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DEFINITION & DESCRIPTION

"Advertising is a paid, one-way communication through a medium in which the sponsor is identified and the message is controlled by the sponsor. Every major medium is used to deliver these messages, including: TV, radio, movies, magazines, newspapers, video games, the Internet, and billboards.

Advertisements are usually placed anywhere an audience can easily and/or frequently access visuals and/or audio.

Commercial advertising media can include wall paintings, billboards, street furniture components, printed flyers and rack cards, radio, cinema and television ads, web banners, shopping carts, web popups, skywriting, bus stop benches, human directional, magazines, newspapers, town criers, sides of buses or airplanes ("logojets"), taxicab doors, roof mounts and passenger screens, musical stage shows, subway platforms and trains, elastic bands on disposable diapers, stickers on apples in supermarkets, the opening section of streaming audio and video, posters, and the backs of event tickets and supermarket receipts. Any place an "identified" sponsor pays to deliver their message through a medium is advertising.

Measuring the Impact of Mass Advertising

The most common method for measuring the impact of mass media advertising is the use of the rating point (rp) or the more accurate target rating point (trp). These two measures refer to the percentage of the universe of the existing base of audience members that can be reached by the use of each media outlet in a particular moment in time. The difference between the two is that the rating point refers to the percentage to the entire universe while the target rating point refers to the percentage of a particular segment or target. This becomes very useful when focusing advertising efforts on a particular group of people. One of the reasons advertising is successful is because can target a particular audience to build awareness of what the advertiser has to offer.

Another way to measure advertising effectiveness is known as ad tracking. This advertising research methodology measures shifts in target market perceptions about the brand and product or service. These shifts in perception are plotted against the consumers’ levels of exposure to the company’s advertisements and promotions. The purpose of Ad Tracking is generally to provide a measure of the combined effect of the media weight or spending level, the effectiveness of the media buy or targeting, and the quality of the advertising executions or creative."*

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Marketing Marksman™ is based in Calgary, Alberta, Canada and also serves Edmonton, Alberta (AB); Vancouver, British Columbia (BC); Toronto, Ontario (ON); all across Canada and internationally including the United States, Europe, Asia, Australia, and Russia. See our Client List for more information. We provide a full range of marketing services including Advertising & Ad Campaigns.

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* Text reprinted from 'Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia' with permission http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Copyrights
* Marketing Definition and Information Source Link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advertising