This document provides an overview of broadcast advertising, including its definition, classification, history, and measurement. It discusses how advertising fits into the marketing mix of product, price, place, and promotion. It also summarizes the roles of advertising agencies, media companies, advertisers, and regulators in the advertising industry. Finally, it covers topics like media strategy, audience research methods, and key metrics like ratings, shares, and gross rating points.
2. Advertising Defined
• Non-personal Communication
• Usually paid for
• By an identified sponsor
• Persuasive in nature
• About products, ideas or services
• Through various media
3. Advertising in the Marketing
Mix
• Product
– Quality, package, appearance, etc.
• Price
– Deep discount to premium
• Place
– Distribution channels
• Promotion
– POP, personal selling, PR, Advertising
4. Advertising Classified
• By audience
– Consumer
– Business to Business
• Industrial
• Trade
• Professional
• Farm
9. Advertising Classified
• By function
– Product -vs- non-product
– Commercial -vs- non-commercial
– Direct action -vs- non-direct action
10. The advertising industry
• Agencies
• The media
• The advertisers
• The support services and suppliers
• The regulators
• The consumers
11. Advertising History
• Functions of advertising:
– Identify products and differentiate them
– Communicate information about product
– Induce consumers to try the product
– Increase product usage
– Build brand preference and loyalty
14. Advertising History
• Magazines became first national
medium
• Volney Palmer – first ad agency – 1841
– Bought newspaper and magazine space in
large volumes at discount.
– Marked up 15%
• N. W. Ayer – first full service agency
15. Broadcast Advertising History
• Out of the debate on how to pay for
broadcasting came…
• “Toll” broadcasting
– WEAF
– AT&T station
• “telephone philosophy of paying toll for long distance
calls.
• First commercial broadcast
• http://www.old-time.com/commercials/1stcommercia
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16. Broadcast Advertising History
• Post WWI
– Radio grew
– Lifestyles improved
– Spending increased
– Radio networks emerged
– Advertising stressed the “Unique Selling
Proposition”
17. Broadcast Advertising History
• Television explodes post WWII
– Radio programs shift to television
– Radio adopts musical formats
• Advertising costs increase
• Sponsorships give way to participations
or “spots”
• By the 1960s – advertising entered the
“image era”
18. Broadcast Advertising History
• Depicting a lifestyle – not product
information
• Emotional appeals – not logical appeals
• Remember the package – not the name
• Focus on benefits to consumer
19. The contemporary advertising
industry
• Complicated by the proliferation of
media
• Audiences are splintered
– Narrowcasting
• Clutter and competition
• High costs of media drive demand for
research
20. Effects of advertising
• On prices
• On competition
• On product image
• On demand
– “Creating” demands?
– Bran, fiber, carbs, cosmetics, vitamins, etc.
– Slow a declining market – “repositioning”
21. Media strategy
• Buying patterns
– Weekly cycles
– Monthly cycles
– Annual cycles
– Seasonal products
• Products/service with fixed maximum
capacities
26. Media strategy
• Reach
– Unduplicated exposures – gross
impressions
– Number of different people exposed to the
message
• Frequency
– Average number of exposures
– How many times audience is exposed to
message
27. Media strategy
• Best frequency
– Outdoor, newspapers, magazines
• Best Reach
– Network advertising, magazines
• Best combination
– Radio
28. Media strategy
• Calculating cost efficiency
• Cost per thousand (CPM)
– How much it costs to deliver 1000 gross
impressions
– How much to reach 1000 listeners,
viewers, readers, households, etc.
30. CPM
• 4500 + 3500 = 8000 gross impressions
• 2 spots @ $8 = $16 – cost of the schedule
• $16 ÷ 8000 =
• .002
• .002¢ per person
• X 1000 = 2.00
• $2 per 1000 QHP
31. CPM
Number of spots Cost per spot Total cost QHP Total QHP
1 80 3400
8 10 2913
4 10 5825
Totals
32. CPM
Number of spots Cost per spot Total cost QHP Total QHP
1 80 80 3400 3400
8 10 80 2913 23300
4 10 40 5825 23300
Totals $200 50000
200 ÷ 50000 = .004
33. CPM
Number of spots Cost per spot Total cost QHP Total QHP
4 11 26500
8 15 3000
10 19 4700
Totals
34. CPM
Number of spots Cost per spot Total cost QHP Total QHP
4 11 44 26500 106000
8 15 120 3000 24000
10 19 190 4700 47000
Totals $354 177000
354 ÷ 177000 = .002
35. Waste circulation
• Reaching people who are not the
desired audience
• Demographics = age, gender, income
• Psychographics = “lifestyle”
36. Audience research
• How we know the size of the audience
reached
• Rating = percentage of all possible
viewers or listeners
• Share = percentage of people using
media
• Share is always a larger number
44. Audience research
• Began in the 1920s with radio
listenership
• Archibald Crossley personal interviews
• C. E. Hooper – Hooperatings –
personal
• A. C. Nielsen
– Diaries
– Audimeter
46. A.C. Nielsen
• Now only television ratings
• Use diaries, audimeters and “people
meters”
• Meters used for “overnights”
47. A.C. Nielsen terminology
• Total survey area (TSA)
• Designated market area (DMA)
– Every county in the U.S. assigned to a
DMA
• Metro survey area (MSA)
49. Arbitron
• Radio research
• Dairies
• Developing the “personal people meter”
(PPM)
50. Arbitron terminology
• Total survey area (TSA)
• Area of Dominant Influence (ADI)
– Every county assigned to an ADI
• Metro survey area (MSA)
51. Problems in audience
research
• Poor return rates of diaries
• Absenteeism – controlled by PMs
• Hyping
• What does “listening” or “viewing” really
mean as it relates to advertising?