media

(noun)

The mass media are all those media technologies that are intended to reach a large audience by mass communication.

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Examples of media in the following topics:

  • Creating a Media Plan

    • The standard media plan covers four stages: stating media objectives, evaluating media, selecting and implementing choices, and determining the budget.
    • When choosing the media, you not only need to know which media outlets exist, but also which ones suit your product.
    • The standard media plan covers four stages: (a) stating media objectives; (b) evaluating media; (c) selecting and implementing media choices; and (d) determining the media budget.
    • The media planner must make media mix decisions and timing directions, both of which are restricted by the available budget.
    • The media mix decision involves putting media together in the most effective manner.
  • Researching Using Digital Media

    • Digital media technologies are enabling researchers to use increasingly sophisticated tools to collect data via the Internet.
    • Inclusion of social media research can provide particularly unique insights into consumer and societal segments.
    • Digital media including images, videos and audio can prove valuable sources for Internet researchers.
    • Specific types of research methods that incorporate digital media include:
    • Social media analytics allow brands to efficiently collect and analyze qualitative research on user interaction with images, video, podcasts and other digital media.
  • Defining Social Media

    • Social media websites and applications allow users to create and exchange user-generated content on the web.
    • There are several types of online platforms classified under the vast umbrella of social media.
    • Web blogs: Some of the oldest and most popular forms of social media are blogs.
    • Social media can also be classified by their ability to facilitate certain social functions.
    • Describe the common characteristics of social media technologies, and user behaviors that occur on social media websites
  • Social Media

    • Social media as a marketing tool is versatile, far-reaching, fast, inexpensive, fosters brand awareness, and can improve customer service.
    • Social media marketing refers to the process of gaining website traffic through social networking sites.
    • Results come from earned, as opposed to paid media.
    • As a marketing tool, social media is distinct from industrial or traditional media, is versatile, far-reaching, fast, relatively inexpensive, fosters brand awareness, and improves customer service.
    • Illustrate how social media can be used in the promotional mix
  • Social Media Marketing Communications

    • Social media serves as a cost-effective communication channel for promoting brands to target audiences.
    • The explosion of social media websites has led to the increasingly important practice of social media marketing.
    • This results in earned media rather than paid media and both serves as a lead generator and creates favorable publicity for the brand.
    • Social media allows marketers to refine their segmentation strategy by reaching a narrow target audience.
    • However, these conversations can also be repurposed across other social media and corporate channels.
  • Making Appropriate Changes to Product, Placement, Promotion, and Pricing

    • Marketing teams must adjust their marketing mix strategies accordingly to adapt and succeed in a rapidly changing media environment.
    • Today, the marketing mix--product, placement, promotion and pricing--must take into account both online and offline buyers; traditional media, and digital media.
    • The shift from mass media to more specialized (niche) media, which are centered on specific target audiences.
    • Promotion is probably the marketing mix element most impacted by social media.
    • In essence, social media acts as a promotional element or communication channel used to reach customers.
  • Promotional Methods

    • B2B marketers use industry or trade publications, trade shows, private events, and social media to generate awareness about their products and services.
    • These publications are also placed in industry and trade media to produce favorable publicity.
    • If done strategically, media placement enforces messaging behind specific marketing activities across multiple communication channels.
    • Social media is fast becoming a promotional tool used to position B2B brands in the digital sphere.
    • Moreover, B2B organizations also use social media for internal communications to increase collaboration and productivity among workers.
  • Media Types and Scheduling

    • In terms of overall advertising expenditures, media advertising is dominated by press and TV.
    • Personal mobile phones are attractive advertising media to network operators and are gaining in power and reach.
    • Advertising-free media refers to outlets whose output is not funded or subsidized by the sale of advertising space.
    • Series of commercials appear as a unified campaign on different media vehicles.
    • Compare the types of media and types of scheduling used in advertising campaigns
  • Public Relations Tools

    • Digital marketing is the use of Internet tools and technologies, such as search engines, Web 2.0 social bookmarking, new media relations, blogs, and social media marketing.
    • Online social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter ensure that firms can get their messages heard directly and quickly.
    • Other forms of media include newspapers, television programs, radio stations, and magazines.
    • The amount of money spent on traditional media channels has declined as more and more readers have turned to favor online and social media news sources.
    • As the readership of traditional media shift to online media, so has the focus of many in public relations.
  • Impact of Technology on Marketing

    • Technologies such as the web, mobile phones, social media, and customer relationship management systems greatly affect modern marketing.
    • These new forms of communication are changing the media landscape and the type of messaging strategy organizations use.
    • Likewise, advertisements on Facebook are popular as businesses continue to utilize more social media.
    • Traditional media (magazines, newspapers, television) compete with media such as the Internet, texting, mobile phones, social media, user-generated content such as blogs, and YouTube as well as out-of-home advertising such as billboards and movable promotions.
    • Therefore, all forms of marketing media have been forced to come up with new innovations to remain relevant.
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