The Bowdoin Orient is the student newspaper of Bowdoin College, located in Brunswick, Maine. The Orient has an average circulation of 2300 copies per issue and reaches people of all ages locally, nationally, and internationally. All of the readers are connected to Bowdoin College in one way or another and most will at some point be in the area to use the community’s resources—hotels, restaurants, and stores. Your decision to advertise with The Orient will without a doubt help broaden your customer base and open doors for your business in the immediate and distant future.

Advertising Rates

Publication Frequency: Every Friday while classes are in session (see below for production schedule).

Average Circulation: 2300 copies, read by on-campus by students, faculty, staff, and local residents, and off-campus by parents, alumni, and friends of the College.

Columns: Five columns, each 1.84 inches wide with a 0.25 inch margin between each column.

Deadlines: All ads should be received by 5:00 p.m. on the Tuesday of the week they are to run.

Submission: We prefer ads submitted digitally via email (as a .tif or .pdf file, for example), but we also accept ads at our above mailing address.

Pre-payment Discount: We offer a 5% discount for pre-payment.

Frequency Discount: We offer a discount of 50% on every fifth ad.

On-campus Discount: All campus organizations receive a 50% discount on every ad.

Non-camera Ready Ads: Our staff can design and typeset an ad for you. We charge an additional 10% of the cost of the first ad for this service.

Payment: Invoices and one tear sheet will be sent out after the publication of each issue (unless the advertiser requests additional sheets or a whole issue).

Production Schedule

Dates in gray are non-publication dates.

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