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(i) Newspaper
• It allows prompt delivery of detailed coverage of news and other information with
interesting features for readers.
Classification of Newspapers
• National Newspapers
• Display advertisement – Ads that use illustrations, photos, visual elements, may
be National or Local.
• Free Standing Insert – Pre-printed ad inserted in newspapers folds that fall out
when the reader opens it and attract immediate attention
Advantages
• Flexibility
• Widespread coverage
• Offers penetration
• Reader involvement
Disadvantages
(ii) Magazines
• Glamour Magazine
• Film Magazine
• Business Publications
• Professional Publications
• Trade Journals
Advantages
• Long Life
• Better reproduction
• Reader involvement
• High cost
• Low flexibility
Advantages
Disadvantages
• High cost
• Intrusive in nature
(ii) Radio
• It delivers the ad message to a large number of people across the length and
breadth of a country.
• It is one of the most personal medium and offers selectivity, cost efficiency and
flexibility advantages over other media.
According to Rebecca Piirto: “In some ways radio listeners act more like magazine
subscribers than television viewers. They tend to listen habitually, at predictable times,
to stations with narrowly targeted formats. They are loyal, identifiable and much
cheaper to reach than TV audience.”
Advantages
• Wide coverage
• Cost efficient
• Flexible
Disadvantages
• Audience fragmentation
•It can generate considerable reach and frequency level at low cost.
Advantages
•Geographic flexibility
•Continuity
Disadvantages
•Limited message
•Limited effectiveness
•Public criticism
•Advertising rates depend on the amount of traffic which passes every day.
Advantages
•Long exposure
•Exposure frequency
•Geographic selectivity
•Low cost
Disadvantages
•Waste coverage
•Creative limitations
•Audience mood
•Brief message
•It involves use of cinema halls and video tapes to deliver the ad message.
Advantages
•Large exposure
•Audience mood
•Selectivity
•Recall
•Lack of clutter
Disadvantages
•Audience irritation
•Limited reach
•Limited frequency
Internet
•It involves use of world wide web to showcase a website or e-commerce portal to the
world.
•Advertising through internet involves email marketing, social media marketing, online
ads and mobile marketing.
Advantages
•Interactive medium
•Global medium
Disadvantages
•Slow downloads
•Cost of PC is high
•Not persuasive