Advertising Specs & Sizes

Broadsheet, tabloid or classified?

Size your ad to fit and look its best.

Standard Broadsheet

The best reproduction of your ad in The Oregonian will be achieved if your ad is correctly sized. The image area of our standard broadsheet page is 11.25" wide by 21.5" deep. The page is divided vertically into six columns. The following table gives the width measurements for columns on a standard broadsheet page.

Standard Page Width
1 Column 1.75 inches
2 Column 3.65 Inches
3 Column 5.55 Inches
4 Column 7.45 Inches
5 Column 9.35 Inches
6 Column 11.25 Inches

Tabloid

A tabloid page has an image area of 9.35" wide by 11.25" deep. The image area on a tabloid page is divided into 5 columns. The table below gives the precise measurements for columns on a tab page.

Tabloid Page Width
1 Column 1.75 Inches
2 Column 3.65 Inches
3 Column 5.55 Inches
4 Column 7.45 Inches
5 Column 9.35 Inches

Classified

Classified ads and Classified display ads are built on a standard broadsheet page with an image area 11.25" wide by 21.5" deep. The Classified page is divided vertically into 10 columns. The precise measurements for Classified Display ads are show in the table below.

Classified Pages Column Width
1 Column 1.0833 Inches
2 Column 2.2152 Inches
3 Column 3.3471 Inches
4 Column 4.479 Inches
5 Column 5.6109 Inches
6 Column 6.7428 Inches
7 Column 7.8747 Inches
8 Column 9.0066 Inches
9 Column 10.1385 Inches
10 Column 11.2704 Inches

Page depth in agate lines

Standard broadsheet measures 301 lines, 14 agate lines per inch.