Save time with our full range of services
  • Newspapers First can help you plan, schedule, secure positioning and get the best rates available.
  • Use our quick response and the medium’s short deadlines and leverage late-breaking news or developing trends

Planning and buying answers

  • Keep the important newspaper facts at your fingertips with the annual NF Time Saver, our annual guide to the top 125 markets and their newspapers.
  • Focus your buy with our syndicated research — facts on demographics, product usage, and competitve weight measurements.
  • Maximize your advertising investment with our annual calendars of special advertising sections.

Geo-target your best markets

  • Identify your best markets by consumer lifestyles, brand and category sales data.

Agency workshops

  • Newspapers Deliver — an introduction to the strengths of the newspaper medium.
  • Newspapers Connect — explore the strategic opportunities newspapers provide.
  • Creative Works — great ads to inspire agency creative teams.

Simplify multiple-market buys

  • The Newspapers First Big & Easy® Network is your one-order, one-bill resource.
  • Our Point of View Newspaper Network® makes buying easier for public relations and political advertisers.

Tie into high-traffic Internet sites

  • NovaMedia Network, a division of Newspapers First, specializes in uncovering marketing opportunities on some of the Web's hottest local information sites.

Target consumers with local merchandising efforts

  • Tie into local newspaper-sponsored events, Web site or retail promotions, or promote your own event sponsorship.

Discover new ways to stand out

  • Use the flexibility of the medium to maximize budget and impact with unusual ad units — we’ll show you how.
  • Get introduced to the new ways newspapers can help deliver your message with Post-it Notes, product sampling, belly-bands and more.

Test the medium

  • Let us convert your broadcast ad to print so you can test copy in selected target markets


Tailored Solutions

  • We tailor solutions that help solve your competitive problems and achieve specific brand goals.

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We make newspapers the ideal choice for advertisers

NF has developed a number of strategies and services designed to help you impress your product's image into the minds of consumers.

  • Customized newspapers programs that target who want, when and where you want, with
    fewer wasted media dollars.

  • In-depth research packages that provide insight into the lifestyles and mindsets of your targeted audience.
  • Editorial compatibility to surround your advertising with complementary environments.
  • Tailored solutions to help solve competitive brand problems.

  • We can help you leverage short lead times to take advantage of late-breaking news or last-minute tie-ins.

  • Since virtuality 100% of our audience sees your ad on the day of publication, newspapers are ideal for promotional and test market scenarios. We can show you how to use newspapers for product sampling and other direct-to-consumer opportunities.