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Reading: Readings for Unit 3 may be found in your digital book, Pearson Custom
Business Resources, by opening the second module, “Mass Advertising,” and
reviewing the following chapters: Mass Advertising:
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“Media Planning and Negotiation” Moriarty, S., Mitchell, N., & Wells, W.
(2015). Media planning and negotiation. In Advertising and IMC: Principles and
practice (10th ed., Chapter 14). Pearson.
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“Visual Media” Bovee, C., & Thill, J. V. (2014). Visual media. In Business
communication today (12th ed., Chapter 9). Pearson. Additional vocabulary:
Search Engine Optimization (SEO):
The
optimal amount of times a brand or good or service will be brought up by the
consumer using various search terms in their browser. (Kombucha is the course
product) Communication messages do not simply appear for public viewing. Marketing
managers must plan their advertising messages as part of their IMC plan. The
media planning must be organized and structured before content can be created.
The media manager will develop a plan to include answers for the present
situation of the campaign and then lay out the four steps of the media plan.
For this Assignment, you will use your course product and determine an answer
for the media plan questions; then you will provide
information for the four steps of the media plan. This must be completed before
you are able to create actual messages to be delivered. Assignment
Part
1: Using your course product, list and briefly describe or summarize what you
would propose as answers for the seven questions a media plan should
cover. (Provide one paragraph for each question. See the seven questions
in your eText readings for this unit.) Assignment
Part
2: Using information from Part 1 of this Assignment, develop media for a
product and complete the four steps in media planning. Use the Template for
Unit 3 Assignment in Course Resources. MT359: Unit 3 Assignment Template
Assignment
Part
1: Using your course product, list and briefly describe or summarize what you
would propose as answers for the seven questions a media plan should cover.
(Paragraph for each question) Assignment
Part 2: Using information from Part one of this assignment, develop a media plan for a product and complete the 4 steps in media planning. Your Name: Media Plan for: (State your product name) Media PlanSummary (7 Questions answered) Media Plan Details: Target Market and Target Audiences: Media Objectives: Media Strategies: Analysis of the Media Plan:
The first question for developing a media plan is understanding the target audience, that is, who is the target audience. This question should cover details of the demographic characteristics and their preferences (Moriarty, et al., 2014).What for? The question should answer the objectives of the media advertisement. This involves the specific goals that the media advertisement content aims at accomplishing and its possible impact on the target audience (Moriarty, et al., 2014).