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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Roy Greenslade

How to win new readers - advertise in a rival paper

If you want to boost your readership where better to advertise than in a rival publication? That's what the Dundee-based publisher, DC Thomson, did at the weekend.

It took a full-page advert in the Scottish edition of the Daily Mail (circulation: 112,000) to promote its weekly magazine, The People's Friend (circulation: 347,000).

The ad, which appeared on page 96, offered a 20% discount on its one-year standard subscription of £50.

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