Basic Media Planning Concepts: Exam 1
ADV 4300, Kent Lancaster, Spring 2000

Name:                                                 SSN:                                           

1.   The weekend before Valentine's day, FTD Florists ran a one full-page, four-color advertisement in each of the top three newspaper Sunday supplements.  The target audience is 92 million adult males.   Similar advertisements have generated an average 45.0 percent Starch Associated score (message/vehicle ratio).  According to Simmons, the typical issue of Parade has 39 million adult readers, Sunday has 15 million and USA Weekend has 20 million.  According to SRDS the four-color page rates for each of the publications respectively are $675,000, $132,000, and $413,000.   Please evaluate this schedule using the following normative framework and answer the questions below it.

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ADVERTISING MEDIA EVALUATION: _________________________________________

 

_____________________________               Frequency (f) Distributions
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_____________________________                  Vehicle          Message
                                            ------------     -------------
Target: __________________________     f      % f   % f+      % f     % f+
__________________________________    ---   -----  -----     -----   -----
                                      ____   41.0  _____     _____   _____
Message/vehicle = ________________    ____  _____  _____     _____    31.7
                                      ____   17.1  _____     _____     4.3
                                      ____    2.2  _____     _____     0.2
Summary Evaluation
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Reach 1+ (%)                                _____________     ____________
Reach 1+ (000s)                             _____________     ____________

Reach 3+ (%)                                _____________     ____________
Reach 3+ (000s)                             _____________     ____________

Gross rating points (GRPs)                  _____________     ____________
Gross impressions (000s)                    _____________     ____________
Average frequency (f)                       _____________     ____________

Cost-per-thousand (CPM)                     _____________     ____________
Cost-per-rating point (CPP)                 _____________     ____________
Cost-per-net reach point (CPRP)             _____________     ____________
Cost-per-response (CPR)                     _____________     ____________

Vehicle List    Rating    Ad Cost    CPM-MSG     Ads    Total Cost     Mix
------------    ------    -------    -------     ---    ----------   -----
____________    ______    _______    _______     ___    __________   _____
____________    ______    _______    _______     ___    __________   _____
____________    ______    _______    _______     ___    __________   _____
                          -------    -------     ---    ----------   -----
                          Totals:    _______     ___    __________   _____
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2.   Approximately how many adult men are likely to see the advertisement at least once?

 

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