The Western Publications Association has in the last two years nominated Montana Quarterly as a finalist four times for its prestigious Maggie Award, considered the “Oscar” of magazine publishing.
Those four nominations – including for Best New Magazine in 2006 and Best Quarterly Magazine in 2007 — are four more than all of Montana’s other statewide magazines combined.
Besides those accolades, we continually hear from readers who appreciate the depth and beauty of the magazine and who tell us that they not only read the magazine cover-to-cover, but save each edition, as well.
We also routinely hear from advertisers that their ads in Montana Quarterly pay off. Unlike other magazines, we limit — yes, limit — the number of ads that we sell so that your efforts to reach potential customers are not lost among pages and pages of other businesses. After all, it’s a magazine, not a catalog.
With that, we’re committed to holding our advertising percentage to less than 30 percent in each edition. When other state magazines typically publish from 50 to even 75 percent advertising, it’s easy to see why our advertisers — and our readers — have been so satisfied.
And We’re Growing
Montana Quarterly boasts a growing list of subscribers – both throughout Montana and the United States. In fact, we now reach subscribers in every state in the nation.
In Montana, we’re also available at finer newsstands and bookstores — more than 300 retail locations throughout the state — and in the state’s major airports. Nationally, Montana Quarterly is carried by larger book retailers — such as Borders and Barnes & Noble — in most of the country’s bigger cities, and at the airports in both Salt Lake City and Denver.
Our sale-through at those locations is consistently well above the industry average, but to provide even more bang to our advertisers, we also distribute to every post-office box in the coveted Big Sky market and can be found in approximately 6,000 rooms in some of Montana’s best-known hotels.
