The Darwin Advertiser
Covers the western half of the city of Lichfield, including Darwin Park, Leomansley, Friary, the City centre and the village of Shenstone.
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Get your business seen locally
Reach potential customers across Lichfield, Shenstone, Rugeley and the surrounding villages — with advertising delivered directly into 30,000 local homes every month.
30,000homes across our four magazines, every month
Be seen where you do business
You don’t always need to reach more people. You need to reach the right people.
We publish four local magazines, each hand delivered to 7,500 homes every month — a combined reach of 30,000 households across Lichfield, Shenstone, Rugeley and the surrounding villages.
Whether you want to advertise in one area or across all four magazines, we’ll help you find an option that suits your business.
Everywhere we deliver
The Darwin Advertiser
Western Lichfield — Darwin Park, Leomansley, Friary, the city centre and the village of Shenstone.
The Lichfield Advertiser
Eastern Lichfield — Boley Park, Streethay, Borrowcop, Stowe and the village of Whittington.
The Village Advertiser
Armitage with Handsacre, the Longdons, the Ridwares, Kings Bromley, Yoxall, Fradley and Alrewas.
The Rugeley Advertiser
The town of Rugeley, including Colton, Brereton and Slitting Mill.
Choose where you want to be seen
The Village Advertiser
Covers Armitage with Handsacre, the Longdons, the Ridwares, Kings Bromley, Yoxall, Fradley and Alrewas.
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The Rugeley Advertiser
Covers the town of Rugeley, including Colton, Brereton and Slitting Mill.
Advertise in The Rugeley Advertiser
The Lichfield Advertiser
Covers the eastern half of Lichfield, including Boley Park, Streethay, Borrowcop, Stowe and the village of Whittington.
Advertise in The Lichfield AdvertiserWant to reach more of the area?
Advertise across several titles — or all four — for even greater local coverage across 30,000 homes.
Talk about a packageWhy print?
Your advert doesn’t disappear with the next scroll
An Advertiser magazine arrives directly in the home, in all four areas.
Readers can pick it up when they have time, come back to useful information and find local businesses when they actually need them.
For businesses that rely on local customers, that makes print a valuable part of being seen regularly in your area.
In the home
Your business is placed directly in front of local households.
Relevant
Reach people living in the areas your business serves.
Repeated visibility
Monthly advertising helps keep your business name familiar locally.
Our prices
Advertising to suit your business
Cost effective advertising with packages to suit any size of budget. Monthly rates are shown below — VAT is added onto your invoice at the current rate.
Advert size
Monthly rate
Mini advert (9 to a page)
£40
Quarter page
£60
Half page
£90
Full page
£150
Premium page (pages 2, 3, 5, 7 & 31)
£170
Back cover
£210
Front cover
£250
Double page features
A fully personalised double page spread highlighting your business — write-up, photos and advert — for £850 in all 4 editions of the magazine (30,000 homes).
Restaurant reviews
Free, subject to availability. Conditions apply — get in touch to find out more.
Sponsorship packages
Available on request. Premium pages are regularly booked up in advance, so contact us to see what is available.
We sell adverts in packages — the minimum package is four adverts. We offer personalised packages to suit your requirements, so please give us a call to discuss how we can help. Payment is in advance before the 15th of the month for inclusion in the following month’s edition.
Get the Media PackDeadlines
Final adverts should be submitted by the 15th of the month for publication in the following month’s edition.
For adverts requiring design, full information will be required a few days before the deadline to allow time for design and customer approval.
Format
Adverts can be accepted in PDF, JPEG, Microsoft Publisher, Microsoft Word or Microsoft PowerPoint.
If you are unable to provide a print ready advert, we can produce one for you at no extra cost. You are welcome to change your advert at any time before the print deadline.
Reliability
We are a small independent family-run business, so for the sake of our own reputation as well as yours we will do our best not to let you down.
Spot checking is done every month to ensure our distribution team are on track, and we welcome orders big and small, with special requests accommodated wherever we can.
Don’t have an advert?
We’ll help you create one
You don’t need to arrive with professionally designed artwork.
Send us your logo, images and the information you’d like included and we can help turn it into an advert ready for the magazine.
What our advertisers say
“We have been advertising in the Local Eye magazines since they launched and it has been fabulous for business, the ads really work!”
“The ads we've placed have helped cement our business within the local area.”
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Want the prices and details?
Get the latest Media Pack for all four Advertiser magazines with current advertising sizes, options and prices.
Ready to get your business seen?
Tell us a little about what you’d like to advertise and where you’d like to be seen.