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Launch! Advertising and Promotion in Real Time, 2009a

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As you can see, it takes a village to work on an account. Each of the people beyond the core team<br />

contributed their respective expertise to the production <strong>and</strong> execution of the first-ever msnbc.com<br />

br<strong>and</strong><strong>in</strong>g campaign.<br />

How SS+K Works<br />

How is an ad agency not an ad agency? SS+K does not consider itself an advertis<strong>in</strong>g agency, but <strong>in</strong>stead a<br />

creatively-driven strategic communications firm that solves problems through a variety of <strong>in</strong>novative<br />

techniques—<strong>in</strong>clud<strong>in</strong>g but not limited to traditional advertis<strong>in</strong>g approaches. You’re go<strong>in</strong>g to see<br />

throughout this book that SS+K is not alone <strong>in</strong> this regard—the advertis<strong>in</strong>g <strong>in</strong>dustry seems to change its<br />

stripes almost daily as new technologies <strong>and</strong> trends evolve!<br />

As a remnant from SS+K’s founders’ days as political consultants the agency uses an <strong>in</strong>tegrated model.<br />

SS+K is media-agnostic; this means it doesn’t care what medium or discipl<strong>in</strong>e it uses to solve a client’s<br />

problem as long as the solution delivers the right message at the right time to the right audience with the<br />

right medium.<br />

KEY TAKEAWAY<br />

Welcome to a new model of textbook learn<strong>in</strong>g. This book is different from others <strong>in</strong> two really important<br />

ways:<br />

<br />

<br />

It’s the first open source, professionally authored advertis<strong>in</strong>g/market<strong>in</strong>g textbook ever.<br />

It’s the first advertis<strong>in</strong>g textbook written <strong>in</strong> partnership with a real-life advertis<strong>in</strong>g agency.<br />

The SS+K agency is go<strong>in</strong>g to help us learn how to do advertis<strong>in</strong>g by actually do<strong>in</strong>g advertis<strong>in</strong>g. Follow along<br />

with us as we chronicle its efforts to w<strong>in</strong> the important msnbc.com account <strong>and</strong> then deliver on its<br />

strategy to make this media br<strong>and</strong> the source of news for the customers the site hopes to reach.<br />

EXERCISES<br />

a. List four facts that characterize the Shepardson, Stern <strong>and</strong> Kam<strong>in</strong>sky (SS+K) communications<br />

organization. Be specific.<br />

b. SS+K uses a dist<strong>in</strong>ctive trademarked approach for engag<strong>in</strong>g clients <strong>and</strong> audiences <strong>in</strong> the advertis<strong>in</strong>g <strong>and</strong><br />

communication process. Briefly describe SS+K’s asymmetric approach to formulat<strong>in</strong>g communications <strong>and</strong><br />

ideas.<br />

Saylor URL: http://www.saylor.org/books<br />

Saylor.org<br />

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