advertising
(noun)
communication whose purpose is to influence potential customers about products and services.
Examples of advertising in the following topics:
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Types of Advertising
- Examples of online advertising include:
- Covert advertising, also known as guerrilla advertising, is when a product or brand is embedded in entertainment and media.
- Press advertising describes advertising in a printed medium such as a newspaper, magazine, or trade journal.
- In-store advertising is any advertisement placed in a retail store.
- Street advertising first came to prominence in the UK by Street Advertising Services to create outdoor advertising on street furniture and pavements.
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Social and Legal Considerations
- When crafting advertising and marketing communications, businesses need to understand the legal ramifications of false advertising as well as the social implications that occur from intentionally misleading the public.
- False advertising or deceptive advertising is the use of false or misleading statements in advertising.
- As advertising has the potential to persuade people into commercial transactions that they might otherwise avoid, many governments around the world use regulations to control false, deceptive or misleading advertising.
- All commercial acts may be deceptive, not just advertising, but noncommercial activity such as advertising for political candidates is not subject to prosecution under the FTC Act.
- Corrective advertising may be mandated, but there are no fines or prison time except for the infrequent instances when an advertiser refuses to stop despite being ordered to do so.
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Trends in Advertising
- Advertising spending as a share of GDP was about 2.9 percent.
- By 1998, television and radio had become major advertising media.
- A recent advertising innovation is "guerrilla marketing", which involves unusual approaches such as staged encounters in public places, giveaways of products such as cars that are covered with brand messages, and interactive advertising where the viewer can respond to or become part of the advertising message.
- Guerrilla advertising is becoming increasingly popular with more companies.
- Particularly since the rise of "entertaining" advertising, some people may like an advertisement enough to wish to watch it later or show a friend.
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Agencies
- An advertising agency or advert agency is a service business dedicated to creating, planning, and handling advertising for its clients.
- An advertising agency or advert agency is a service business dedicated to creating, planning, and handling advertising (and sometimes other forms of promotion ) for its clients.
- The client who chooses to use a design-only advertising agency must assume some of the advertising purchasing.
- Such specialist advertising agencies are also usually full-service, in that they offer all of the basic advertising agency services in their area of specialization plus other, peripheral advertising services related to their area of specialization.
- Some advertisers believe that they can provide these advertising services to themselves at a lower cost than would be charged by an outside agency.
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The Promotion Mix
- There are five (sometimes six) main aspects of a promotional mix: Advertising, Personal selling, Sales promotion, Public relations, and Direct marketing.
- Advertising: Presentation and promotion of ideas, goods, or services by an identified sponsor.
- Examples: Newspaper and magazine articles/reports, TVs and radio presentations, charitable contributions, speeches, issue advertising, and seminars.
- Direct Marketing is a channel-agnostic form of advertising that allows businesses and nonprofits to communicate straight to the customer, with advertising techniques such as mobile messaging, email, interactive consumer websites, online display ads, fliers, catalog distribution, promotional letters, and outdoor advertising.
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The Promotion Mix
- Direct marketing includes advertising techniques such as mobile messaging, email, interactive consumer websites, online display ads, fliers, catalog distribution, promotional letters, and outdoor advertising.
- The five main aspects of a promotional mix are: Advertising - Presentation and promotion of ideas, goods, or services by an identified sponsor.
- Examples: Newspaper and magazine articles/reports, TVs and radio presentations, charitable contributions, speeches, issue advertising, and seminars.
- Direct Marketing is a channel-agnostic form of advertising that allows businesses and nonprofits to communicate straight to the customer, with advertising techniques such as mobile messaging, email, interactive consumer websites, online display ads, fliers, catalog distribution, promotional letters, and outdoor advertising.
- Break down the promotional mix into advertising, personal selling, sales promotion, and PR
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Promotion Objectives
- Product promotion is the act of advertising a good or service with the goal of increasing sales.
- There is the physical form of product promotion and the digital form, both of which require clear and concise textual information about the product being advertised.
- Within an online social media network, companies have the ability to advertise and promote their products to anyone, at any time, anywhere in the world.
- Promotion is one of the five market mix elements: personal selling, advertising, sales promotion , direct marketing, and publicity.
- Promoters use internet advertisement, special events, endorsements, and newspapers to advertise their product.
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A Brief Description
- Promotion is one of the marketing mix elements, including personal selling, advertising, sales promotion, direct marketing, and publicity.
- These elements are personal selling, advertising, sales promotion, direct marketing, and publicity.
- Promoters use Internet advertisement, special events, endorsements, and newspapers or magazines to advertise their product.
- Product promotion is the act of advertising a good or service with the short or long-term goal of increasing sales.
- Within an online social media network, companies have the ability to advertise and promote their products to anyone, at any time, anywhere in the world.
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Digital Marketing
- Digital marketing is the use of internet connected devices to engage a customer with online advertising to promote products and services.
- Internet marketing ties together the creative and technical aspects of the Internet, including design, development, advertising, and sales.
- Counting four types of interactions with company websites in addition to the hits from advertisements served from advertising networks, the authors found that the potential for collecting data was up to 2,500 times per user per month.
- Digital marketing is the use of internet-connected devices to engage a customer with online advertising in order to promote products and services.
- Push digital marketing involves a marketer sending a message without the consent of the recipients, such as display advertising on websites and news blogs.
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Brand Management Strategies
- According to the MASB, brand is a "name, term, design, symbol, or any other feature that identifies one seller's good or service as distinct from those of other sellers. " Branding began as a way to tell one person's cattle from another's by means of a distinctive symbol burned into the animal's skin with a hot iron stamp, and was subsequently used in business, marketing and advertising.
- This person makes most of the advertising decisions for that brand.
- Each may use a different advertising agency, and each will have a separate advertising budget.
- Any problems that arise for individual products should receive prompt responses, and advertising opportunities for the products will be quickly seized.