Basic Media Planning Concepts: Magazines
ADV 4300, Kent Lancaster

 

1.   As a media planner for Dannon Light Yogurt, you are asked to evaluate a January magazine plan to introduce three new French vanilla flavors.  The full page, four color advertisements pretested by Gallup & Robinson have 45.6 percent recognition scores.   According to Simmons, the typical issue of TV Guide and People achieve readership levels of 44.118 million and 38.297 million respectively against 192.031 million US adults.  The cost per insertion for each publication is $155,200 and $131,500 respectively.  Please evaluate a schedule with four insertions in each weekly magazine using the following normative framework.

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ADVERTISING MEDIA EVALUATION: _______________________________________

 

_____________________________               Frequency (f) Distributions
_____________________________         -----------------------------------
_____________________________                  Vehicle         Message
                                            ------------    -------------
Target: __________________________     f      % f   % f+      % f    % f+
__________________________________    ---   -----  -----    -----   -----
                                      ____  _____  _____    _____   _____
Message/vehicle = ________________    ____   12.1  _____    _____    38.5
                                      ____  _____   42.4     10.0   _____
                                      ____    9.5  _____    _____    11.3
                                      ____  _____   23.4      3.7   _____
                                      ____    3.7  _____    _____     1.4
                                      ____  _____    5.2      0.3   _____
                                      ____    1.6  _____    _____     0.2
                                      ____  _____    1.3      0.0   _____

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.   If message effective reach (2+) is correlated with recall, what would a tracking study show after the campaign as the approximate recall level of this schedule as a percent of the target?  Briefly explain.

 

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