Media Planning Flashcards
Conceiving, analyzing, and selecting the channels of communication that will direct the advertising message to the right people, in the right place, in the right place, at the right time
Media planning
Media planning
Conceiving, analyzing, and selecting the channels of communication that will direct the advertising message to the right people, in the right place, at the right time
Media planning must (2)
Reach the desired audience with the right message
Be cost effective
5 decisions and issues (media planning)
Which media? Where? What time of year? How often? How to integrate?
5 challenges of increasing media options
More competitors More media options Media complexity Greater audience fragmentation Rising costs
Examples of more media options
Buses, bottom of coffee cups, crosswalk on road
This describes how to achieve advertising objectives
Advertising strategy
This includes the creative strategy and media strategy
Advertising strategy
These should translate marketing objectives and strategies into goals that media can accomplish
Media planning objectives
These are designed to lead the attainment of communications and marketing objectives
Media planning objectives
5 message distribution considerations
Audience size Message weight Audience accumulation & reach Exposure frequency Continuity
Audience size
The number of people in a media vehicle’s audience
The number of people in a media vehicle’s audience
Audience size
Media research firms like Nielsen and arbitron typically use a _____ to project the ____ for broadcast media
Statistical sample; total audience size
For print media, forms like the audit bureau of circulation verify a vehicles subscribers and newsstand sales (________) and multiply this by the estimated ______
Circulation; readers per copy (RPC)
The total number of different people exposed at least once to a media vehicle during a given time period
Reach
Reach is the total number of ______ people ______ at least once to a media vehicle during a given tome period
Different; exposed
This measures the unduplicated extent of audience exposure to a media vehicle
Reach
_____ is a measure of breadth, while ______ is a measure of intensity
Reach; frequency
_____ is a measure of intensity, while _______ is a measure of breadth
Frequency; reach
The average number of times the same individual or household is exposed to a media vehicle during a specific time
Frequency
“Reach builds on a ____”
Curve
This is the number of times a message must be repeated to be effective (3-10, but threshold will differ based on what the goal is)
Effective frequency
This is the percent of the population exposed to the message at or above the effective frequency level
Effective reach
3 factors in determining frequency levels
Marketing factors
Message/creative factors
Media factors
3 marketing factors (when determining frequency levels)
Stage of product life style
Competition
Purchase/usage levels
Stage of product lifestyle effect on frequency levels
More frequency for newer products
Competition effect on frequency levels
A lot of competition needs more frequency
Purchase/usage cycles effect on frequency levels
More frequency for everyday products than seasonal
4 message/creative factors (when determining frequency levels)
Message complexity
New versus continuing campaign
Message variation
Image versus product sell
Message complexity effect on frequency levels
More frequency for more complex
New vs continuing campaign effect on frequency levels
More frequency for new campaign; if you’ve been exposed to something once, more likely to pay attention to it again
Message variation effect on frequency levels
More frequency for more variation
Image vs product sell effect on frequency levels
Depends
3 media factors (when determining frequency levels)
Clutter
Editorial environment
Attentiveness of media
Clutter effect on frequency levels
More frequency; consumer tunes things out, don’t pay attention/catch everything
Editorial environment effect on frequency levels
More frequency for those editorials where consumers pay less attention
Total extent of audience exposure for a set of ads or an entire campaign, calculate ad a function of both reach and frequency
Message weight