Welcome to The Cheltonian
'Cheltenham's favourite and most useful monthly magazine.'
The Cheltonian is owned by James Neal and published monthly under licence by his company Media Publishing Group Ltd. It is the most popular free full colour glossy magazine in the town.
We would like to thank you for visiting our website, please spend a few moments to learn a little about what we do and how we might be able to help you and your business.
Media Publishing Group Ltd assists local business owners and larger companies that wish to advertise and promote their products and/or services to the local public, on a large scale, through ‘The Cheltonian’ magazine and its associated on-line activities. The magazine itself is of a ‘top quality’ nature and is available FREE to the general public. It offers a range of benefits to both the advertiser and the local community.
Within the pages of The Cheltonian you will find:
| What’s On The Cheltonian Scene Cheltenham’s Own Cheltenham MP Cheltenham History Cheltenham Festivals Cheltenham Theatre Fashion |
Beauty Shopping Dating Wellness Advice Business Finance Motoring |
Property Gardening Travel Food Interviews Reviews Crosswords & Sudoku Competitions |
At the back of each edition you will find The Cheltonian Resource, this section contains the latest news, cinema and DVD releases, the ‘Cheltonian Scene’, What’s On and virtually every telephone number, address and web site a reader is ever likely to need in the Cheltenham area. Included are doctors, dentists, opticians, local and emergency services / out of hours numbers for all manner of things from fallen trees, abandoned cars, adoption services to trading standards and youth services.
Also included in the Cheltonian Resource are all the contact details for restaurants, takeaways, taxis, sport & leisure, education (schools, colleges, universities and special needs), estate agents, solicitors, financial services organisations (banks, building societies, insurance companies & financial advisors)
Adding Value
In today’s market great emphasis is placed on ‘cost-cutting’. During these difficult financial times we have seen businesses making cuts to their advertising and marketing budgets when arguably they should be increasing their spend in this area.
Despite this trend The Cheltonian has continued to grow, our clients haven’t cut back their budgets because our clients see tangible results and value for money.
This success is a direct reflection of the company’s ethos to look after its clients and its readers. We endeavour, at all times, to provide our clients with the best value for money and the highest level of service. We are aware that our clients require a return on their investment. We go beyond the ‘advert’ and not only offer a FREE professional design and copywriting service but also editorial packages and reviews that will interest and stimulate readers. All of this amounts to one thing – results!
However, advertising is a business investment and these investments should not be taken lightly. Cost alone is not a reason to take out advertising! For instance there are magazines / brochures (we prefer to refer to them as ‘ad mags’) that are solely focused on advertisements. They offer little to no editorial content and even less in the way of a local resource. They are a low quality product that offers no additional benefit to the advertiser whatsoever.
The Cheltonian can demonstrate how it adds value to its advertisers and their investment through the high quality of its production, editorial features and resource content, all of which combine to ensure that each edition is retained for an extended period. In fact our research indicates that an edition of The Cheltonian has an average shelf-life of 3 months!
The Cheltonian is produced to the highest possible standard and no expense is spared when creating the classy ‘perfect (notch) bound’ (much like a paperback novel) magazine that has a durable, yet stylish, gloss laminate finish. Yet despite this approach our advertising rates are actually less than a great many of the other, lesser quality, publications in the area.
But you don’t need to take our word for it, you can read both client and reader testimonials by clicking HERE.
Online benefits
In addition to the physically printed editions The Cheltonian can also be read online. A large number of ‘digital readers’ visit the web site every month. (including people who have either visited Cheltenham or moved to other areas). This, in turn, further increases the readership of each edition.
Please Note: We now offer a subscription service for the printed editions as a result of the popularity of the digital edition.
In addition, all main competition entries are registered through our web site. This offers our advertisers another opportunity to 'touch' the reader. Our online directory and resource (a valuable reader resource) provides advertisers with the chance to re-direct readers to their respective websites by the way of their own listing and hyperlink.
Online video advertising is another feature that can be utilised at a very low cost. Please ‘Contact Us’ for further information.
And let’s not forget our ever popular Facebook and Twitter pages. Details of which can be seen to the right hand side of the page.
As you can see there are many reasons why The Cheltonian is ‘Cheltenham’s favourite and most useful monthly magazine’ and why it is picked up, read and retained by our many thousands of readers.
We would like to thank you for visiting our site, please feel free to browse and we hope you enjoy reading each edition as much as we have enjoyed producing it.
