What’s ContraSwap all about?

ContraSwap helps you exchange unsold advertising pages in your magazine with pages in other titles. You can promote your magazine to a wider audience free of charge.

To market your products you may already use barter or contra deals. Put simply these are swaps where two non competing publications agree to carry a page of advertising for each other and no money changes hands. Whilst contra deals can be very effective they can be difficult to arrange and time-consuming

Well not any more - ContraSwap is here to make barter deals better and easier.

ContraSwap is free to use and will save you time: we award you ContraPoints to spend on the deals that suit you best. Receive 500 free ContraPoints by signing up today.

Placing an advert - Spending ContraPoints

1. Browse our list of magazines

Look through our list of users and identify the right publication for your advertisement. Once you have done this check how many ContraPoints it will cost you.

2. Choose your target magazine

Click on your target publication to make an advertising request. You need to send either your final advert or an example of previous adverts: this is so other publications can be sure you are right for them.

3. Complete the deal

If the other magazine accepts your request then all you need to do is wait for your advert to generate a response. It’s as simple as that.

Receiving an advert - Earning ContraPoints

To earn more ContraPoints and place more advertisements all you need to do is open up your available advertising spaces to other publications. This is very simple to do.

1. Add available space

Just put the number of available spaces you have and we will email you when there is a deal to be done. Each publication will send an example of previous adverts and you retain complete control - you need only accept a deal you are 100% happy with.

2. Complete the deal

Once you have accepted an advertisement, just place it in the agreed issue of your magazine and send us a copy to verify.