- Messenger (formerly Mini-Storage Messenger)
- Self-Storage Almanac
- Self-Storage NOW!
- Self-Storage Canada
- Specialty Publications
- Website Opportunities
- Newsletter Email marketing Opportunities
- Special Print Opportunities
- Digital Enhancements
- Custom Publishing
- Print Specs
- Print Advertising Pricing
- Contact
Available in print and a scrolling digital format, the 128-page, modernized magazine covers a wide variety of self-storage-related topics that are separated into four industry-focused sections: operations, data, development, and investment. Each issue of Messenger also features regular columns that our readers enjoy, such as “Storage Stats,” “Who’s Who in Self-Storage,” “Women in Self-Storage,” “Chief Executive Opinion,” “Groundbreaking Development,” and “The Last Word.”
A one-year subscription to Messenger consists of 12 issues, including annual editions of the industry’s highly anticipated Buyer’s Guide, Top Operators, Manager of the Year, and Facility of the Year volumes.
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- Circulation
Digital Preview edition sent to 28,000 per month - Frequency
Twelve issues per year, including annual Buyer’s Guide - Target Audience
Self-storage owners and other professionals interested in developing, operating, or investing in self-storage facilities - Bonus Circulation
Distributed at industry association meetings and trade shows and through advertiser merchandising and samples to industry newcomers - Print Subscriptions
$59.95 per year - Digital Subscriptions
$21.95 per year - Combo Subscription:
$69.95 per year - Single Copy Price:
$7.95
(Print and responsive digital editions)
* Includes Enhancement
The 2023 Self-Storage Almanac features the most up-to-date data, trends, and analysis self-storage owners, operators, investors, developers, and appraisers.
NEW in 2023: RV and boat storage data, trends, and analysis added.
Included: Occupancy rates, market supply and demand, property valuation, capitalization rates, financing, facility data by state, top operators, market share, economics and demographic trends impacting self-storage, customer analysis, business customer data, rental rates and duration, payment methods, features desired by customers, effective marketing methods, security trends, and much more.
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- Frequency:
ANNUAL - Publication:
December 2023 - Target Audience
U.S. self-storage facility managers, owners, managing partners, investors, developers, and property management executives - Digital Only
$174.95 - Print Only
$199.95 - Print + Digital
$254.95
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(Responsive digital editions)
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(Print and responsive digital editions)
Self-Storage Legal Issues
RV & Boat Storage Development Handbook
Self-Storage Expense Handbook
Developing Specialty Storage
Development Handbook for Self-Storage
Top Operators Kit
- 15,000
Page views/month - 11,000 visitors
Per month
(84% new) - Time on site
2:26
- Pop-up ad
- 728×90 Banner ad
- 300×600 Vertical banner ad (Referred to as a “Half-Page” or a “Monster” ad)
- 300×300 Square ad
- Sponsored Content – Promote your content or article on the home page! Image space included.
- 300×600 Vertical banner ad (Referred to as a “Half-Page” or a “Monster” ad)
- 1200×90 Floor banner ad
This ad spans the width of the website!
Our website content is segmented by topic category to help direct site visitors to the content they are most interested in. By sponsoring the Topic pages, you can target your message based on site visitor interest!
Size: 728×90 Banner ad
- Architecture
- Construction & Development
- Due Diligence
- Facility Maintenance
- Facility of the Year
- Financing
- Helping Hands
- Insurance & Risk Management
- International
- Investing in Self-Storage
- Legal Issues
- Who’s Who in Self-Storage
- Management
- Manager of the Year
- Marketing
- Operations
- Portable Storage
- Relocatable Units
- RV & Boat Storage
- Sales & Acquisitions
- Security
- Specialty Storage
- Technology
- The Last Word
- Over 200,000
Emails sent per month - 99.7%
Delivery Rate - Social Post
w/every email to 6,000 - 20,000
Social post impressions per month
Email one of your articles to 20,000 of our digital subscribers AND, get the email address for every contact who clicked on your links!
Package includes: Email to 20,000 subscribers with your article, banner ads and links; article posting on our new website; detailed email report; and Excel spreadsheet with contact emails who clicked on your links in the email.
Package includes: Email to 20,000 subscribers with your company’s content; banner ads and links; detailed email report; Excel spreadsheet with contact emails who clicked on your links.
The Messenger Weekly e-newsletter is delivered to more than 20,000 subscribers. Button ads linking to your website are available in a variety of sizes and available in a variety of options, both of which link directly to your website.
The Messenger Weekend is delivered to 20,000 subscribers every Saturday morning, providing a roundup of all the week’s biggest headlines. Image ads linking to your website are available in a variety of sizes which link directly to your website.
This two-page article about your company written by our writer includes photos and contact information for your company, and will appear in both the print and the digital version of Messenger. Digital article includes link to your website. Package includes 1,000 reprints for marketing purposes.
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This includes but is not limited to
- Vendor Spotlight
- Corporate Profile
- Custom Reprints
- Custom Company Catalogs
- Custom Periodicals
- Custom Books
Preferred print formats are press-ready PDFs or 300 DPI JPGs.
All images must be no less than 300 DPI at 100% final size.
Enhanced advertisements require packaged files, or native files including all layers and embedded fonts, images and elements. Contact your sales representative for specific instructions and acceptable file types.
Ads that do not meet the required specifications will be returned for re submission. If required, and if possible, graphic design to alter supplied materials to meet the specifications is available for $100 per instance.
Modern Storage Media offers ad creation, production, ad reprints and bulk subscriptions for Mini-Storage Messenger. Contact your sales representative for details.
(Print and responsive digital editions)
* Includes Enhancement
(Responsive digital editions)
(Print and responsive digital editions)