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Principle: Back to Basics

This is one of the most exciting times to take an advertising course because of all of the changes in the industry – new technology, new media, new types of consumers and media users, new ways of looking at brand communication, and new economic challenges. It is also a great time to study the basics of advertising and brand communication because this is the era of “back to basics.” Unchanging Truths in Times of Change Rather than redefine the field to accommodate changing times, Bill Weintraub, one of the book’s advisory board members and a marketing export who led teams at several CPG organizations, insists that the basic truths in marketing communication are immutable.He continues, “Regardless of the economy, new media, changes in culture, etc., I don’t accept that these superficial changes in the marketing environment are relevant in terms of how intelligent business practices should be conducted.”

The Basic Truth: Understand Your Brand

Advisory board member Regina Lewis, a leader in the area of consumer insights says, “There is a need for brand authenticity. With social media’s power, brands are tasked with – among other things – achieving perfect transparency.” Lewis also believes that the basics of successful branding lie with connecting with consumer values. She sees that ‘uniquely positioning your brand is essential.” But that’s just the foundation of successful branding; the structure of a successful brand is built on effective communication.The Enduring Principles As you will see in this book, effective advertising and marketing communication are founded on basic, enduring principles. These principles are central themes in this

textbook:

1.Brand. Build and maintain distinctive brands that your customers love.

2.Position. Identify your competitive advantage in the minds of consumers.

3.Consumer. Focus on consumers and match your brand’s strengths to consumer needs and wants.

4.Message. Identify your best prospects and engage them in a brand conversation.

5.Media. Know how to best reach and connect with your target audience.

6.Integrate. Know how to connect the dots and make everything in the marketing communication toolkit work together.

7.Evaluate. Track everything you do so you know what works.Advertising & IMC Principles and Practice 10e Sandra Moriarty Nancy Mitchell William Wells (Instructor Manual All Chapters, 100% Original Verified, A+ Grade) 1 / 4

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Chapter 1 Advertising

◆CHAPTER CONTENT

CHAPTER KEY POINTS

• What is advertising, how has it evolved, and what does it do in modern times?
• How have the key concepts of marketing communication developed over time?
• How the industry is organized – key players, types of agencies, and jobs within

agencies?

• Why and how is the practice of advertising changing?

CHAPTER OVERVIEW

This chapter defines advertising, explains its basic functions and key components, defines the role it plays in our society, and identifies eight different ways in which it is practiced today. The industry’s evolution is explored, along with the role of the advertising agency, how they are organized and how they function. The chapter concludes with a discussion of how the practice of advertising is changing.

CHAPTER OUTLINE

WHAT IS ADVERTISING?

• The purpose of advertising has always been to sell a product, which can be goods, services or ideas. Although there have been major changes in recent years, the basics of advertising remained unchanged even in the face of economic downturns and media convulsions.

• We can summarize a modern view of advertising with the following definition:

Advertising is a paid form of persuasive communication that uses mass and interactive media to reach broad audiences in order to connect an identified sponsor with buyers (a target audience), provide information about products (goods, services, and ideas), and interpret the product features in terms of the customer’s needs and wants.

• This definition has a number of elements and the definition is changing because of new technology, media shifts, and cultural changes.

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▪ Not only is the message paid for, but the sponsor is identified.

▪ Although advertising began as one-way communication, digital media has introduced new forms of two-way and multiple-way brand-related communication.

▪ Advertising generally reaches a broad audience of potential consumers, either as a mass audience or smaller targeted groups. However, direct response advertising, especially those practices that involve digital communication, has the ability to address individual members of the audience. So some advertising can deliver one-to-one communication to a large group of people.

▪ In traditional advertising, the message is conveyed through many different kinds of mass media, which are largely non-personal messages. This non-personal characteristic, however, is changing with the introduction of more interactive types of media.

▪ A great deal of emphasis is now placed on word-of-mouth, which is now defined as personal communication through new media forms rather than “scripted messages in a paid format,” according to agency CEO Richard Edelman.

• Most advertising has a defined strategy and seeks to inform consumers and make them aware of a brand, company, or organization. In many cases, it also tries to persuade or influence consumers to do something. Persuasion may also involve emotional messages.

• A product can be a good, service, or an idea. Nonprofits, for example, use ads to sell memberships, inform about a cause, or advocate on behalf of its position or point-of- view.

• Advertising is not the only tool in a brand’s promotional toolkit, although it may be the biggest. It is a more than $500 billion industry worldwide and a $174 billion industry in the United States. It is often seen as the driving force in marketing communications because it commands the largest budget as well as the largest number of agencies and professionals.

What Are Advertising’s Basic Functions?• Identification. Advertising identifies a product and/or the store where it’s sold. This goes back as far as ancient times. Some of the earliest ads were simply signs with the name or graphic image of the type of store – cobbler, grocer, or blacksmith.

• Information. Advertising provides information about a product. Advances in printing technology at the beginning of the Renaissance spurred literacy and brought an explosion of printed materials in the form of posters, handbills, and newspapers. The

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