Aycliffe Today Business #12 | Page 2

Bringing Aycliffe Business Park Together The business magazine for Aycliffe Business Park Aycliffe Today Business gives you a unique platform to promote or market your business direct to 250 companies on Aycliffe Business Park. Launched in December 2012 with just 16 pages, the publication has grown in stature to become the primary source of business news in Newton Aycliffe, now with 36 pages every issue. Our achievements in the first 20 months or so, other than helping to ‘bring the business park together’, has been to help showcase some of the great achievements made by many firms here. When promoting your business, image is crucial. Our trained journalists can write your copy, we can take your pictures and our graphic designer can create your ads – all included in the rate card packages with no hidden extras. REACH Aycliffe Today Business has a circulation of 2,500. One copy is mailed direct to every business on our database (250) and the rest are left in reception areas, hotels, restaurants, pubs, conference centres etc. Our estimated print readership is 8,000, while the online version is read on average by 500 people. Our website, www.aycliffetoday.co.uk, is also the most popular site for news in Newton Aycliffe, averaging 15,000 unique visitors and 40,000 page views a month We also have 3,700 people on Facebook, 3,300 followers on Twitter and 500 subscribers to our weekly e-newsletter, so with content going online and to all our social media networks, this further increases your reach to thousands of people. In addition, we’ve been doing online video content for two-and-a-half years, and all inhouse, with an archive of video features on our website. We also use the augmented reality App, Aurasma, which enables readers to bring this printed magazine to life by viewing videos simply by scanning the page!