only

Trim: W 121mm x H 292mm

Bleed: W 131mm x H 302mm

Type: W 104mm x H 260mm

Double Page Spread (DPS)

Ads should only ever be delivered to bleed or type sizes, never to trim, which is for information only and represents the physical size of the finished product after bleed has been removed during printing

If you don't wish to have bleed on your ad it should be supplied to the exact type size measurement only

Trim: W 492mm x H 292mm

Bleed: W 502mm x H 302mm

Type: W 458mm x H 260mm

Supply as one big page

Half Height Double Page Spread

Bleed measurements are supplied for all four sides so that ads can be placed on either a left-hand or right-hand page. Physically, only bleed from three sides can ever be removed for fractional ads.

If you don't wish to have bleed on your ad it should be supplied to the exact type size measurement only

Trim: W 492mm x H 144mm

Bleed: W 502mm x H 154mm

Type: W 458mm x H 129mm

Supply as one big page

Quarter Page (Type area only)

3+3 column Fireplace

This is the measurement for a fireplace ad spanning 6 columns (3 columns on each facing page) plus a gutter of 32.5mm. Other Fireplace ads can be worked out by adding the appropriate columns required on each page plus 32.5mm. If in doubt, please ring us for confirmation

Type: W 348.5mm x H 260mm

Supply as one big page

Guardian Weekend Display Columns

Send Guardian Weekend Display Columns Ad

260mm

These column sizes are for ads not covered in the regular sizes above. Small fractional ads do not usually have bleed and should be supplied to their booked depth in millimetres x their column measurement (a 10x2 ad would therefore be 100mm high and 104mm wide)

Columns:

1 2 3 4
50mm 104mm 158mm 213mm

Guardian Weekend Classified Columns

Send Guardian Weekend Classified Columns Ad

260mm

Classified advertising for Guardian Weekend is type area only, without bleed. Ad sizes are given as height in cm x width in columns. Depth is usually converted to millimetres for delivery, so: a 10x2 ad would be 100mm (10cm) high and 63 millimetres (2 columns) wide. This measurement method applies to all advertising that doesn't have bleed.

Columns:

1 2 3 4 5 6 7
30mm 63mm 95mm 128mm 161mm 193mm 226mm