HILLS NEWS OVERVIEW

57,000 Total Readership

Forming the key link between Sydney’s second city, Parramatta, and the expanding north west, The Hills Shire is an affluent area with high home ownership, high numbers of professionals and white collar workers and a strong percentage of tertiary educated residents. Many of Sydney’s leading education institutions are in the region including the state’s top high school. It also has one of the highest penetrations of computer users in Australia.

For shopping, readers are well served by Castle Towers, North Rocks, Baulkham Hills and Winston Hills retail centres and Norwest Private Hospital provides leading-edge health care. The Norwest Business Park provides an expanding centre for employment and industry, HQ for some of Sydney’s leading companies including Woolworths and ResMed.

The Hills News is committed to build on these services, providing quality editorial on local issues that directly affect the community. From local news, sports and entertainment to classifieds and real estate, the Hills News is the preferred paper for readers and advertisers.

Source: emma conducted by Ipsos MediaCT | People 14+ for the 12 months ending Apr 2016 | Nielsen Digital Ratings Monthly Apr 2016.

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The Hills News is part of Fairfax Community Newspaper (FCN) NSW; designed to provide local residents with specialised local news, sport, council information, entertainment and events, as well as product or service availabilities in their local area.

AUDIENCE

By constantly supporting businesses, as well as sponsoring many local events, the Hills News is able to provide residents with specialised local news on sport, council, entertainments and community events, as well as products and services available.

  • 49,177 Circulation
Source: Audit Bureau of Circulations, September 2015

Hills News Rates

EGN/Display, Classifieds, Trades & Services:
SECTIONSRATE EX GSTRATE INCL GST
Display Module$105.00$115.50
Classifieds Jobs, Notices, For Sale, Real Estate & General Classifieds$18.60$20.46
Adult Services$20.00$22.00
Trades & Professional Services Directory$22.70$24.97

Casual colour load $400 for process colour ($440 incl GST) and $200 for Spot Colour ($220 incl GST). Please download display rate card for discount structure. For information on preferred position loads,Inserts, Adhesive Notes and other marketing opportunities, please contact your Fairfax Community Sales Office.

AD SPECS

Please note all verbal bookings, alterations or cancellations must be confirmed in writing prior to booking deadlines. Alterations or cancellations after deadline may not be accepted and charges may still apply.

Failure to supply material resulting in an advertisement’s non appearance will also incur charges.

Earlier deadlines may occasionally be implemented to accommodate press and production time lines, especially around and after Public Holidays.

Display Deadlines:

HILLS NEWSDEADLINE
Publication DayThursday
Booking & Cancellation10am Friday prior
Material Copy (Ad Creation)1pm Friday prior
Complete Supplied Material1pm Monday prior

Classifieds Deadlines:

HILLS NEWSDEADLINE
Publication DayThursday
Booking & Copy (Ad creation) for Classifieds, Trades & Services4pm Monday
Booking & Supplied material for Classifieds, Trades & Services4pm Tuesday
Booking (lineage ads only) Phone Deadline for Classifieds, Trades & Services9.30am Wednesday

Ad Specs PDFs:

Click the link below to download or view the current ad specs:

Hills News - Summary Ad Specs

Hills News - Detailed Ad Specs

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Go to the FCN Ad Specs page for the full creative specs and deadlines for all Fairfax Community Newspaper NSW advertising products.

GET IN TOUCH

George Kranitis
National Sales NSW
Fairfax Community Newspapers
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