Media planning involves making a series of decisions to determine the best way to deliver advertisements to a brand's target audience. This includes defining the target audience, determining reach and frequency goals, selecting appropriate media and vehicles, and scheduling placements. Key terms in media planning include target audience, demographics, psychographics, socio-economic class, media/vehicles, ratings, gross rating points, reach, average frequency, and channel share. Media are broadly categorized, while vehicles are specific placements within each medium.
Defining Media PlanningMedia Planning consists of a series of decisions made to answer the question for advertisers : `What is the best means of delivering advertisements to prospective purchasers of my brand or service ?’
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Media Planning –The process QUESTIONS ANSWERS Who are we talking to ? : Target audience Where are these people ? : Markets How many people to reach ? : Reach How many times ? : Avg Frequency/ Avg OTS Which media ? : Media selection Which vehicles ? : Vehicle selection Which months & what time of the day? : Scheduling
Target Audience Definition : The demographic group that has been identified as the key consumer group for the brand. All marketing/advertising activity is concentrated on reaching/appealing to this group . In Practice : The Pepsodent target audience is Female, SEC ABC, 25-44 year old .
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Target Audience UNIVERSEDefinition : The actual & total number of individuals present in a Demographic segment In Practice: 25-44 yrs Pepsodent universe is 2.7 million. Size of the TA for Pepsodent is 2.7 million.
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Demographics It isa way of describing audience based on factors such as -age -gender -education level -town class -income class etc…
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Psychographics It isa way of describing audience, based on their Life style attitudes aspirations habits including media & product consumption
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Consumer personalities Scientists/artistscreative squiggles Secretaries/nurses Good interpersonal & peace Circles New employees & collage students State of transition, unpredictable Rectangles Politicians /executives Self assured respected Triangles Accounts,computer programmers Neat,organised structured Boxes Example Characteristics Shape
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Socio-Economic Class ( SEC) Categorization of a household based on both occupation and education of the Chief Wage Earner Approved by ‘Market Research Society of India
What is aMedium Media : All Carriers and deliverers of advertisements Medium : A broad general category of carriers Vehicle : A specific carrier within a medium Medium Vehicle Television Jassi Jaisi Koi Nahi Newspapers Times of India Magazines India Today Radio Radio Mirchi Outdoor Any hoarding CD/DVD CD or DVD of a movie Internet Web site (Rediff.com)
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Television Rating Definition: The percentage of the target audience who saw the programme & thus the commercial 1 rating point = 1% of the target audience Formula : Audience who saw ÷ Defined Universe (x 100) In Practice: 18-40 yrs Women watching Friends - 1,110,000 18-40 yrs Universe of women - 2,750,000 Television Rating for FRIEND - 40%
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Gross Rating Points(GRP’s) Definition : The sum of all ratings ( TVR`s) achieved in a campaign In Practice : Our commercial appeared in the following programmes - Programme Rating Jassi Jaisi 32% Kyuki Saas 21% Who Dares Wins 18% News at 9:00 24% India Vs Pak 15% 110% - 110 GRPs achieved (or 110% of defined universe)
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Reach THEOBJECTIVE OF ANY MEDIA BUDGET IS TO MAXIMIZE REACH & FREQUENCY & GRP`S within a given Advertising Budget Reach defined as % of Target Audience who is exposed at least once to an advertisement in a given period to a particular media vehicle or a group of Media . *Concentrates on one exposure only . *Time selected is one month or a purchase cycle for it`s measurement.
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Reach Formula Reach= Audience reached at least once X 100 Total Target Audience Universe
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EG - ReachThe size of T.A of Livon – 10 million Our target is to reach 80% of the TA Thus our Advertising plan has to reach 8 million persons within a predefined budget.
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Average Frequency/Average OTSDefinition : The number of times, on average, the audience reached sees the commercial during a given period. Measure of repetition indicating to what extent audience members were exposed to the same vehicle or group of vehicles. OTS : Opportunities to see
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Average Frequency/Average OTSFormula : Average Frequency = Total GRPs ÷ % Reach OR GRPs = Reach x Average Frequency In Practice: 110 GRPs ÷ 63 Reach = 1.75 Average Frequency Therefore, 63% of the target audience will see the commercial on average 1.75 times during the given period.
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Channel Share Noof people watching channel as a % of total people watching TV for a particular day part. Total TV audience 1000 No of people watching TV ( 8 – 9 PM ) 700 No of people watching Star PlusV 600 No of people other channels 100 Channel share of Star Plus 86 % ( 600 / 700 x 100 )
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Circulation Vs ReadershipCirculation Measured by the Audit Bureau of Circulations ( ABC ) on an on-going basis with results reported every 6 months Copy count. Number of copies sold Not possible to identify / profile the buyer. Readership Measured by independent periodic surveys ( IRS) Measures the number of people who actually read the publication. Possible to profile the consumer. IRS – “ Indian Readership survey ”