Holiday offer

A single slip, FREE!

Put your business in The Telltale at no cost: a 2 × 2 in slip, every month. It runs wherever a slip is open once the paid ads are placed. One per business.

Claim my free slip

Advertise in The Telltale

Put your business in front of boaters, sailors, and lakeside neighbours every month. Order your ad here, all online: the editor emails you to confirm the price and the first issue before anything is printed or charged.

Size

Each page has ten slips down its two sides, twenty in all. The free single is one per business, and runs wherever a slip is open once the paid ads are placed; a paid ad comes first, and can have a preferred placement.

Only if that spot is free. If it isn't, your ad goes where it fits, with no placement charge. Not for the free single.

Estimate: $30 a month
At the recommended rates, before tax. The editor confirms the price.

The ad

Press Return to start a new line where you'd like it.

A line or two for one slip; more fits in two or three.

Where the QR code in your ad goes. Leave empty to use your website.

JPG, PNG, or WEBP, up to 20 MB.

Who to talk to

Copies for your business

Copies are free. The editor will get in touch about dropping them off.

Where your ad goes

  • In print: down the side of the front or back page, in colour, where every reader sees it, with a QR code to your website if you like.
  • Online: in every issue on the website, with a link to your website.
  • Every month: The Telltale is left at marinas, yacht clubs, cafés, and shops, and emailed to readers who sign up.
  • At your door: tick "Copies for your business" when you order, and the editor will get in touch about leaving free copies of each month's paper for your customers.

Sizes and rates

Each page has ten slips down its two sides. An ad takes one, two, or three slips.

SizeIn printA monthA day
A free single Free
as space allows, one per business
2 × 2 inFreeFree
A single2 × 2 in$30$1
A double2 × 4 in$60$2
A triple2 × 6 in$90$3

Preferred placement: $20. Choose where your ad goes on the page, if that spot is available.

Ad terms

  1. Your order is confirmed when the editor emails you to confirm the price and the first issue. Nothing is printed or charged before then.
  2. You pay the edition's publisher, who invoices you. Sales tax may be added.
  3. Every ad is reviewed before it runs. The Telltale may ask for changes or decline an ad.
  4. You're responsible for your ad's words, pictures, logos, and claims.
  5. Preferred placement is only if that spot is free. If it isn't, your ad goes where it fits, with no placement charge.
  6. The free single slip is one per business. It runs wherever a slip is open once the paid ads are placed, so in a month with no open slip it waits for the next. It can't have a preferred placement.
  7. To change or stop an ad, tell the editor by the 15th of the month before. Months already printed aren't refunded.

Your contact details are only for the editor.