Media Strategy
Media Strategy
B.DILIP
Media strategy can be defined as the usage
of an appropriate media mix in order to
achieve desired and optimum outcomes
from the advertising campaign.
It plays a key role in advertising campaigns
Media strategy is designed to achieve the
above mentioned target but the budget is
always kept in mind
Media planner consider how to achieve these
objectives that is they develop and implement
media strategies , which evolve directly from
direction required to meet objectives
The media mix
Target market coverage
Geographic coverage
Scheduling
Reach versus frequency
Creative aspects and mood
Flexibility
Budget considerations
A media mix is the combination of
communication channels your business can
use to meet its marketing objectives
Typically these include newspapers , radio ,
television , websites , email , direct mail , the
internet and social media .
Media mix refers to the combination of
advertising channels that is used in the
promotion of a particular good or service
The idea is to choose the right combination
to communicate with the audience and make
an impact as estimated in the media planning
strategy
By employing a media mix advertisers can
add more versatility to their media strategies
, since each medium contributes its own
distinct advantages
By combining media, marketers can increase
coverage , reach and frequency levels while
improving and achieving overall
communications and marketing goals.
The media planner determines which target
markets should receive the most media
empasis
The goal of the media planner is to extend
media coverage to as many of the members
of the target audience as possible while
minimizing the amount of waste coverage
The situations usually involves trade offs
Sometimes one has to live with less coverage
than desired
Brand development index (BDI)
% of brand to total (country) sales in market x
100
% of total (country) population in market
Category development index (CDI)
% of product category total (country) sales in
market
x 100
% of the total (country) population in market
Continuity refers to a continuous pattern of
advertising , which may mean every day,
every week , or every month.
The key is that a regular continuous pattern
is developed without gaps or non advertising
periods
A second method , flighting , employs a less
regular schedule with intermittent periods of
advertising and non advertising .
At some time periods there are heavier
promotional expenditures and at others there
may be no advertising
Pulsing is actually a combination of the first
two methods .In a pulsing strategy continuity
is maintained but a combination efforts are
stepped up.
Reach : The actual number of individual
audience members reached at least once by
the vehicle
Frequency : The number of times the receiver
is exposed to vehicle in a specific time period
GRP (gross rating point )= reach * frequency
A effective media strategy requires a degree
of flexibility.
Market opportunities: sometimes a market
opportunity arises that the advertiser wishes
to take advantage
Market threads: internal or external factors
may pose a thread to the firm,and a change
in media strategy is dedicated
Availability of media: sometimes a decide
medium or vehicle is not available to the
marketer. Perhaps the medium does not
reach a particular target segment or has no
time or space available. There are still some
geography that certain media do not reach.
changes in media or media vehicles: a
change in the medium or in a particular
vehicle may require a change in media
strategy
One of the more important decision in the
development of media strategy is cost
estimating.
The value of any strategy can be determined
by how well it is deliver the message to the
audience with the lowest cost and least waste
We have already explore a number of factors
such as reach frequency and availability that
affect this decision.
Advertising and promotional cost can be
categorized into two ways
The absolute cost of the medium or the
vehicle is actual total cost required to place
the message
Relative cost request to the relationship
between the price paid for advertising time or
space and the size of the audience delivered
it is used to compare the media vehicles
Relative costs are important because the
manager must try to optimize audience
delivery within budget constraints.
Cost per thousand (CPM)
CPM= cost of ad space (absolute cost) x
1000
circulation
Cost per ratings point (CPRP)
CPRP= cost of commercial time
program rating
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