The Main Goals of TV Advertising
Branding has long been the First, Middle and Last reason to advertise on Television. If potential customers don’t know about you, why would they buy your products or use your services? Brand awareness creates trust, generates leads, and ultimately creates sales and the growth of your business.
For this reason businesses have used TV advertising to:
• Create brand recognition by reaching the greatest number of viewers.
• Attaining a frequency level that will promote memory retention.
• Demonstrate value through emotion and visuals
And TV ads are great at achieving all three. But TV ads have become more expensive and less effective in the last few years due to a number of changes. Let’s take a closer look at the current state of Traditional TV Advertising.
The Current Characteristics of Traditional TV Advertising
- Broadcast TV ads are expensive.
- Television advertising is broadly targeted and ad buys usually include a lot of “waste” (the ad reach you pay for that is not relevant to your message).
- Clutter Ridden – Television is overflowing with advertising. 25% to 35% of the broadcast airtime is now being filled with commercials
- Ads are purchased based on ratings. Ratings are based on a small sample of the population and cannot guarantee how many people actually tune into any particular program.
- TV ads are sold on a cost per thousand (CPM) basis.
- Audience delivery is impossible to measure, as ratings are estimations and it is impossible to track what percentage of viewers stay tuned during your ad’s playback.
- Under-delivery is fairly common
- Reporting is horrible and slow. Actual run time/placement is only available by requesting a program log. It is nearly impossible to receive a log in a timely fashion. Especially from a Cable Operator.
- Return on investment is very hard to calculate. Direct marketing messages are the only surefire way of seeing true ROI and actual effect on purchases based on the ads
Modern Television Advertising from It’s Relevant TV
It’s Relevant TV allows advertisers to forge brand recognition with pin-point accuracy and benefits. Unlike cable TV that targets channels and times of day, IRTV goes deeper.
1. Reach screens that are located in businesses in specific categories.
2. Market through televisions in specific zip codes.
3. Your commercials are shown in single ad breaks. This means that your ad is the only ad in a break, so all attention is on it.
4. You can target location types that have screens near point-of-purchase, allowing product owners to push their products in areas that they can be immediately purchased.
5. Reliable and immediate reporting. You can see the exact screens and the minute and second your ads have played on them.
6. Affordable at just $0.30-$0.50 per play per screen.
7. Extremely scalable with 24/7 controls. You can concentrate your ads when it makes the most sense for you, and scale back when it doesn’t.
8. Multiple ad messages. You can run multiple video ads at the same time and It’s Relevant will automatically distribute the messages evenly.
9. Ads are associated with family-friendly programming displayed in prominent public places.
For more information on this new advertising platform please contact John Lunghi by emailing him at: john {at} itsrelevant.com or by dialing the main office at: 203-588-1689.
