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PLAYSOCCER Acknowledgement

The AYSO Audience

PLAYSOCCER is mailed quarterly to each of AYSO’s 450,000 member households.  Estimated pass-along readership is more than 1.5 million per issue.  No single soccer magazine can deliver so many readers — let alone readers like ours.

PLAYSOCCER’s primary audience is the AYSO member, from our youngest player to our oldest volunteer. Surveys indicate 90 percent of our members read PLAYSOCCER cover-to-cover, and 60 percent of parents spend between 30 minutes and two hours with the magazine.

AYSO has more than 650,000 players between ages 4 1/2 to 18 all over the United States, as well as Puerto Rico, Trinidad &Tobago and the U.S. Virgin Islands.  Median age is 11, and nearly 40 percent of those players are girls.

More than 250,000 parents are active AYSO volunteers and many more support their kids with encouragement at home and on the sidelines. 

AYSO is primarily a suburban experience; analysis shows AYSO families are above average in education and income.  Although AYSO’s primary playing season is the fall, regional variations, tournaments, clinics, camps, and special spring and summer programs make AYSO soccer a year-round activity.

AYSO regions (leagues) hold numerous tournaments throughout the year and AYSO teams travel all over the country to participate.  Families will often play host to visiting players and teams from around the world.  AYSO kids and parents talk to friends from everywhere about what they read in PLAYSOCCER.

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Rates

Four-Color       One Time    Four Times
Full page         $10,750     $9,500
Half Page        $6,000        $5000
Quarter Page  $3,750       $3,000

Back Covers    $13,750   $11,250
Inside Covers  (back of front)
                         $11,250   $9,375

Editorial Calendar

Spring/May 2008
Reservation/cancellation deadline – March 2, 2008
Materials deadline – March 12, 2008

Summer/July 2008
Reservation/cancellation deadline – May 5, 2008
Materials deadline – May 16, 2008

Fall/September 2008
Reservation/cancellation deadline – July 1, 2008
Materials deadline – July 14, 2008

Winter/December  2008
Reservation/cancellation deadline – September 1, 2008
Materials deadline – September 12, 2008

Production Specs

Production Requirements
Should be supplied on Zip disks or on CD or DVD.  Files should be in Quark XPress, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop or Macromedia Freehand.  PC or Mac files are acceptable; however, for PC files all fonts must be supplied in Mac format.  Call (800) USA-AYSO, ext. 5427 if you have further production questions.

PLAYSOCCER is produced entirely using the Computer-to-Plate method and print film has been eliminated from the process. If you wish to send material on film, here are the specifications: 

Full-page: One complete set of plate-ready composite film positives, right-reading emulsion side down (RRED), free of spots and defects.

Partial-page: Right-reading emulsion side up (RREU) negative film.  All color separations must be accompanied by match prints or chromalins. A $50 charge will be added for ads supplied on film. B/W specifications: Same as above. A $50 charge will be added for converting mechanical art or velox to film. 

Printing: Web offset

Binding: Saddle stitched

Screen ruling: 133 lines (max 175 lines)

Live area: Type and other image areas not to bleed must be held 5/16" from trim.

Trim size: 8"w x 101/2"h

Full-page bleed: 81/4"w x 103/4"h

Full-page non-bleed: 7"w x 91/2"h

Half-page horizontal: 7"w x 41/2"h

Quarter page: 33/8"w x 41/2"h

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