Advertising Terms
Media Types
Advertising Strategies
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What is Advertising?

A form of non-personal promotion in which companies pay to promote ideas, goods, or services in a variety of media outlets

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What is Print Media?

Advertising in newspapers, magazines, direct mail, signs, and billboards

100

What is Media Planning?

Selecting the appropriate advertising media and deciding the time or space in which ads should appear to accomplish a marketing objective

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What is Promotional Advertising?

Advertising designed to increase sales

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What is Transit Advertising?

Advertising seen on public transportation

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What is audience?

The number of homes or people exposed to an ad

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What is Institutional Advertising?

Advertising designed to create a favorable image for a company and foster goodwill in the marketplace

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What is Broadcast Media?

Radio and Television

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What is Frequency?

The number of times an audience sees or hears an advertisement

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What is Media?

The agencies, means, or instruments used to convey messages to the public

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What is Internet Advertising?

The form of advertising that uses either email or the world wide web

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What is an impression?

A single exposure to an advertising message

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What is Specialty Media?

Relatively inexpensive useful items featuring an advertiser's name or logo; also called giveaways or advertising specialties
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What is a podcast?

Any brief digital broadcast that includes audio, images, and video delivered separately or in combination

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What is cost per thousand?

The media measurement cost of exposing 1,000 readers or viewers to an advertising impression

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