MAKING AN ADVERTISEMENT Advertising is both an art and a science. The art comes from writing, designing, and producing exciting messages. The science comes from strategic thinking and planning, including research. The creative professional or team must first deal with the problem of coming up with an idea. Then the professional or team must develop [...]
Go to post pageAPPEALS OF AN ADVERTISEMENT Appeal, in advertisements, is anything that motivates a person to action. Human beings are called bundles of wants. A human being is a strange mix of hopes, ambitions, desires, benefit, goals, etc. All these things work as inspiring factors. These are also called motives. Various advertisements try to appeal to some [...]
Go to post pageMedia planners make three crucial decisions: where to advertise (geography), when to advertise (timing), and what media categories to use (media mix). Moreover, they make these decisions in the face of budget constraints. The actual amount of money that an advertiser spends on marketing communications can vary widely, from billions of dollars for multinational giants [...]
Go to post pageHow is a media plan developed? Media planning is a four-step process which consists of: 1). setting media objectives in light of marketing and advertising objectives, 2). developing a media strategy for implementing media objectives, 3). designing media tactics for realizing media strategy, and 4). proposing procedures for evaluating the effectiveness of the media plan. [...]
Go to post pageA Primer Introduction The two basic tasks of marketing communications are message creation and message dissemination. Media planning supports message dissemination. Media planning helps you determine which media to use–be it television programs, newspapers, bus-stop posters, in-store displays, banner ads on the Web, or a flyer on Facebook. It also tells you when and where [...]
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Go to post page1. The Home of Advertising In 1729 Benjamin Franklin published the Pennsylvania Gazette in Philadelphia with pages of “new advertisements.” By 1784 The Pennsylvania Packet & Daily Advertiser, America’s first successful daily newspaper, starts in Philadelphia. Many publications banned advertising while others limited the space to one column width. However by 1870 there were over [...]
Go to post pageIn the 21st century we all are aware of the development of science and technology and of the progress made by mankind. Science has always given us a lot and one of the gifts of science is mass-media which includes television, radio etc. Television is having a great impact on our minds and as a [...]
Go to post pageMany people are confused by the different types of advertising techniques online. In today’s blog post, my aim is to classify all the techniques into 5 main types. I will also discuss the key to success in each of them. 1) Content Advertising The first type of advertising technique is content advertising. It basically uses [...]
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