ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS PROMOTING PRODUCT AND SERVICES WHAT IS AN ADVERTISING CAMPAIGN? • Advertising campaigns are a group of advertisements, commercials, and related promotional material and activities designed as part of a coordinated plan to meet specific goals. COORDINATED PROMOTION • Specific course of action • Combine marketing tools/promotion to reach target audience • All promotion coordinated around a theme • End purpose is to draw attention and create awareness, build enthusiasm, and drive demand • Marketing tools or media draw from promotional mix- include social media, text messaging, and email campaigns COMPONENTS OF INTEGRATED AD CAMPAIGN • Determine theme • Identify the target audience • Determine objectives • Establish the budget • Develop the message • Select the media • Evaluate the campaign ROLE OF ADVERTISING AGENCIES • Work with their client (business) to develop the advertising campaign • Staffed with artists, copywriters, media planners, and art directors • Select appropriate media and place ads for the business • Works within client budget • Account Executive for the ad agency works with the client (business) CONSIDERATIONS WHEN CREATING AD CAMPAIGNS • Develop strong relationship with the Account Executive of ad agency • Tailor ad campaigns for specific countries and/or ethnicities • Understand your customer/ target market • Organize campaign • Ideas that spread WIN! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBIVlM435Zg PROJECT • Students may work with a partner or individually. • Students select from the list of high profile ad campaigns below and research the campaign. • Prepare a PPT presentation which highlights the history of the campaign, the ad agency who launched the campaign/advertising, the campaign theme, and how other promotional elements in addition to advertising were integrated into the campaign. • FDA - The Real Cost • Always – Like A Girl • Coke- Live on the Coke Side of Life • Budweiser – Best Buds • Pepsi- The Pepsi Generation • Dove – Real Beauty • Nike- Just Do It • McDonalds- Choose Love • National Dairy Association- Got Milk? • Capital One- What’s In Your Wallet? • GEICO-Hump Day