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An overview of Marie Claire magazine and some secrets to successfully pitching the staff and garnering coverage, from Editor in Chief Trish Halpin. See the full account of her presentation here: http://wp.me/p16orh-1CA

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Page 1: Marie Claire Magazine: Editorial Opportunities & an Overview

The Ultimate Glossy Brand

Page 2: Marie Claire Magazine: Editorial Opportunities & an Overview

The Ultimate  Glossy Brand

• Overview

• Editorial opportunities

• Marketing opportunities

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Marie Claire’s mission has always been to inspire our  audience to 

‘Think Smart and Look Amazing’. 

Whether it’s through our award winning journalism and 

glamorous fashion shoots in the magazine, a 'how to' video 

for creating hot hair styles on our Beauty Genius app, daily 

updates on the hottest news stories via our website or 

delivering behind‐the‐scenes exclusives in our new bi‐

annual fashion magazine Marie Claire Runway, we put our 

readers at the heart of everything we do. 

Marie Claire reaches

2.2 million women every month

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25 Years 2.2 million women 1 Brand 16 Platforms

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The New Type A

• A successful career women and a chief 

income earner.

• A high achiever with great ambitions for 

her career and her life.

• Culturally well rounded with interests 

ranging from film and music to many 

different fields.

• She has well informed views and opinions 

on local and world affairs.

• She believes in herself and is an avid 

supporter of her fellow woman.

• Self expression through fashion and 

beauty are crucial in how she 

communicates who she is.

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Magazine at the coreBiggest selling women’s monthly fashion 

magazine in the UK 255,021 (UP 1.7% YOY)

•Vogue 205,033

•Elle 189,568

•In Style 163,432

•Harpers 119,274

Reaching 868,000

upmarket women every 

month

•Harpers 166,000

•Style 297,000

•Elle 624,000

•35%

of our audience are AB women –

277,000

•69% ABC1 adults aged 28‐38

•240,760 only

read Marie Claire and no 

other fashion title

(Source:  TGI April 2011 – March 2012)

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ABC Performance J‐J 2012

-11.3%

-2.2%

-8.6%

1.7%

-6.7%

0.4%

-3.8%

0.1%

-0.7%

-2.7%

-12.0%

-10.0%

-8.0%

-6.0%

-4.0%

-2.0%

0.0%

2.0%

4.0%

Marie C

laire

InStyle

Elle

Harpers B

azzar

Tatler

Vanity Fair

Vogue

Glam

our

Cosm

opolitian

Red

Marie Claire has outperformed the market, which is down (6.3%) overall.

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Biggest woman’s magazine website in the UK 

with up to 1.2 million Unique Users

TRAFFIC:Unique users

1.4 million

Page views

21 million

First magazine to be optimised for mobile•25% of traffic through to  website•Mobile unique users

342, 000

•Mobile page views4.5 million

Newsletter•6 times per week•13.22% open rate

Facebook

45, 634

Twitter

62, 633

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Source: Source: ComScoreComScore/NRS JJ12/NRS JJ12

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Editorial Opportunities

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Inspirational Fashion

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Inspirational Fashion

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Award Winning Beauty

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Award Winning Beauty

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Case Studies

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Ground‐Breaking Journalism

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Ground‐Breaking Journalism

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Case study

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Lifestyle

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Inspirational Travel

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Celebrities & Entertainment

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Marie Claire Digital

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Dos & don’tsDo

• Learn Your titles

• Anticipate questions

• Think of fun ways to draw attention to your brand

• Include prices & telephone numbers

• Check your launch timings

• Exclusive content

• Appreciate how busy & bombarded journalists are

Don’t

• Cold call or ask for features lists

• Send too many emails

• Send pictures as attachments

• Send four lots of press kits

• Underestimate the power of cake!

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1.

Covermounts

2.   Marketing Pages for reader    

exclusives

3.    Digital / Email 

4.    Partnerships Events

5.    Retail / Regional

Marketing Opportunities

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CovermountsMarketing & Support

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Digital Support

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Marketing Pages

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Digital / Email Partnerships

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“The most commercially successful event 

in the store’s history”Katie Mitchell   ‐

International Marketing 

Director

188 Upmarket women paid £10 for ticketOut of events carried with Glamour, Red, 

and Grazia, Marie Claire had the highest 

footfall through the door.

£9,011 worth of sales Out of all of the events Marie Claire’s 

was the highest grossing event of the 

group. 

Events

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Retail/Regional Specific Promotions & Subscriptions  

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The Ultimate

Glossy Brand