Advertising Principles and Practices

Internet and Nontraditional Media

Questions Well Answer

How does the Internet work and what are the roles it plays in marketing communication? How does Internet advertising work? How does email advertising work? In what ways are the different forms of interactive and alternative new media changing how advertising works?
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eBay Revolutionizes the Marketplace

eBay founder Pierre Omidyar sold a broken laser pointer via the Internet for $13.83 in 1995. \ After building business by word of mouth, the first eBay ad campaign ran in 2002. Visit the eBays campy Do It Site eBay campaign was followed by the it campaign

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Interactive Media: Web 2.0

Media planners are trying to understand how the rapidly changing media landscape will affect advertising. Web 2.0 refers to the trend toward social networking and entertainment sites. The convergence and blurring of media forms is challenging media planners. Big media companies are acquiring Internet businesses to extend their online offerings and allow cross-media promotions.
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Internet Basics
By 2004, 60% of homes had computers, compared to 50% in 2000. Computers have revolutionized communication. Interneta linked system of international computer networks. World Wide Webthe information interface that allows people to access the Internet through an easy-to-use graphical format.
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Internet Tools and Formats

Company Web site/home page URLs (Uniform Resource Locator) and domain names Portals (e.g., Yahoo! or Google) Search Engines Chat Rooms Blogs Vlogs (e.g., Rocketboom.com) Netcasting (e.g., Blip.tv)
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The Most-Visited U.S. Web site

Started as a group of favorite Web sites by two Stanford students About 122 million visitors per month

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The Internet Audience

Traditional media companies are concerned the Internet will cut into their audience base. Internet encompasses sites that appeal to almost any age or interest group. The most sought-after group is the otherwise hardto-reach youth audience; particularly young males.

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Internet Advertising
Internet ad spending is growing in double-digit percentages, vs. traditional media in the 25% range. Predictions are that online advertising will grow to $25 billion in 2010 from $15.9 billion in 2007. 90% of Internet advertising is on a small group of large, established news media like nytimes.com, WSJ.com, and ESPN.com. DoubleClick, an Internet advertising service, places more than 60 billion online ads per month.

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Purposes of Internet Advertising

Brand reminder to people visiting a Web site Like an ad in traditional media, delivering information or a persuasive message Driving traffic to the Web site by enticing people to click on a banner or button

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Internet Advertising Formats

Banner Ads
Click through rates are 17% www.valleyofthegeeks.com

Skyscrapers
Extra-long, skinny ads down the side of a Web site; response rates can be 10 times traditional banner ads

Pop-ups and pop-behinds

Intrusive, annoying, less common

Minisites
Dont have to leave current site; response rates about 5%

Superstitials
20-second video commercial

Widgets
Brand-sponsored news notes, calculators, and other gadgets
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Animation Boosts Click-Throughs

Use of technology like Flash and Java script can double click-through rates Games, contests, interviews, and music videos
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Email Advertising
Its inexpensive and easy Permission marketingasking potential consumers permission to send email.
Opt in and opt out

Viral marketinguses email to circulate a message among family and friends. Spambulk email; unsolicited messages sent to email boxes. Can be profitable.
Principle: Opt-in and opt-out strategies make mass email more acceptable because customers give permission to marketers to contact them.
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Internet Advertising Functions

E-business/e-commerce
Businesses sell products, manage their businesses

Information Role

Online publishing, encyclopedias Games, fashion, music, videos, YouTube, SecondLife (avatars)

Entertainment Role Social Role

MySpace Facebook

Dialogue Role

Create two-way communication with customers Create buzz or word of mouth between customers and potential customers
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New Internet Practices

Offline Advertising for Web Sites
Driving traffic to Web sites using conventional media

Search Marketing
Ads adjoining results from keyword searches Search optimizationmaximizing the link between topics and brand-related Web sites

Brand Experiences on the Web

Companies are making sites more entertaining and engaging (e.g., www.subservientchicken.com)

Webisodes
Like TV with recurring episodes in a developing story

The Global Web of Advertising

An international marketing and advertising medium Problems include access, differing laws, language barriers, exchange rates, and technological differences
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Nike Subsite Targets Women

Nikewomen.com addresses the specific training, shopping, and information needs of women involved in high-performance athletics.

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Internet Advertising Issues

Measurement
Feedback is rapid, but with no standards for measurement. Hits, viewers, unique viewers, and page views dont offer insight about motivation or attention. Consumer response is measured by click-throughs. Internet measurement may become more like TV with daypart data, and reach and frequency tools.

Internet Targeting and Privacy

Cookies track your movements online and report back to site owners who store or sell your information. Privacy policies outline how/if data is collected and used. Principle: Companies that keep track of their customers online behavior are better able to personalize their advertising messages.
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Internet Advertising Changes and Trends

Increased bandwidth makes it easier to download rich media images. Rich media is interactive ads that use sound, still images, and full-motion video. Streaming video is moving images transmitted online and received through modems to computers.

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Internet Advertising Advantages

Relatively inexpensive. Reaches people who arent watching TV or reading newspapers. Internet advertising is easy to track and effective at reaching highly targeted audiences. Advertisers can customize and personalize messages. For B2B, can provide sales leads or actual sales. Small companies can easily and economically look big and compete with larger companies.

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Internet Advertising Disadvantages

Strategic and creative experts arent able to consistently produce effective ads and to measure their effectiveness. Clutter may even be worse than in other media.

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Nontraditional Media
New media
New electronic forms of media

Alternative media
Nontraditional or unexpected communication tools and events

Because teens are often the first to use new media forms, finding new media is especially important for advertisers trying to reach the youth market.
Principle: The media persons search for new ways to deliver messages is just as creative as the creative persons search for new advertising ideas.
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Alternative Media Chart

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Nontraditional Marketing: Guerilla Marketing

Unconventional, low-budget brand activities Get people where they live and work and play, create a personal connection Intended to create buzz on a limited budget Usually has limited reach but potential high targetability 2007 Cartoon Networks Aqua Teen Hunger Force promo created a bomb scare in Boston
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Nontraditional Marketing: Advertainment

When companies integrate brands into the theme of TV shows
FedEx in Castaway GEICO cavemen show

Also called branded entertainment Situational or contextual ads

Embedded in specific programs Harder for the viewer to dismiss as ads Product is a character in the program
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Nontraditional Marketing: Video Games

A developing, major new medium for advertisers to target 12- to 34-year-old males (some girls). Opportunities to create online games as well as place products within video games. Planners and buyers are asking for standardized independent data that prove effectiveness.
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Nontraditional Marketing: Wi-Fi and Mobile Marketing

Cell phones feature new products like graphic faceplates and specialty ring tones, and can play videos supported by advertising. Mobile marketing uses wireless media to deliver content and encourage direct response. Text messaging and instant messaging. Hybrid technologies like podcasting.
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Nontraditional Marketing: Nonelectronic New Media

Ads are appearing on backs of toilet stalls, eggs cartons, apples, subway turnstiles, pizza boxes, airline seatbacks, motion sickness bags, the bottoms of flipflops, NASCAR race cars. NASA considering printing emblems and logos on space shuttle and space station. YourNameIntoSpace.org will put your logo on satellites.
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Discussion Questions

Discussion Question 1
One interesting way to combine the assets of print and broadcast is to use the visuals from a print ad or a television commercial in an Internet ad. Why would an advertiser consider this creative strategy? What limitations would you mention? In what situations would you recommend doing this?
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Discussion Question 2
This chapter briefly discussed the concept of rich media. Visit various sites related to Internet marketing and find out what is being said about this new form. Start with the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB), which you can find at http://www.iab.com and DoubleClick at http://www.doubleclick.com. Then find several other sites that have discussions on this topic. Put together a report entitled Rich Media and Its Advertising Implications for your instructor.
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Discussion Question 3
Three-minute debate: You are a sales rep working for a college newspaper that has an online version. How would you attract advertising? One of your colleagues says there is no market for online advertising for the paper, but you think the paper is missing an opportunity. Consider the following questions:
What companies would you recommend to contact? How can Internet sites like your online newspaper entice companies to advertise on them? What competitive advantage, if any, would Web advertising for your paper provide?

In class, organize into small teams with each team developing an argument on the advantages and disadvantages of Internet advertising. Set up a series of debates with each team taking half the time to argue its position. Every team of debaters has to present new points not covered in the previous presentations until there are no arguments left to present. Then the class votes as a group on the winning point of view.
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