Chapter 7 Advertising Media
Chapter 7 Advertising Media
Chapter 7 Advertising Media
Media the channels of communication used to send a message to the target market.
• Radio advertising —A type of advertising that can be created and produced in a relatively
short period of time at a much lower cost than television commercial.
• Print advertising — A type of advertising that promote a business and its products
includes newspapers, magazines, direct, mail, flyers, and brochures.
• Outdoor advertising —A type of advertising that can take variety of forms and any other
space designed specifically for ads outside the home.
Reach — the total number of people who will be exposed to an advertisement over a period of
time.
Lead Time — the amount of time required to produce and place an advertisement.
Cost — the most important factor when it comes to selecting advertising media.
7.2 THE INTERNET AND ADVERTISING
ONLINE ADVERTISING
-Is a form of promotion that uses the internet and world wide web as the advertising medium to deliver
marketing messages that attract customers.
✓E-mail Advertising - E-mail is one of the quickest and easiest ways to reach customers.
•Banner ad- is a small, rectangular advertisement that usually appears at the top or side of the web
page and contains a link to the advertiser's site. Banner ads are also referred to as dispay ads
•Pop-up ad- is an online advertisement that opens on top of the current web page being viewed.
-A popular approach to online advertising is a search engine ad. A search engine ad is also known as paid
search because the advertiser pays the search engine to place ads near relevant search results based on
keywords.
✓Website advertising
-Today, website advertising is specially critical for businesses—both internet and traditional brick-and-
mortar businesses. A brick-and-mortar business is onw that has physical presence, such as building or
store, not just an online presence.
•Blogs A blog (Web log) is a website maintained by an individual or business were entries (posts) that
are intended for public access are made on a regular basis.
-Advertisers are realizing the value of social media and have begun to shift significant amounts of their
advertising dollars into this technology. Social media are websites where users create and share
information.
•Twitter- twitter is a social networking and micro-blogging service that allows individuals to send ahort
text messages of 140 characters in length, called "tweets", to friends and other followers.
•Spamming- spamming involves flooding the internet with mass copies of the same message in an
attempt to reach the largest audience possible.
•Pishing- is an internet scam in which an e-mail falsely claims to be a legitimate business or other
organization in an attempt to get personal information.
Before a business places an advertisement on the internet, it should understand the costs involved. In
addition, business should be familiar with the different ways to track the effectiveness of online
advertising.
•Cost-per-click(CPC) advertising, advertisers pay for each click that their ad receives.
•Cost-per-action(CPA) advertising, in growing popularity. With CPA, the advertiser pays only when the
website visitor takes a specifically defined action in response to an ad.
Companies wants to be able to measure the effectiveness of their online advertising. They may count
hits, page views, visits, and unique visitors.
•Page views- is a web page in its entirety, including all images on the page. A page view could contain
hundreds of hits, which would not provide an accurate measurement.
•Visits- track the number of times a specific user has visited a businesse's website. Visits are tracked
using cookies, which are data files that a business's website can store on a visitors hard drive for retrieval
later.
•Unique visitors- include the number of new people visiting the site.
7.3 ALTERNATIVE FORMS OF ADVERTISING MEDIA
• Transit Advertising
Includes ads that appear on the interior or exterior of public transportation ( buses, taxis, subways )
and other vehicles. This form of advertising is closely related to billboard advertising.
• Aerial Advertising
Advertising in the sky is known as aerial advertising. Banners with advertising messages are hooked
onto planes that fly over Stadiums, beaches, and entertainment venues to capture the interest of
potential customers. some of the airplane use loud speakers, combining audio and visual elements.
• Cinema Advertising
includes ads that run in a movie theaters before the start of movies. advertising is also included in
popcorn boxes and cups that are sold at movie concession stands. Upcoming movies are advertised using
trailers ( previews ) shown before the feature presentation.
Is a form of advertising in which a business's product, service, renamed is used in a television show,
movie, video game or other form of entertainment.
Video Game Advertising - also called advergaming is a way to promote brand using video game.
• Directory Advertising
Is an advertising medium that consumer use to seek out products or services. Larger ads that use
color and higher-quality graphics attracts more attention. Directory advertising if often used to
supplement other advertising media. As people turn to the internet to search for product and services
information, they use telephone directories less often.
• Video Advertising
one of the fastest growing forms of online advertising. While traditional advertising is on the decline,
the number of video ads seen online is rising.
Another trend that is having a major impact on the advertising industry is mobile advertising. Mobile
advertising direct messages to consumer's internet enabled mobile devices such as Smart Phones, MP3
player and digital table like the iPad.