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Airport Advertising in Bali Ngurah Rai International Airport (DPS), Indonesia

Airport Advertising in Bali Ngurah Rai International Airport (DPS), Indonesia

The world's most spiritually and commercially celebrated island destination concentrates its Ultra HNWI wellness, luxury hospitality, and premium lifestyle community through one gateway.

Airport at a Glance

FieldDetail
AirportBali Ngurah Rai International Airport
IATA CodeDPS
CountryIndonesia
CityBali
Annual Passengers16.1 million (2023–24)
Primary AudienceVery High HNWI global luxury wellness and spiritual tourism elite, premium villa and boutique resort guests, Australian and Chinese HNWI leisure community, GCC and Indian outbound luxury travellers
Peak Advertising SeasonJuly to August, December to January
Audience TierTier 1 — Very High
Best Fit CategoriesUltra-luxury wellness and hospitality, premium real estate, luxury fashion and lifestyle brands, superyacht and premium marine

Airport Advertising in Bali Ngurah Rai International Airport (DPS), Indonesia

Bali is the world's most consistently beloved island destination across five decades of changing luxury leisure tastes, shifting wealth pools, and evolving tourist demographics — and every international traveller who has chosen it, at every price point from budget backpacker to ultra-HNWI private villa, arrives and departs through the same terminal on the island's southern coast.

Bali Ngurah Rai International Airport is the sole international gateway to an island that has achieved something no resort developer, destination marketing organisation, or tourism policy board has ever manufactured successfully — a genuine global cultural icon whose meaning transcends any single traveller type, any single national origin, and any single decade of commercial relevance. Bali is not a resort. It is a civilisation — a living Hindu cultural tradition whose temple ceremonies, rice terrace agriculture, traditional dance, and specific form of spiritual engagement with the natural world have created a destination identity so authentically rooted and so genuinely extraordinary that the world's wealthiest individuals have chosen to live there, not merely visit.

The Ultra HNWI dimension of Bali's visitor economy is commercially distinctive for its diversity. The island simultaneously serves the Australian surfing and beach lifestyle community whose Seminyak and Canggu villas function as second homes for Sydney and Melbourne's most commercially successful young professional class, the Chinese domestic tourism community whose post-pandemic Bali recovery has re-established the island as China's most beloved international leisure destination, the GCC luxury leisure traveller whose annual Bali pilgrimage combines ultra-premium wellness retreat with superyacht charter in Komodo National Park waters, the Silicon Valley technology executive whose annual Ubud retreat represents their most personally transformative leisure investment, and the European old-money leisure community whose Aman Bali, Bulgari Bali, and Four Seasons Jimbaran Bay resort engagements represent the island's most commercially prestigious hospitality circuit. For an advertiser, DPS does not deliver a single Ultra HNWI audience type. It delivers all of them — simultaneously, year-round, from every global source market that matters commercially — in the one destination that every tier of the global wealthy leisure class has independently selected as their most valued experience.


Advertising Value Snapshot


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Source Markets and Commercial Audience Intelligence

DPS operates as a pure inbound luxury leisure tourism gateway whose commercial advertising value flows entirely from the extraordinary breadth and depth of its international source market profile. Bali's permanent resident population of approximately 4.2 million Balinese Hindus defines the modest outbound domestic travel base, while the airport's entire Ultra HNWI advertising value is generated by the global inbound community whose independent, simultaneous selection of Bali as their most valued leisure destination has created the world's most commercially diverse premium island tourism audience at a single gateway.

Top Source Markets — Marketer Intelligence

Resident Community Intelligence

Bali's permanent resident Balinese Hindu community of approximately 4.2 million maintains a modest outbound travel base through DPS whose commercial advertising significance is secondary to the dominant inbound tourism focus. However, the growing community of long-term international residents — the digital nomad entrepreneurs, the wellness industry professionals, the international villa developers, and the creative community whose Bali residency reflects a specific lifestyle commitment rather than a temporary tourism engagement — generates a commercially active resident expat community at DPS whose outbound travel for professional development, investment management, and family connection creates a sustained year-round Very High HNWI resident traveller dimension that complements the seasonal inbound tourism peaks.

Economic Importance

Bali's economy is among the most tourism-dependent of any major Indonesian regional economy — generating approximately 70 to 80 percent of its provincial GDP directly or indirectly from the tourism sector whose USD 10 to 15 billion annual contribution makes Bali Indonesia's most commercially significant single-island tourism economy by international revenue generation. The ultra-luxury segment of Bali's tourism economy — private villa rentals, Aman and Bulgari resort stays, premium wellness retreat programmes, and superyacht charter — generates a disproportionate share of Bali's total tourism revenue from a relatively small proportion of total visitor volume, confirming that DPS's Very High HNWI audience generates commercial returns that far exceed their numerical share of total passenger volume.


Business and Industrial Ecosystem

Passenger Intent — Business Segment

The DPS business traveller is, as at the world's other premium leisure island gateways, commercially fused with the leisure traveller — with one commercially distinctive addition that is specific to Bali's creative and digital economy character. The Silicon Valley entrepreneur who has based themselves in Canggu for three months while building a startup is simultaneously a leisure visitor and a commercial operator whose DPS transit for investor meetings, product launches, and team gatherings combines professional and personal purposes in the specific way that Bali's live-work hybrid culture enables. The Aman Bali general manager whose DPS transit for procurement, partnership, and owner relationship management reflects both the hospitality industry's professional demands and the personal privilege of managing the world's most commercially prestigious single resort brand's Bali property.

Strategic Insight

The B2B advertising environment at DPS is commercially valuable not for its institutional corporate authority — Bali has no major corporate headquarters, no financial district, and no government enterprise community — but for its specific concentration of the global creative and wellness economy's most commercially successful practitioners. The yoga teacher trainer whose Bali programmes attract HNWI wellness travellers from around the world, the villa developer whose Seminyak property portfolio is managed from an Ubud office, and the documentary filmmaker whose Bali-based production company serves international luxury brand clients — all transit DPS as part of their routine professional activity and represent a commercially active creative economy B2B audience that is found at no comparable island gateway airport outside of Ibiza.


Tourism and Premium Travel Drivers

Passenger Intent — Tourism Segment

The DPS arriving international luxury guest has made a destination choice that is commercially distinguished by its cultural depth and lifestyle alignment rather than purely by its financial accessibility. Choosing Bali over the Maldives signals a preference for cultural authenticity over engineered exclusivity. Choosing Bali over the Seychelles signals a preference for vibrant social and creative community over pristine ecological isolation. Choosing Bali over the Greek islands signals a preference for Asian spiritual and wellness tradition over European historic heritage. Every one of these destination preference choices reveals a specific lifestyle value profile — and that profile is the most commercially valuable single piece of information an advertiser can possess about their audience. The arriving Bali guest is a confirmed cultural aspirer, a wellness seeker, a creative community participant, and an authentic experience prioritiser — a profile that makes them the most commercially receptive audience for luxury brands whose commercial identity is built on genuine quality, cultural authenticity, and the specific pleasure of things made with the attention to beauty that Bali's own civilisation has always exemplified.


Travel Patterns and Seasonality

Peak seasons:

Event-Driven Movement


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Audience and Cultural Intelligence

Top 2 Languages

Major Traveller Nationalities

DPS's terminal is the most nationally diverse of any single island gateway airport in this series — reflecting Bali's extraordinary achievement in simultaneously attracting the premium leisure community of every major global source market to the same destination. Australian nationals anchor the most historically embedded source market. Chinese nationals anchor the highest-volume single national community and are progressively returning to their pre-pandemic dominance of DPS's international passenger statistics. Indian nationals represent the fastest-growing premium source market. American, British, German, French, Singaporean, Japanese, Korean, and GCC nationals collectively create the most geographically diverse single-island gateway passenger base in Asian aviation. The commercial diversity of this source market mix is DPS's most significant structural commercial advantage — it means that unlike seasonal island airports whose peak periods depend on a single source market's holiday calendar, DPS maintains commercially active premium tourism traffic from multiple source markets across the full calendar year.

Religion — Advertiser Intelligence

Behavioral Insight

The DPS Very High HNWI audience is the most values-driven of any island gateway airport audience in this series — and that values-driven character is the defining commercial characteristic that advertising at DPS must acknowledge and reflect. The traveller who has chosen Bali is making a statement not just about where they can afford to go but about what they believe luxury means. They are not seeking the most engineered exclusivity — they have rejected the Maldives for the cultural depth that their resort cannot provide. They are not seeking the most historically prestigious address — they have chosen Ubud over Kyoto for the living spiritual community that Japan's temple circuit cannot deliver. They are seeking genuine experience, authentic quality, and the specific combination of natural beauty, cultural depth, and human warmth that Bali provides at a level that no manufactured resort destination can replicate. Advertising at DPS that speaks to these values — with genuine creative quality, authentic cultural respect for Bali's extraordinary heritage, and the specific luxury that comes from things made with the attention to beauty that is also Balinese culture's most commercially distinctive gift to the world — will achieve commercial resonance that generic luxury advertising entirely fails to approach.


Outbound Wealth and Investment Intelligence

DPS's outbound wealth intelligence flows through two commercially distinct channels — the inbound Ultra HNWI international tourist community whose global investment behaviour defines the relevant advertiser categories, and the growing long-term international resident community whose Bali-based lifestyle investment creates a specific and commercially distinctive outbound financial services and real estate advisory demand.

Outbound Real Estate Investment

Bali itself is the primary real estate investment category for DPS's most commercially committed audience — the growing category of Ultra HNWI international visitors who transition from seasonal luxury guest to Bali property owner, whose investment in Seminyak villas, Ubud retreat properties, and Uluwatu clifftop residences represents the most contextually motivated luxury real estate purchase decision available at any island leisure gateway. The specific Indonesian foreign property ownership structure — whose leasehold and nominee ownership frameworks create a commercial opportunity for specialised international property legal advisory — sustains a niche but commercially active real estate advisory professional community at DPS whose institutional knowledge of Bali's foreign ownership regulations is commercially irreplaceable.

The Australian source market's real estate investment in Bali — driven by the specific cultural familiarity and proximity that makes Bali the most natural Australian offshore leisure real estate market — creates an active bilateral Australian-Bali property investment corridor whose confirmed buyers are accessible at DPS's terminal. For international real estate developers in complementary markets — the Maldives, Southeast Asian coastal markets, and Portuguese Atlantic destinations — the DPS departing guest whose Bali visit has deepened their luxury leisure lifestyle commitment creates a receptive audience for the next premium property investment in their global leisure real estate portfolio.

Outbound Education Investment

The growing international resident community in Bali — whose digital nomad entrepreneurial and creative professional members are often internationally highly educated individuals whose children require international standard education — creates a modest but commercially growing outbound education investment demand for premium international schools in Singapore, Australia, and the UK. For international education consultancies serving the Bali expat community and for international schools with Bali-based parent communities, DPS provides a commercially active access point to one of the most internationally connected resident parent communities of any Southeast Asian leisure destination.

Outbound Wealth Migration and Residency

The Bali long-term international resident community's residency and financial planning needs — whose combination of Indonesian leasehold property ownership, international income management, and multi-jurisdiction tax compliance creates a demand for sophisticated international financial and legal advisory — sustains a growing professional advisory community at DPS whose institutional expertise in multi-jurisdiction wealth management for internationally mobile creative and digital economy professionals is commercially distinctive.

Strategic Implication for Advertisers

DPS's wealth intelligence is commercially most valuable for brands that understand the specific investment logic of the globally mobile luxury leisure community that Bali uniquely concentrates — a community whose lifestyle values are aligned with authentic quality, cultural depth, and the specific luxury of genuine experience rather than engineered exclusivity. For luxury lifestyle brands, premium wellness products, authentic craft and artisan brands, ultra-luxury hospitality operators in competitive island destinations, and premium property advisors with Southeast Asian expertise — DPS provides the world's most commercially diverse and most values-aligned Ultra HNWI leisure community audience available at any single Southeast Asian island gateway.


Airport Infrastructure and Premium Indicators

Terminals

Premium Indicators

Forward-Looking Signal

DPS is implementing a significant airport expansion programme — including a new international terminal (Ngurah Rai Terminal 3) planned to significantly expand capacity and premium passenger experience quality — whose completion will materially elevate both the commercial quality and the inventory depth of DPS's advertising estate. Indonesia's progressive development of the Bali tourism infrastructure — the new Bali Kerta Masa toll road improving airport connectivity, the eventual Bali maritime express improving Nusa Penida access, and the Indonesian government's ambitious Bali Future Tourism Vision programme — will progressively improve the commercial quality of the visitor experience that DPS serves. Bali's B20 and G20 host legacy, its growing MICE and premium conference infrastructure, and the progressive development of the island's luxury real estate market toward international standards of legal accessibility for foreign buyers will progressively deepen the airport's commercial audience quality. Masscom advises brands to establish DPS advertising positions now — while the pre-Terminal 3 commercial estate offers the most commercially efficient per-impression value — and to plan campaigns that capture both the established international luxury leisure corridor and the emerging Indonesian digital economy and MICE community whose progressive engagement with Bali's commercial ecosystem is creating DPS's most commercially exciting new audience dimension.


Airline and Route Intelligence

Top Airlines

Garuda Indonesia, Lion Air, Batik Air, AirAsia, Scoot, Singapore Airlines, Cathay Pacific, Korean Air, Japan Airlines, ANA, Thai Airways, Malaysia Airlines, Philippine Airlines, Qantas, Jetstar, Virgin Australia, Fiji Airways, Air India, IndiGo, SpiceJet, Emirates, Qatar Airways, Etihad Airways, China Southern, China Eastern, Air China, Xiamen Airlines, Turkish Airlines, KLM, Lufthansa, Swiss International Air Lines, Air France

Key International Routes

Wealth Corridor Signal

DPS's route network maps the full spectrum of the global luxury leisure community's bilateral engagement with the world's most beloved island destination — every significant route cluster carries a specific national luxury travel culture whose independent selection of Bali as their most valued destination has created the most commercially diverse single-island tourism economy in Southeast Asian aviation. The Australian routes carry the world's most culturally embedded island relationship. The Chinese routes carry the world's highest-volume luxury outbound tourism community. The Indian routes carry the world's fastest-growing luxury outbound premium source market. The GCC routes carry the wellness and spiritual luxury tourism community. The Japanese and Korean routes carry the precision aesthetic cultural alignment community. The European routes carry the authentic cultural experience premium tourism community. Every significant DPS route is a luxury leisure corridor — confirming that the airport's entire commercial character is defined by confirmed premium leisure spending rather than any commercial or industrial bilateral trade relationship.


Media Environment at the Airport


Strategic Advertising Fit

Best Fit

Brand Alignment at a Glance

CategoryFit
Ultra-luxury wellness and retreat brandsExceptional
Ultra-luxury hospitality — Bali and competitiveExceptional
Luxury fashion and artisan craftExceptional
Premium villa real estateExceptional
Superyacht and premium marineExceptional
Premium travel — next-destination inspirationStrong
K-beauty and premium Asian lifestyleStrong
Premium organic and sustainable luxuryStrong
Mass-market consumer brandsPoor fit

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Event and Seasonality Analysis

Strategic Implication

DPS's most commercially distinctive seasonal characteristic is its structural year-round baseline — unlike alpine ski resorts, seasonal Scandinavian destinations, or single-season monsoon-affected island destinations, Bali's multi-source-market geographic diversity sustains commercially active premium tourism traffic in every month of the calendar. The July to August Australian and European peak and the December to January Christmas-New Year peak are the year's highest-volume commercial windows, but the underlying year-round baseline — sustained by Chinese, Indian, Singaporean, and GCC visitor communities whose travel calendars are spread across the full calendar year — means that DPS advertising investment is commercially productive across a twelve-month campaign rather than a concentrated seasonal burst. Masscom structures DPS campaigns to maintain year-round brand presence with amplified creative investment in the July-August and December-January peak windows — deploying peak-season creative whose luxury lifestyle and cultural aspiration register captures the year's highest-quality premium leisure audiences while maintaining the consistent brand visibility that DPS's year-round commercial baseline justifies.


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Final Strategic Verdict

Bali Ngurah Rai International Airport serves the world's most commercially beloved island destination — a civilisation that has achieved what no resort developer, destination marketing strategy, or tourism policy initiative has ever manufactured: genuine global cultural icon status that attracts the premium leisure community of every major global wealth pool to the same island simultaneously, year-round, across five consecutive decades of changing tastes, shifting currencies, and evolving wealth distributions. The 16.1 million passengers who transit DPS annually represent the full spectrum of the global luxury leisure market's most commercially diverse source community — Australian beach lifestyle HNWI, Chinese luxury resort tourists, Indian Hindu cultural pilgrims, American wellness seekers, British authentic experience travellers, Singaporean short-break premium guests, Korean cultural lifestyle aspirants, GCC spiritual luxury tourists, and Japanese aesthetic precision connoisseurs — each of whom has independently, simultaneously, and continuously selected the same island as the most valued global leisure address in their personal luxury calendar. For ultra-luxury wellness and retreat brands whose commercial identity matches Bali's wellness capital credentials, for authentic craft and luxury fashion brands whose genuine quality narrative speaks the language of Balinese artisan excellence, for ultra-luxury resort brands whose Aman and Bulgari-adjacent positioning creates maximum aspirational resonance with the island's most commercially confirmed guest community, for superyacht operators targeting the Komodo charter circuit's Ultra HNWI marine adventure clients, and for premium villa real estate operators whose confirmed villa rental experience creates the world's most contextually motivated property buyer transition at any island leisure gateway — DPS is the most geographically diverse, the most values-authentic, and the most commercially confirmed global luxury leisure audience available at any Southeast Asian island airport. Masscom Global provides the Indonesian cultural authority, the Bali tourism ecosystem intelligence, the multilingual execution capability for English, Mandarin, and the full source market language range, and the full-service year-round campaign management to ensure that every brand investing at DPS reaches the world's most beloved island's most commercially consequential visitor community with the genuine quality, the authentic cultural respect, and the creative excellence that Bali's own extraordinary civilisation demands of everything that shares its extraordinary stage.


About Masscom Global

Masscom Global is a premium international airport advertising and media buying agency operating across 140 countries. With deep expertise in airport OOH, premium publications, and high-net-worth audience targeting, Masscom helps brands reach the world's most valuable travellers at the moments that matter most. For advertising packages, media rates, and campaign planning at Bali Ngurah Rai International Airport and airports across the globe, contact Masscom Global today.


Frequently Asked Questions

How much does airport advertising cost at Bali Ngurah Rai International Airport? Advertising costs at DPS vary by terminal zone, format type, position within passenger flow, campaign duration, and seasonal demand. International terminal positions serving the inbound global luxury leisure community command the highest rates in the DPS estate, with July-August Australian and European peak season and December-January Christmas and New Year peak season commanding the year's highest rate premiums. Year-round campaign structures offer significantly improved per-impression value relative to concentrated seasonal bursts given Bali's structural year-round baseline. English-language and Mandarin-language dual creative is commercially optimal for maximum audience reach. Masscom Global provides current rate structures, seasonal and cultural event calendar guidance, and full campaign proposals. Contact Masscom for a tailored DPS proposal.

Who are the passengers at Bali Ngurah Rai International Airport? DPS serves the world's most geographically diverse Very High HNWI island leisure tourism audience — Australian beach and wellness lifestyle HNWI from Sydney and Melbourne, Chinese luxury resort tourists from Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangdong, Indian ultra-HNWI Hindu cultural pilgrims from Mumbai and Delhi, American ultra-luxury retreat guests from the technology and media sectors, British authentic cultural experience travellers, Singaporean HNWI short-break guests, Korean and Japanese cultural lifestyle aspirants, GCC spiritual luxury tourists, and European adventure and wellness seekers — whose independent, simultaneous selection of Bali as the world's most valued leisure destination creates the most commercially diverse single-island premium leisure audience at any Southeast Asian gateway airport.

Is Bali Ngurah Rai International Airport good for luxury brand advertising? DPS is commercially exceptional for luxury brands whose authentic quality credentials and genuine cultural values can survive the specific evaluation framework of the Bali guest community — a group that has chosen the world's most culturally authentic island destination specifically because they prefer genuine quality over manufactured exclusivity. Brands whose commercial identity is built on authentic craft heritage, genuine material excellence, or specific cultural depth will find the DPS audience among the most commercially loyal and most values-resonant in Asian island aviation. Generic aspirational luxury advertising without substantive quality claims will find the Bali community among the most commercially indifferent in Southeast Asian aviation.

What is the best airport in Southeast Asia for luxury wellness and hospitality advertising? DPS is definitively Southeast Asia's most commercially authoritative airport for luxury wellness and hospitality brand advertising — the combination of Bali's global wellness capital status, the Aman-Bulgari-Four Seasons resort circuit's Ultra HNWI confirmed guest concentration, and the specific values-driven destination choice that every DPS passenger has made creates a commercial advertising environment whose wellness and luxury hospitality audience pre-qualification is unmatched at any comparable Southeast Asian island gateway. No other Southeast Asian island gateway airport concentrates the global wellness and ultra-luxury hospitality community's most commercially confirmed audience in a single terminal at DPS's source market diversity and confirmed luxury spending depth.

What is the best time to advertise at Bali Ngurah Rai International Airport? Year-round sustained presence is commercially optimal for DPS given the structural multi-source-market geographic diversity that maintains commercially active premium tourism traffic across the full calendar year. The July to August Australian and European summer high season delivers the year's highest volume concentration. The December to January Christmas, New Year, and pre-Chinese New Year window delivers the most commercially intense luxury spending confirmation. The Nyepi and Galungan cultural event windows deliver the highest cultural tourism premium concentration. Year-round presence with amplified July-August and December-January peak season creative investment delivers the full commercial breadth of DPS's extraordinary year-round global luxury leisure audience.

Can international real estate developers advertise at Bali Ngurah Rai International Airport? DPS is commercially productive for Bali villa and resort real estate developers whose product serves the confirmed lifestyle transition motivation of the arriving or departing guest whose Bali experience has deepened their luxury leisure real estate investment aspiration. Australian property developers targeting the most culturally Bali-proximate luxury real estate buyer community have an active and motivated DPS audience. Competing Southeast Asian coastal real estate developers in Lombok, the Gili Islands, and the Nusa Tenggara island chain have a specifically adventurous ultra-HNWI island-hopping buyer community at DPS. Maldivian private island and Seychelles villa real estate operators have a confirmed ultra-luxury leisure buyer community whose Bali experience has confirmed their appetite for the next extraordinary island property investment. Indonesian foreign property ownership regulations create specific legal advisory requirements — Masscom Global provides the Indonesia market legal compliance guidance necessary for real estate advertising at DPS.

Which brands should not advertise at Bali Ngurah Rai International Airport? Brands without genuine quality or authentic cultural credentials, brands whose creative content conflicts with Indonesian advertising standards or Balinese cultural values, and mass-market consumer brands without premium positioning are commercially misaligned with DPS's Very High HNWI global luxury leisure community. The specific values-driven destination choice that every Bali guest has made — prioritising authentic experience over manufactured exclusivity — creates the most commercially demanding brand quality evaluation framework of any Southeast Asian island gateway audience. Brands that cannot honestly demonstrate genuine quality, authentic cultural respect, and the specific luxury that comes from things made with genuine care will find the Bali community among the most commercially unreceptive to superficial luxury positioning in Asian regional aviation.

How does Masscom Global help brands advertise at Bali Ngurah Rai International Airport? Masscom Global provides full-service airport advertising execution at DPS — covering global luxury leisure source market audience intelligence across the 10+ key international communities, English-language and Mandarin-language creative strategy developed with genuine Indonesian and Balinese cultural sensitivity, Komisi Penyiaran Indonesia and Badan Pengawas Periklanan compliance management, optimal international terminal positioning for wellness, luxury hospitality, villa real estate, superyacht, and premium lifestyle brand audiences, year-round campaign management with seasonal peak amplification, cultural event window planning for Nyepi, Galungan, and Bali Spirit Festival, and live campaign performance reporting. With operations across 140 countries, Masscom provides both the Bali island cultural intelligence and the global network capability to activate DPS as part of a coordinated Southeast Asian luxury leisure corridor strategy — running concurrent campaigns across DPS, Singapore Changi, and source market airports in Sydney, Shanghai, Mumbai, Dubai, and Seoul to intercept the global luxury leisure community at every stage of their Bali discovery and island lifestyle journey.

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