Guest-Edited Editions
Use Elektor’s editorial, design, and technical publishing expertise to create a deeper custom format around your ecosystem, platform, product family, or engineering theme. Guest-Edited Editions and Mini Magazines give your brand room for strategic storytelling with real value for engineers.
For larger collaborations, Elektor can create a fully co-branded Guest-Edited Edition based on content from your team, your partners, and Elektor’s editors and engineers. Mini Magazines remain a compact 64-page A5 option for focused custom publishing.
Format options
Guest-Edited Editions and Mini Magazines are designed for partners who want more than a single advertisement. A full Guest-Edited Edition can become a co-branded Elektor Mag filled with projects, tutorials, background articles, interviews, and product ecosystem stories, while Mini Magazines provide a compact custom-publishing route.
A fully co-branded Elektor Magazine edition built around your technology, products, partners, and strategic themes.
A compact guest-edited magazine included with Elektor Magazine in print and digital versions, giving your brand a focused technical showcase.
A tailored package that can connect a publication with e-zine, website, webinar, video, white paper, and trade show visibility.
Why use this format
These formats work best when your company has a genuine technical story to tell: getting started guides, application examples, interviews, projects, ecosystem overviews, development workflows, or education around a technology platform.
Explain the engineering value behind your solution with tutorials, design guidance, interviews, application examples, and hands-on content.
Attach your brand to a high-quality technical publication that readers can keep, revisit, and share internally.
Elektor supports the process with editorial advice, design guidance, and experience in making technical content accessible and attractive.
Full Guest-Edited Edition proposition
A full Guest-Edited Edition is built as an editorial Elektor production based on a mix of your existing content, new material, and Elektor-created articles. The goal is to put exciting projects, tutorials, background articles, and strategic product stories into the hands of innovative engineers and makers.
The edition can showcase your most important strategies, products, platforms, partners, and technical vision in a fully co-branded format.
Costs can be shared or reduced by involving suppliers, partners, or distributors in the edition and by creating dedicated promotional sections.
The digital version can support campaign traffic, product discovery, and sales conversations when paired with the right landing pages and follow-up activity.
Reach and campaign value
A full Guest-Edited Edition can be marketed across Elektor’s international channels and used as the center of a broader campaign. Previous guest-edited editions were published in print and digital and marketed in English, German, Dutch, and French.
Previous collaborations
Elektor’s guest-edited editions started with SparkFun in 2021 and were followed by Arduino, Espressif, and Edge Impulse. Each showcase below highlights the kind of concrete projects, tutorials, interviews, and technical themes that made these editions valuable for engineers.
Planning approach
Custom publishing is a joint production process. Elektor can provide copy-editing, layout, marketing, editorial and engineering support, while the partner contributes technical knowledge, existing content, experts, product stories, and partner input. For full Guest-Edited Editions, Elektor can work with a split-cost model based on the agreed scope.
| Step | What happens | Typical input needed |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Concept alignment | Define theme, audience, format, and business goal. | Technology focus, target markets, campaign objective. |
| 2. Table of contents | Outline articles, interviews, projects, tutorials, and ad positions. | Product portfolio, experts, story ideas, technical assets. |
| 3. Editorial and production planning | Agree responsibilities, timeline, review steps, and design direction. | Content owners, review contacts, brand guidelines. |
| 4. Publishing and amplification | Publish in print and digital, then connect to relevant Elektor media channels. | Final approvals, landing URLs, campaign extensions. |
| 5. Cost and partner model | For a full Guest-Edited Edition, a split-cost model can be discussed. A reference scenario is €100,000 partner contribution. | Budget, partner participation, supplier ad-space options, digital campaign extensions. |
Contact
For Guest-Edited Editions, Mini Magazines, custom publishing concepts, editorial scope, and cross-media packages, contact the Elektor media team directly.
Senior Sales & Marketing Manager
Elektor International Media BV
Contact Udo directly to discuss the right custom publishing format and campaign structure for your brand.
FAQ
An Elektor Mini Magazine is an extra 64-page A5 edition, published in print and digital alongside Elektor Magazine. It gives partners more influence on the content direction while keeping Elektor’s editorial and design support.
A Mini Magazine or Guest-Edited Edition is a deeper editorial format. It can include tutorials, interviews, application stories, projects, ecosystem explainers, and brand storytelling instead of only one ad placement.
The partner has more influence on the table of contents and final editorial production than in standard Elektor formats. Elektor still advises on the best editorial and design choices to ensure audience fit and content quality.
For a full Guest-Edited Edition, Elektor can discuss a split-cost model. One reference scenario is a €100,000 partner contribution, with options to share or reduce costs through partner or supplier ad-space participation.
This format is a strong fit for semiconductor companies, development-board vendors, platform providers, embedded and AI brands, IoT and sensor companies, education providers, and ecosystem partners with several technical stories to tell.
Yes. Custom publishing can be combined with e-zine promotion, website banners, native content, white papers, webinars, Elektor TV, partner mailings, events, and eeNews Europe activity.
Early planning is recommended because the concept, table of contents, content production, review rounds, layout, and distribution all need coordination. Exact timing depends on the scope and available materials.