Advertising Planning Process

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Everything has to be plan first before the execution and the planning part mostly takes more time than the execution. ‘Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe’, (Abraham Lincoln). The advertisers must plan carefully and detail so that the advertisement would not be a mess and fail to appeal to their target audience. An idea is the integral part of advertising. Advertising strategy, creative idea, creative execution and creative media use are the four elements or key concepts of advertising. Advertising strategy is the logic and planning behind the advertisement that gives it direction and focus. Creative idea is the ad’s central idea that grabs your attention and sticks in your memory. ‘Once…show more content…
Identifying and defining the role and functions for advertising is the essential part of the planning process. Through the advertiser’s perspective, advertising performs seven basic functions, in general. The first one is to build awareness of products and brands and provides product and brand information. In the advertisement, the advertisers will feature the information of the brand such as logo and ingredients so that the consumers will get a little bit of picture about the products and the benefit of the products. Advertising also creates a brand image, the impression of a product held by potential consumers. Besides that, advertising also persuades people to buy or consider to buy the products that been advertised and provides incentives to take action. Advertising also reinforces past purchases and brand experiences and lastly provides brand reminders. The advertisers had to acknowledge all the functions of advertising; otherwise, their advertisements would be labelled as failures. How can someone create something without knowing the uses of their creation? Their creation would be labelled as good-for-nothing. Everything has their functions and only useless things that have been created without a…show more content…
The process will determine on how many people might be available to notice the advertisement; whether or not these are the types of people the advertisement is directed at; how many times the audience will have seen the advertisement before and whether the medium itself is able to attract audience attention. There are four-step processes that will guide the media planner to draft their media planning. First one the media planner needs to setting their media objectives in light of marketing and advertising objectives and developing a media strategy for implementing media objectives. After that, the media planner needs to design the media tactics for realizing media strategy and lastly proposes procedures for evaluating the effectiveness of the media plan. In more simple terms, the job of media planner is to accumulate as many GRP (Gross Rating Points) as possible, as cheaply as possible, focusing on the type of people the advertiser is interested

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