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Date: 18th July 2008
TAM MEDIA RESEARCH PVT. LTD.
TAM Educate
Project: E-curriculum
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Index
Chapter 1: Mass Media in India - page 2
Chapter 2: Need for Research –page 6 Chapter 3: Common Research Methodologies – page 8
Chapter 4: The Stakeholders of the Media Industry – page 14
Chapter 5: Different Research Databases available – page 30
Chapter 6: Research Terminology in Mass media – page 33
Chapter 7: Television Scenario in India – page 81
Chapter 8: Departments in a Broadcast Agency and their functions - page 85
Chapter 9: The current TV environment – page 90
Chapter 10: Broadcasters: Programming – page 98
Chapter 11: Broadcasters: Sales Division – page 105
Chapter 12: Broadcasters: Marketing Division – page108
Chapter 13: Broadcasters: Distribution Division – page 112
Chapter 14: Media Agency: Departments and Functions - page 119
Chapter 15: Media Planning: Detailed process – page 129
Chapter 16: Advertiser and Use of Media – page 136
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Chapter 1: Mass Media in India
History of mass media in India:
• With progress in technology and the ever-growing literacy levels, mass
media in India is gaining prime importance. Be it 24*7 news channels or the
multiplicity of newspapers and magazines, media in India is catering to the
giant population of around one billion. And it is not just the quantity but the
quality of media as well that has grown in leaps and bounds. However, for
some this is debatable.
• The main news agencies of Indian print media are the Press Trust of India
and United News of India. Mass media in India has largely been the gift of
British colonial rule started in about 1780. The continuity of the Gazette, by
James Hicky, from Calcutta, the capital of British’s’ East India Company,
also died a premature death.
• The blessings of the East India Company saw the nurturing of India Gazette.
And it was soon followed by a mouthpiece of the company, the Calcutta
Gazette. A private publishing, the Bengal journal came into being along with
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a monthly magazine, and Bengal was the birthplace of some of the first
media publications in India.
• The first paper to start was the ‘Madras Courier’ in 1785. There were a few
attempts by the British publishers of newspapers to bring some news to the
public that would not have passed government censure. However, these did
not live long. It was ‘The Hindu’ – the first Indian launch that highlighted
the freedom struggle. However the introduction of ‘Kesari’ is seen as the
paper of Indian sentiments seeing the light of the day in vernacular language.
Media in contemporary India:
• After independence, print medium grew and dailies like The Indian Express,
The Hindustan Times, The Statesman, and magazines like India Today,
Outlook, and the Week, started to have a large following in the entire
country.
• Television has brought about a great change in the way that Indians
perceived news. The popularity of “seeing” news, first and “live” has seen a
surge in the form of round the clock news broadcasts and updates.
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Current Scenario of media in India:
• The mass media industry in India is going through some major changes.
• As the government has become more liberalized, there are more and more
media outlets that are available in the current scenario.
• The Indian Entertainment and Media (E&M) industry is undergoing
remarkable changes and today it is one of the fastest growing sectors in the
country.
• The entertainment industry is a perfect blend of creativity and commerce and
provides vast investment opportunities.
• According to a report by FICCI and PriceWaterHouse Coopers, the Indian
Entertainment and Media Industry is poised to become INR one trillion (INR
100,000 crore) industry by 2011. Currently, the industry is estimated to be
worth INR 43,700 crore.
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Indian Entertainment and Media Industry: 2005 (Ad spends)
Source: Price Water House Cooper Report
Entertainment and Media Industry in India:2005
19%
2%
31%
0.50%
42%
1%2%2.50%
Television (42%) Radio (1%) Live entertainment (2%) Out of Home (2.5%)Filmed Entertainment (19%) Music (2%) Print Media (31%) Internet Advertising (0.5%)
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Chapter 2: Need for Research
The Media Chaos:
• The media has outgrown an individual’s capacity of information
consumption. The media has also started catering to entertainment needs of
people. But the paradox is that any single vehicle/medium cannot cater to all
the information needs. There is too much information to be carried by a
single medium.
• Further each individual’s need for information is different from others. Thus
everyone subscribes multiple media vehicles to pick and choose the
information that he/she requires.
• The fragmentation of information consumption led to fragmentation of
media as well, with each media vehicle catering to the needs of a specific set
of people who have similar characteristics (called the target groups).
• Thus we have magazines that cater to international news like TIME
etc…and those that cater to regional entertainment in a small state. There are
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infotainment channels, news channels, business channels and music
channels and a plethora of genres.
• Within each genre of media, there are multiple operators competing with one
another to grab the attention of the target group. Hence each medium/media
vehicle has its own efficacy in reaching and delivering a message to a
specific target group of individuals.
Hence to analyze, comprehend and draw conclusions out of this complex
medium of mass media, we need research.
Key Drivers of the media:
• Economic growth of the country and rising disposable income levels in
particular.
• Gradually liberalizing attitude of the government.
• Greater interface with international companies.
• Privatization and growth of the radio industry.
• Advancement in Technology.
• Favorable regulatory initiatives.
• Liberalized foreign investment regime.
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Chapter 3: Common Research Methodologies
Ideally the perfect research database would contain media consumption
characteristics of each and every individual in the target group. Such a database
would provide exact information about the target group, but the cost of maintaining
such a system would be astronomical. Researchers settle for an economical system
of sampling where a sample set of individuals would represent the universe of
target audience within acceptable limits of error.
Further the media consumption habits are not constant. They do change with
changes in environment. Thus the research database needs to be updated
periodically.
The Concept of Sampling:
Consider a Hypothetical Scenario:
• Population : 100
• Females in population :50
• Brand : XYZ – target audience being females
• Hence the target universe size for this brand is 50
• Consider a Research panel setup with 10 individuals in the sample.
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• Since the sample has to be representative of the universe the researcher
would ensure that the sample also contains 50% females.
• Hence the number of females in the sample is 5
• Thus the researcher uses the viewing behavior of these 5 females to
represent the behavior of 50 females in the universe.
• Sample weighting: hence each individual female in the sample would
represent 10 females in the universe. Thus the viewership quantum recorded
on the sample females would have to be weighted by a factor of 10 to
represent the universe.
Audience : 100 individuals Males : 50 Females : 50 Research Sample : 10 Sample Males: 5 Sample Females : 5 Brand XYZ – Target Group : Females Target Universe : 50 Sample representing Target Universe : 5
50 50
10
5 5
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Ad Hoc surveys:
• These sample based surveys are conducted to estimate the media
consumption behavior of a specific target group at that instance
• They are also conducted to assess qualitative aspects of media consumption
• These surveys wouldn’t be of much help to decipher trends in consumption
behavior, since they are conducted periodically on a stable set of sample
individuals.
o Focused group discussions to ascertain content likeability by
audiences
o Testing launch of new media vehicles
• They are also the only source of research in scenarios where panel based
measurement would not be economical for the purpose of the research
o Example : readership surveys
• Methodology: Individuals are randomly selected and are administered a
specifically designed questionnaire, to get the proper responses answering
the research objectives
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Panel Based Surveys:
• They are mainly used for continual measurement of consumption behavior
• Perfect for ascertaining trend changes and environmental impact to media
usage
• Methodology:
o Sample respondents are randomly selected to perfectly represent the
proportions of Target Groups in the universe
o The selected respondents are then trained to get used to media
consumption recording equipment.
o Respondents who are comfortable with the usage of the equipment are
recruited into the panel of sample respondents who represent the
universe
o Their daily media consumption is recorded with the equipment and is
collated periodically to update the database of recordings.
• Example : Television / Radio audience measurement Panel homes
• There are different recording equipment / methods in usage and their
suitability varies from medium to medium. The following are some of the
popular ones
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o Day after Recall methods:
• This is more of a method than equipment
• The respondents are asked to recite their media consumption
activities of a particular day on the next day.
• Generally the questioning is conducted over phone
• Since it is not possible for every panel member to remember the
events and when it occurred exactly, this type of research only
yields a rough estimate of actual consumption
• Further these surveys will be conducted only over a short
period of time.
o Diary Methods
• The dairy has considerable advantage over the Day –after –
recall method
• It can be used for long periods of times.
• Methodology:
• The selected panel homes are given a diary where the
respondents can record their media consumption.
• The recording can be broken up to levels of 15 minutes
• The user is recommended to fill the diary on a daily basis
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• The diaries are collected regularly and filled ones are
replaced.
• The information from the diaries is updated in the
database for continuous monitoring
o People meter methods:
This is the most widely used in Television audience measurement
• Methodology
• Sample homes are randomly selected to represent the
universe perfectly in composition
• Meters are fixed on the TV which records minute –
minute the channel frequency that is being viewed
• The respondents in the home are given a remote to log in
whenever they are watching television
• This makes the meter record the age group / gender
according to the login key
• Hence this is the most effective currently
• Technological advances : - watch meter which does away
with the need to log in with a remote
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Chapter 4: The Stakeholders of the Media Industry
Let us first understand the structure of the media industry – the stakeholders and
their objectives.
Media
Media Agencies
Media Research
Advertiser
Audience
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Media
o TV Broadcasters
• The television industry continues to dominate the E&M
industry by acquiring a share of over 43 per cent.
• The television industry is estimated to be INR 19,100 crore
• The move towards CAS/DTH is considered to be the major
driver for this growth with subscription revenues set to take the
segment to the projected heights.
• From a single public service sector broadcaster, television has
grown into a thriving industry with over 300 channels being
beamed across India.
Source: Price Water House report
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o Print Media
• The most significant development for the Indian print media in
2005 was the relaxation of foreign ownership norms.
• The foreign investment cap under non-news category has been
enhanced from 74 percent to 100 percent in case of Indian
entities publishing scientific/ technical /specialty magazines/
periodicals/journals.
• Owing to the promotional initiatives taken by the government,
print media is expected to witness a growth of 13 per cent to
reach INR 23,200 crore by 2011.
o Radio
• Radio has been the most cost effective source of entertainment
in India for a long time. For a long time, the radio industry was
dominated by the state broadcaster- All India Radio.
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• However, the radio sector has been gradually liberalized and
has been opened for private and foreign investment. The
government is going to award 338 licenses to private players
through a bidding process.
• The liberalized government policy initiatives such as increasing
the FDI limit to 20 per cent and migration to a revenue sharing
regime has given a boost to the radio segment. Radio is all set
to become an INR 1.7 crore industry by 2011.
o Internet
• The number of internet connections is growing at a
staggering rate. Globally, internet is emerging as the fastest
growing segments of the entertainment and the media
industry.
• 93% of the internet users are in between the age of 18 to 45
years. This young, techno savvy generation is accustomed to
keeping in touch with the world instantaneously.
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o Other Media
Outdoor (OOH)
• The Indian out of home advertising industry is largely
fragmented. Outdoor media sites in India are predominantly
owned and operated by small, local player and are typically
marketed by them to advertisers and advertising agencies.
• The sad part is that there is tremendous technological growth
that has taken place in this industry but the small players
cannot utilize this due to lack of knowledge and funds.
Film
• The Indian film industry has experienced advancements on all
fronts including technology used, themes of the movies,
finance, exhibition and marketing.
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• The movie making business has got strong impetus from the
growth of multiplex culture.
• The Indian film industry is getting corporative and has started
looking overseas for co -production. India has the world's
biggest movie industry and produces around 1000 movies each
year.
• Today, the Indian film industry stands at INR 85 billion.
Music
• The Indian music industry is has been showing very sluggish
growth over the last few years. This is mainly because of the
menace of piracy.
• Earlier, India music industry was dominated by film music.
Producers used to earn as much as 15 % of their total revenues
by selling the music rights to music companies.
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• Today, several new trends have emerged worldwide in the
music industry- mobile music, licensed digital distribution
services etc. In India, these trends are yet to be explored.
Gaming
• Gaming, especially mobile gaming is becoming an
important industry today. The other segment of this industry
is the online gaming.
• India offers tremendous scope for game developers. Game
developers in India are presently catering to the demands of
all the four global gaming segments i.e. PC gaming, console
gaming, online gaming and mobile gaming.
Mobile Entertainment
• Media companies are using mobile phones to interact
with viewers, listeners or readers and, maybe, generate a
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little money. They could be using it to entertain them or
promote a myriad products or services.
• Eighty million people armed with handsets want to be
entertained when they are traveling, waiting or simply
living. And they are willing to pay for it.
• As these three main protagonists - media, mobile and
aggregators -- get together, Rs. 2,300-crore (Rs 23
billion) market has been created says a Lehman Brothers
report
Audience
• It is finally the audience that is the consumer for all the
entertainment that mediums of media provide.
• Indian consumers of media have changed to a great extent.
Thanks to the growing literacy rates in the country – today
more and more Indians are being heavy consumers of media.
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• However, media penetration is varied across different socio-
economic classes. As India has the largest youth population,
new mediums of entertainment are gaining prime
importance.
• An estimated 28 million Indians are currently hooked to the
internet and this number are increasing with the day.
Advertising Agencies
o Media planners
• Media Planners help ad agencies choose the best outlet or medium to reach
the customer they want.
• They plan; schedule, book and purchase space in the print media
(newspapers, magazines) or outdoors (billboards, kiosks and bus panels) and
time (TV & radio, internet).
• The media planning exercise may also involve conducting some targeted
brand or need-specific research to assess recall and viewership/readership of
a campaign.
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o Creative department
• The creative department’s task is to harness the right words, the most
appropriate and arresting visuals — anything and everything that will
grab the attention and prompt a sale. The creative team in an agency can
be further divided into two sections: Copy and Creative.
Copy Department
• After the client service executive briefs the creative team, the copywriter
gets down to the task of putting across the message in words — headline,
followed by the body copy in the case of a press ad, a dialogue or jingle
for a radio spot, or a detailed story board in the case of a TV commercial.
• A good copywriter must be able to think laterally and originally each
time, to co-relate masses of data and research findings so as to present the
conclusions in language that is lucid and convincing.
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The Art Department
• Takes care of the overall “look and feel” of the campaign starting with a
“scribble” or rough sketch which accommodates the various components
i.e. headline, visual, picture, text, logo, etc. in a balanced format within
the given space. Selecting the size and type of the font (lettering), the
photographic treatment and the overall treatment of the TV commercial is
the purview of the visualizers and art directors.
• While a high level of originality and creative talent form the mainstay, a
BFA or degree in applied art or graphic design with knowledge of
computer graphics/multimedia is mandatory.
o Media Research agencies
• Market research agencies try to measure the effectiveness of any media.
• It is research that provides the media planner and creative department, a
scientific and measurable basis to sharp-focus their strategy.
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• These professionals are from a variety of disciplines, but share a common
comfort level with mathematical or statistical modeling, sampling techniques
and psychographics.
• Media research uses various tools and methodologies to arrive at the reach
and consumption of a media vehicle by different target groups over a period
of time.
• These numbers are used as trading tools by the stakeholders of media
industry. They also help the media companies to judge the effectiveness of
their content in garnering the attention of the Target Group.
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Interrelationships of different media entities:
1.
Audience
• Media – Audience uses media for information and entertainment.
• Advertisers – Advertisers want to reach audiences to promote and sell their
products and services.
• Media agencies – These agencies act as a medium between the advertisers
and the audience. Media agencies and advertising agencies typically produce
and program ads for its clients that are the advertisers.
• Media research – A media research agency, through audience media usage,
understands media consumption patterns of target audiences
Audience
Advertisers
Media agencies
Media research
Media
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2.
• Media
o Audience – Media craves for patronage from audience to generate
revenues for its channel or other medium.
o Advertisers – It is through the advertisers that the media earns its
major source of revenue.
o Media agencies – Analyze the performance of media to plan/create
and execute marketing campaigns.
o Media research – utilizes the products of research agencies for
performance appraisal and competitor analysis
Media
Advertisers
Media agencies
Media research
Audience
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3.
• Advertisers
o Media – Use media to deliver the product/brand messages to the
target audience
o Audience – advertisers sell products / services to the audience
o Media Agencies – Utilize agencies to plan/create and execute media
plans
o Media Research – Use research data to analyze competitive activity.
Advertisers
Audience
Media agencies
Media research
Media
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4.
• Media agencies
o Media – plan according to each media vehicle’s performance to
execute an activity.
o Audience – need to understand media consumption behavior of target
audiences.
o Advertisers – receive payment for their services.
o Media research – Use research to understand media consumption
numbers of target audiences
Media Agencies
Audience
Advertisers
Media research
Media
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5.
• Media research
o Audience – studies the audience consumption of media
o Media, media agencies and advertisers – cater to their respective
research needs with respect to media.
Media Research
Audience
Advertisers
Media
Audience
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Chapter 5: Different Research Databases Available
Each media has its own characteristic way of being utilized by the audiences.
Hence measuring the consumption of a particular medium would be different from
that of others. Different methodologies are used to measure the consumption of
different media. Some of them are enlisted below with an Indian perspective.
1. Print
• There are two print surveys are conducted on a large scale in
India with a sample size of more than 2,00,000 house-to-
house interviews to track the media exposure and changing
consumer trends in both urban and rural India - and of course
the estimated readership of publications. The study
approximately covers 522 publications (221 dailies and 301
magazines).
• The survey used a multi-stage stratified random sampling
procedure. The socio-cultural regions (SCRs) constituted the
primary stratum. SCRs are essentially geographic units
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comprising states and districts that display linguistic
homogeneity, geographical contiguity, financial, economic
and administrative homogeneity and regionalization of culture
and lifestyles, making each one a unique socio-cultural entity.
2. TV
• TAM is the acronym for Television Audience Measurement.
• TAM Media Research is a TV Viewership analysis firm of India. TAM
Media Research’s viewership cell runs is one of the largest People meter TV
Panels in the world with approximately 30,000 sample individuals
representing all the Class-I towns (towns with population more than 100,000
persons) polled every week for their viewership habits. This division
measures television viewership of audiences for the 300-plus TV stations
operating in India.
TAM People meter systems
TAM measurement Science Presentation
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3. Radio
b. RAM
Radio Audience Measurement
• Radio Audience Measurement is a TAM initiative which is a specialized
measurement service for the Indian Radio Industry. It is conducted in three
metros namely Mumbai, Delhi and Bangalore.
• RAM is the only continuous measurement study in India that tracks Radio
Audience behavior 365 days x 24 hrs.
• It provides all day listening from the same respondent thereby providing
insights on listenership trends over a period of time
• RAM measures FM radio that is consumed anywhere in the country- home,
in vehicle, in college, school etc.
• The Universe for RAM is –all People, 12+ yrs owning an FM device
• Panel Respondents –All People, 12+ yrs owning an FM device
Radio Sensitivity presentation (case studies)
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Chapter 6: Research Terminology in Mass media
General Research terminology
Universe:
Total estimated population expressed in ‘000s or Millions for an Audience group
or a sub group that is used for particular research conduction.
Audience:
It is also referred to as Target group, Target or Target audience or most commonly
‘TG’.
It is nothing but a set of people defined demographically using variables like SEC
(social class), Age, Gender, Channel Access - Terrestrial or Cable & Satellite, etc.
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Population:
The goal of scientific research is to describe the nature of a population which is
nothing but a group or a class of subjects, variables, concepts or phenomenon.
Census
The process of examining every member of a population is called census.
Sample
A sample is a subset of a population that is representative of the entire population.
Sampling error
It is the degree to which the measurements of the units or the subjects selected
differ from those of the population as a whole.
Probability Samples:
A probability sample is selected according to the mathematical guidelines whereby
each unit’s chance for selection is known.
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Types of probability sampling:
• The most basic type of probability sampling is the simple random sample
where each subject or unit in the population has an equal chance of being
selected.
• Systematic random sampling is yet another type of probability sampling in
which every nth subject or unit is selected from a population.
• Proportionate stratified sampling includes strata with sizes based on their
proportion in the population.
• Cluster sampling is also a type of probability sampling where sample in
groups or categories are selected.
• Researchers use a form of cluster sampling called the multi stage sampling
in which individual households or persons (not groups) are selected
Non-probability sample:
It is a sample that does not follow the guidelines of mathematical probability and
hence the sampling error present in a non probability sample research cannot be
calculated.
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Types of non-probability sampling:
• An available sample also known as convenient sample is a collection of
readily accessible subjects for study such as a group of students.
• Subjects who constitute a volunteer sample also form a non probability
sample since the individuals are not selected mathematically.
• A purposive sample includes subjects or elements selected for specific
characteristics or qualities and eliminates those who fail to meet the criteria.
• Under quota sample, subjects are selected to meet a predetermined or known
percentage.
CATEGORY
It is nothing but the product group that is broadly defined (e.g. soft drinks)
SEGMENT
It is the product group that is narrowly defined (e.g. diet soft drinks). A category is
normally made up of a number of segments.
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SHARE OF MARKETS
A brand’s share of total consumer purchases in a category in a defined time period.
It is calculated from either volume or rupees figures.
i. Aggregate total category purchases (in volume or rupees) (A).
ii. Aggregate the brand’s consumer purchases (in volume or rupees) (B).
iii. Percentage B on A.
SHARE OF VOICE
A brand’s share of total measured media advertising in a category in a defined time
period. - calculated from rupees figures or GRPs.
PENETRATION
It is the proportion of households that buy the brand at least once in a defined time
period.
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PURCHASE FREQUENCY
It is the average number of times the households that buys the brand in that time
period.
DISTRIBUTION
It is a measure of the retail coverage of a brand. It is calculated in two ways:
unweighted or weighted.
UNWEIGHTED (OR NUMERICAL DISTRIBUTION)
i. Aggregate the number of stores in your retail “universe”(A).
ii. Aggregate the number of stores in the “universe” that carry your brand at a
particular time (B).
iii. Percentage B on A.
WEIGHTED OR DISTRIBUTION
i. Aggregate the annual total sales value (sales of goods of all types) in your
retail “universe”.
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ii. Aggregate the annual total sales value (sales of goods of all types) in the
stores carrying your brand at a particular time.
iii. Percentage B on A.
Media planning terminology
Media:
It carriers and delivers of advertisements
Medium:
It is a broad general category of carriers
Vehicle:
It is a specific carrier within a medium
Example:
Medium Vehicle
Television Kkusum
Newspaper Times of India
Magazines India Today
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Radio Good Morning Mumbai
Outdoor Patel Bridge
Video Cassette of a movie
Internet Indiatimes.com
Target Audience
It is the particular segment of the population that a particular campaign is trying to
reach
Urban
• All places with a municipality, corporation, cantonment board or notified
town area committee etc.
• All other places with 1) a minimum population of 5000
2) At least 75% of male working population in non-agriculture pursuits and
3) a density of population of at least 400 persons per sq. km.
Illiterate
• A n illiterate person is a person who does not meet the criterion of literacy
• Children in the age- group of 0-6 are considered illiterates.
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Literate
• A literate person is a person who can with understanding, do both read and
write in any language. For a person to be literate, it is not necessary that he
should have received formal education in any school institution.
Main Workers
• They are those workers who were engaged in any economically productive
activity for a minimum of 183 days during the year preceding the date of
enumeration.
Marginal Workers
• They are those workers who worked for less than 183 days.
Socio Cultural Regions
Socio- Cultural Regions are applied as a parameter for stratification in
readership surveys as it groups districts are based on
• Linguistic homogeneity
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• Geographical homogeneity
• Financial, economic and administrative homogeneity
• Regionalisation of culture and lifestyle, which make them unique from other
districts
• Caste and class considerations.
India has been primarily divided into58 SCRS. However some of the larger
SCRs ere divided into two regions to ensure that each SCR used for town
\village selection is not so large as to make the number of towns selected from it
to small and that no SCR is spread across two states. This resulted in a total of
90 distinct regions. NRS 200 uses these 90 regions as the stratum of sampling.
Household definitions
• Household: A household consists either of one person living alone or a
group of persons commonly staying together and sharing food from same
kitchen. A private household is defined as one comprising persons related to
each other by blood, marriage or adoption. An INSTITUTIONAL household
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is defined as one comprising persons unrelated to one another, e.g. those
residing in a boarding house, a mess, a hostel, etc.
• Chief Wage Earner (CWE): The person who make the highest contribution
to the household income, either as his income, if he is staying with the
family, or as a remittance, if he is staying away from the family.(He/she may
or may not contribute to the household expenses).
• Householder: A person who is mainly responsible for managing the daily
routine of the house and decides on purchase of day to day household
products such as toothpastes, powders, soaps, detergents etc. This person has
to be a person staying in the household and can be either a male or female.
• Decision-Maker: The person who mainly decides on the purchase of more
expensive products for the house, such as TV set, scooter or cassette player,
cars, etc. He/ She may or may not also be the CWE or Householder.
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Household descriptor variable
• Monthly Household Income: The average monthly income of a
household is the sum of income of all members of the family and
includes income received from all sources such as agricultural produce,
pension, interest dividend, salaries etc.
• Socio Economic Class (SEC): The MRSI survey categorized eight socio-
economic groups based on both occupation and education of the CWE of
the household.
The eight socio economic classes have been labeled as A1, A2, B1, B2,
D, E1 and E2.A1 denotes the uppermost socio-economic class, and E2
stands for the lowest socio-economic class. SEC A1 is an amorphous
group thus a subset of SEC A1 has been defined which is referred to as
A1+. SEC A1+ refers to the household, which belongs to SECA1, and its
MHI is above Rs. 10000.SEC A1+ and A1 are subsets of SEC group
A1\A2.
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Urban agglomeration
• A single urban agglomeration may comprise of several cities or town
and their suburban fringes.
As per the definitions used in the 1991 census, towns have been divided into six
classes as given below:
Town Classes Population
I 1,00,000+
II 50000-99000
III 20000-49000
IV 10000-19999
V 5000-9999
VI <5000
The Purchasing Power Parity:
It is defined as the number of units of a country‘s currency required to buy the
same amount of goods and services in the domestic market as one dollar would
buy in the USA. According the latest calculation of per capita GNP and the overall
GNP of the world bank based on PPP, India’s per capita GNP in 1999 has been
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estimated at $2,149 (PPP) and it is the fourth largest country in terms of GNP with
about$2.1 trillion (PPP), preceded by the USA ($ 8.3trn), China (almost $4.1trn),
Japan ($3.0trn) in that order.
NOTES:
• All population figures are presented in thousands. These have been
rounded off such that 500 or more reads the next thousand. Due to this
rounding off, the sum of these rounded figures may vary by +_ 1000
• There had been no census in Assam in 1981. In cases where the 1981-
1991 decadal growth data for Assam has been presented, this has been
calculated on the basis of the population projected for Assam for 1981
by the census department, i.e. 18,041,248 persons. In all other cases,
Assam growth has been presented for a two decade period, 1971-1991.
• The 1991 census has not been held in J&K. The 1991 figures for J&K
where provided are based on projections made by standing committee of
experts on population projections.
• For ease of reading, town classes have been referred to as 5-10 lakhs, 1-5
lakhs etc. The exact descriptors would be as follows:
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Term used Population of
Over 10 lakhs 10,00,000 and above
5-10 lakhs 5,00,000-9,99,999
1-5 lakhs 1,00,000-4,99,999
0.5-1 lakhs 50,000-99,999
0.2-0.5 lakhs 20,000-49,999
Below 0.2 lakhs 19,999 and below
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Research in Television
TV Basics I
TV Basics II
Universe:
Total estimated population expressed in ‘000s or Millions for an Audience group
or a sub group that is used for particular research conduction.
Reach
It is the percentage o the audience group / sub - group who have watched the
channel or a day part or a time slot or a programme for the pre-specified length of
time at least once during the pre-specified period of time (e.g. day or week, month,
etc)
Most commonly used threshold: 1 minute or more
An example
E.g. Star Plus’s Cumulative Weekly Reach is 70% amongst C&S, 4+ years
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means 70 per cent of all individuals aged 4 years and above in C&S
connected TV homes in Bombay watched Star Plus at least once during the
week for 1 minute or more
Frequency:
The average number of times households or persons viewed a given program,
station or advertisement during a specific time period, such as one month. This
number is derived by dividing the Gross Rating Points (GRP) by the total non-
duplicated audience (cume). For example, if a group of programs achieved 30
GRP's and a cume of 20, then the average frequency would be 1.5 exposures per
person or household.
Rating
It is also known as TVR, TRP, ATRP and Time Weighted Rating.
Definition:
It is the percentage of the audience who watched a programme or a day part or a
time slot averaged over the duration of the programme or a day part or a time slot
expressed as a percentage of the total estimated universe base
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Each viewer is accounted to the extent of the programme/ day part/ time slot
watched
For e.g. for a 30 minute programme if person X watches 15 minutes, he is
accounted for 50% (15min/30 min)
Channel Share
There are 2 types of Channel Shares:
– Absolute Share
– Relative Share
• Absolute Share = Channel Share with ALL channels as a Base
• Relative Share = Channel Share with all channels from the same Genre as a
Base
Absolute Share =
TVR of a Daypart or Programme
Any Channel TVR within the same Daypart
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Relative Share =
TVR of a Daypart or Programme
Genre TVR within the same Daypart
• TVR in ‘000 as well as GRPs can also be used for calculation of Channel
share
• For a longer period, say a week or a month, the above two tend to be much
more effective than TVR…
• GRPs tend to be more effective method of Channel Share Calculation incase
of Niche Channels.
Calculation of channel Share is done as follows:
(No. Of People Reached x Time spent) particular channel X 100
_______________________________________
Σ(No. of people reached by XYZ channel x Total time spent on XYZ channel)
Denominator is a summation across all available channels
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Thus, the rating is computed considering two variables:
– No. Of viewers amongst the total estimated universe
– Time spent on viewing out of the total duration under consideration
An example (Channel Share)
Assume, no. Of people in the Universe (Bombay) = 5
Programme / time band duration = 30 min on Star Plus
Person Channel & Amount of time watched
A Star Plus for 15min
B Star Plus for 5 min
C Star Plus for 2 min
D did not watch
E did not watch
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(No. Of indvls. who have watched 1min.or more) x 100
Reach % = ________________________________________
Universe
Hence,
3 x 100
Reach of Star Plus % = ________ = 60%
for the 30 mins. 5
Σ (Individual x time spent)
Rating % = ____________________________ x 100
Universe x duration of prog. /time slot
Hence,
{(15/30) + (5/30) +(2/30)}
Rating % for Star Plus = _____________________ x 100 (for 30 mins)
5
= 14.67 %
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Cost per rating Point (CPRP)
It is the cost of buying one rating point. CPRP is obtained by dividing the cost by
the Gross Rating Point of a particular show or channel.
Quiz
Print Media terminology:
Circulation
It is the number of copies sold or distributed.
Broadsheet:
Term used to describe a full or standard size newspaper such as the the Times of
India. Typically, a broadsheet newspaper is 6 columns wide by 20-22 inches high.
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Tabloid:
Term used to describe a smaller than standard size newspaper such as Mumbai
Mirror or Mid Day. Typically, a tabloid newspaper that is 5 columns wide by 14
inches high (approximately half the size of a broadsheet newspaper).
Closing Date:
It is the final date to commit to the purchase of advertising space.
Materials Closing:
It is the final date by which a publication must receive the advertising materials to
be printed.
Average issue readership
It is the estimated no. of people who have read any issue of the publication within a
specified time interval which is equal to the periodicity of the publication.
Claimed readership
No. of people who claim to have read a publication with a frequency greater than
zero (ever)
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Sole readership
It is the estimated no. of individuals who read only that particular publication and
no other publications.
Research in Radio
Radio presentation
Reach:
It is the number of individuals from the universe who are exposed to the medium
or a station.
Reach can be expressed in.
– Absolutes – Number of People OR
– Percentage - %age of the Universe
• Reach is always an unduplicated count of people
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Calculating Reach
Person 1 Person 2 Person 3 Person 4
Station A Yes
Station B Yes Yes
Station C Yes
Station D Yes
Station E Yes Yes
Any Station Yes Yes
Station A= (1/4)*100 = 25%
Station B= (2/4)*100 = 50%
Station C= (1/4)*100 = 25%
Station D= (1/4)*100 = 25%
Station E= (1/4)*100 = 25%
Any Station = (3/4)*100 = 75%
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Cumulative Reach:
Principle: Audiences accumulate over time
The number of individuals within the TG who are exposed to the medium/vehicle
over a certain period of time
Reach Duplication Cume Reach (%)
Week 1 25% 25%
Week 2 27% (15%) 37%
Week 3 23% (12%) 48%
Week 4 30% (17%) 61%
Time Spent Listening (T.S.L)
It is the average amount of time spent by the listener of each station over the
defined period of time. The value is expressed in Hrs. or mins. It is a very strong
indicator of ‘program / content’ strength
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Example:
Person1 Person 2 Person 3 Person 4
0800:0814 Yes
0815:0829 Yes Yes
0830:0844 Yes
0845:0859 Yes
0900:0914 Yes
T.S.L = (Total Time Spent by Listeners) = (15 x 6 = 90) = 0.3
(No. of Listeners) (3)
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Average Audience:
It represents the audience listening to any quarter hour over the defined time
period.
It can also be computed as follows…
– The audience for each individual quarter hour, added up and divided
by the total number of quarter hours.
• Value represents people in 000’s
• Is affected by a combination of both Reach & T.S.L
Person1 Person 2 Person 3 Person 4
0800:0814 Yes
0815:0829 Yes Yes
0830:0844 Yes
0845:0859 Yes
0900:0914 Yes
Average Audience = (1/4+2/4+1/4+1/4+1/4) = (6/4) = 1.25
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Target Audience Rating Point (TARP)
It represents the audience, as a percentage of the universe, listening to any quarter
hour over the defined time period. It is essentially, average audience as a
percentage of the universe. It is affected by a combination of both Reach & T.S.L
Person1 Person 2 Person 3 Person 4
0800:0814 Yes
0815:0829 Yes Yes
0830:0844 Yes
0845:0859 Yes
0900:0914 Yes
TARP% = Actual Time x 100 = (6x15) x 100 = 30%
Total Time (20x15)
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Shares
It represents the percentage of the total radio listening, in a given time period, that
is tuned to a particular station. The value represents listening share in percentage.
It is affected by a combination of both Reach & T.S.L
Exclusive Audience
It represents the percentage of a stations audience that does not listen to any other
station, in the defined time period.The value can represent audience in 000’s &
also as a percentage (of its listener base). It is a good indicator of ‘effective
differentiation’
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Research in Internet:
Internet presentation
To succeed online, a firm needs to understand the new medium of Internet.
The answers to basic questions that the firm needs are:
Who’s online?
Where are they going?
What do they do when they get there?
What are they purchasing?
What are their lifestyles and brand preferences?
Who’s advertising to them?
TAM allows companies to identify market trends and base business decisions
on them:
Which countries have the highest household penetration of Internet access?
Which regions are experiencing the highest rate of growth of Internet
access?
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Who is browsing for products online?
Who is purchasing online?
Which are the Top Internet Services Providers?
What is the impact of education or age of head of household on Internet
access at home?
What should one measure?
Number of people with Internet Access
Household Internet Penetration
Demographics of Internet Households
Access location (home/work/other)
Recency of Internet usage
Device used to access Internet in the home
Penetration of PCs, fixed & mobile phones in the household
Penetration of online purchasing by individuals
Activities undertaken online (e-mail, chat, instant
messaging, online radio, audio-visual)
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Top Internet Service Providers by country
Unique visitors and page level views
Site and advertising demographics
Competitive analysis of advertising campaigns
Local market data
eCommerce buyer behavior
User bandwidth
Lifestyle and product brand preferences
Digital entertainment usage
There are three principle ways to measure internet usage.
A panel of users can be measured at their computers with installed software
(user-centric)
Marketers can monitor how visitors interact with a specific website (site-
centric).
Data can be collected directly from ISP networks (network-centric).
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A measure of Internet usage: Frequency can be expressed either in average
minute per user per month, or in average page views per month. Average minutes
per user per month measures the average amount of time that the average visitor to
the site spends on the site during the month. Average page views represent the
average number of pages of pages on a Web site or properly viewed by the average
visitor to the site during the month.
Click-through rate
Click-through rate or CTR is a way of measuring the success of an online
advertising campaign. A CTR is obtained by dividing the number of users who
clicked on an ad on a web page by the number of times the ad was delivered
(impressions).
For example, if your banner ad was delivered 100 times (impressions delivered)
and one person clicked on it (clicks recorded), then the resulting CTR would be 1
percent.
Banner ad click-through rates have fallen over time, often measuring significantly
less than 1 percent. By selecting an appropriate advertising site with high affinity
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(e.g. a movie magazine for a movie advertisement), the same banner can achieve a
substantially higher click-through rate. Personalized ads, unusual formats, and
more obtrusive ads typically have higher click-through rates than standard banner
ads.
CTR is most commonly defined as number of clicks divided by number of
impressions and generally not in terms of number of persons who clicked. This is
an important difference because if one person clicks 10 times on the same
advertisement instead of once then the CTR would increase in the earlier definition
but would stay the same in term of latter definition.
Cost Per Impression
Cost per Impression is a phrase often used in online advertising and marketing
related to web traffic. It is used for measuring the worth and cost of a specific e-
marketing campaign. This technique is applied with web banners, text links, e-mail
spam, and opt-in e-mail advertising, although opt-in e-mail advertising is more
commonly charged on a Cost per Action (CPA) basis. The Cost per Impression is
often abbreviated to CPI.
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This type of advertising arrangement closely resembles Television and Print
Advertising Methods for speculating the cost of an Advertisement. Often, industry
agreed approximates are used.
For Online Advertising, the numbers of views can be a lot more precise. When a
user requests a Web Page, the originating server creates a log entry. Also, a third
party tracker can be placed in the web page to verify how many accesses that page
had.
There are other advertising pricing structures. CPC - Cost per Click Through,
CPL - Cost per Lead (lead usually meaning a free registration), CPS - Cost
Per Sale. These structures are collectively referred to as CPA - Cost per Action.
CPI and/or Flat rate advertising deals are sometimes preferred by the
Publisher/Webmaster because they will receive a more consistent fee proportional
to the amount of traffic.
Today, it is very common for large publishers to charge for most of their
advertising inventory on a CPM or Cost per Time (CPT) basis. A related term,
eCPM or effective Cost per Mille, is used to measure the effectiveness of
advertising inventory sold (by the publisher) via a CPC, CPA, or CPT basis.
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Pay per click
Pay per click (PPC) is an advertising model used on search engines, advertising
networks, and content websites/blogs, where advertisers only pay when a user
actually clicks on an ad to visit the advertiser's website. Advertisers bid on
keywords they predict their target market will use as search terms when they are
looking for a product or service. When a user types a keyword query matching the
advertiser's keyword list, or views a page with relevant content, the advertiser's ad
may be shown. These ads are called a "Sponsored link" or "sponsored ads" and
appear next to or above the "natural" or organic results on search engine results
pages, or anywhere a webmaster/blogger chooses on a content page.
Pay per click ads may also appear on content network websites. In this case, ad
networks such as Google AdSense and Yahoo! Publisher Network attempt to
provide ads that are relevant to the content of the page where they appear, and no
search function is involved.
While many companies exist in this space, Google AdWords, Yahoo! Search
Marketing, and Microsoft adCenter are the largest network operators as of 2007.
Minimum prices per click, often referred to as Costs per Click (CPC), vary
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depending on the search engine, with some as low at $0.01. Very popular search
terms can cost much more on popular engines. Arguably this advertising model
may be open to abuse through click fraud, although Google and other search
engines have implemented automated systems to guard against this.
Cost Per Visitor
CPV (Cost per Visitor) or (Cost per View in the case of Pop Ups and Unders)
is where advertisers pay for the delivery of a Targeted Visitor to the advertiser’s
website.
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Research Terminology in Public Relations:
PR
It is consistent management of the relationships of a company to all internal and
external dialog groups of relevance, aimed at building trust and confidence. Public
relations are always conducted at the strategic level of management, and at the
operative marketing level. By means of public relations a relationship of mutual
understanding is established, and a balance of interests between all stakeholders is
achieved.
Types of PR research
There are basically three types of public relations research:
Applied Research: It examines the specific practical issues, in many instances, it
is conducted to solve a specific problem
Strategic Research: It is a branch of applied research which is used to develop
public relations campaign and programs. In short, it is deciding where you want to
be in the near future and how to get there.
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Evaluation Research: This kind of research is conducted to assess the
effectiveness of a public relations program.
PR Measurement
PR measurement is a critical requirement for demonstrating the impact of public
relations on corporate objective and managing a company’s most important asset –
its reputation.
Reach
This will cover number of media, number of readers, key message delivery,
placement and the tone.
Benchmarking
This measures the equivalent of the traditional advertising ‘share of voice’
approach tracks the corporate media coverage vis-à-vis its competitors. It provides
the advantage of knowing how much media coverage and of what type it obtained
relative to its competitors.
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Share of Discussion
PR can increase the amount of public (principally media driven) discussion about a
topic, It can gain the majority share (or dominance) for its client or product, then it
is likely that there will be a consequent increase in sales for that
product/competitor after a period of time. Example:
Share of Discussion based on story counts…
Handset
Brands
Vol. /
Articles
Sales vol. in
crores
Vol. /
Articles
Sales vol. in
crores
Nokia 184 4,600 110 2,301
Samsung 82 833 45 442
Motorola 38 680 37 435
Sony Ericsson 22 295 10 210
Here the articles have been collected for the period of 2004-05 for Ist table and
2003-04 for IInd table from Factiva for India region, which covers all financial,
mainlines newspapers and top business & telecom magazines. Articles are more or
less exclusive on brands and are not being analyzed for tonality.
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Correlation- During both the periods Sales to Share of Discussion (Volume of
articles mentioning mobile handset brand names) were highly correlated. The table
above illustrates the correlations between the client’s (Nokia) own media coverage
/ count and its competitor’s with regards to the sales figures. Of course, it may be
argued that marketers have always intuitively known this anyway. However, what
makes this different is that this is showing the potency of unpaid media exposure -
and that’s PR
PR Insights
Insights are the qualitative analysis of a particular company that is undertaken
based on the PR measurement numbers.
Content Measurement
Content measurement very much like the name suggests indicates identifying the
content in a particular media and measuring the PR activity in the same.
ROI
A measure of budget spent to achieve an objective, versus the income generated
through the activity.
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Tone of Voice
There are three types of tone of voice:
Beneficial/Positive
A particular article or program that has featured in print, television or internet
media and created positive, favorable and beneficial impact for a that
brand/company
Factual/ Neutral
It is an article or program that features in print, television or internet media but has
no positive or negative impact on the brand/company.
Adverse/Negative
A particular article or a program that has featured in print, television or internet
media and has created negative or adverse impact on the brand/company
OTS
Opportunity to See (Oth - Opportunity to Hear)-A calculation determining the
number of times an individual is likely to see a marketing message. Advertising
relies on a large number of messages to be seen, whereas a specific PR campaign
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may only have one opportunity per publication. However any number of PR
messages within any number of publications can be calculated to produce an
overall 'OTS' OVERLAP.
EAV
EAV refers to Advertising Equivalent. This gives the value of a particular article.
Co-score
It is a measurement of the overall type of impact of the PR activity.
Industry Story Participation
It refers to the effective use of a PR opportunity to be quoted or mentioned about.
Key message
This key message is what a particular company wants to put in the media
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Coverage by parameter
There are four defined parameter such as the corporate presence, product and
services, means to market and employees. Coverage by parameter indicates the
exposure given considering the above factors.
Share of Voice
Share of voice, or SOV, is a highly sought-after metric today in PR. It is the
percentage one company has of the total amount of communication directed to a
targeted group. Good SOV doesn't guarantee success in the marketplace, but it can
certainly be a contributing factor.
Q & A
What is a TV schedule?
The list of spots transmitted on various television stations and channels for a
particular campaign
is the schedule. The term also is used to describe the way schedules are bought:
the amount to be spent over the days or weeks of the campaign, or the ratings
expected.
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How are ratings for a TV campaign or schedule determined?
The definition for ratings above was for one spot. A TV campaign or schedule is
made up of a series of spots. Ratings for each spot are added together to get the
total ratings for the campaign.
What does “seeing” a commercial or program mean?
There is a technical definition that varies with the research technique used by the
TV measurement company. In some people meter countries, it means a person in
the target is in the room with the TV set on and tuned to the right station when the
commercial is on. Some people meeting this definition may not be paying
attention to the screen. In other countries using people meters, it means a person in
the target is in the room watching the TV tuned to the right station when the
commercial is aired. This definition relies on a respondent’s own determination of
what “watching TV” is.
Is this an “opportunity to see”?
Indeed it is. This British term can be shortened to OTS.
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The person in the paragraph above had one OTS. These may be summed up over
the period of the TV campaign, or over a shorter period like a week, to say that this
person had so many OTS in that time frame.
Are ratings and OTS related?
Yes, they are. But since once – rating – is a gross count of audiences across a
schedule, and the other – OTS – is about individuals, the relationship is not a
simple as it may appear. Only “on average” is this statement true: a schedule
delivering 100 rating points from a series of spots means each person gets on
average one OTS, since the percentage of the target who have seen a spot totals
100. In fact, the statement is never true in reality.
How do we talk about different OTS levels, then?
The target is divided into groups, based on their levels of exposure: those who saw
no spots in the schedule, those who saw just one, those who saw just two and so
on. These groups are reported as a percentage of the total target.
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Is this a frequency distribution?
Yes, it also can be called an OTS distribution.
How are parts of the frequency distribution labeled?
The percentage of the target audience that saw no spots in a schedule is called the
campaign’s non-cover; 100% minus the non-cover is the percentage that saw at
lease one spot. This is the cover of the campaign, also known as reach, also as 1+.
Groups can be defined as 2+: the percentage that saw at lease two spots, and so on.
Groups also can be defined in specific exposure intervals. For example, 2-4; the
percent that saw 2 or 3 or 4 spots.
What affects TV advertising costs?
This is too big a question to answer fully here. The list includes: spot length; the
station(s) or networks used, hence the area covered; demand for TV time, which
usually varies by month of the year; special buying requirements, such as the
proportion of rating points in prime time or the weekly reach (cover) needed;
negotiations between buyer and seller.
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What is “prime time”?
Details of this and other rate card issues are not covered here, since they are so
variable. Briefly, the time when ratings are highest is “prime time,” or “peak” or
“A”. This means that TV spots cost more in this day part. In some countries, it
may be that people pay more attention to the program (an OTS is more likely to be
a real ad exposure). [This well-held myth needs to be verified with empirical
research on a country and copy-specific basis.]
Why does this matter?
Some people are heavy TV viewers and others are light viewers. It is easier to
reach heavy viewers, since they are more likely to be watching at most times.
However, when high cover (reach) is required from a schedule, programs that
attract lighter viewers must be included as well.
By definition, light viewers are eclectic in their program selection. They can be
reached by popular programs and also with special interest channels and programs.
However, the cost to reach them may become prohibitively expensive.
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Are people in various parts of the OTS distribution different, then?
Indeed they are. The example above introduces the idea of heavy and light
viewers. Heavy viewers then to be at the right hand end of the distribution, with
many OTS. Light viewers tend not to be covered at all, or get only one or two
OTS.
Can we sum up an entire OTS distribution in one or two numbers?
An OTS distribution has been standardized: its total adds to 100%. Sometimes the
distribution of a schedule is discussed in terms of the real total GRPs. That’s one
summary.
Another is the percent of the distribution at or over a particular number of OTS.
Thus, the distribution of a schedule can be summarized as “1+” or “1+
reach/cover”, or simply “reach/cover,” simply “reach/cover,” stating the percent of
the target audience that had at least one OTS to see the schedule. For example:
“the 1+ reach/cover of the four-week schedule was 65%”. Similarly, reach/cover
can be reported at other OTS levels: “the 2+ reach of the one-week schedule was
27%, etc.”
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What is “effective reach and frequency”?
The term has a variety of meanings. Usually, effective frequency is a management
decision about the sort of OTS distribution one want. When the percent of the
OTS distribution at or over a particular number (e.g., 1+, 3+, 2-6) is used to set a
goal for the buyer, or to check whether a schedule’s goal has been met, this is
called “effective reach” or “effective frequency.” Stating these cover guides
discourages the buyer from putting all the money into cheap time with high
repetition in order to get low costs.
In some circles, effective frequency is used to set communication goals for a
campaign, inferring that a certain number of OTS in a set time period is required
for the campaign’s message to be effective.
Are ratings the same, whatever the spot length?
Most research services report the same audience, and hence the same “rating,”
whatever spot length was used. In analysis, different definitions may be used.
While the quantitative audience values may be the same for commercials of
different lengths, the spots may have different effects due to their durations. This
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may need to be considered when estimating the frequency levels required for
different types of commercials.
What are “cost-equivalent ratings”?
These are ratings for varying spot lengths equivalized to 30-second costs. The
method in some countries: ratings for 30-seconds spots are unaltered, but if the
cost for a 60-second spot is double that of a: 30, the original rating is multiplied by
two; for a 15-second spot that costs half, the rating also is halved (divided by two).
Why is cost-equivalent ratings used?
Ratings (or cost) are equivalized to make sure that comparisons between brand
campaigns reflect real advertising pressure. Suppose Brand A’s schedule delivered
400 rating points, while a competitor’s brand B delivered 300. Did A have greater
advertising weight than B? It looks like it – but copy length needs to be considered
as well: A used 30-second spots, while B used : 60s. On a cost-equivalent basis,
Brand A had 400 rating points, but Brand B had 600, a heavier weight.
Media Scenario in India
Exercise questions
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Chapter 7: Television Scenario in India
Television:
Television, today, a medium of mass entertainment, has become an integral part of
almost every household. Though it was considered a luxury in the early times,
television in present times has become a necessity. Television or TV has emerged
to be an important source of knowledge and entertainment.
History of Television in India
• Television first came to India (named as Doordarshan or DD) as the
National Television Network of India.
• The first telecast started on September 15, 1959 in New Delhi. After a gap of
about 13 years, second television station was established in Mumbai
(Maharashtra) in 1972 and by 1975 there were five more television stations
at Srinagar (Kashmir), Amritsar (Punjab), Calcutta (West Bengal), Madras
(Tamil Nadu) and Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh).
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• For many years the transmission was mainly in black & white. Television
industry got the necessary boost in the eighties when Doordarshan
introduced color TV during the 1982 Asian Games.
• 1980s: Indian small screen programming started off in the early 1980s. At
that time there was only one national channel Doordarshan, which was
government owned. The Ramayana and Mahabharat was the first major
television series produced. This serial notched up the world record in viewer
ship numbers for a single program.
• By the late 1980s more and more people started to own television sets.
Though there was a single channel, television programming had reached
saturation. Hence the government opened up another channel which had part
national programming and part regional. This channel was known as DD 2
later DD Metro. Both channels were broadcast terrestrially.
Television Scenario Post Liberalization
• The central government launched a series of economic and social reforms in
1991 under Prime Minister Narasimha Rao. Under the new policies the
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government allowed private and foreign broadcasters to engage in limited
operations in India.
• This process has been pursued consistently by all subsequent federal
administrations. Foreign channels like CNN, Star TV and domestic channels
such as Zee TV and Sun TV started satellite broadcasts. Starting with 41 sets
in 1962 and one channel (Audience Research unit, 1991) at present TV in
India covers more than 70 million homes giving a viewing population more
than 400 million individuals through more than 100 channels.
• A large relatively untapped market, easy accessibility of relevant
technology[citation needed] and a variety of programmes are the main
reasons for rapid expansion of Television in India. It must be stressed that
Television Entertainment in India is one of the cheapest in the world.
Cable television
• In 1992, the government liberated its markets, opening them up to cable
television. Five new channels belonging to the Hong Kong based STAR TV
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gave Indians a fresh breath of life. MTV, STAR Plus, BBC, Prime Sports
and STAR Chinese Channel were the 5 channels.
• Zee TV was the first private owned Indian channel to broadcast over cable.
A few years later CNN, Discovery Channel, National Geographic Channel
made its foray into India. Star expanded its bouquet introducing STAR
World, STAR Sports, ESPN and STAR Gold.
• Regional channels flourished along with a multitude of Hindi channels and a
few English channels. By 2001 HBO and History Channel were the other
international channels to enter India. By 2001-2003, other international
channels such as Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network, VH1, Disney and Toon
Disney came into foray. In 2003 news channels started to boom.
Today, Television Industry has become multifold and has a host of functions,
roles and responsibilities to manage. The main functions of a broadcast
agency are as follows:
• To buy and produce creative content for audiences as well as to attract
patronage
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• Promote the content in such a way that it is a cut above the competition
• Sell the air time to advertisers to generate revenues for the organization
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Chapter 8: Departments in a Broadcast Agency and their functions
A Typical TV channel will have the following departments under it and based
on these departments, the roles and responsibilities of an employee are
defined.
The first four departments, that is, the programming, production, marketing and
sales department are crucial for the agency. Business is run mainly through these
departments.
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Functions of each department:
• Programming department:
Very much like the name suggests the function of the programming department is
to create/acquire content for the television channel
This department analyzes the viewership trends, and schedules its content to attract
target audience at the right time. They observe what type of audience likes what
type of content and accordingly they plan their programmes.
• Production Department:
The production department is responsible for actually producing the content.
These channels have different independent production houses under them which
produce the content for the channel.
The channel supervises and coordinates with these production houses to build the
content for the programme.
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• Marketing department:
The role of marketing department is to promote the content to the audiences or the
viewers so that more and more eye balls are registered for the channel. This will in
turn generate more revenue for the channel through the advertisers.
The Promo planning and scheduling is also done by the marketing department to
target the right audiences at the right time
• Sales department:
It is the sales departments that is responsible for generating revenues for the
channel
Competitive analysis is undertaken to do competitive & optimal spot pricing for
advertising.
The sales executives pitch to the clients for advertising spots.
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• Distribution department:
This department ensures the availability of the network channels in the relevant
markets.
They conduct field visits and track deals with the cable operators.
It ensures that the cable operators are carrying their channel and distributing it
effectively.
• Technical Department
Employees under the technical department maintain automatic transmission system
for the transmitter plant.
The team designs and implements professional broadcast systems for a wide range
of projects
It is the technical team that is responsible for uplinking and downlinking the data
to the satellite so that it reaches various households.
• Research department
It is the research department that analyses and infers various trends through which
the management takes various decisions.
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They study the MIS reports and conduct diagnostic testing through which they
identify specific target audience for specific programs
They help the marketing department in promo planning
They support the sales department through their research and analysis.
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Chapter 9: The current TV environment
Growth of the number of channels presentation
• The change in the way people access channels – how has it affected the
broadcasters:
o The way in which people access television affects the availability or
the non-availability of a channel. Those who don’t have a cable
connection can watch only terrestrial channels like DD1 & DD News.
Whereas, even within a cable home, the choice might be limited to
what the operator provides on the cable. This choice is further
restricted by the type of TV. While the latest TV sets come equipped
with all bands necessary for accessing channels, older ones come with
the capability of accessing only a few frequencies. For example a B/W
TV would not receive the signals which are transmitted via the color
band by the cable operator
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Source: NRS Base: All India
o As the above numbers indicate, from 2002 to 2006, there has been a
significant growth in the TV, Color TV and CS penetration levels.
This augurs well for the broadcasting industry since there are more
viewers available.
o The latest technological advancement that has spurred the TV industry
in India is the advent of CAS and DTH. These digital platforms allow
the user to do away with the choice restrictions that a normal cable
connection had. The bouquet of Free to air channels is always
available through the digital platform and the Pay channels are
accessible by the user if he desires to pay for the subscription. Here
the choice is completely the user’s and not the cable operator’s
o FTA and Pay channels: With growing competition and shrinking
profits, the broadcasters looked forward to newer ways of revenue
generation and hence some of them made themselves as pay channels.
Year 2002 2006Universe 191 Mn 219 MnTV Penetration 42.5 50.9Colour TV penetration 15.2 29.5B/W TV penetration 28 22Cable & Satellite Penetration 21.1 31.2
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The user will have to bear a subscription cost to access these channels.
There is a danger of losing viewership because of this since some
viewers might not be willing to pay an additional cost to access the
channel and might switch his loyalty to a competitor’s channel.
• Competition – how does it affect the broadcasters?
o As seen in the table below, the number of active channels has gone up
from 126 in 2000 to 308 in 2006.
o There is a drastic increase in the competition even within niche
genres.
o This intense competition drives the industry to produce excellent
content to be profitable in the business of attracting the attention of
viewers.
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What is DTH and how does it work?
DTH presentation
• DTH (Direct to Home) is a satellite-aided TV rebroadcast system, featuring
a compressed digital encoded signal for uplink/downlink.
• The first step in creating the digital satellite system is to raise the satellites.
This requires a launch missile to raise it to a low-earth geosynchronous orbit
(18,000 mph at 22,500 miles). "Geosynchronous" means that the satellite
maintains a constant position relative to the earth. A geosynchronous orbit
Genre 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006Business News 1 1 1 1 2 4 4Cable 7 9 9 9 9 11 11EngEnt 3 3 3 3 3 3 3English Movies 4 4 4 4 4 4 5English News 2 5 5 7 7 8 9Hindi GEC 6 6 6 6 9 9 9Hindi Movies 5 6 6 7 11 10 10Hindi News 3 4 4 6 7 10 10Info 3 4 4 5 6 8 9Kids 2 3 3 3 8 8 7Music 9 9 10 15 15 23 35Others 28 36 42 46 48 64 92Regional 45 50 61 62 59 65 58Regional News 2 2 4 7 10 15 24Religious 3 3 4 6 9 10 14Sports 3 3 4 4 4 5 8Grand Total 126 148 170 191 211 257 308
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ensures that the antenna does not need to be re-positioned. Each DTH
satellite has at least 16 transponders, and each transponder has multiple
channels possible because of the digital signal compression and alternately
using polarization.
• With the satellites in place, a DTH broadcast requires an Earth station for
uplink. "Uplink" refers to sending data up to the satellite, which then
retransmits the data down (downlink) along a particular angle.
• In order to receive DTH, you need the following components: Antenna
LNB, Receiver.
What is CAS?
CAS presentation
• CAS stands for conditional access system, which is a digital mode of
transmitting TV channels trough a set-top box (STB). The transmission
signals are encrypted and viewers need to buy a set-top box to receive and
decrypt the signal. The STB is required to watch only pay channels, not free-
to-air channels, like Doordarshan.
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• The CAS Bill and what it means: In the new system, Indian broadcasting
companies will decide which channels would be 'non-pay' (free-to-air) and
which would be 'pay'. The viewer will now be able to select the pay channels
he wishes to watch and pay for only these. Each broadcasting channel will
determine the rates for buying the channel.
• Currently, there is no segregation and subscribers pay a blanket rate for the
entire service. There will soon be two levels of segregation. The first will be
a broad differential according to lower, middle and upper classes of society
across cable households.
• The second differential will be amongst pay channels, like premium
channels, which will include focused news, entertainment, sports, music
channels and niche channels like nature, health and fashion.
Benefits of CAS
All the involved players and the viewers (consumers) can benefit greatly CAS is
rolled out across the country. However, vested interests and the price of Set Top
Boxes have been some of the reasons for delay in implementation of CAS all over
India.
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Consumers: Consumers get the option to choose the channels they want to pay for
and view, rather than receiving the whole set of channels that the Cable Operator
makes available to them, and hence benefit by having to pay only for the channels
they want to watch. Currently, in most of India, there is no segregation and
subscribers pay a blanket rate for the entire service.
Cable Operators: Cable operators get the opportunity to pay a part of the
subscription fees to the broadcasters only for the actual number of end users who
opt for the channel, rather than all households having cable access.
Broadcasters: Broadcasters have a long-standing complaint that the Cable
Operators under-declare the actual number of subscribers, and hence pass on only a
fraction of the paid subscriptions. With a system like this in place, it is possible to
address the exact number of subscribers with a cable operator.
Advertisers: CAS gives a far more accurate indicator of programme popularity
with only the actual subscribers of each channel being accounted for.
Government: Since the issue of addressability ensures a fair degree of
transparency in accounting across the entire value chain, it minimizes the loss of
revenues to the government through mis-reporting or non-disclosure of actual
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revenue figures. The government also facilitates the introduction and development
of consumer friendly systems like pay per view, interactive programming, etc.
What is a set-top box? How much does it cost?
The set-top box is the device that enables a subscriber view pay channels. This
instrument decodes signals from the cable operator for viewing a pay channel. It
can also monitor the number and duration of channels viewed by the subscriber.
Analog Set Top Boxes cost between Rs 3,000-3,500, while digital STBs cost 5,500
to 7,000.
Audience Behavior
o Channel share fragmentation
Today there are more than three hundred plus channels. With this virtual explosion
of TV channels, the advertiser is confronted with high media fragmentation. While
it makes it difficult for mass product marketers, the smaller advertiser has an
option to target specific audiences at lower rates.
With the proliferation of different media forms, reaching the right audiences may
mean selecting media that are highly specialized and target focused audiences.
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Media specialists now work harder as they get more complex data from so many
channels. Channel share fragmentation is not a new phenomenon but with return
on investment (ROI) going down over the years, it has become more challenging
for media professionals to give their clients the right advice to enable them to build
sustainable brands in a profitable way.
Media segmentation proves helpful for specific categories which are trying to
reach out to specific audiences and want to stay away from traditional mass media.
o Growth of genres
With increasing number of channels, there is growth of channel genres as well.
For example, Music as a genre has grown almost two fold from 2004 to 2007.
The Hindi general entertainment channel as a genre has been decreasing while on
the other hand, the kids’ entertainment genre is growing.
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Growth of genres is bound to take place because of the number of channels that
have sprung up in the country.
Sensitivity Presentation
Case studies (response to events)
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Chapter 10: Broadcasters: Programming
Broadcasters: Programming (ppt. presentation)
In a broadcast agency, there programming department has a major role to play. The
programming department of a channel performs the following functions:
• Scheduling of the programme:
Checking the potential of a given time slot, the target group that the slot
attracts and the expected rating
Once the programming department decides on a particular time slot it wants to air
the programme on, it needs to check the potential of that time slot. This means
knowing about:
• How popular the time slot is?
• What is the kind of target audience that it attracts?
• What Age group and SEC class watches television during that time slot?
• Will the programme match the kind of target group watching television
during that time slot?
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• What can be the expected ratings if the show is aired during that time slot
and how it is different from the other slots in the schedule?
The programming department has to prepare the FPC (Fixed Point Chart) which is
a chart that shows the weekly/monthly/annual scheduling of the programmes to be
aired on that particular channel. The scheduling is a major task and many strategies
are used for this such as whether the programme should be aired two times a day or
three times a day or likewise, which days should be selected – weekdays or
weekends, which day part should be selected while airing the programme etc.
This is how a weekly FPC looks like. The day parts are divided into half an hour
time slots. The channel name is mentioned on top. Names of the
programme/movies/shows are written in the blank cells.
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• Going through the past performance and checking the TVRs
If re-scheduling of a programme is being considered then it is the duty of the
programming department to check its previous performance under the time band it
was aired in. The department will also check the TVRs that the programme has
already earned. Based on the previous performance the department will take
decision to schedule the programme on the same time slot or re-schedule it.
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• Competitive Analysis: competitive channel’s programming schedule
Today with Indian television consisting of three hundred plus channels,
competitive analysis is become very important. What are the programmes that are
being aired on other channels during the time slot when a particular channel’s
programme is being aired? What are the kinds of target audience that are attracted
to ones show and how is this group different from the audience of competitive
shows.
• Ratings of other programmes
Competitive analysis will also include checking the ratings of other programmes so
that one can know about the performance of one’s programme in relation to other
programmes on other channels. For example: a popular programme X on
competitor’s channel has a TVR of 6.5 while the TVR of our channel is 3.5. This
tells the programming department what should be done to make our programme
more popular and how one should attract more eye balls for our programme.
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• The loyalty of the viewers of that programme
The loyalty of the viewers is important to analyze because it will help to schedule
shows in such a way that if a new programme is launched after a popular
programme with good ratings and loyalty, then the new show will be benefitted
such that bunch of loyal viewers will watch the new show as well. Apart from this,
if a new show is to be scheduled in place of a old popular programme, then the
loyalty of that programme is affected and it may create an effect such that the new
programme TVRs can be hampered.
• Scheduling of the repeat shows and checking for minimal duplication
Many programmes are repeated. While scheduling repeat shows, programmers
need to take care that there is minimal duplication which means that the same
target audience is watching the show again and that there are no new viewers to the
show.
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How TAM data helps programmers in making right decisions:
The programming division of a broadcast agency uses TAM data for:
• Knowing the profile of the target audience- Who and Why
- You can know the genre-wise target audience and their profile
- The audience profile in different dayparts
- The program-wise audience profile
- The Audience behavior
• Program content
- TAM provides the programme ratings which are indicative of the success of
the program content. Programmes with similar content can also be compared
and relative analysis can be made.
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• What are the current television programming trends?
- Based on the data collected for more than three hundred plus channels on
television, TAM helps programmers to know about the trends in television.
For example: Reality TV is the latest trend in TV.
• Comparative analysis (competitor’s data)
- TAM provides with the rating points of all the programmes across channels.
Programmers can make comparative analysis through these ratings to know
how their programmes are doing in comparison to the other programmes on
air.
- Comparisons can be made at different level such as: day parts, programme
genre, advertisement time etc.
- Duplication with other channels – TAM also helps you to know the number
of viewers who are present on two channels at the same time.
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• The performance of the program
- TAM provides you with minute to minute rating of the programme. This will
help the programmers to know which scene in a particular episode earned
what kind of ratings. The performance of the programme can thus be
analyzed in detail. Reaction to particular characters can also be traced
through these ratings.
• The ROI of the program
- TAM helps the programmers to know about the program performance on the
basis of reach, time spent, loyalty building and reach at different frequency
level.
- The return on investment (ROI) of the program is also known based on
which the CPRP (cost per rating point) can be calculated.
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• Appropriate Dayparts
- Through TAM, programmers also know the trends of ratings across different
day parts. This data helps the programmers can schedule their programmes
accordingly.
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Chapter 11: Broadcasters: Sales Division
Broadcaster Sales Division presentation
In a broadcast agency, sales division is an important part of the organization
because it is this department that gets the revenue for the channel. Particularly, the
sales department will make pitches to the client.
The rate of a particular ad spot is dependent on the TVR/TRP of that particular
programme. It is also dependent on what time the show containing the ad spot is
aired. Sales executives negotiate prices with the clients for the spots
Only after the studying the target market and the reach of a particular show, the
rate of the ad spot is decided.
Communication with the Advertiser
• Audience profile of different programs/day parts:
The sales division helps the advertiser to know about the different audience profile
across different programmes or day parts (in case of news/ music channels)
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• Break reach
The advertisers are mainly interested in knowing about the audience reach during
commercial break. The sales division assists the advertisers in knowing that
through TAM data.
• Top performing day parts/programs
An advertiser will aim at maximum reach in minimum budget. Hence, the sales
division provides the advertiser with data on the top performing day parts or
programs that receive maximum ratings so that the advertiser can target a large set
of people at one instance.
• Available Slots
The sales division will let the advertiser know of the slots that are available and the
slots that already have been booked.
• Different market response to different day parts
The sales executives in a broadcast agency needs to know of the trends of
television viewing across different day parts so that an advertiser can advertise
when the brand’s target group matches with the target group of the day part. For
example, most house wives view television in the afternoon. A client selling
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household cleaning products will be interested in advertising during this day part
as the TG matches with that of the audience profile of that day part.
The sales division uses TAM data as a certificate to know:
• Advertisers/brands in competitors: To know about the advertisers/brands
present on competitor’s channels.
• Audience profile – different programs and day parts: To know the audience
profile viewing television across different day parts or programmes.
• Comparison with competitor: Access to TAM data gives information to a
sales executive on ratings of all the programmes across all the channels. This
helps the sales division to know competitor’s advertising data and make
comparative analysis.
• Appropriate Day parts: TAM data helps the sales division to know about
the appropriate day parts so that the advertiser can know which day part or
programme will receive maximum eye balls.
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Chapter 12: Broadcasters: Marketing Division
Broadcasters: Marketing division Presentation
• It is rightly said that ‘Content is king’ however, it is necessary to adorn the
king with silken robes and royal garments! This indeed means that the
marketing of television content is as much important as the content itself.
• Today, broadcasters are spending huge amounts of money for promotion of
their programming. Earlier, people believed that developing good content
will earn them their due TRPs however with over three hundred channels
prevalent in the country today; Indian television viewers have immense
choices to view different kinds of programming. Hence, with this scenario, it
becomes necessary for the marketing team of a TV channel to effective use
promos for advertising their programmes. And it is not just TV but radio as
well that is used for promotions of the content on a television.
• The Indian television industry has experimented with a host of programming
formats which has given rise to innovation in television promos. It is the link
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that holds it all together. Promo planning involves choosing the right spots
on television for promotion, highlighting what will entice the audience to
watch the programme, creating the right kind of curiosity and building the
excitement amongst viewers.
• It is seen that promos and their effective usage have helped to gain
popularity for the show and increase the viewership ratings.
TAM data helps the marketing division of a broadcast agency with the
following:
• Wide choices of target Audience – To know the detailed audience profile
and selecting the right target group for the program content.
• Viewership in Different Markets – Audience viewing patterns across
different TV markets. Which program contents are getting maximum
viewership? Which content has weak viewership? – TAM helps marketers
with detail analysis to answer the above questions.
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• Appropriate Day parts – TAM data helps marketers to know about the
appropriate day parts that marketers should select for specific programme
schedules.
• Comparison with competitor – TAM helps marketers to know why audience
prefers a particular programme or a particular channel. Marketers know about
their channel share within the genre the channel falls in and the channel share
amongst the potential competitors.
• Amount of Promotion required – marketers are required to know where and
how should programmes be promoted.
• Promo trends – what are the trends in promotion and how has the competitor
promoted the content of his channel.
• Current Evaluation – TAM also helps marketers of broadcast agency to
evaluate the effect of a particular promo. Marketers can also analyze whether
they need more promotion or better content for their channel.
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Statistics Speak:
• The average ads aired per day on TV rose from 35,612 ads/per day in Jan-
Sep 06 to 46,647 ads/ per day in Jan-Sep 07.
• At present, there are more than 30,000 commercial spots on television every
day. About 45,000 promo spots are aired daily.
• Surprising to most people, 55% non-programming time is dedicated to
promos. For English movie channels, the figure shoots up to 70%.
• Moreover, while most general entertainment channels are aggressive on
content promos, music and news channels have more channel promos.
• However, while promos reach out to an estimated 65% of the viewing
audience, only 11% are lured back to watch the programmes, defeating its
purpose of creating appointment television.
• In today’s competitive television scenario, even promos have become a
piece of entertaining content in them and hence they too need to be as
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creative as possible. TV marketing managers are investing more in promo
budgets so that their programme gets top of the mind recall!
• Some of the things that need to be taken care of are that the promo should
not only highlight the main contents of the programme but should also
follow the same theme that the programme follows.
• Today, marketers are exploring new possibility of creating promos through
product launches and advertisements and/or movie releases.
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Chapter 13: Broadcasters: Distribution Division
Broadcaster’s distribution division presentation
Making the Right Connections
• Most of the talk, and consequently, the hype in the channel business are
concentrated around the programming aspect. Not only channels, but the
entire media industry seems more cued onto ratings, channel shares, and
other viewership concepts without realizing the importance of distribution.
Distribution is seen as not even half as attractive as programming.
• The relationship between programming and distribution can be viewed as:
“The food was excellent but unfortunately no one turned up for the party”.
The ‘food’ here represents the programming and the ‘not turning up’
representing the ‘distribution’. The axiomatic platform being that unless that
there are enough people who have a chance to look at the channel’s
programming, no amount of programming efforts will make the ratings
increase.
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• In fact, a look at the state of the Indian media scenario will make things
clearer: the following table shows the split between B/W and Colour TV sets
in major metros. As can be seen they do not exactly present a rosy picture
for colour TV sets.
Table 1: The Black and White Picture - Metros
% owning
Metros
Total TV
Sets
(000s) Col. TV
B&W
TV
Mumbai 3198 65 35
Delhi 2314 52 48
Calcutta 1851 38 62
Madras 1319 49 51
Bangalore 1045 57 43
• Thus, even a metro like Delhi has about 50% sets as B/W sets. Now consider
the fact that a B/W TV can carry about 10 channels. By law, a cable operator
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has to carry the three DD channels. So typically in a state like Maharashtra,
the way a channel line-up would be is DD1, DD2, DD 10 (Sahyadri), Star
Plus, Sony, Zee. These are the total six channels. Then you have about two
channels of the cable operator himself and now the total is eight. So there are
a maximum of two channels left in a viewer’s TV set. Given that there are
potentially about 125 channels that can be received by a viewer in India, one
is left with 117 (125-8) channels that are competing for those two channels.
So do you want to, as a channel director, concentrate on programming, core
audience, day part strategies before at least giving the viewer a chance to
view your channel?
• TAM tracks availability of a channel across five typical frequency bands:
1. Prime Band
2. Colour Band
3. S-Band
4. Hyper Band
5. UHF Band
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How TAM tracks channels:
Connectivity Presentation
I. Apart from the Panel Homes that are used to record viewership data TAM
also has a ‘Parallel Homes’ set-up which tracks the movement of
channels in a C&S household’s TV set. The data from the Panel homes
and Parallel Homes are matched, processed and finally result in an output
known as the Connectivity Report of the form as shown in Table 2
below:
II. Though the report below shows only data pertaining to few markets it is
generated for all the markets (27 towns) covered by the TAM viewership
data. Due to the fact that the data is released after a gap of only four days
from the last day of the week, the data is a reliable instant indicator and
can be used to validate distribution efforts.
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TABLE 3 : Connectivity Report for new channel X
Week X beginning 25/03/01
Band All
CITY
Mumb
ai
Chenn
ai
B’lore RoMA
H
RoTN RoKA
R
Prime 4.6 0.9 0.5 0 15.2 21.3 0
Colour 13 6.1 3.3 8.2 7 0.5 32.8
S-band 29.3 23.4 46.9 47.7 24.4 31.3 2.1
Hyper 2.7 7.4 0 5.7 0 0 0
Uhf 3.9 18.5 0 0 0 0 0
None 46.4 43.6 49.3 38.4 53.4 46.9 65.2
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How does one read the table?
As can be seen in the above report, the bulk of the channels’ distribution lies in the
S-Band across markets. While the Rest of Tamil Nadu market is the best in terms
of availability (a significant bulk in the Prime Band – i.e in the first 11/12 channels
of a TV set), the channel has a long way to go as far as Bangalore is concerned.
The Rest of Karnataka market doesn’t do too badly with a significant mass in the
Colour band. But non-availability (the ‘none’ figure) is as high as 65% in the
market. This shows that either the cable operators need convincing to actually
carry the channel, or the universe of TV sets in this specific market is extremely
skewed to the low end TV sets thus resulting in a large proportion of homes not
able to view the channel telecast on S band, Hyper band or UHF band frequency.
Hence, the distribution team needs to chalk out their strategy in lifting the channel
into lower frequency bands like Prime or Colour bands.
Viewership-distribution analyses:
All studies undertaken by TAM show a heavy correlation between distribution and
viewership. The data can be used to pin point problems that a channel is having
and will be an important factor in deciding:
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1. Whether promotion is needed in the market to boost walk-ins into the
channel once the distribution is in place?
2. Does the distribution still need boosting and if so, in which band?
3. Prioritization of markets in terms of distribution and promotion
4. Analyzing competitor trends
5. Forecasting walk-ins by past viewership-distribution trends and an ROI
analysis.
6. Are the efforts on the distribution front really paying off? Is the cable
operator really
doing on the ground what he has promised?
What is ConnecTAM?
ConnecTAM presentation
It is a forecasting tool that is used for TV planning and scheduling.
We all know the way ratings are computed: Number of people reached by the
Programme and Proportion of Time Spent on the programme by the
viewer. Today, Reach is dependent on: Accessibility provided by the cable
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operator by placing a channel at a specific frequency band and Type of TV set
owned by the household (High proportion of B/W TV sets still exists).
ConnecTAM essentially tracks the availability or connectivity of a channel
across:
– Frequency Bands
– By Markets
– By Weeks
ConnecTAM captures the required data at the Parallel Home end provides the
channel line-up across frequencies telecast by the cable operator
Channel line-up data is weighted by the type of TV set (based on frequency
accessible) that the Panel Homes own
In short, ConnecTAM will play a key role in providing insights on channel
distribution, thereby on expected viewership trend for TV planning & scheduling.
However, this software is no longer available.
The years to come will see increased competition if anything else. While channels
are all out to grab their share of viewership, it is important to realize the role that
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distribution plays and will play. All in all, the more niche the channel the more the
need to get connected better.
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Chapter 14: Media Agency: Departments and Functions
Introduction:
• Advertising plays a noteworthy role in today's highly competitive media
bombarding world.
• Whether it is brands, companies, personalities or even voluntary or religious
organizations, all of them use some form of advertising in order to be able to
communicate with the target audience.
• The structure of the advertising industry in Asia Pacific has been affected by
globalization and international alignments creating a smaller number of very
large agencies and the growth of independent major media buying houses.
• Very sophisticated software optimization and planning systems are now
integral to the industry, enabling agencies to offer a unique positioning in the
marketplace to attract new business.
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Departments:
A traditional advertising agency has the following departments however; today
agencies have broken into creative ad agencies and media agencies.
The organizational structure of a traditional ad agency is as follows:
CEO
Chairman
Creative Dept.
Account Management
Client Servicing
Media Human Resource
Research
Creative Directors
Copywriters
Art Directors
Production Dept.
Account Supervision
Account Executive
Finance
Media Planning
Media Buying
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In a typical advertising agency, there are the following departments:
a) Creative Department
b) Client Servicing Department
c) Account Planning Department
d) Media Department
Apart from these, the other usual departments are also present such as human
resources, finance, HR, Research etc.
Functions:
Creative Department:
• The people who create the actual ads form the creative department of an
advertising agency. Advertising agencies usually form their copywriters and
art directors into creative teams.
• Creative teams may be permanent partnerships or formed on a project-by-
project basis. The art director and copywriter report to a creative director,
usually a creative employee with several years of experience.
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• Although copywriters are usually meant to write the copy of the ad, and art
directors, to design it, they both generate creative ideas to represent the
advertisement or campaign's key message.
Client Servicing Department
• It is mainly the role of the client servicing department to interact with the
clients on a regular basis, understand their requirements, convey the same to
the other departments of the agency, plan and execute the completion of
client jobs and also provide them with the finished output. Thus, the onus of
managing and growing the business out of the clients is mainly the
responsibility of this particular department.
• The requirements of the clients once spelt out to the client servicing
employees need to be spelt out clearly and in an understandable manner to
the other departments of the agency. It is on the basis of this information that
the account planning and the creative department will prepare the output for
the client. If the messages of the client are not communicated clearly then
the product provided by the agency would be different from the one that is
required by the client.
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Account Planning Department
• This department has to take an overview as to what can and cannot be done
in advertising; keeping in mind the product/service. For e.g. if S.R.STEEL
wants to advertise, what is it that they want to communicate, what is the
purpose of communication. If they are coming with a public issue, the target
audience will be different. If they are coming up with a branded steel retail
showroom the TA will be different. So as a planner one needs to know these
roles of communication.
• E.g. As far as, Car purchases are concerned, mass media can only generate
interest. One cannot give detailed information on television. For finding
information a lot of people surf the net, so detailed information should be
given there. One should also be present in auto magazines. Thus an account
planner’s role is to see what beyond advertising can be done. An account
planner has to look at different type of communications. As far as impulse
category is concerned one needs to be present at that place and time and it is
most at the moment of truths that you need to be available. So as a planner
one needs to define this world of moments of truths. (As told by Mr. Neeraj
Bassi, Account planning, O&M)
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Media Department:
Media Planning Basics Presentation
• Media Planning: There are numerous TV channels, radio stations, newspaper
and magazines, cinema theaters and out-of-home sites. These are the
traditional media options. Today, the word media includes online, events,
mobile phones, product demonstrations, public relations and anything else
that can reach and influence consumers or potential consumers for the brand.
A Media planner has to effectively generate a media plan for its client that
will ensure the reach to its target audience. Television can reach millions –
but it is difficult to do a demonstration in 30 seconds! So each medium has
strengths and weaknesses. The media planner must weigh the pros and cons
and prepare a media plan.
• Media Buying: Based on the media plan that a planner creates, the media
buying team buys the advertising spots for television channels and
advertising space for print medium. The art of negotiations is important here
so as to get the spots at a low rate! All costs can be negotiated – up to a
point. So the media planner and buyer work together in ensuring that the
client gets true value.
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The Media Environment:
• The advertising industry in India is growing at an average rate of 10-12%
per annum. Over 80% of the business is from Mumbai and Delhi followed
by Bangalore and Chennai.
• The advertising industry touched $4.9 billion in 2007, growing 22 percent
year-on-year, up from $4.02 billion in 2006, the report said. At present,
advertising contributes 38 percent to the entire Entertainment and Media
Industry's revenues.
• According to statistics, online ad spending has reached $23 billion.
Nonetheless, nearly three-quarters of web advertising space goes unsold and
more than 99.7 per cent of banner ads are not clicked on.
• Online advertising, touched $67.5 million in 2007 growing at a robust pace
of 69 percent, and is expected to touch $275 million by 2012 at a CAGR of
32 percent.
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Demanding Advertisers:
• As more and more channels have been introduced in the country, the
advertisers are finding it difficult to reach their desired target audience.
Hence, they demand the media planners to make their plans effective
enough!
Myriad avenues of reaching consumers:
• Modern consumers are online, on-air, and on mobiles. Advertisers are
rethinking the channels they’re using to communicate with consumers.
People are no longer just sitting in front of the TV, waiting to take in
whatever advertising messages are being served up
• Marketers are rethinking the channels they're using to communicate with
consumers and looking beyond traditional media. There has also been a big
shift in media consumption habits and it is the consumer is now in control,
and decides whether, where, and when he or she will consume media.
• Shopper marketing and in-store marketing are therefore growing in
importance as marketers have realized that the in-store environment is one
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place in which they can be sure they're making contact with this new, on-
the-move consumer.
Media Buying
• Media buying is an art of strategic planning, negotiation and buying of
media namely print, television and radio.
• It involves: - Competitive tracking so that the media buyer can negotiate
through discussions
- Striking deals with channels- By calculating CPRP’s basis
GRP and spends data.
- Annualized buying strategy - Channel-wise investment inputs.
• While buying Media, the following factors need to be considered because
the price of buying media varies considerably: Cable network or local
broadcast station, short or long-form, rating and size of audience delivered,
package deals, seasonal influences on available media inventory, time slot
for your target audience and trends in the market.
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• The Media Buyer needs to optimize what is bought and that is dependent on
budget, type of medium (radio, internet, TV, print), quality of the medium
(target audience, time of day for broadcast, etc.), and how much time and
space is wanted.
• The Media Buyer attaches unique phone numbers to each station they
purchase media from and track the sales, and make adjustments to the media
plan and schedule as necessary to optimize results.
• Media Research Planning can be done by Media Buyers as well as Media
Specialists. Depending on product and service, Media Buyers and Media
Specialists do a fair amount of research to determine how best to spend the
allotted budget. This includes research on the target audience and what type
of medium will work best to reach the largest amount of consumers with the
most effective method.
• Media Buyers need to buy media from a vast array of media outlets at their
disposal, both traditional media and new media. Traditional media would
include radio, TV, magazines, newspapers, and out of home. New media
might include Satellite TV, cable TV, Satellite radio, and internet. The
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internet offers a number of Online Media that has surfaced with the
improvement of technology and the accessibility of the internet. Online
Media can include emails, search engines and referral links, web portals,
banners, interactive games, and video clips.
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Chapter 15: Media Planning: Detailed process
What is Media Planning?
Media Planning is the process of selecting appropriate media vehicles for the
placement of advertisement on behalf of clients. Clients want the best possible
visibility and reach in minimum budgets. It is the requirement of a media planner
to assist his client in achieving this. Media planning process involves analyzing
target markets, knowing new media developments, analyzing market trends and
understanding consumer motivation.
• The Traditional Role:
Traditionally, the role of the media planner was quite close to that of the Media
Buyer. The only difference was that the planner would devise a plan for
advertising and the buyer would negotiate on things such as rates, copy deadlines,
placement etc.
• The Modern Media Planner:
The role of the modern media planner has changed and is more wide reaching now.
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A media planner, now, not just has to make plan for the traditional media like TV,
print and radio but also has to integrate new media options and below the line
communication plan.
Terms to keep in mind before understanding the media planning process:
• Reach: The proportion of the audience that should be reached with the
advertising message during a specified period. It is the number of different
viewers exposed to at least one advertisement during the specified period of
a campaign.
• Frequency: how frequently are the recipients being exposed to message? In
other words, it is the average number of times an advertisement reaches each
recipient in a given period.
• Weight: It is the amount of total advertising that is needed to accomplish
advertising objectives.
• Continuity: It is the amount of advertising budget being allocated over the
period.
Media Planning Process Presentation
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Media Planning is a very important component of the Marketing Strategy of an
organization.
To understand the media planning process, one needs to understand two basic
concepts i.e. medium and vehicle
A medium is a carrier of ads i.e. newspapers, television, radio, internet, outdoor,
direct mail, etc whereas a vehicle is a specific media carrier. For e.g. Star plus.
5 step process
Channel Performance(Channel Shares)
Programme performance
Plan laydown (Input channel/ programme/ Spots/ costs
Creating a pre plan log(Plan optimization)
Final plan delivery
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Now a television programme on Star Plus is also termed as a vehicle of television
category.
Under the media planning process you need to answer how many prospects does
one require to reach and based on this what are the mediums in which one should
place the ads. One needs to define the target markets clearly. The media planner
will analyze the target market and a particular advertisement.
Channel Performance:
• The channel share of each channel is taken into consideration while making
a media plan. Channels that have a greater share on television will have
expensive advertising spots. The channel share and the rating for these
channels are given by TAM.
• Channel performance is a crucial evaluation criterion for media planners to
select appropriate media vehicle. It is through this data that media planners
know which channel will earn maximum visibility and reach to their target
audience.
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Programme performance
• Once a media planner has selected the right channels for his target audience,
the next step is to select the top programmes of that channel so that more and
more eye balls can be guaranteed and that the product’s visibility will be
ensured.
• Spots are selected by media planners based on the day parts. For example,
prime time ad spots will be more expensive than non prime time spots.
• In absence of any appointment based channel, frequency channels like
Movies, Music, News etc are selected.
Plan laydown (input channel/ programme/spots/ costs)
The next step in the media planning process is to build up the plan. Software is
available to media planners that will assist them to build effective plan schedule.
The media planner needs to keep in mind the following parameters while preparing
his media plan:
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• The channel
• The Programme
• The days the programme is aired
• The time
• The ad spot
• The duration of the commercial
• The rate (per ten second)
• The total cost (rate * duration)
With the above parameters, the media plan is laid down. This plan will give an
overview of how much budget one will need to allocate for ‘x’ no of ad spots.
Creating a pre plan log (plan optimization):
While preparing a media plan, the media planner checks on the historic data that is
available, to observe the ad spots that is taken during one particular campaign (say
4 weeks). This historic data has to be taken when the programming contained the
usual content and did not have any special events. This is because during such
instances when the channel airs special events, the TVR (TRPs) tend to go up.
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• Evaluating the plan basis CPRP
Now, after the media plan has been prepared using the historic data, a media
planner will evaluate and check it using the CPRP (cost per rating point) data. This
will help him to take decisions regarding which spots are effective and should be
kept whereas which spots do not give effective delivery and should be removed.
• Manually optimizing the plan:
This involves balancing the investments made in a channel with the GRP’s
delivery. The challenge is to optimize your investment by maximizing the GRPs.
At this stage the media planner would strive to lower the Channel CPRP and total
Investment while trying to achieve high total GRP deliveries.
Final plan delivery
Media planners schedule the final plan delivery by the GRP and the frequency and
reach data.
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They build up market wise channel to review the GRP’s delivered by each channel
in a specified market. This helps remove any non performing channel from the
plan.
The final media plan is prepared and this should fulfill the media objective of the
brief to reach a particular number of people, particular times.
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Chapter 16: Advertiser and Use of Media
What is the use of media for an advertiser?
For an advertiser, media is the means through which he will get his product
visibility and brand awareness. The channels of media like television, newspapers,
magazines, radio, and outdoor, other media help buyers to know and acquire
information about various products and services. Hence media is of prime
importance for advertisers.
Need for media research:
There are more than three hundred television channels and hundred plus
newspapers and magazines. As an advertiser, he or she may not know which media
channel he should advertise his product on. Hence, with the help of media research
by specialized agencies like TAM, the advertiser will know about the channels that
get the best Viewership by way of TRP/TVR. He or she will also know what type
of target audience will watch what type of content on which channel.
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With the use of media research, relative strengths and weaknesses of different
types of advertising media is known and it is media research that specifically
explains how to choose the most effective advertising media.
The first decision that an advertiser needs to make is what category or combination
of categories of advertising media should he use and this decision is based on the
findings of the research. Advertisers need media to deliver the right message at the
right time to the right kind of people.
Advertisers need to clearly define set of goals for an advertising campaign will
help them to choose the best advertising media available.
Some of the media pros and cons are enlisted below:
Newspapers as a media for advertiser:
Benefits: Newspaper ads rank highest for believability for all media, High local
coverage, immediate delivery of your message, excellent mass media, an
interactive medium, flexibility in production: low cost, fast turnaround, ad shapes,
size, and excellent quality for inserts.
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Disadvantages: cluttered, little control over ad position, hard to target specific
audience, lifespan is short.
Radio as a media for advertiser:
Benefits: can afford high frequency, low CPM, immediate attention catcher, low
cost of production.
Disadvantages: clutter, no shelf life, low registration, no visualization.
Television as a media for advertiser:
Benefits: 2: very high impact, good recall value, best medium to target specific
audience, high reach and frequency.
Disadvantages: high airtime costs, limited audience selectivity, high clutter.
Outdoor as a media for advertiser
Benefits: highest reach of all media, lowest CPM of all media, Impact is good.
Disadvantages: simple messages can only be delivered, difficulty in measuring
results and high initial costs.
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Evaluating campaign deliveries:
Importance of Evaluation of Campaign Deliveries:
• In the course of implementation of the media plan, it is imperative that the
delivery/effectiveness of the campaign is evaluated and analyzed. This
assessment is important because it helps to fine tune and make corrections
for other media plans.
• Media Planning is a process where one is working with many variables like
vehicle, content, timing, promotions, placement of ads, number of spots etc.
Effective usage of these variables is what will create a good media plan for a
particular campaign.
• Today, the scenario of Indian television is changing rapidly. With an influx
of new channel, niche programming and innovative content, the viewership
trends are indeed getting extremely dynamic.
• Therefore, before reaching to any conclusion regarding the dependability
and integrity of TAM Data, it is imperative to identify factors, which could
have an effect on the deliveries i.e., variations in pre and actual plan.
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Steps involved for evaluating campaign deliveries:
• Step one: The first and the foremost step in evaluating campaign delivery is
checking the planned as well as the actual scheduled spots. Ideally, there
should be no mismatch between these.
• However, in case of variations one will have to further filter this to daypart
level for the channels. The next step is to match pre and post deliveries
which mean that we will view the following:
Week wise viewership of pre plan with that of post plan period
Filtering channels into day-parts to comprehend, which day-parts
are specifically under delivering
• After this step, one needs to now check scheduling for day-parts as well as
for programme level. Also, check GRPs for the spots and viewership, time-
spent & reach for programmes.
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• After having filtered it down to the programme level we reach to certain
conclusions which will tell us whether the under deliveries can be
attributable to non-scheduling of spots or not.
• After having established conclusions on the basis of observing the trends in
time spent, viewership and reach one should filter the analysis down to
specific market to see where the drop is coming from, whether the drop is
coming from a specific market or from all markets.
The fall in GRP trends can be attributed to the following reasons:
• Electricity cuts in a particular market
• Cable strike or other cable related problems
• Local festival taking place in a particular market
• Connectivity issues in a particular market etc
A media planner should now look at the broader picture by looking at aspects that
can indirectly or directly have a bearing on the deliveries:
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Factors that can affect deliveries can be broadly divided into three categories:
Internal Factors
External Factors
Planning Factors
Internal Factors:
Gap between the pre and the actual deliveries can also be a function of internal
factors, that is factors internal to the domain of TV viewership or having a direct
bearing on changes in viewership, for instance:-
• change in FPC ( fixed point chart)
• change in content of programme
• change in packaging of programme
• the programme is not telecasted anymore/telecast is stopped (e.g.
Naam Gum Jayega on Sony)
• influx of new programmes (e.g.: new programme same time band
on another channel)
• the viewership of a programme is variable in nature (e.g. Jeena
isika naam hai)
• spots were not telecasted….and or spots not telecasted as per
schedule
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(Scheduling of spots)
• spots not monitored events/sports/news influx of new channels
External factors:
Variations in the pre and post deliveries could also be attributable to external
factors, that is, elements external to the domain of TV viewership or indirectly
affecting viewership for instance:-
• Change in viewership pattern
• Change in lifestyle pattern
• Electricity cuts
• Cable failure and/or cable strike
• Seasonality/festive seasons
• Connectivity issues
Planning:
Although both factors, internal and external to the domain of viewership have a
bearing on the viewership and hence the post deliveries, as already discussed at
length above.
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Nevertheless there can be factors at the planning end which could also be
responsible for mismatch between pre and post deliveries which should also be
seriously considered, some of these are stated below:-
• Mismatch of TG and programme, wherein programme selected is probably
not skewed to that TG.
• Movie titles
• Pre planning could have been done on programme reach whereas the planner
should be looking at the spot/commercial level reach while preparing a pre
plan.
• Since the schedule of spots is not in the hands of the planners, the planner
should avoid putting spots in the 1st or the last position, optimum case
scenario should be chosen.
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Competitive analysis
• Competitive analysis provides you with a better understanding one’s own
company, competition and industry. Media analysis can be done on a local,
regional or national level. Competitive research and analysis provides
insight into your business.
• For doing this analysis, MAP – Media Analyzer Package which is a TAM
strategy tool helps to track TV and Press Advertising separately and make
comparisons between the two.
• MAP is analysis software which represents an ideal platform for gauging the
shifting trends in advertising over a period of time.
• It holds the key to information about advertisements that appear on a wide
range of Media brands, be it terrestrial, free-to-Air or pay channels!
• MAP also helps to tap the new opportunities that the media provides.
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Other tools – PR tracking
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