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Launch! Advertising and Promotion in Real Time, 2009a

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The pr<strong>in</strong>t portion of the media plan that The Media Kitchen put together for msnbc.com: The<br />

different colors represent different sizes <strong>and</strong> placements—for example, blue represents a full-page<br />

placement, <strong>and</strong> red is a full-page placement near the table of contents of that publication.<br />

SS+K Spotlight<br />

When it came time to launch the msnbc.com br<strong>and</strong><strong>in</strong>g campaign, the team strongly considered magaz<strong>in</strong>e<br />

pr<strong>in</strong>t media.<br />

Broadcast <strong>and</strong> Radio<br />

Network TV<br />

Mass audience. TV attracts mass audiences, <strong>and</strong> network TV is the highest-exposure medium every hour<br />

of the day, accord<strong>in</strong>g to “The Middletown Media Studies: The Media Day,” a study of consumer media<br />

habits by Ball State’s Center for Media Design. At least 30 percent of the study’s participants were exposed<br />

to TV programm<strong>in</strong>g dur<strong>in</strong>g the day, <strong>and</strong> at times as many as 70 percent were watch<strong>in</strong>g. The study also<br />

found that consumers watch TV <strong>and</strong> use the Internet more than ten times as often as they read<br />

newspapers <strong>and</strong> magaz<strong>in</strong>es. [3]<br />

Very creative visual medium. TV supports dynamic content <strong>and</strong> creative storytell<strong>in</strong>g. Advertisers can<br />

demonstrate the product <strong>and</strong> show the faces of the characters <strong>in</strong> the ad to convey both emotion <strong>and</strong><br />

<strong>in</strong>formation.<br />

The lead<strong>in</strong>g medium <strong>and</strong> grow<strong>in</strong>g revenues. Ad bloggers <strong>and</strong> ad experts have predicted the demise of<br />

traditional TV spots for years. Yet TV ad spend<strong>in</strong>g rose 5.3 percent <strong>in</strong> 2006, accord<strong>in</strong>g to TNS Media<br />

Intelligence, <strong>and</strong> accounted for nearly 44 percent of all advertis<strong>in</strong>g spend<strong>in</strong>g <strong>in</strong> 2006. In addition, Nielsen<br />

Media Research reported that consumers spent more time watch<strong>in</strong>g conventional TV <strong>in</strong> 2006 than they<br />

did <strong>in</strong> 2005. They <strong>in</strong>creased their view<strong>in</strong>g by twenty m<strong>in</strong>utes a week. “Some people assume that <strong>in</strong> this<br />

digital era, somehow TV is not as important as it once was,” said <strong>Advertis<strong>in</strong>g</strong> Age editor Jonah Bloom.<br />

“Noth<strong>in</strong>g could be further from the truth. Mass audiences are harder than ever to get together.…TV is set<br />

to become more measurable <strong>and</strong> even more relevant <strong>and</strong> even more important <strong>in</strong> the market<strong>in</strong>g<br />

l<strong>and</strong>scape.” [4]<br />

Ag<strong>in</strong>g viewers. On the other h<strong>and</strong>, younger consumers spend less time watch<strong>in</strong>g TV, so this medium is<br />

steadily ag<strong>in</strong>g. Consumers younger than thirty-five spend more time on the Internet than they do<br />

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Saylor.org<br />

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