The Big Issue was founded in 1991 to provide vulnerably housed people with a legal way to earn money. Big Issue vendors buy The Big Issue magazine for £1.25 and sell it for £2.50, earning £1.25 for each copy that they sell. All our vendors receive training, sign a code of conduct, and can be identified by their photo ID badges, which must be worn at all times on their pitches.
Being housed is only one step on the journey away from the streets., so we allow vendors to continue selling the magazine once they have found accommodation.
Through The Big Issue Foundation, a registered charity, we also provide support to vendors looking to address the issues that led them to become homeless. The Big Issue Foundation relies on donations from the general public. To find out more about the Foundation's work, visit www.bigissue.org.uk
- Company Name:Big Issue
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Headquarters: (View Map)London, United Kingdom
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- Key DifferentiatorThe Big Issue is a magazine sold by homeless and long-term unemployed people. Vendors buy copies for £1.25 and sell for £2.50. They are working, not begging. Since The Big Issue was launched in 1991 we have helped thousands of vulnerable people take control of their lives. We currently work with around 2000 individuals across the UK offering them the opportunity to earn a legitimate income; to ‘help them to help themselves’. Over the past two decades the magazine has become synonymous with challenging, independent journalism, and renowned for securing exclusive interviews with the most elusive of superstars. It currently circulates around 100,000 copies every week. Vendors undergo an induction process and sign up to a code of conduct. They are allocated a pitch and issued with a number of free copies of the magazine. Last year alone we put more than £5million in the pockets of our vendors, releasing them from a dependence on hand-outs and providing an alternative to begging. And we don’t stop there. Earning an income is the first step on the journey away from poverty and The Big Issue Foundation, a registered charity, exists to link vendors with vital support and services. Created as a business solution to a social problem, The Big Issue has inspired other street papers in more than 120 countries, leading a global self-help revolution.
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- 26785 United Kingdom
- 319 K Estimated Visits
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Search62.61%
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Social18.55%
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Direct14.05%
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Referrals3.99%
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Mail0.52%
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Display0.28%
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- United Kingdom 52.5%
- United States 9.1%
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- Homelessness
- Street Newspapers
- 1 K Downloads
- 10 SDKs
- 4.86 Avg. Rating
- 1 Total reviews
- App Url: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.thebigissue.bigissue
- App Support: http://bigissue.com
- Genre: news_and_magazines
- Bundle ID: com.thebigissue.bigissue
- App Size: 9.1 M
- Release Date: March 30th, 2020
- Update Date: September 24th, 2020
Description:
The Big Issue is Britain’s only news and entertainment weekly magazine with a social justice focus and a commitment to prevent homelessness and poverty, and provide a means for society’s most marginalized to earn a living.
Engaging and thought-provoking, we take an irreverent look at life, culture and politics, challenging orthodoxy through righteous columnists, critics and award-winning features.
The Big Issue app provides access to our award-winning weekly publications PLUS our new Big Community channel, which provides uplifting and inspiring stories about people and businesses coming together to support the most vulnerable in society. Your money will directly support Big Issue vendors – you can read more about exactly how we are doing that on the bigissue website.
App features
- The Big Issue app is free and gives access to our Big Community channel
- Read each magazine every Monday, before it goes on general sale
- Stay plugged in to our Big Community channel – a live story feed curated to provide positive and inspiring stories of people working together in the teeth of adversity
- Big Issue vendor update – fascinating daily news on our vendors
- Fully optimised for your iPad and iPhone
- Save your favourite articles to the Saved Articles section
- Choose the number of issues saved on your device to save on memory
- Easy reading with our night mode and adjustable text size
- Download the edition and read offline at your leisure
- Share your favourite stories with family and friends through Twitter and Facebook
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They are headquartered at London, United Kingdom, and have 1 advertising & marketing contacts listed on Kochava. According to their Ads.txt, Big Issue inventory partners include: sharethrough.com, openx.com, indexexchange.com, google.com.
Big Issue works with Advertising technology companies such as Turn, Connexity, Brandscreen, Google Publisher Tag, SiteScout, Chango, The Trade Desk, Neustar AdAdvisor, Videology, Rocket Fuel, AOL-Time Warner Online Advertising, Dstillery, Spongecell, Atlas, Resonate Insights, BlueKai, AppNexus, DemDex, Media Innovation Group, Google Adsense, DoubleClick.Net, RadiumOne, X Plus One, MyBuys, Integral Ad Science, Evidon, Aggregate Knowledge, Adconion, MLN Advertising, Yahoo Small Business, Simpli.fi, AudienceScience, DoubleVerify, Openads/OpenX, Digilant, AppNexus Segment Pixel, SpotXchange, DoubleClick Bid Manager, MyBuys MyAds, Rubicon Project, Flashtalking, OpenDSP, Index Exchange, IponWeb BidSwitch, Advertising.com, Adap.TV, StickyAds TV, GetIntent, Sharethrough, Facebook Custom Audiences, Taboola, Criteo, Bidtellect, StackAdapt, ContextWeb, Yahoo Ad Sync, Tapad, AcuityAds, Drawbridge, Google Inteactive Media Ads, Google Direct, ShareThrough Direct, Ads.txt, OpenX Direct, IndexExchange Direct, Pubmatic, Media.net, Magnetic, TripleLift, Adhigh, Yieldmo, DynAdmic, Beeswax, Google AdSense Integrator, Sojern, Burst Media, MBR Targeting, Eye View Digital, Sociomantic, BannerFlow, Taboola Sponsored Links, Improve Digital, Infectious Media, Adition, ZypMedia, BlueKai DMP, Adobe Audience Manager Sync, MaxPoint Interactive, Blis, MicroAd, So-net Media, Less than 5 Ads.txt, Less than 5 DIRECT Ads.txt, Google Remarketing, FLoC, Google Adsense Asynchronous, AOL Direct, Improve Digital Direct, PubMatic Direct, RhythmOne Direct, RubiconProject Direct, SmartAdServer Direct, Sovrn Direct, Triple Lift Direct, Yahoo Direct, 33 Across Reseller, AdMan Reseller, AdYouLike Reseller, AppNexus Reseller, ContextWeb Reseller, DistrictM Reseller, IndexExchange Reseller, LoopMe Reseller, OpenX Reseller, PubMatic Reseller, RhythmOne Reseller, RubiconProject Reseller, Smaato Reseller, SpotXChange Reseller, Toutiao, Amobee, Avocet.
