Outstanding live music for Herts and north London
The Watford Jazz Junction Festival 10-18 May 2025
All show tickets ON SALE NOW
Welcome to our Digital Programme advertisers page. A great way for your brand to reach Watford, Herts and north London.
ADVERTISE WITH US
The Watford Jazz Junction is a multi-venue live music festival running across Watford 10-18 May 2025.
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We are established as a festival with national impact and hold renown internationally - in no small part due to the quality of our productions and our artists.
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2025 will be our fourth festival, with more than 4000 people attending in 2024. 3000 of those attended our free to attend final day: Jazz Steps. Around 90% of attendees hold a Watford postcode or live in the immediate surrounding areas of Herts and north London.
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Our national reach is in the millions due to strong coverage on Jazz FM, One Jazz, promotion on BBC6 Music & BBC3 Counties, and across our various social media.
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Our anticipated 2025 in-person audience across all shows again exceeds 4000 expected to include our Mayor, other civic and local leaders, residents & business owners.
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In 2025 we will publish digital programme notes to accompany all our shows here on our website with QR codes provided to all 600 people at our opening night show on 10 May at the Watford Palace Theatre featuring soul supremo Vanessa Haynes of Incognito, for our 5 standalone concerts at the Pump House Theatre including Grammy-winning saxophonist Tim Garland, blues legend Errol Linton, and multi-genre artist & musician Alice Zawadzki, as well as for our 30 acts performing to 3000 more people on our final day, Jazz Steps.​
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We offer 3 digital adverts with a leader board, a large rectangle and a medium rectangle - priced from £200.
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Because our adverts are digital, they remain live alongside our annual programme notes for 12 months, accessible long after the festival has concluded, ensuring long-term exposure and outstanding value for money.​​
ABOUT OUR 2025 FESTIVAL
We will be presenting more than 30 acts across 8 days at the Watford Palace Theatre, The Pump House Theatre and Arts Centre, Halsey Hall, 6 family-friendly pubs in our free-to-attend event 'Jazz Steps' that runs across Oxhey including our large outside festival stage on Oxhey Green.
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Our 2025 festival focuses on diversity, celebrating people, genres and backgrounds.
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Our confirmed jazz and soul stars were announced in January 2025 with a host of the very best musicians working in UK jazz.
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We also feature younger rising stars including past winners of the BBC Jazz Musician of the Year, The Parliamentary Jazz Awards, The Jazz FM Awards, and many more.
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A focus on quality is one of our core values, and so all our musical acts are chosen for their exceptional ability and outstanding live performances.
ADVERTISING WITH JUNCTION TALES: OUR OFFICIAL PROGRAMME NOTES
Our programme notes are researched and written by Truth & Lies who are commissioned across the world to provide high quality musical journalism.
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As a result our programme notes, that we call Junction Tales, provide truly engaging content carrying stories behind the musicians and the music they are playing, published especially for each of our live shows.
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In the past we have published our notes in printed format only:
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From 2025 we have moved to a digital only offering that we believe offers a better experience for our customers with more space for written content, visual & interactive content, advertisements that are linked to your website pages, and all of it shareable with others at a click.
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We also believe this is a more environmental and sustainable approach to sharing our content.
ADVERTISING OPTIONS 2025
Prices
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We have a very simple rate card.
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Premium placement (Leader Board at top of all Junction Tales programme notes pages + logo on our homepage)​​
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Main programme notes Leader Board banner (728 by 90px): £850​ - 1 available
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General placement within all 6 ticketed show programme notes pages plus Jazz Steps programme notes page
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Large Rectangle display ad (336 by 280px): £275 - 4 available
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Medium Rectangle display ad (300x250px): £200 - 4 available​​
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We don't charge VAT, so the prices are fully inclusive.
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We do not offer design of the advertisements and we would request adverts are supplied as PNG files.
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For all advertising enquiries please email jazz@watfordjazzjunction.com.
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Billing
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Invoices will be raised from the ‘Watford Jazz Junction CIC’ with payment to be received within 28 days from date of issue.
ARTWORK GUIDANCE
Creation
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All files should be provided as PNG files.
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RGB Colour only.
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Crop, Bleed and Trim marks must not be used.
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Ad dimensions
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Leader Board banner (728 by 90px) ​​
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Large Rectangle display ad (336 by 280px)
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​Medium Rectangle display ad (300x250px)
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Final artwork should be sent to:
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