fundamental of advertising
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Advertising
Dr. Anamika RayAssistant Professor,
Gauhati University, Guwahati
DEFINITION OF ADVERTISING
"Advertising is the non-personal communication of information
usually paid for and usually persuasive in nature about products, services
or ideas by identified sponsors through the various media ."(Bovee,
1992).
Advertising is a way of sharing of with the buyers of a product or service.
Advertisement is a paid message by the organization (of the
product/service) with an intention to inform or influence buyers (Concept
given by the Advertising Association of the UK).
An advertisement is "salesmanship in print”.. (defined by John E.
Kennedy, the Canadian-US advertising pioneer (1864-1928).
Cont..
.. “Advertising presents the most persuasive possible selling message to
the right prospects for the product or service at the lowest possible cost”…
(defined by the Institute of Practitioners in Advertising).
Advertising is “any paid form of non-personal presentation and promotion of
ideas, goods and services through mass media such as newspapers,
magazines, television or radio by an identified sponsor”…(definition by P.
Kotler)
According to Oxford Dictionary the word ‘to advertise’ means ‘to make
generally or publicly known’, It describes something publicly with a view to
increasing sales.
The word advertising is a Latin word, which means “to turn attention of
people to a specific thing.” It is a paid form of publicity..
CHARACTERISTICS Advertising presents and upholds the ideas, commodities and
services of a recognized advertiser, which provides as a communication
link between the producer and the potential buyers.
It gives the information to the would-be buyers who are interested in
seeking the information about a product and the manufacturer.
Advertising may be taken as the most efficient means of reaching
people with product information.
Advertising presents a mass persuasion apart from disseminating
information to the prospective buyers about the product and the producer.
While creating awareness and achieving popularity, it seeks to
persuade. It is a more effective and extensive and less expensive way of
creating contacts.
Advertising is a combination of creativity, marketing research,
economic and media buying.
Advertising may cost a lot of money but that cost is justified if it works
effectively and economically.
Advertisement has become an integral part in today’s marketing scenario.
In earlier times, advertisement was not given as much emphasis as it is
being given today.
Advertising is the paid, non-personal communication of information about
products or ideas by an identified sponsor through the mass media in an
effort to manipulate customer behaviour.
Advertising is non-personal because it's a fantasy created by a computer
that selects one part of the target audience. It communicates information
about products or ideas.
UNIQUENESS OF ADVERTISING Paid form of publicity
Non-personal communication
Public communication
A message about the reason to buy
Information on goods and services, ideas organizations, people and places
Possible use of media means such as direct mail, telephone, print, radio, television, and internet.
Integral part of marketing communication
PURPOSE The main purposes of advertising are:-
to disseminate information,
to establish attitudes
to persuade action aiming to provide profit for the advertiser.
purpose of advertising is to sell something :-
a product,
a service,
an idea.
The real goal of advertising is an effective communication between goods and clients and increasing awareness.
Advertisements are designed - to inform - to motivate - to create a market
The intentions are - To change the thinking pattern (or
buying behaviour) of the consumers. To persuade to take the action desired by
the advertiser.
OBJECTIVES
• To make an immediate sale.
• To build primary demand.
• To introduce a price deal.
• To build brand recognition or brand proposition.
• To help salesman by building an awareness of a product among retailers.
• To create a reputation for service, reliability or research strength.
• To increase market share.
FUNCTIONS
To distinguish products from their competitors
To communicate the product information
To create the urge of product use
To expand product distribution
To establish and extent the brand preference
To reduce the overall sale cost.
NUTSHELL
Advertising performs some functions.
• It can inform the customers about a product, service, or idea.
• It can persuade the consumers to buy products, services, and ideas.
• It can remove cognitive dissonance from the minds of the
customers to reinforce the feeling that they have bought the best
product, service, or idea and their decision is right.
• It can remind existing customers about the presence of the product,
service, or idea in the market till now.
• It can dissuade the public at large from buying certain products or
services that are harmful for them.
CLASSIFICATION
Classification Advertising can be classified based on various criteria
—
Based on Function,
Based on Region, Based on Target Market,
Based on Company demand, Based on Desired response and
Based on use of Media.
BASED ON FUNCTION
Informative advertising : This type of advertising
informs the customers about the products, services, or
ideas of the firm or organization.
Persuasive advertising: This type of advertising
persuades or motivates the prospective buyers to take
quick actions to buy the products or services of the
firm.
Example: “Buy one, get one free”.
Reminder advertising: This genre of advertising reminds the
existing customers to become medium or heavy users of the
products or services of the firm that have been purchased by
them at least once. This type of advertising exercise helps in
keeping the brand name and uses of the products in the minds
of the existing customers.
Negative advertising: This type of advertising dissuades
target audience from purchasing such products and services
which would not only harm them but also the society in general.
Examples: Advertisements of various civil authorities against
alcohol, tobacco, and narcotics.
BASED ON REGION
Global or international advertising: It is executed by a firm in its global
market niches. Reputed global magazines like Time, Far Eastern Economic
Review, Span, Fortune, Futurist, Popular Science. Satellite TV channels
also use to advertise the products through out world. Supermodels and
cinema stars are used to promote high- end products.
National advertising : It is executed by a firm at the national level. It is
done to increase the demand of its products and services throughout the
country. Examples: BPL (Believe in the best). Whirlpool Refrigerator (Fast
Forward Ice Simple) etc, which have the market in India.
Regional advertising : If the manufacturer confines the product
selling and the advertising to a single region of a country, its
promotional exercise is called Regional Advertising. This can be
done by the manufacturer, wholesaler, or retailer of the firm.
Examples: Advertisements of regional newspapers covering those
states or districts where these newspapers are circulated.
Local advertising : When advertising is done only for one area or
city, it is called Local Advertising. Some professionals also call it
Retail Advertising. It is sometime done by the retailer to
persuade the customer to come to his store regularly and not for
any particular brand.
BASED ON TARGETED MARKETS Depending upon the types of people who would receive the messages of
advertisements, we can classify advertising into a few subcategories.
Consumer product advertising: This is done to impress the ultimate
consumer. An ultimate consumer is a person who buys the product or
service for his personal use. This type of advertising is done by the
manufacturer or dealer of the product or service.
Industrial product advertising: This is also called Business-to-
Business Advertising. This is done by the industrial manufacturer or his
distributor and is so designed that it increases the demand of industrial
product or services manufactured by the manufacturer. It is directed
towards the industrial customer.
• Trade advertising : This is done by the manufacturer to persuade wholesalers and
retailers to sell his goods. Different media are chosen by each manufacturer according
to his product type, nature of distribution channel, and resources at his command.
Hence, it is designed for those wholesalers and retailers who can promote and sell the
product.
Professional advertising : This is executed by manufacturers and distributors to
influence the professionals of a particular trade or business stream. These
professionals recommend or prescribe the products of these manufacturers to the
ultimate buyer. Manufacturers of these products try to reach these professionals under
well-prepared programmes. Doctors, engineers, teachers, purchase professionals, civil
contractors architects are the prime targets of such manufacturers.
• Financial advertising: Banks, financial institutions, and corporate firms issue
advertisements to collect funds from markets. They publish prospectuses and
application forms and place them at those points where the prospective investors can
easily spot them.
BASED ON COMPANY DEMAND
There are two types of demand:-
(A) Market Demand: Advertising is the total volume that
would be bought by a defined customer group, in a
defined geographical area, in a defined time period, in a
defined marketing environment under a defined
marketing programme.
(B) Company Demand: It is the share of the company in
the market demand.
Under Company Demand, there are two types of
advertising:-
Primary demand advertising: It is also called Generic
Advertising. This category of advertising is designed to
increase the primary demand. This is done by trade
associations or groups in the industry. The idea is to
generate a continual demand for the product.
Selective demand advertising: This is done by a
company or dealer to increase the company demand. The
company would advertise its own brand only. The retailer
can also advertise a particular brand.
BASED ON DESIRED RESPONSES
An ad can either elicit an immediate response from the target
customer, or create a favorable image in the mind of that customer.
The objectives, in both cases, are different. Thus, we have two types
of advertising under this classification.
Direct action advertising: This is done to get
immediate responses from customers. Examples: Season's
sale, purchase coupons in a magazine. We generally find
direct action in primary demand product. As it does not
take time to decide to buy.
Indirect action advertising: This type of advertising
exercise is carried out to make a positive effect on the mind
of the reader or viewer. After getting the advertisement
s/he does not rush to buy the product but develops a
favorable image of the brand in his mind. It is also
considered as the selective demand advertising where the
buyer thinks many times to decide to buy.
Surrogate advertising : This is a new category of
advertising. In this type of promotional effort, the marketer
promotes a different product.
BASED ON THE MEDIA USEDThe broad classification based on media is as follows.
Audio advertising: It is done through radio, P A systems,
auto-rickshaw promotions, and four-wheeler promotions etc.
Visual advertising : It is done through PoP displays,
without text catalogues, leaflets, cloth banners, brochures,
electronic hoardings, simple hoardings, running hoardings
etc.
Audio-visual : It is done through cinema slides, movies,
video clips, TV advertisements, cable TV advertisements etc.
Written advertising : It is done through letters, fax messages,
leaflets with text, brochures, articles and documents, space
marketing features in newspapers etc.
Internet advertising: The world wide web is used
extensively to promote products and services of all genres. For
example Bharat Matrimony, www.teleshop.com,
www.asianskyshop.com etc.
Verbal advertising: Verbal tools are used to advertise
thoughts, products, and services during conferences, seminars,
and group discussion sessions. Kinesics also plays an important
role in this context.
BASED ON EXECUTION OF AN ADVERTISEMENT
Broadcasting advertising: Advertising through broadcast
media. Like radio, television advertisement.
Print advertisement: Advertising through print media like
advertisement through newspaper, magazine etc.
Outdoor advertising: Advertising through billboards, street
furniture, stadiums, rest areas, subway advertising, taxis, transit .
Online advertising: Mobile advertising, email ads, banner ads,
search engine result pages, blogs, newsletters, online classified
ads, media ads.
Direct marketing: direct mail, telemarketing, catalogs, shopping
channels, internet sales, emails, text messaging, websites, online
display ads, fliers, catalog distribution, promotional letters, outdoor
advertising, telemarketing, coupons, direct mail, direct selling,
grassroots/community marketing, mobile .
Online/internet marketing: E-commerce:-Search engine
optimization (SEO)Search engine marketing (SEM)Mobile Marketing
Email marketing Content marketing Social Media (Facebook, Twitter,
LinkedIn, Google +, Foursquare, Pinterest, YouTube, Wikipedia,
Instagram).
ADVERTISEMENT COPY According to Business Dictionary, ‘Text of a print, radio, or television
advertising message that aims at catching and holding the interest of the
prospective buyer, and at persuading him or her to make a purchase all
within a few short seconds. The headline of an advertising copy is said to
be the most important part, and quite often a small change in its wording
brings disproportionate results. Although a short advertising copy is more
common in consumer- product advertising’.
According to the UK advertising guru David Ogilvy (1911-1999),
people do read (and listen or attend to) lengthy advertisements if they are
skillfully written. Most advertising copy is based on advertising/consumer
research and is composed by professional copywriters hired by advertising
agencies. It is also called advertisement copy, ad copy, or just copy.
ELEMENTS OF ADVERTISING
An advertisement copy is the product based message that reaches to the
consumers. The ad copy includes the whole text of an advertisement
comprising various elements like:
- slogan,
- headline,
- subheads,
- body matter
- Company name/ product name
- Logo
- USP Picture
- Address
An advertiser or a copy writer should have extra ordinary creativity to
reach and convince the target audience.
SLOGAN
Slogan is a short and striking or memorable phrase used
in advertising expressing the aims or nature of an
enterprise, organization, or candidate; a motto and is
used repeatedly, as in advertising or in promotion.
Example- 1. Pepsi : Yehi hain Right Choice Baby 2. Amul: The taste of India 3. Jet Airways: The Joy of Flying 4. Cathay Pacific: The heart of Asia
According to Business Dictionary, simple
and catchy phrase accompanying a logo or
brand, that encapsulates a product's appeal or
the mission of a firm and makes it more
memorable. And which (when used consistently
over a long period), becomes an important
component of its identification or image. It
is also called catch line, strap line, or tag line.
PUNCH LINE OR TAG LINE
‘Punch line is a climactic phrase or sentence in a joke, speech, advertisement, or
humorous story that produces the desired effect’ (defined by Dictionary.com).
In entertainment, a tagline is a small amount of text which serves to clarify a
thought for, or designed with a form of, dramatic effect. Many tagline slogans
are reiterated phrases associated with an individual, social group, or product. As
a variant of a branding slogan, taglines can be used in marketing materials and
advertising.
Examples:-
Apple: Think different.
JetBlue Airways, USA: JetBlue. You'll Want to Fly Again!
Nike: Just do it.
Subway: Eat Fresh
TYPES OF SLOGANSlogan has two purposes-
- to provide continuity
- to memorize and repeat the statement among consumers.
Based on purpose, there are two types of slogan:-
1. Slogan that emphasizes product or reward: Every product
has some rewards to offer to the consumers. It may have some
hidden quality that differentiates a product from the others. For
example Thanda Matlab Coca-Cola.
2. Slogan that emphasizes action to be taken: The slogan
might urge directly to use the product or service. For example
–“Join Akash’ academic success in life”.
HEADLINE
Headline is a sentence with full idea on the product/
service.
One sentence expresses the full story of the promotion.
It plays the responsibility to grasp the mind as well as
concentration of the viewers just like a newspaper's
headline.
It is basically designed in order to be effective with bold,
large font size and various colors if required which makes a
difference from the competitors.
STYLES OF HEADLINE Label: In Label headline the name of the product can be
identified.
Informative headline: Informative headline provides the
required information and attribution of the product.
Provocative headline: Provocative headline creates a
inquisitiveness and attraction towards the product among
the viewers.
HEADLINES VERSUS TAGLINES
The tagline is sometimes confused with a headline because
information is only presented with the one or the other.
Essentially the headline is linked to the information; Once the
information changes, the headline is abandoned in favor of a new
one.
The tagline is related to the entertainment piece and can,
therefore, appear on all the information of that product or
manufacturer.
It is linked to the piece and not to the concept of a specific event.
If the sentence is presented next to a logo, as an integral part, it is
likely to be a tagline.
CLASSIFICATION OF HEADLINE
1. Direct headline: Direct headlines are straight forward &
informative. If the features of the product are strong & are to arouse
interest, stimulate sales response, direct headline is better. Rs. 10%
off on Vishal products ….Hurry……stock is limited.
2. Indirect headline: If the appeal of the product is not very
strong, indirect headline should be used. ‘Scratch & get the gift.’
3. Combination headline: Combination headline seeks to combine
the virtues of direct & indirect headline. ‘Rs. 10 % off + scratch &
get the prize’…
4. News headline: This type of headline has some news for the
consumers. ‘Cigarette smoking is injurious to health’…
5. ‘How to’ headline: It can be either direct or indirect. In this type
of headline the words ‘how to’ can be implied as words spelled out.
6. Question headline: When a writer frames a headline as a
question, he expects to make his audience seek the answer in the
text. A question headline will be more provocative if it carries some
interesting information or a stimulating idea. ‘What is your best
choice?’
7. Command headline: A command headline politely ‘orders’ the
reader to do something. ‘Click here -- & send this card’ (internet
advertisement).
DIFFERENCES BETWEEN SLOGAN & HEADLINE
Headline Slogan
Head line should always be changed according to seasons, festival. E.g. the headline of an umbrella in the summer cannot be used in the rainy season.
But the slogan - ‘the taste of India’ is a reorganization for the product or the company.
A headline may be a long or full sentence.
Generally slogan is briefer than headline.
Headlines are not very much memorable.
We generally remember it but not headline.
Headline can communicate a relevant idea quickly and effectively.
Slogan attract and slowly influence the people.
SUB HEADLINE:
This increases the authenticity and gravity of the message
that headline contains. Subhead lines bridges between the
headline and ad body matter.
BODY MATTER:
Except slogan, headline, sub headline, picture, USP and
address, all the written text is considered as body matter. It
tells the whole story about the product or service, which an
advertiser wants to convey to the ultimate buyers. It
comprises the features, benefits and utility of the product as
much as possible in detail way.
IDENTIFICATION MARK:
The identification mark is generally known as logo. Some time
different sign is used as the logo of the product, sometimes the
writing style either of the product or the company name is
considered as logo.
CLOSING IDEA:
This contains the seal, signature or logo of the company or the
product itself, which helps to recognize the advertiser. Closing
idea insists the consumers to buy the product by providing
information on main content, changes in the product, attitudes
etc.
PICTURE:
In advertisement, picture is very influential element. As we know
one picture can be considered with thousands of words. Instead of
picture sometimes we may get illustrations combining with
drawings, charts etc aiming to gain quick concentration and
understanding of the product idea.
COMPANY NAME/ PRODUCT NAME:
Advertisement usually carries the name of the advertised product
or company name or both simultaneously.
ADDRESS:
The advertisement may carry the dealer address or the home web
site or the communication address of the company.
USP:
A unique selling proposition (USP, also seen as unique selling
point) is a factor that differentiates a product from its
competitors, such as the lowest cost, the highest quality or the
first-ever product of its kind. AUSP could be thought of as
“what you have that competitors don't.” It depicts the
exclusive and exceptional qualities of the product that make
the product different identity in the contemporary market.
E.g. Head & Shoulders: "You get rid of dandruff“
Domino's Pizza: "You get fresh, hot pizza delivered to your door in 30 minutes or
less—or it's free."
MARKETING COMMUNICATIONS Marketing communication means sending
and receiving messages using various media from
a market with the aim of promotion.
Promotion is very significant part of
"marketing mix". Marketing mix refers "four Ps"
which means price, place, promotion, and product.
Actually marketing mix is a company
strategy to reach and cover the target market.
CHARACTERISTICS OF MC
Through marketing communication the notion of ‘Look and
Feel and then Buy’ is used to try to establish.
Various business oriented fashion can be accredited to
marketing communications.
Conversion the consumer service to consumer relationship.
Transformation from human resources to solutions.
Change traditional and usual use of media to blogs, email,
and other online communication.
Transition from traditional way of advertising to pitch.
INTEGRATED MARKETING COMMUNICATIONS (IMC)
Integrated Marketing Communication (IMC) was first defined by the American
Association of Advertising Agencies (4A's) in 1989 as "an approach to
achieving the objectives of a marketing campaign through a well-coordinated
use of different promotional methods that are intended to reinforce each
other.”
A more contemporary explanation states, "True IMC is the development of
marketing strategies and creative campaigns that weave together multiple
marketing disciplines (paid advertising, public relations, promotion, owned
assets, and social media) that are selected and then executed to suit the
particular goals of the brand.”
4 C’S OF IMC Consumer: For whom the product, product message and
promotional programme are made for.
Cost: It is budget, because all activities and level of activities
depend upon the budget as well as the loss and profit ratio from
the marketing procedure.
Convenience: It means the comfort ability from the both sides-
the advertisers and the consumers. The product should be
available in the market when it has the demand. It should give
both sides satisfaction.
Communication: It is considered as very significant part of
strategy. It is the mean to reach the ultimate person of a target
market.
KEY COMPONENTS
Sales: Sell sheets, brochures, presentations
Consumer service: Help, returns & repairs, billing
Public Relations: Interaction, interviews, conference,
testimonials, publicity strategies, community participation, news
release, special events
Promotions: Contests, coupons, free sample distribution of
product, awards, discount, rebates, and special event
organization
Trade shows: Booths, product exhibition
Corporate Social Responsibility: Donations, volunteering,
charitable actions, doing something for society development.
BARRIERS OF IMC
Lack of transparent information dissemination process among
the associated members and the society.
Lack of following required procedure
Lack of required manpower
Most of the time scarcity of required fund, budget allocation at
required level
Lack of investment mindset.
Lack of theoretical and practical knowledge of required field
Lack of skill
Lack of Public Relations practice.
4 P'S VS. 4 C'S
PROMOTIONS OPPORTUNITY ANALYSIS
The promotions opportunity analysis is a major task in
a successful Integrated Marketing Communications.
“A promotions opportunity analysis is the process
marketers use to identify target audiences for a
company’s goods and services and the communication
strategies needed to reach these audiences.”
FIVE STEPS IN PROMOTIONS OPPORTUNITY ANALYSIS
Market analysis: With the help of information based on
contestant, scope, intended market, consumer, brand
positioning
Set up of objectives: With the help of information based on
brand awareness, demand, consumer attitude, strengthen
buying action, repetition in buying action, company image
building, market share, sales etc.
Fixing the budget : With the help of information based on the aim of
the promotion, concern radical change, put back consequence, wear-out
effects, random events
Preparation of promotional strategies : With the help of
information based on general communication, marketing objectives
efforts, activities, overall message, communications budgets, new
competitive pressure, new promotional scope.
Policy: Advertisements based on key theme, personal selling , sales
promotions, special product packaging and labeling and price
changing according to the requirement.
SELECTION OF MEDIA Circulation :
Every medium has a common circulation and an effective
circulation. Circulation is made up of entire number of people who
read or pledge to the medium. The effective circulation is the
number of potential consumers who read it and the number of those
who persuade sales. Sometimes, two or more periodicals are
circulated among the same people. Therefore, just adding together
the whole circulation of these journals does not give a true picture
of the number of persons arrived at. From 10 to 15 percent of those
people may be reading both or all of the periodicals.
The category of medium:
The medium should be selected taking into account the class of people to
be influenced. The classification of people may be made in any way but
the classification of media will depend upon the nature of product and its
market. People may be divided into different groups by their social
standing, by the kind of work they do, by their income, educational
standards religion family background etc.
Geographical Location:
Further, they may be classified on their geographical locations .The thing is
to determine which of the classification gives the most workable
classification and use such classification in defining the market and the
people to be reached by the advertising media. Say for instance, if a
product is meant for youngsters (urban area), the TV and the internet will
be the most appropriate media. Selection of media.
Distribution pattern:
Media circulation must match the distribution pattern of the product.
Hence, geographic scope of the market will considerably influence the
choice of media. Furthermore, those media should be selected which will
reach the target consumers in the desired type of market with a minimum
of waste circulation.
Consumer attitude:
It is the reader’s temperament at the time he reads, views or listens that
the advertisement helps to determine. A person cannot be receptive for
advertisement for a medicine when he is quite healthy or an
advertisement for books for the next higher class when he is enjoying
holidays.
Budget:
The expenditure of the media should be measured in terms of fund
available for advertising and of course the circulation status of that
particular medium. The quantity of funds offered for advertising purpose will
choose the media. A company appropriating large funds for advertising may
prefer TV or radio and others.
Message formation:
The chosen media should be well matched with the advertising message.
The advertiser should prefer the media, which are most suitable for the
ad message and for the people for whom it is intended. They should carry
the message to the right persons and in the right viewpoint. If a product
calls for a long message, newspaper or journal may be chosen.
Market analysis:
Competition in the field is another reflection in selecting the media of
advertising. Generally, the media used by competitors are preferred so
as to make an remarkable plea for the manufactured goods. He may
also utilize other media not used by contestant to get the success.
Size of company:
The size as well as the nature of business unit also play a significant
role in making the options for the media. Different media will go well
with the vessel, food, drugs and chemical stores, grocery units etc. A
big unit having chains may use of TV, Radio, newspapers and
magazines having national network whereas a small unit of fabric mill
will prefer newspapers and cinema slides only.
ADVERTISING AGENCY
Concept:
An advertising agency (also called ad agency or advert agency) is a
service based business keen to creating, planning, and handling
advertising with the aim of promotion of a product for its clients.
Basically this type of organization is independent from the client. It
provides support from outside to enhance the selling status. The
activities of an agency also include overall marketing and branding and
sales promotions strategies.
Typical ad agency clients include businesses and corporations, non-profit
organizations and government agencies.
Agencies may be hired to produce television commercials, radio
commercials, online advertising, mobile advertising, advertising
campaign and PR promotion.
An ad agency is a team of experts which serves clients of different
sectors. As a service provider, an Advertising Agency takes up the
important tasks of representing its clients to their target audience in
an innovative and effective manner.
An agency creates advertisements and disseminates the prime
message through the advertisements within the budget of the clients
and always tries to fulfill the requirements and short/long term
objectives of the clients. An agency uses different media, including
print, television, radio, internet etc. for spreading the message of the
clients.
There are plenty of business houses, industries, firms or corporations
who are looking to outsource their advertising needs to an Ad agency.
A modern advertising agency offers specialized knowledge, skills and
experience which are required to produce an effective advertising
campaign.
The specialists of an advertising agency work together to understand
the requirements of an advertisement campaign and develop suitable
advertising plans and strategies.
An agency represents the core of the advertising profession and by
creating advertisements and delivering them through appropriate
media, the agencies implement advertising plans and strategies.
TYPES OF ADVERTISING AGENCY
A. Full service agency : A full service agency provides all required
services to the clients regarding advertisements.
I. It plans, creates, produces and places advertisement.
II. In addition, it also offers other marketing services like sales
promotions, organizing trade shows, publishing newsletters and
annual reports etc.
III. Full service advertising agency studies the product or service
and streamlines its marketable characteristic and how it relates
to the competition.
IV. At the same time the agency studies the potential market,
possible distribution plans and advertising media.
V. After that the agency makes a formal presentation to the client
detailing its findings from the market research about the product.
VI. It recommends the advertising strategy to the client. If the client
agrees, the agency then launches the execution phase.
VII. This phase includes writing and producing the advertisements,
buying time and space in various media, delivering the
advertisements to the appropriate media, and verifying that all
advertisements actually appeared during the specified time or in
the specific space.
VIII. Finally, the agency makes sure that the clients are getting the
best possible benefit from the advertisements.
ORGANIZATIONAL SET UP
B. Media buying service : Media buying service advertising agency is
an organization that specializes in buying the time slots from radio
and television channels and space from print media and reselling it
directly to the advertisers or to the full service advertising agencies.
The prime functions of this type of agency are selling of
time for electronic media to the advertiser and it orders the
spots on the various stations involved, and monitors
regarding the release of the advertisements.
This type of advertising agency deals with the media buying
and space selling for clients’ advertisements.
C. Creative boutique: Creative boutique specializes in the creation of
advertisements.
In general, boutiques create innovative, imaginative and interesting
advertising themes and produce the advertisements for the clients.
An organization using the creative boutique may take the help of
other advertising agencies for space buying and execution of advertising
planning.
Creative boutique advertising agency does not deal with the media
buying, advertising campaign and other marketing functions.
It only involves with the creation of innovative advertisements for the
clients.
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF AN ADVERTISING MANAGER
The An advertising manager is usually required to perform most or all of
the following sets of duties although specific requirements may vary
depending upon the nature of the organization and the designations of
the advertising manager.
Prepares the budgets and estimate for components of the advertising
campaign.
Prepares the annual budget.
Manages the planning and prepares the promotional matter, ensuring
that it is consistent with the advertiser’s marketing strategy.
Meets the clients and officials across the departments to
coordinate ad campaigns.
Scrutinizes copy, and edit the promotional material,
ensuring that it conforms the guidelines.
Coordinates activities across the various departments of
the agency.
Develops contacts for promotional campaigns.
Collects information to build advertising campaigns.
OUT DOOR ADVERTISING
Concept-
Out Door Advertising or Out of home advertising (or OOH advertising) is
advertising that reaches the consumer while they are outside the home.
Out of home advertising is focused on marketing to consumers when they
are "on the go" in public places, in transit, waiting (such as in a medical
office), and/or in specific commercial locations (such as in a retail venue).
OOH advertising formats fall into four main categories: billboards, street
furniture, transit, and alternative.
The following are some important types of outdoor advertising :-
Posters also include placards display in the public places like walls,
building tops or street corners, railway stations, laptop, market place.
It may be on a cardboard or any metal sheet supportably a wooden or
metal frame.
The advertisers can change the posters according to the time and
seasons.
There are different kinds of poster starting from small double crown bills
to the large ones on hoardings or bulletin boards.
Different sized posters with full colour and realistic scenes and
pictures of products may look different. The ad copy should have a
slogan with the large printed letters.
Posters can create an awareness regarding the product message
through boldness and colour combination.
Hoarding includes the bill board, which is made of metal board in
large size, with fixed frame and is placed along the streets where
opportunity to see and read will be more. But it costs high and
sometimes people get bored to see the same picture at the same
place.
Wall paintings may be bigger than hoarding. The shape and size give
all points of immensity treatment. For election campaign it is largely
used.
Banners are small in size and made of cloth or rexin or plastic. They
may be painted. But streamers are big in size. These kinds of
advertisement are costlier and do not last very long because they
can be easily spoilt by rain or wind.
Balloons filled with hydrogen gas are made to stay at a certain level
in the air. Viewers get the opportunity to see the Brand Name on the
balloon. But this is a very costly medium.
FILM ADVERTISING Trailers or previews are advertisements for films that exhibit at the starting of a cinema in a
cinema hall. As the term “trailer” implies the meaning that something at end of a show. But
the something new at the end – this practice could not sustain due to lack of audience’s
patient after completion of a show. Interestingly the name became very popular and was
started to use. Now the trend is trailers are shown before the film show begins. The film
advertisement usually combines with a series of selected shots with stories.
The main objective of the trailer is to drag the attention of audience to a particular theme/
story. This is why the trailers are represented in the most exciting, funny, or sometimes in
very significant and serious manner.
A trailer exists less than two and a half minutes or the maximum length allowed
by theatres. Each studio or distributor is allowed to exceed this time limit once a year, if they
feel it is necessary for a particular film.
CORPORATE ADVERTISINGAccording to WiseGeek:-
Corporate advertising is a promotional strategy that is
designed to not only interest consumers in products and
services offered by the company, but also to cultivate a positive
reputation among consumers and others within the business
world.
The focus of corporate advertising is on the company
itself, with the attention to the products produced by the
corporation being a by product of the advertising effort. This
type of corporate marketing is often employed along with
advertising campaigns that are directly focused on the goods
and services produced by the company.
The main function of corporate advertising is to generate and
enhance a sense of confidence and appeal among vendors
and consumers.
Depending on the exact nature of the corporate marketing
approach, the advertising may also be developed with an eye
of enhancing the reputation of the company among its peers
in a community or within a given sector of the marketplace. In
any application, the idea is to build the most agreeable public
image for the corporation as possible.
FINANCIAL ADVERTISING
The advertisement strictly related to the finance of an organization is called
financial advertisement. It includes share issues, annual reports etc. It always
tries to promote the financial picture of the company.
The advertising of financial businesses and services such as banks, investment
companies, loans, and mortgages. Share issues Annual report Others There are
also those rather dull advertisements, known as ‘tombstones’, which appear in
the business press, headed ‘This advertisement appears as a matter of record
only’.
These lists the holdings held by various financial partners in an enterprise.
These are a necessary public announcement so that there is no secrecy about
the participations or there may be a brief token announcement about a new
share issue.
SOCIAL MARKETING
Concept:-
The social marketing is a marketing concept that holds that a company
should make marketing decisions by considering consumers' wants, the
company's requirements, and society's long-term interests.
The social marketing concept holds that the organization’s task is to
determine the needs, wants, and interests of a target market and to
deliver the desired satisfactions more effectively and efficiently than
competitors in a way that preserves or enhances the consumer’s and the
society’s well-being.
Therefore, marketers must endeavor to satisfy the needs and wants of
their target markets in ways that preserve and enhance the well-being of
consumers and society as a whole.
It is closely linked with the principles of corporate social responsibility
and of sustainable development.
The main difference between social marketing and commercial
marketing is- Social benefit.
In social marketing the tools, techniques and principles of commercial
marketing are used aiming to common public upliftment. Here the
advertising campaigns are designed, implemented, and controlled in the
image of commercial marketing.
Definition:-
According to Philip Kotler - Social Marketing is "the design,
implementation, and control of programs seeking to increase
the acceptability of a social idea or practice in a target group“
According to W. Smith - "Social Marketing is a process for
influencing human behaviour on a large scale, using
marketing principles for the purpose of societal benefit rather
than commercial profit."
THE KEY FEATURES OF SOCIAL MARKETING
Societal benefit rather than commercial profit.
Bringing a positive social change.
Instigating behavioral change rather than increased sales.
Attempting to influence attitude and behavior related to social cause.
For example, social advertising campaigns on energy conservation,
pollution control, tobacco prevention, family planning, breast cancer
screening, health and hygiene, national security and many more.
SPACE SELLING
Space selling, basically refers to the selling of space through different media
houses i.e. print media, electronic media, radio, internet and so on.
For example:- when an ad comes is a newspaper its required certain space
in it, in this marketer or advertiser sells the space of the newspaper or
magazine to their respective clients, however on behalf of that clients pay a
amount which is decided by the media house according to the size of space
taken.
Similarly in electronic media also space selling is done but in
the different form here SPACE refers to a certain time limit in which
advertisement is telecast, accordingly in RADIO also slots are sold.
MEDIA BUYING
Media buying is the function of an advertising agency in buying ‘space’
or ‘time’ in a media to place an advertisement of a product or a service.
Media buying is a strategic planning, negotiation and buying of Print
Media, Television, Radio etc. It is a specialized skill, which requires
knowledge on the target audience, consumer behaviour, the media, and
the criteria used to measure the value of time and space.
For placing an advertisement in mass media, the advertiser has to buy
space or time according to the nature of media.
John Philip Jones in the book edited by him, ‘The Advertising Business’,
states that a media buyer may be defined as the individual in an
advertising agency who is responsible for reviewing, recommending,
negotiating and buying the media time and space that will support the
brand positioning. He is responsible for the purchase of time and space
for the delivery of advertising messages in the media.
A media buyer may be an employee of an advertising agency who
specializes in such purchases, but, technically, a media buyer is any
advertiser, advertising manager, or individual who buys the
commercial time or the advertising space.
GENERAL CODE OF CONDUCT IN ADVERTISING Advertising should be designed maintaining the laws of the
country and not offending the morality, decency and
religious susceptibilities of the country people.
No advertisement shall be permitted derides any race,
caste, colour, creed and nationality.
It should not carry any message against any of the directive
principles, or any other provision of the Constitution of India.
The advertisement is not permitted to publish / broadcast, if it-
tends to incite people to crime,
causes disorder or violence,
breaches the law,
glorifies the violence or obscenity,
presents criminality ,
adversely affects friendly relations with foreign states,
exploits the national emblem, or any part of the constitution,
use of the person or personality of a national leader or state dignitary,
promotes cigarettes and tobacco products, liquor, wines and other intoxicants.
no advertisement message shall in any way be presented as News.
no advertisement shall be permitted whose objects where of are wholly or
mainly of religious or political in nature;
advertisement must not be directed towards any religious or political end
or it must not have relation to any industrial dispute.
advertisements for money lenders, chit funds, saving schemes and lotteries
other than those conducted by central and state government organizations,
nationalized or recognized banks and public sector undertakings’, foreign
goods and foreign banks, betting tips and guide books etc. relating to horse-
racing or the other games of chance will not be accepted.
the items advertised shall not suffer from any defect or deficiency as
mentioned in Consumer Protection Act 1986.From an article titled ‘ADVERTISING ETHICS & LAWS’ written by Vaishali Kathuria Billa
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