Launch! Advertising and Promotion in Real Time, 2009a

Launch! Advertising and Promotion in Real Time, 2009a Launch! Advertising and Promotion in Real Time, 2009a

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13.10 Spectrum Home Page Figure 13.14 This page on the msnbc.com site, coined the “Spectrum Page,” is a destination for all elements of the campaign. Users can view TV spots, download NewsSkimmer, and play NewsBreaker all from one place. Figure 13.15 A full timeline of all the work that SS+K and msnbc.com did together from pitch to launch of the first ever msnbc.com branding campaign. Saylor URL: http://www.saylor.org/books Saylor.org 403

Chapter 14 ROI: msnbc.com Decides if the Campaign Worked Figure 14.1 Three Months after Launch! “Cool ad! But did it work?” That’s the million dollar question (or often even more). Advertising serves many roles, from building awareness of a new acid jazz group to informing us of an asthma drug’s side effects. But at the end of the day, advertising is a call to action: it can be pretty, funny, sexy, or cute—but if an ad doesn’t sell the client’s product or service, or create the behavioral change a nonprofit hopes to achieve, it’s nothing more than an entry on an art director’s “reel” that may land him another juicy assignment. SS+K is keenly aware of the need to show results. Its client msnbc.com is counting on the new brandbuilding campaign to start to move the brand building, awareness, and traffic needle. Did the agency succeed in this quest? Let’s find out. Saylor URL: http://www.saylor.org/books Saylor.org 404

Chapter 14<br />

ROI: msnbc.com Decides if the Campaign Worked<br />

Figure 14.1 Three Months after <strong>Launch</strong>!<br />

“Cool ad! But did it work?”<br />

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noth<strong>in</strong>g more than an entry on an art director’s “reel” that may l<strong>and</strong> him another juicy assignment.<br />

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campaign to start to move the br<strong>and</strong> build<strong>in</strong>g, awareness, <strong>and</strong> traffic needle. Did the agency<br />

succeed <strong>in</strong> this quest? Let’s f<strong>in</strong>d out.<br />

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

Saylor.org<br />

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