24. Describe the audience demographics and
psychographics
Recommend 3 radio stations where you
would place the spot and the dayparts
Recommend 2 add’l channels: Paid, Owned,
Earned
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Notas del editor
Media refers to the way messages are delivered to target audiences and increasingly, back to companies and among audience members. Media is the go-between step in the communication model; the way messages are sent and returned by the source and receiver. Here, the source and receiver are the company or brand, and its customers.
Television continues to dominate media budgets, partially because television costs are higher than other media.
In this age of interactive media, why do you suppose that television still plays such a dominant role in advertising?
In owned media, channels are controlled by the organization and that carry branded content.
Social interactive media and earned media are channels where brand communication is spread by outsiders.
New media tend to launch themselves by adapting the forms of the media that preceded them. Older media also adapt by adopting some of the advances of new media.
For example, nearly every media vehicle, now has one or more websites.
Media salespeople work for a magazine or TV station; provide sales kits with information about audience and medium.
Media brokers are people/companies who sell space and time for a variety of media, allowing the media buyer to make an entire buy with one order.
Media researchers compile audience measurement data, media costs, and availability for various media. Media planners develop the strategic decisions outlined in the media plan, such as where and when to advertise and which type of media to use.
Media buyers implement the media plan by contracting for specific amounts of time or space, based on the plan developed by the media planner.
Media buying companies specialize in media research, planning, and buying. They may be a spinoff from an advertising agency, and work for a variety of clients.
Print media vehicles include newspapers, magazines, brochures, posters, and outdoor.
Here, the advertiser controls the size and timing of the message, but has no control over whether readers or viewers will notice the ad.
An additional advantage of print is that it provides more information, richer imagery, and longer messages than other media forms.
Which design elements do you see that have changed to fit USA Today’s web format? Which ones have stayed the same?
What is the importance of a publication maintaining its stylistic consistency across formats?
Advertisers look at the audience, geographic coverage, demographics, and editorial diversity of magazines as criteria for using them in a media plan.
Radio is close to being a universal medium. Virtually every U.S. household has at least one radio. Radio is a $17 billion industry tightly targeted based on special interests such as religion, Spanish language, and talk shows.
What are the advantages and disadvantages of these types of radio buys?
From a strategic standpoint, what would the advertiser’s decision process?