Event Issue 3 eBook 2013

FILM & EVENT MEDIA– THE EVENT MAGAZINEThe Event is part of Film & Event Media, which also publishes The Filmmakers Guide to South Africa, an Imbongi Award finalist in 2009, The Callsheet, the most read trade publicationfor the South African film industry and EPG (The event planners guide to south-africa). Film & Event Media also publishes dailies and exhibition guides. Past and present clients include Markex World of Events, The SITE International Conference, Sports Events Tourism Exchange Exhibition & Conference, and Meetings Africa.EDITORIAL POLICYWe pride ourselves on delivering content targeted to the events industry that is newsworthy,relevant and interesting to our readers. Since its inception, The Event has grown to become the most read printed trade publication for the South African events industry,covering meetings, incentives, conferences, exhibitions, festivals, and all other typesof events.The Event’s African reach extends to Namibia, Kenya, Botswana, Mozambique, Angola and Mauritius, and is constantly growing.The Event offers you the platform to reach your target audience on a month to month basis, through a focused business to business publication.ONLINE PRESENCEThe Event is becoming the most widely used portal for information about the African events industry. This website attracted 26000 unique browsers, and over 3000 per month recently. and 7500 page impressions a month. The page views have increased by 3000 per month and we are expecting the sites traffic to grow further into the year 2013. In addition to the website, The Event is also a popular e-book that attracts 5,000 readers and has a presence on Twitter, Facebook and Linked In. The Event’s Facebook page receives 17 800 unique views a week. PRINT DISTRIBUTIONThe Event is distributed nationally to an average of 4 500 events industry role players each month, including conference venues, advertising agencies, production companies,suppliers, industry associations, related government departments and key media.We distribute extra copies at various International and National industry events, such as:IMEX, EIBTM, AIME, Meetings Africa, Markex, Design Indaba, The Loeries Awards, PRISA PRISM Awards, Mediatech Africa, The Event Summit, ICCA Africa, SETE Conference &Exhibition, The Events Indaba, The EXSA Conference and The SAACI Conference, SITE.GREEN FRIENDLY AND BEE RATINGThe Event is printed by Forms Express and their suppliers have The Forest Stewardship Council Chain of Custody certification. The magazine is printed on Hi-Q 80gsm gloss, wood free white paper, which is sourced from sustainable managed forests, and uses vegetable-oil-based, environmentally-friendly inks conforming to the highest European standards. 100% of what you spend with The Event can be counted as BEE spend.