The Glimpse 2008 Media Kit - Download Now

We invite you to join the Glimpse community. At the heart of the Glimpse Foundation’s mission lies the notion of community. By creating a space where the globally minded can exchange their experiences and prepare for new ones, Glimpse is fostering community among America’s next generation of global leaders.

We invite you to join us in inspiring the young Global Explorer. Glimpse offers highly unique and compelling content that deepens global understanding. Advertising with Glimpse puts your message in front of the Global Explorer – building your brand, generating contacts, and empowering the individual to seek your programs, products and services. Beyond advertising, Glimpse offers opportunities for innovative content and creative partnerships that help our shared message reach an ever-larger audience.

We invite you to learn more about Glimpse. With National Geographic support, 2008 represents an unprecedented opportunity for Glimpse to grow a solid multi-media platform for this market. If you would like to be be notified of developments as soon as they form just let us know.

Download our 2008 Media Kit to discover our editorial calendar, closing dates, advertising opportunities, and strategic vision.

Globally Yours,

The Glimpse Foundation

Questions?

• Email: advertising@glimpsefoundation.org
• Give us a call at: 800-549-4802

Glimpse was originally produced as an independent student project at Brown University in Spring 2002. With seed funding from National Geographic, Glimpse began quarterly publication in Fall 2003. Since its inception, Glimpse has more than doubled its page count and increased its circulation from 1,000 to 10,000.

What Sets It Apart

The enduring relevance of its content and its high-quality appearance guarantee a long and prolific shelf-life.

Editorial Calendar

Download the 2008 Media Kit for a description of planned topics, features and departments.

Readership

Reach and Inspire the Global Explorer.

Our readers share a hunger for learning and a passion for international travel. They are culturally aware, informed and progressive individuals, committed to broadening their own horizons and improving the lives of others. As consumers, they come from affluent backgrounds and tend toward socially responsible buying decisions. The vast majority of our readers report reading each issue cover to cover.

Glimpse Reader Profile

• 50% are students pursuing an undergraduate degree
  
• 30% have traveled to five or more foreign countries
  
• 90% are planning to travel abroad in the next 12 months...

For a full breakdown of readership demographics, download the 2008 Media Kit.

Circulation

• 10,000

Distribution

Unlike other magazines in our market, colleges and universities pay to receive Glimpse. This means that educators make sure their copies don’t just sit around in the office, but rather get into the hands of student readers who are planning to go abroad. Approximately 50 percent of each print run is allocated to member schools. For a current list of members, click here.

Rates

Please download the 2008 Media Kit for complete rate notes

Specs

If you are interested in special print advertising options such as bind-in cards and foldouts, please call us to discuss.

Directory Listings

• Heading: 40 Characters
  
• Body: 30 Words
  
• Required Contact Information: Phone number, Email address, Website URL
  
• Delivery: Directory Listings should be emailed to advertising@glimpsefoundation.org
  
• Languages: If you offer language-based programs, include a complete list of these languages.
  
• Web vs. Print: We require two versions of your Directory Listing, one for print publication and one for online publication. You will find the online specifications below.

Print Ads

• Resolution: 300 dpi minimum
  
• File Format: JPG, TIFF or PDF
  
• Delivery: Email ad copy to advertising@glimpsefoundation.org unless the file size exceeds 10Mb in which case email us to make alternative arrangements.

Please download the 2008 Media Kit for a complete online/print specifications description


Glimpse.org
What Sets It Apart | Readership | Traffic | Options | Rates | Specs | Take a Peek!

Glimpse.org is an online community of young adults with a shared interest in traveling and living overseas. Registered users take advantage of our wide variety of services and forums to assist one another in undertaking an extended stay overseas. GlimpseAbroad.org offers a comprehensive database of student-written cultural narratives from around the world, personal blogging services, program provider directories and interactive features, which enable young international explorers to share advice and connect with one another.

What Sets It Apart

Readership

Registered Users: Stages Segmentation

• 51.5% are planning to study or travel abroad
  
• 17.9% are currently studying or traveling abroad
  
• 30.2% have returned from studying or traveling abroad

• Africa: 14.4%
  
• Asia Pacific: 15.3%
  
• Australasia: 7.9%
  
• Caribbean: 4.3%
  
• Eastern Europe: 10.3%
  
• Latin America: 27.3%
  
• Middle East: 9.8%
  
• South Asia: 11.3%
  
• US & Canada: 8.9%
  
• Western Europe: 52%

• Yes: 52.8%
  
• No: 13.9%
  
• Unsure: 38.9%

• 90.19% of visitors speak English as a first language

• 69.82% from the United States
  
• 12.15% from the United Kingdom
  
• 130 total countries represented

Traffic

Visits

• 15,000 unique visits per month
  
• +17% traffic growth per month since August 2006
  
• 3.44 pageviews per visit

• 42% visit more than one page per visit
  
• 29% visit at least 3 different pages per visit

Options

Sponsored links appear as follows:

• Regionally Specific Links appear in conjunction with articles from all countries in the region. For Example an Africa Regional package places your link next to any article from an African country – Algeria to Zimbabwe.

• Country Specific Links appear in conjunction with articles from the respective country only.

• Links appear to the immediate right of the text, and readers are prompted to explore your links at the end of each article through our “More about..” section.

A sponsored link package at glimpse.org targets readers specifically interested in a region or country where you offer programs!

Directory Listings represent a free and easy way to list programs, products and services that are relevant and interesting to our website visitors. All directory listings are posted to the free online Glimpse Directory and are searchable by keyword and by category. All directory listings are screened and must be approved by Glimpse editorial staff before they are included in the Glimpse Directory. This is done to ensure optimal quality and relevance. To submit your own listing(s), just complete the Glimpse Directory Inclusion Request Form.

Referrals allow your organization to target only those readers who have registered on our site and specifically requested information about programs/services that correspond to what you have to offer. You are charged on a per-referral basis; we can even put a monthly cap on the number of referrals we send you so as not to exceed your budget.

Rates

Specs

• Heading: Organization Name or Short Slogan
  
• Body: 100 characters
  
• Required Contact Information: Contact Name, Email Address, Website URL
  
• Delivery: Sponsored Links should be emailed to advertising@glimpsefoundation.org
  
• Languages: If you offer language-based programs, include a complete list of these languages.

Directory Listings

• Heading: Organization or Program Name
  
• Body: 100 characters
  
• Required Contact Information: Contact Name, Email Address, Website URL
  
• Delivery: Web directory listings should be submitted here. To submit print directory listings, follow the instructions above.
  
• Languages: If you offer language-based programs, include a complete list of these languages.
  
• Web vs. Print: We require two versions of your Directory Listing, one for print publication and one for online publication. You will find the print specifications above.

What Sets It Apart

Sick of cute kitten calendars? Glimpse Calendars are unlike any other, offering compelling candid images and a window into real life around the world. They are the only nationally distributed calendars that exclusively feature photos by study abroad students and young adult travelers.

Customers

Glimpse Calendar customers are largely the same as Glimpse Quarterly readers. They share a hunger for learning and a passion for international travel. They are culturally aware, informed and progressive individuals, committed to broadening their own horizons and improving the lives of others. As consumers, they come from affluent backgrounds and tend toward socially responsible buying decisions.

Circulation

• 4,000

Distribution

Glimpse Calendars are sold online through the Glimpse Store and on newsstands nationally. They are included with Glimpse Institutional Memberships and therefore featured and distributed by colleges, universities and independent abroad program providers across the United States.

Sponsorship

Sponsoring the annual Glimpse Calendar is a wonderful opportunity to enhance your public relations image by supporting a unique nonprofit organization with a proven track record for excellence and innovation while at the same time getting your name out to a new, highly-targeted and valuable market. The product itself rivals everything else on the market. The sponsorship includes the following:

• Exclusivity: There is only one calendar sponsor per year.
  Branding: Every page in the calendar features a logo, name, tagline and contact information.
  
• Special thanks: You will be specially thanked in a highly visible way within the introduction to the calendar on page one, on the order page for the calendar within the Glimpse Store and in email marketing campaigns to tens of thousands of recipients.
  
• National distribution: The calendar is distributed nationally to institutional members, in newsstands and promoted extensively via on the Internet and within email newsletters.
  
• Year-round visibility: Your brand and its association with Glimpse will be visible all year round, one of the great values of calendars.
  
• Copies: We will provide you with 100 free copies of the calendar for you to distribute as promotional material or gifts to clients as you see fit.

• 2006: Council on International Educational Exchange (CIEE): www.ciee.org/study, 1.800.40.STUDY, info@ciee.org
  
• 2007: Smugmug: Unlimited photo storage and sharing. Without the side of spam. www.smugmug.com

Sponsorship Rates

• For sponsorship costs, contact Adam DiClemente by email at adam@glimpsefoundation.org or by phone at (800) 549-4802 ext. 705

What Sets Them Apart

Glimpse Study Abroad Acclimation guides go far beyond the standard "do's" and "don'ts" of study abroad, offering students practical, candid advice from their peers that illuminates the complexities of living in another culture. Glimpse Guides are informative, but not preachy; thorough , but not overwhelming.

Readership

Prospective, current and past study abroad students, international volunteers and travelers make up the readership for Glimpse Guides. They devour information voraciously, maintain very high expectations for the materials they use and trust and take full advantage of their purchases. The guides are also purchased and read by study abroad educators, professors and parents.

Distribution

Glimpse takes full advantage of the digital platform to distribute Glimpse Guides. They can be purchased online at the Glimpse Store and are also available through Glimpse Groups. Individuals may purchase a guide outright and institutions may subscribe to guides annually and distribute them to their students via their Glimpse Group or by posting the download link and password for the guides on their own website.

Sponsorship

Sponsoring one or more of Glimpse's PDF Study Abroad Acclimation guides is a great opportunity to reach a very large, targeted audience and associate your brand and your products or services with a particular theme. Furthermore, the PDF format is conducive to action on account of the ability to include working Internet links. Through sponsorship, you can also enhance your public relations image by supporting a unique nonprofit organization with a proven track record for excellence and innovation. Glimpse Study Abroad Acclimation Guides are currently without equal in the marketplace. The sponsorship includes the following:

• Exclusivity: There is only one sponsor per guide per year.
  
• Branding: Every page in the guides feature a logo, name, tagline and contact information.
  
• Special thanks: You will be specially thanked in a highly visible way within the introduction to the guide on page one, on the order page for the guides within the Glimpse Store and in email marketing campaigns to tens of thousands of recipients.
  
• National and international distribution: The guides are distributed nationally to institutional members and promoted extensively via on the Internet and within email newsletters.
  
• Year-round visibility: Your brand and its association with Glimpse will be visible all year round.

• Culture Shock
  
• Language Learning
  
• American Identity Abroad
  
• Race Abroad
  
• Gender Abroad
  
• Traveling to Developing Countries

Sponsorship Rates

• For sponsorship costs, contact Adam DiClemente by email at adam@glimpsefoundation.org or by phone at (800) 549-4802 ext. 705