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2019 Media Kit 2019 MEDIA KIT EDITORIAL OVERVIEW PleaseKillMe.com encompasses music, art, culture, fashion, poetry and movies – from the 60s through today. Created by Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain, authors of the legendary book, PLEASE KILL ME: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk, the site attracts a discerning audience of music, literary, arts and culture enthusiasts. PLEASE KILL ME BOOK AUTHORS & WEBSITE CREATORS Gillian McCain Gillian McCain is the author of three books of poetry, Tilt and Religion and co-author of Descent of the Dolls. With Legs McNeil she co-wrote Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk and co-edited Dear Nobody: The True Diary of Mary Rose. She is the former Program Coordinator and Board President of The Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church in New York City. Legs McNeil Legs McNeil is co-author of Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk, and is the co-author (with Jen Osborne and Peter Pavia) of The Other Hollywood: The Uncensored Oral History of the Porn Film Industry. He was the former Resident Punk at Punk magazine, and a senior editor at Spin. A FEW OF PLEASE KILL ME WEBSITE CONTRIBUTORS Alan Bisbort Danny Fields Brendan Toller Alan Bisbort is the Editor of PleaseKillMe.com, Danny Fields was born and raised in New York Brendan Toller is an independent film- as well as a freelance writer and a collage artist. City. Danny’s extensive and diverse experience maker whose work has been covered by The He’s the author of numerous books, including includes Artists’ manager for Iggy Pop, the New York Times, Rolling Stone, Pitchfork and Beatniks: A Guide to an American Subculture Ramones, Managing Editor of Datebook Dazed & Confused. Danny Says, a documentary and Rhino’s Psychedelic Trip. Magazine; Editor of Hullaballoo Magazine; about Danny Fields, is Toller’s second feature, Editor of “16” Magazine; Publicity Director of with I Need That Record! an elegy for a vanish- Pamela Des Barres Elektra Records; columnist for the Soho ing indie record store culture, being his first. Weekly News and other publications. Legendary author, and journalist and groupie, Pamela Des Barres has written five books: I’m With the Band, Take Another Little Piece Tom Hearn of My Heart, Rock Bottom: Dark Moments in Sylvie Simmons Tom Hearn is a photographer and PKM’s Music Babylon, Let’s Spend the Night Together: Sylvie Simmons left London for L.A in 1977 Production Manager. He has photographed Backstage Secrets of Rock Muses and Super- to be a rock writer and that’s what she’s done legendary artists including the Ramones, groupies, and most recently, Let it Bleed / How ever since. The BBC did a documentary on Debbie Harry and Blondie, the B-52’s, Lou to Write a Rockin’ Memoir. her called The Rock Chick. Her books, most Reed, Iggy Pop and Link Wray. His photos of them biographies, include 2012’s New York have been published in numerous books and Times bestseller I’m Your Man: The Life of shown at numerous museums and galleries. Deke Dickerson Leonard Cohen. She’s currently collaborating Deke Dickerson is America’s Roots Music Renais- on a book with Debbie Harry. sance Man. He is as prolific a recording artist as he is a writer and collector of old guitars. Deke was re- cently honored as the Ameripolitan Musician of the Bob Gruen Year for his contributions to American roots music. James Marshall Bob Gruen is one of the most respected photographers in Rock and Roll, and regarded James “The Hound” Marshall is a legend- as one of the foremost documenters working Bebe Buell ary radio DJ turned podcaster. A former with major talent such as John Lennon & Yoko co-owner of the infamous and now Mother of actress Liv Tyler, Bebe Buell is an American Ono, Tina Turner, The Rolling Stones, Led defunct Lower East Side bar, Lakeside singer, former fashion model and Playboy Magazine’s Zeppelin, Elton John, Kiss, The New York Dolls, Lounge, he spends his time writing arti- November 1974 Playmate of the Month. In 2001, Buell Patti Smith, Clash, Sex Pistols, Ramones & cles and liner notes, and is an avid record wrote an autobiography (with Victor Bockris) titled Blondie. collector of stuff you’ve never heard of. Rebel Heart: An American Rock and Roll Journey which became a New York Times bestseller. PLEASE KILL ME: THE UNCENSORED ORAL HISTORY OF PUNK NAMED ONE OF THE TOP TEN BOOKS OF THE YEAR IN 1996 BY TIME OUT AND NEW YORK DAILY NEWS The best selling Punk book of all time Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk is the definitive oral history of the most nihilistic of all pop movements. Iggy Pop, Richard Hell, Patti Smith, the Ramones, and scores of other punk figures lend their voices to this decisive account of that explosive era. It has been published in 15 languages and launched the current oral history trend in books. PLEASE KILL ME PRESS COVERAGE Catching up with the scene’s chronicler of her vital book “Please Kill Me’ PLEASE KILL ME BOOK ACCOLADES “This book tells it like it was. It is the very first book to do so.” “Does for the Ramones what the disciples did for Jesus.” —WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS —L.A. WEEKLY “Immensely entertaining… I found these tales of unholy madness and drug-fueled abandon all too thought-provoking.” —ROBERT CHRISTGAU, The New York Times Book Review “Dishes the crud on everyone… As someone who was “Please Kill Me might make you shed the kind of tears there at the time, I can vouch for how vividly it recap- reserved for lost poets and fuckups, but it almost certainly tures the swampy vitality of the New York scene… will also make you laugh. It’s an honest, detailed oral history, candid, inside, and detailed.” uncensored—hell, filthy—and fascinating.” —JAMES WOLCOTT, The New Yorker —ROLLING STONE “When outrageous movie director John Waters calls a book ‘shocking’ it must be something special and Please Kill Me is a shocking behind-the-scenes and over-the-top look at the survivors of the ’70s New York punk rock scene.” —NEW YORK POST “Please Kill Me ranks up there with the “Please Kill Me is a scenester’s paradise, four-hundred pages of person-to- great rock & roll books of all time.” person, ‘ I was there’ testimony fabulously edited for speed and irony. —TIME OUT —GREIL MARCUS, Interview Magazine In much the same way that punk was a musical revolution, the definitive book about punk was a literary one. With its moderniza- tion of the oral history tradition—telling its 424-page story entirely in a string of quotes that form a solid, winding narrative—it’s practically impossible to overstate the degree to which Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk revolutionized both the book industry and the way we think about storytelling when it was published in 1996. —GOOD TIMES SANTA CRUZ EXTENDED AUDIENCES FROM NOTABLE PUBLISHERS Viewed as an authority, many editors from notable sites frequently quote from and link to stories featured on PleaseKillMe.com, driving significant readership to our site. DEMOGRAPHICS Genderr Top Interests Top Locations Female: 29% Media & Entertainment: Music + Movie + New York City, Male: 71% Book Lovers + Rock Music Fans Los Angeles, Chicago, Boston, Age Lifestyle & Hobbies: Concert Goers + Art + Seattle, San Francisco, 25-34: 15% Green Living Enthusiasts London, Sydney, 35-44: 20% Melbourne 45-54: 30% News & Politics: Entertainment + News 55-64: 25% Enthusiasts + Shoppers SITE TRAFFIC & AUDIENCE GROWTH Pageviews Audience Growth Uniques 87,000/month 46% Total YoY audience growth 45,000/month 38% YoY mobile audience growth 30% traffic growth in the last 6 months 176% referral traffic growth YoY 80% organic search traffic growth YoY DEVICES 58% 33% 9% SOCIAL MEDIA 47,800 Facebook followers 45,700 Instagram followers 257,700 Pinterest viewers/month 62% men / 36% women 55% men / 45% women 18,000 engaged/month Age 25-44: 44% / 45-54: 24% Age 25-44: 58% / 45-54: 22% Pins: 17,700 daily impressions Posts: 300,000 impressions/week ADVERTISING PACKAGES PleaseKillMe.com’s new advertising programs give brands the opportunity to connect with our audience through unique editorial integrations, fixed ad placements and custom content written by our esteemed editors. CUSTOM CONTENT: SPOTLIGHT Editorial Integration in SPOTLIGHT section on the Homepage PleaseKillMe.com will create custom content on behalf of select brands seeking to connect with our audience through compelling storytelling. Written by our experts, content themes will be developed based on advertiser’s objectives and integrated within SPOTLIGHT, a prominent section on the homepage, where we shine a light on what’s new and cool each week (see next page for visuals). SPOTLIGHT CUSTOM CONTENT PACKAGE INCLUDES: 1). Content Box in Spotlight (PKM creates) Duration: 1 week 2,500 homepage impressions 2). Custom Content Page (PKM creates)* Duration: 1 week Bonus impressions 3). Featured Content Box (PKM creates) Duration: 1 week 20,000 run-of-site impressions (except HP) 4) Top Leader Display Ad (Supplied ad creative) Duration: 1 week 20,000 run-of-site impressions 5). 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