Tuesday, 1 September 2020

Who are the key players in advertising? (A&BM 21 Aug 2020)

Who are the key players in advertising?

1. The Advertiser

An advertiser is a person or company that pays for a product, event, or job to be advertised online, in a newspaper, on television, or on a poster.

a. to announce or praise (a product, service, etc.) in some public medium of communication in order to induce people to buy or use it : to advertise a new brand of toothpaste.

b. to give information to the public about; announce publicly in a newspaper, on radio or television, etc. : to advertise a reward.

c. to call attention to, in a boastful or ostentatious manner : Stop advertising yourself

d. Obsolete. to give notice, advice, or information to; inform : I advertised him of my intention.

2. The advertising agency

Advertising Agency is just like a tailor. It creates the ads, plans how, when and where it should be delivered and hands it over to the client. Advertising agencies are mostly not dependent on any organizations.

These agencies take all the efforts for selling the product of the clients. They have a group of people expert in their particular fields, thus helping the companies or organizations to reach their target customer in an easy and simple way.

Role of Advertising Agencies

1. Creating an advertise on the basis of information gathered about product

2. Doing research on the company and the product and reactions of the customers.

3. Planning for type of media to be used, when and where to be used, and for how much time to be used.

4. Taking the feedbacks from the clients as well as the customers and then deciding the further line of action

There are basically 5 types of advertising agencies.

1. Full service Agencies

§  Large size agencies.

§  Deals with all stages of advertisement.

§  Different expert people for different departments.

§  Starts work from gathering data and analyzing and ends on payment of bills to the media people.

2.    Interactive Agencies

§  Modernized modes of communication are used.

§  Uses online advertisements, sending personal messages on mobile phones, etc.

§  The ads produced are very interactive, having very new concepts, and very innovative.

3.    Creative Boutiques

§  Very creative and innovative ads.

§  No other function is performed other than creating actual ads.

§  Small sized agencies with their own copywriters, directors, and creative people.

4.    Media Buying Agencies

§  Buys place for advertise and sells it to the advertisers.

§  Sells time in which advertisement will be placed.

§  Schedules slots at different television channels and radio stations.

§  Finally supervises or checks whether the ad has been telecasted at opted time and place or not.

5.    In-House Agencies (Eg. Amul has their in house ad agency)

§  As good as the full service agencies.

§  Big organization prefers these type of agencies which are in built and work only for them.

§  These agencies work as per the requirements of the organizations.

3. The media

Composed of the channels of communication that carries the message from the advertiser to the audience

The means of communication, as newspapers, radio, and TV, Digital (Facebook, Instagram etc) that provides the public with news, entertainment, etc., usually along with advertising.

The term media, which is the plural of medium, refers to the communication channels through which we disseminate news, music, movies, education, promotional messages and other data. It includes physical and online newspapers and magazines, television, radio, billboards, telephone, the Internet, fax and billboards.

Types of Media / Media Classification

·         Print Media (Newspapers, Magazines)

·         Broadcast Media (TV, Radio)

·         Outdoor or Out of Home (OOH) Media.

·         Internet.

·         Print Media includes all types of publications, including newspapers, journals, magazines, books and reports. It is the oldest type, and despite suffering since the emergence of the Internet, is still used by a major proportion of the population.

·         Broadcast Media refers to radio and TV, which came onto the scene at the beginning and middle of the 20th century respectively. Most people still get their news from TV and radio broadcasts – however, experts predict that it will not be long before online sources take over.

·         Over the past twenty years, cable news has grown in importance.

·         The Internet – specifically websites and blogs – are rapidly emerging as viable and major channels of communication as more and more people seek news, entertainment and educational material online. The term ‘viable,’ in business, means capable of generating profits for many years.

·         Virtually every part of the Internet has become a medium of communication – most free email services have little boxes that display ads and other messages.

4. Vendor

Making of advertisement (Eg. Computer Designer etc)

The fourth stage player in the world of advertising is a group of service organization that assists advertisers, advertising agencies and the media.

Ad vendors are fourth party ad services that provide ads for players. Ad vendors in the system are management entities used to associate Ad campaigns and players for reporting purposes.

5. The Target Audience

The final player in the advertising world.

Our target audience refers to the specific group of consumers most likely to want our product or service, and therefore, the group of people who should see our ad campaigns.

A target audience profile is simply a specific group of customers most likely to respond positively to your promotions, products, and services. Often, our target audience analysis will be based on specific factors like location, age, income, and so on.

Different Types of Audiences You May Encounter

·         Neutral Audience. These will be the kind of people who are directly or indirectly interested or don't want to invest in our idea.

·         Hostile Audience. These are the people who are in strong disagreement with our idea. You purpose is to respect them and their viewpoint.

·       Uninformed Audience. Our requirement is to educate before we can begin to propose a course of action.

·         Expert Audience.

·         Business Audience.

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