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Launch! Advertising and Promotion in Real Time, 2009a

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10.2 New Media<br />

LEARNING OBJECTIVES<br />

After study<strong>in</strong>g this section, students should be able to do the follow<strong>in</strong>g:<br />

1. List <strong>and</strong> characterize the new media forms.<br />

2. Expla<strong>in</strong> how word-of-mouth (WOM), viral, <strong>and</strong> buzz market<strong>in</strong>g can be used by advertisers.<br />

3. Discuss how marketers <strong>and</strong> advertisers can use virtual worlds to br<strong>in</strong>g messages to consumers.<br />

4. Review how social media <strong>and</strong> social network<strong>in</strong>g sites can be used to advocate br<strong>and</strong>s <strong>and</strong> br<strong>and</strong><br />

messages.<br />

It was very important to SS+K <strong>and</strong> msnbc.com to explore nontraditional <strong>and</strong> new ways to reach the<br />

News Explorer. The msnbc.com target audience is very tech savvy, so align<strong>in</strong>g the msnbc.com br<strong>and</strong><br />

with the latest forms of communication was critical. The agency knew that it had to embrace new<br />

media <strong>in</strong> addition to traditional platforms.<br />

New media covers a spectrum of nontraditional methods to communicate with customers. These fall<br />

<strong>in</strong>to two categories. First, new communication channels are new technologies (e.g., the Internet, cell<br />

phones, <strong>and</strong> computer games) that support the potential for advertis<strong>in</strong>g. Second, new promotional<br />

techniques let companies move away from the traditional “advertisers speak, consumers listen”<br />

model.<br />

New Communication Channels<br />

Onl<strong>in</strong>e <strong>Advertis<strong>in</strong>g</strong><br />

Onl<strong>in</strong>e advertis<strong>in</strong>g <strong>in</strong>cludes a spectrum of text, still-image, animated graphics, stream<strong>in</strong>g-video, <strong>and</strong><br />

<strong>in</strong>teractive advertis<strong>in</strong>g on the Web. Advertisers create their ad <strong>and</strong> then f<strong>in</strong>d a Web site or service to host<br />

the ad. The ad might show on the Web site as a separate pop-up w<strong>in</strong>dow or as a banner embedded <strong>in</strong> the<br />

content of the site or runn<strong>in</strong>g down the side of a Web page. The site might display the ad at certa<strong>in</strong> times<br />

of day, a certa<strong>in</strong> number of times, or <strong>in</strong> certa<strong>in</strong> contexts. For example, search ads let advertisers associate<br />

their ad with the keywords that Web users enter <strong>in</strong>to search eng<strong>in</strong>es like Google <strong>and</strong> Yahoo!.<br />

Onl<strong>in</strong>e advertis<strong>in</strong>g is relatively <strong>in</strong>expensive, which means that small bus<strong>in</strong>esses can afford it. However,<br />

search ads can get pricey because bidd<strong>in</strong>g for coveted keywords can be fierce. For example, asbestos<br />

lawsuit attorneys bid $150 for each click-through from searches for the term “mesothelioma.”<br />

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