Final Flashcards
Issues in Advertising: Society determines what is?
- Offensive
- Excessive
- Irresponsible
Issues in Advertising: Government determines what is?
- Deceptive
- Unfair
Criticism of Marketing Impact on individuals
- High Prices
American marketing system causes prices to be higher than they would be without it. - High Pressure Selling
- Unsafe products
- Planned Obsolescence
- Poor service to disadvantaged consumers
What is high pressure selling?
Belief that products are sold, not bought – lack of concern for consumers
Criticism of Marketing impact on society
- False wants and too much materialism (ex. Shop till you drop)
- Cultural pollution: Our Sense are constantly being assaulted by advertising. Pollution of people’s minds with messages of materialism, sex, power or status
- Too much political power: Industries, Big Tobacco, Big Food, Big Oil, Big Pharma hold too much power over government and mass media
What are big Tobacco tactics to target youth?
- Positive imagery of smoking and smokers
- Perception of smoking as normative
- Facilitating peer influence (viral marketing)
- Pledge commitment to youth smoking prevention in 2000
What are strategies and tactics of the food industry?
- Claim commitment to public health
- Seek influence through campaign contributions
- Divert attention from food and focus on physical activity and nutrition eduction
- Silence Critics
What are frequent responses of the big food industry?
- Denies the link between advertising and obesity or poor diet
- Play the “freedom of choice” card
- Highlights the role of parents to teach healthy eating habits
What does ethical and responsible marketing look like?
It depends on who you ask
What is the CARU?
Children’s Advertising Review Unit
What are the CARU responsibilities?
- Acts as an administrative agency (Guidelines and procedures)
- Promotes “responsible children’s advertising”
- Focuses on how products are advertised to children
What is the CFBAI?
Children’s Food and Beverage Advertising Initiative
What are the CFBAI responsibilities?
- A voluntary pledge program
- Focuses on what foods are advertised to children
Three examples of Federal Regulations from Chapter 2 PowerPoint.
- FTC: Federal Trade Commission
- FDA: Food and Drug Administration
- FCC: Federal Communications Commissions
What are the pros of Magazine Advertising?
- Flexibility
- Color
- Authority and believability
- Permanence
- Prestige
- Audience Selectivity
- Cost-Efficiency
- Reader loyalty
- Extensive Pass-along readership
What are the cons of Magazine Advertising?
- Declining Circulations
- Lack of immediacy
- Shallow geographic coverage
- Inability to deliver mass audiences at a low price
- Inability to deliver high frequency
- Long lead time
- Heavy advertising competition
- High cost per thousand
What are the pros of Newspaper advertising?
- Mass and local medium
- Comprehensive in scope
- Geographic Selectivity
- Timeliness
- Credibility
- Selective attention
- Creative flexibility
- An active medium
- A permanet record
- Reasonable cost
What are the cons of newspaper advertising?
- Lack of selectivity
- Short life span
- Low production quality
- Clutter
- Lack of control
- Overlapping circulation
What are the special possibilities (types of ads) with magazines?
- Bleed
- Cover position
- Junior unit
- Island Halves
- Insert
- Gatefold
What are the special possibilities (types of ads) with magazines? Explain bleed
Color, type, or visuals that run all the way to the edge of a printed page
What are the special possibilities (types of ads) with magazines? Explain cover position
Advertising space on the front inside, back inside, or back cover pages of a publication, usually sold t a premium price
What are the special possibilities (types of ads) with magazines? Explain Junior unit
Large magazine ad placed in the middle of a page and surrounded by editorial matter
What are the special possibilities (types of ads) with magazines? Explain Island Halves
Half-page of magazine space that is surrounded on two or more sides by editorial matter and sold at a premium price
What are the special possibilities (types of ads) with magazines? Explain Insert
Ad or brochure printed by the advertiser and shipped to the publisher for insertion into a magazine or newspaper
What are the special possibilities (types of ads) with magazines? Explain Gatefold
Magazine cover or page extended and folded over to fit into the magazine, sold at a premium price
Important dates for magazine purchases
- Cover date
- On-sale date
- Closing date
What is cover date?
Date printed on the cover of a publication
What is the on-sale date?
Date a magazine is issued
What is the closing date?
Publication’s final deadline for supplying printing material for an advertisement
What is CPM?
Cost per thousand: Cost of reaching 1,000 people in a medium’s audience, used to compare the cost of various media vehicles
Define Frequency Discounts
Advertisers earn this by running advertising repeatedly in a specific time period
List the types of Newspaper advertising
- Display Advertising
- Reading notice or advertorial
- Cooperative (co-op) advertising
- Classified Ads
- Public Notices
- Preprinted inserts