SDM is a leading marketing and media partner in the North American security channel. SDM also guarantees all qualified and audited subscribers buy or install security technology products and services. In person and online, SDM reaches key industry professionals with purchasing influence.
SDM's cutting-edge multi-media platform includes eMagazines, eNewsletters, webinars, social media, video and more!
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Account-Based Marketing (ABM) allows your company to target your prospects by company or organization with more precise messaging. ABM allows our products to open doors and deepen engagement with employees of specific companies you are looking to reach.
Serve your message to a customized audience using Advanced Targeting. Advanced Targeting is a strategic approach that drives personalized outreach efforts to our audience based on their behavior, engagement, and interests. Enhance digital campaigns by reaching specific users, allowing for more precise creative and tailored messaging directed at your target market.
IDENTIFIABLE CONTENT INCLUDES:
Classified ads offer a simple way to promote your product and brand when you're on a budget. Classifieds can help with selling equipment, products, and services, announcing business opportunities, hiring expert employees and more.
CATEGORIES INCLUDE:
Our market research will enable you to stop guessing, confidently make data driven decisions, and save time and money. Let's get started.
White papers, articles, and case studies are great tools for generating credibility and establishing a connection with companies and their decision-makers.
SDM can ghostwrite un-bylined articles, white papers, case studies, and more to help drive your content marketing strategy. We’ll collaborate with you to create educational and entertaining content to solve customer problems, position you as a thought leader, and generate leads. You provide editorial direction and we’ll do the rest!
CONTENT OPTIONS:
WANT TO USE YOUR WHITE PAPER TO CAPTURE LEADS AND DRIVE TRAFFIC?
SDM can deploy your White Paper via email to security professionals with our White Paper eBlast. Since they know and trust the content of SDM, your email to them will enjoy a higher open rate and thereby a greater number of leads!
*Exclusive-Sponsorship and Multi-Sponsor Options Available.
Are you looking for a unique lead generation product that delivers value to your audience AND engages them with your content? Continuing Education is the key to accomplishing that. Most licensed professionals are required to earn continuing education units (CEUs) to maintain their license or credential. We offer you the opportunity to provide these CEUs they need while building brand awareness and generating high-quality leads for your business.
CEUs can be offered through a variety of formats including articles, webinars, live events, videos, and interactive presentations. Whether you have existing content or want to create new, engaging content, our team of instructional designers and subject matter experts is here to help you. As a sponsor, you can view all your course stats and engagement data in our new, interactive and easy-to-use sponsor dashboard – available to you 24/7.
Promote your content to our 1st party-data users and receive a predetermined number of leads based on your lead goal or marketing budget. Lead reports are comprised of leads that fill out a custom form hosted on BNP’s platform. BNP-hosted, gated content (such as white papers or videos) will be supplied to the user after the form is completed. Campaigns will run for 90 days or until goal is met.
Co-branded with SDM to boost deliverability, connect with readers and acquire leads! Custom eNewsletters include your own proprietary editorial or educational content including:
Requires up to 6 links to editorial, educational, non-ad copy/non-commercial content. Publisher has the right to refuse content.
Reach industry professionals and buyers who use and prefer B2B directories to eliminate unwanted search results. Various package options such as listings, ads, and enhancements are all available. Let's get started.
Drip Marketing allows your marketing to be presented to the customer over a longer period of time to help your product or service stay top of mind! This constant flow of marketing sets your business up for more engagement opportunities and exposure.
This program is an ideal solution for the businesses looking to increase web traffic and added exposure. Allow us to take the marketing wheel and drive your target audience to your website, microsite, or landing page. This program will run until your goal is reached, up to 90 days, with all marketing collateral included.
Email Blasts, also known as eBlasts, are specialized emails focused on product information, video sharing, literature distribution, event announcements and more. We deploy your multi-sponsored or exclusive single-sponsored eBlasts to a targeted audience of relevant industry professionals.
Security professionals will receive immediate access to your product information, video or literature. And since they know and trust the content of SDM, your email to them will enjoy a higher open rate and thereby a greater number of leads!
eBLAST TYPE | EXCLUSIVE | MULTI-SPONSOR |
Auction eBlast | Promote your company’s upcoming auction. | x | - |
Event/Webinar Spotlight eBlast | Showcase your event or webinar. | x | x |
Focus On eBlast | Showcase articles on one specific industry topic. | x | x |
Integrated Showcase eBlast | Showcase a product and/or service. | - | x |
Must See eBlast | Showcase a product and/or service. | x | x |
Must-Visit eBlast | Promote your tradeshow presence. | x | x |
Post-Show eBlast | Promote your tradeshow highlights after the show. | x | x |
Sneak Peek eBlast | Sponsors an upcoming article. | x | x |
Quiz Sponsorship | Sponsors an eBlast promoting an industry quiz. | x | - |
Video Booth Tour eBlast | Showcase videos from your tradeshow booth. | x | x |
Video Spotlight eBlast | Showcase your videos. | x | x |
White Paper eBlast | Promote your relevant white paper or case study. | x | x |
*NEW* Company Content eBlast
Looking to speak directly to our audience with all of your own content and ads? We now offer Third-Party eBlasts that deploy your message straight to our qualified audience of security professionals AND provide post-deployment email stats. Company Content eBlasts require 30 days’ lead time.
Sponsor a unique collection of topic-centric articles packaged into an interactive digital experience, co-branded with SDM for maximum readability. Choose a topic or our editorial team will suggest one. Either way, we handle all publishing details--from design, production, hosting, and deployment, to providing leads for your business development efforts.
You Receive... | Single-Sponsor | Multi-Sponsor** |
Full page ad | 3 | 1 |
Logo on cover (Linked to your website) | ✔ | ✔ |
Sponsor article* (1,000-1,200 words) | 3 | 1 |
Logo on deployment eBlast | ✔ | ✔ |
Leads from deployment eBlast^ | ✔ | ✔ |
^Multi-sponsor: receive leads from clicks on advertiser content only.
Single-sponsor: receive leads from clicks on advertiser content plus eBook link itself.
*Not required
** 3 sponsors minimum
SDM is uniquely focused on solutions for enterprise security leaders. It is designed and written for business-minded executives who manage enterprise risk and security. SDM provides management-focused features, opinions and trends for leaders in business, government and institutional sectors in person and online.
Put your brand in view as our engaged subscribers access our interactive and modern eMagazine. Readers can easily scroll through the issue to view and interact with articles and ads on any device. Finally, our intuitive digital platform tracks ad impressions and click-metrics in order to provide insight into how your advertisement is performing.
Make an impact with these ads and packages that allow you to take full advantage of our eMagazine capabilities.
FULL SPONSORSHIP
(Limit one sponsor per issue)
PACKAGE INCLUDES:
PERSISTENT SPONSORSHIP
(Limit one sponsor per issue.)
As readers scroll through the issue, ensure you’re seen with a Persistent Article Banner that runs at the bottom of the screen in both desktop (728 x 90) and mobile (320 x 50) versions.
INTERSTITIAL SPONSORSHIP
(Limit three sponsors per month.)
Ad floats over content within the issue for maximum visibility on desktop, tablet, and mobile. 660 x 660 ad will auto shrink to fit mobile screens.
HIGH IMPACT DISPLAY ADS
(Limit three per month.)
Upgrade your full-page ad with animation and stand out from other advertisements within the issue. We do the creative design work to turn your regular ad into a high impact animated ad.
VIDEO PAGE SPONSORSHIP
(Limit one sponsor per issue.)
Video will run as a stand-alone within the eMagazine on both desktop and mobile.
SDM Monitoring TODAY & SDM Video Monitoring TODAY Biannual Supplements
All Advertisers are invited to submit 300 words and one photo highlighting a case study for monitoring professionals.
SDM Monitoring TODAY is published in January 2022
Ad close: 12/2/21
SDM Video Monitoring TODAY is published in July 2022
Ad close: 6/2/22
Our eNewsletters deliver useful and timely industry news and information to our digital subscribers who request them. As a trusted resource for professionals, our eNewsletters are an ideal place to promote your company and its offerings, drive traffic to your site, and build awareness for your brand.
Attention-grabbing ads and exclusive sponsorships are available.
Twice-monthly eNewsletter delivers the latest breaking news, news analysis and coverage of industry trends.
Twice-monthly eNewsletter delivers breaking news and industry trends, product announcements and in-the-field success stories.
SDM Breaking News is about keeping you up-to-date with the news and information you want most. When industry news breaks, you'll know it first with our Breaking News alerts.
SDM and Security are publishing two Official Show eDailies next year! Both editions will be loaded with exhibit, seminar and special events coverage to bring you tremendous advertising readership.
SDM offers a full-feature, topic-centric microsite called an InfoCenter. As the exclusive InfoCenter sponsor you work with the editors to select a topic of interest to the SDM audience of security professionals. Your content geared toward the topic is paired with content supplied by SDM's editorial team to ensure your company name becomes synonymous with the topic you choose.
HERE'S WHAT YOU GET:
BRANDING
As the exclusive sponsor, your logo and banner ads appear on every page of the InfoCenter creating an unparalleled branding opportunity.
LEADS & TRAFFIC
Get leads that include email contact information as a result of our complete, multi-channel marketing package that will also help you drive traffic!
• Banner ads run on all InfoCenter pages
• Call out on the SDM website and in the eNewsletter
• Promotion in the SDM magazine
• 3 custom eBlasts
• Logo on all promotions
SUPPORT
Your InfoCenter is fully supported by an Online Support Coordinator who will load all content, update and maintenance the site as needed— all you do is send us the content!
DON’T HAVE CONTENT AVAILABLE? Add a content development package from BNP Engage, our marketing services agency.
An Interactive Product Spotlight (IPS) is a dynamic digital experience that provides an effective and engaging platform to highlight your product, service, rebranding, or event (commercial). You can include a variety of product/service marketing assets, descriptions, features and benefits, case studies, downloads and CTAs.
BENEFITS:
Lead Nurturing is the purposeful process of engaging a defined target group by providing relevant information at each stage of the buyer’s journey. Utilizing our marketing automation and first-party data users, we can move your prospects that have been cultivated through lead generation efforts to the point where they become paying customers.
This social event honors and celebrates an incredible group of leading security executives from the nation’s largest installing and monitoring companies ranked on the SDM 100 Report.
Celebrating over 30 years, the SDM 100 Report ranks U.S. companies that earn their revenues from the sale, installation, service and monitoring of electronic security and related systems to residential and non-residential customers. The SDM 100 Report continues to prove that security is a significant concern of both homeowners and business leaders!
Complete your research projects like a trusted industry expert. Get started.
Professionals turn to SDM for industry solutions and high-quality editorial. Now you can leverage Native Advertising by publishing your sticky, buzz-worthy, non-commercial content on SDMMag.com alongside our trusted editorial. SDM will then drive traffic to your dedicated content page through multi-channel marketing efforts!
HOSTED on SDMMag.com for 6 months on its own dedicated Content Page along with your logo, company description, link to your website and a set of complementary online display ads.
FEATURED across all SDMMag.com pages for 30 days.
HIGHLIGHTED in two deployments of our eNewsletter.
SHARED on SDMMag.com's Facebook* & Twitter pages with a unique, customized hashtag.
*Options to extend the promotional lifespan of your campaign are available.
Enhance your online advertising program with online retargeting. Retargeting tracks industry professionals visiting SDMMag.com and then displays your ads to these professionals again as they travel to other websites. As a result of this increased visibility, your brand will enjoy greater post-impression recall and convert SDM’s browsing customers into visitors to your website!
Purchase online display ads on SDMMag.com with a minimum of 10,000 impressions. Contact your sales rep for position availability and CPM pricing. Purchase a minimum of 300,000 Retargeting Impressions for 30 days.
Record an interview, provide educational information, promote new products, and more! Podcasts offer you the opportunity to speak directly to SDM’s readers and provide educational and promotional information that establishes your brand’s leadership and boosts awareness. Create a podcast with us, or supply your own, and SDM will promote your podcast to our readers. Alternatively, sponsor one of our editorial podcasts and receive a mention in the podcast introduction.
Sponsor a dynamic digital experience created by our design professionals and editorial staff based on editorial content, industry topics, brand events, research studies, awards and more (non-commercial).
BENEFITS:
BNP Video, our in-house video production and marketing team, can produce high-quality, professional videos that will get you seen and grow your business. Backed by the power of SDM, we will also create a customized marketing strategy to get your video message in front of thousands of qualified buyers.
BNP Video can shoot your video at your location of choice - office, facility, event, installation site, or even your booth at a tradeshow - we can accommodate all your needs. Need a studio to shoot your video? We have studios located in New York City, Detroit or Chicago.
OUR CAPABILITIES INCLUDE:
SHOOTING
Whether a simple one-camera shoot or multi-camera production, BNP Video can handle it. We have video cameras designed for long recordings and DSLR cameras for a more cinematic feel.
SOUND
Audio equipment for different styles of recording including wireless lavalier, handheld, and boom microphones are available for use.
PRE-PRODUCTION
BNP Video can provide script revisions, storyboarding and scriptwriting to ensure that your message is accurately delivered.
TELEPROMPTER
Don’t worry about memorizing your script. With advance notice, we can bring a teleprompter to the shoot. Also available on request are the services of a voiceover professional.
LIGHTING
BNP Video uses professional LED lighting for on-location and in-studio productions. LED lights provide a full range of color temperatures with the advantages of low energy consumption and mobility when used with a battery.
POST-PRODUCTION & EDITING
BNP Video can transform your existing content like raw footage, photos, and text into a video. We will use a variety of graphics, animations, music, voiceover, and professional editing techniques.
An SDM webinar is your ideal platform to both educate and sell to a pre-qualified audience at the exact same time. Pair with a topic or trend expert to discuss common challenges while pitching your product or service solution. Or maybe the expert is you! Plan your webinar today and receive a turnkey marketing program collecting qualified registrant leads.
Online Display Ads are an effective way to create clicks to your website. SDM aligns its website with Internet Advertising Bureau’s (IAB) standards in static or animated ads that appear throughout the pages of SDM’s websites. Our responsive design means editorial content and advertising is presented in a readable and engaging manner for viewers across all devices.
AD TYPE | DESKTOP | TABLET | MOBILE |
1 Super Leaderboard | 970 x 90 | 728 x 90 | 320 x 50 |
1 Leaderboard | 728 x 90 | 728 x 90 | 320 x 50 |
1 Pushdown | 970 x 90 (expands to 970 x 415) |
728 x 90 (expands to 728 x 315) |
320 x 50 (expands to 320 x 415) |
1 Billboard | 970 x 250 | 728 x 90) | 320 x 50) |
2 Half Page | 300 x 600 | 300 x 600 | 300 x 250 |
3 Video Player | Any size up to 1920 x 1080 | ||
4 Medium Rectangle | 300 x 250 | 300 x 250 | 300 x 250 |
5 Wide Skyscraper | 160 x 600 | 160 x 600 | 300 x 250 |
HOME PAGE ONLY | DESKTOP | TABLET | MOBILE |
6 Middle Leaderboard | 970 x 90 | 728 x 90 | 320 x 50 |
Adhesion Banner | 950 x 90 (expands to 950 x 460) |
728 x 90 (expands to 768 x 768) |
320 x 50 (expands to 320 x 480) |
A topic sponsorship on SDMmag.com allows you to target visitors engaged with content around a specific topic that relates to your company and product. This sponsorship includes 4 ads per page with a total of 5 different ad slots across the article and topic pages.
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