Advertise your business in API

We're the market leader in residential property magazines

API is Australia's highest-selling residential property magazine.

Would you like to see in one click how API sells compared to other titles?

iSubscribe is an independent website which sells subscriptions to a vast range of Australian magazines to the general public.

Check out iSubscribe's Business/Finance section to see where API is ranked compared to our competitors and other Business/Finance titles. The rankings are in the "This Month's Top 20" box on the left side of the screen. Titles are ranked by the number of subscriptions sold in the last 30 days, and the list is updated daily. (Note that the magazine listings on the rest of the page - the ones showing small cover images - are displayed in random order.)

The iSubscribe screenshot below was snapped on 25 March 2012:

Property investment forum polls can also provide an indication of how many subscribers API has compared to other magazines. If advertising in other property magazines seems cheap compared to API, now you know why it's cheap!

Circulation and readership

API has a readership of 117,000 readers per month, according to the latest Roy Morgan Readership Survey for the 12 months to December 2011. That's a massive 19% INCREASE over the Roy Morgan Readership Survey for the 12 months to June 2011.

API magazine has over 11,000 subscribers.

API magazine is the only ABC-audited residential property magazine in Australia.

API magazine's ABC-audited average monthly sales for the period July-December 2011 were 23,057 copies: 22,802 in Australia plus 255 overseas.

Most of these people are planning to buy property soon.

Do they know about YOUR business?

As an API advertiser, you're in good company.

API is recognised as an effective advertising solution by a wide range of companies around Australia and the world, in many different industries. Our ad placements come from advertising agencies as well as direct bookings from clients.

Recent and past API advertisers include companies like Defence Housing Authority, various Australian Government departments (including the ATO), Suncorp-Metway, Westpac, Devine, Ray White Project Marketing, CBA Business Banking, Herron Todd White, Domain.com.au, Stockland, First Permanent (a Merrill Lynch subsidiary), CGU, several TAFE colleges and many others.

Many companies have advertised regularly in API for years, because they’ve learned from experience that we deliver results - not empty promises.

Target market

If your business provides goods or services of interest to property investors and/or home buyers (or high net worth individuals generally), advertising your business in API could prove to be a very cost-effective way to boost your turnover and get your phone ringing with new enquiries.

API magazine is targeted primarily at home buyers and rental property investors, with a secondary target of property professionals. Most API readers are planning to purchase property in the near future. Many plan to build and/or renovate. Australian Property Investor is also proving invaluable to investors planning to buy property outside their local areas (such as Australians buying/moving interstate and overseas investors buying in Australia) as it provides them with information about markets, developments, property services, etc. in the area they're buying in. This information may be hard to find in their local area.

Advertising opportunities

Australian Property Investor provides a unique opportunity to directly target prospective buyers of both homes and investment properties. Some products/services/advertisers likely to benefit most from API's particular readership would include:

• Property itself (e.g. real estate agents, property developments & projects, display homes)
• Financial/insurance services (banks, credit unions, finance and insurance companies)
• Professional services (solicitors, accountants, financial advisors, property consultants)
• Building/renovation services (architects, builders, trade services)
• Building/renovation products (e.g. new bathrooms, kitchens, roofs, tiles, paint, etc.)
• Information (books, seminars, software related to property investment)

If you're serious about marketing to property buyers and investors, give us a call today. We'll help you develop an effective, carefully targeted national advertising campaign.

Expose your business to overseas investors planning to buy Australian property!

API has hundreds of overseas subscribers and is available in bookstores and magazine outlets throughout Asia. API is also available in electronic format via Zinio, which is a big bonus for our overseas readers - and our advertisers who want to reach them.

Here's a interesting excerpt from an article in The Age newspaper on April 27, 2010 entitled "Taiwanese solution to soaring house prices: don't have kids":

 

 

Here's a link to the full article.

It's all about asking the right questions...

To help you make an informed advertising decision, here are four vital questions to ask any publication you're considering advertising in:

1. Is your circulation ABC-audited? If not, why not?

2. How many subscribers do you have?

3. Your media kit quotes a distribution (print run) of X, but makes no reference to actual sales. How many copies of your last issue did you actually sell through newsagents? (Compare these to API's audited circulation figures.)

4. Your media kit quotes a distribution (print run) of X. What was your actual print run for the last issue you printed? What will be the print run for the issue I'm planning to advertise in? (Many magazines change their print run each month, so the distribution figure in a media kit may be outdated.)

Media kit

Want to know what type of readers we have, and what they're planning to buy? Contact Laurie O'Brien at advertising@apimagazine.com.au or (07) 3335 2907 for a copy of the API media kit, containing our most recent AC Nielsen Reader Survey.

NOTE: All information on this page (circulation, etc.) is subject to change without notice. Please contact Laurie O'Brien for the most recent figures.

Advertising deadlines - 2012

Issue	Booking/Cancellation Deadline	Material Deadline
January	Oct 11	Nov 11
Feb	Dec 5	Dec 9
March	Jan 9	Jan 13
April	Feb 6	Feb 9
May	Mar 5	Mar 9
June	April 3	Apr 10
July	May 4	May 11
August	June 1	Jun 7
September	July 4	Jul 10
October	August 3	Aug 9
November	Sept 5	Sep 11
December	Oct 8	Oct 12

Artwork specifications

Details for supplying artwork to the magazine can be found on our advertisement specifications page.

Other advertising and marketing options

Additional options include online advertising and bulk magazine and subscription purchases.