We're already more than half way through January so it's a little late to be wishing you a Happy New Year. But, in our defence, January is hectic as we have less time than usual to pull together the February issue of the magazine. Also, Simon's been busy talking with GB News about Outdoor Swimming, appearing on their breakfast show on 16 January.

 

Although it wasn't part of the interview, the original invitation to appear on the show was because of the news story in several papers at Swimming Induced Pulmonary Oedema (SIPE). Our response, which was "Don't Panic" was read more than 5000 times.

 

Our readers frequently ask us for information about outdoor swimming events. Due to limited space in the magazine for comprehensive listings, we've decided to create a separate pull-out and keep Events Supplement to publish with our April issue. We will also make this supplement available free-of-charge on our app and as a PDF download and share it in our email newsletter, which goes to more than 30,000 people. Our previous supplements on travel and Christmas gifts were popular with readers and generated good levels of interest for featured brands.

If you want to be seen in our Events Supplement, please contact Stuart.

 

If you work in marketing and use programmatic and social media advertising, then can I recommend you read Adscam by Bob Hoffman? Bob details the huge amount of fraud in the online advertising industry and the vast amounts of advertisers' money that disappears and can't be accounted for.

After you've read it, come and talk to us. We don't run programmatic advertisements on our website and we can guarantee your ads will be placed next to relevant and ethical content - plus you get to talk to the lovely people in our team who care about making sure you get value for your advertising investment.