Account Planning and Research Prof.Deepika
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Account Planning
and Research
Prof.Deepika
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Research and Account
Planning
• Information comes from two major
sources:
– Experience
– Formal Research
• Marketing research: surveys,
interviews, focus groups, primary and
secondary data
• Market research: Gathering
information about a particular market
• Research information is combined with
and altered by the experience of
advertising professionals
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Components of
Advertising Research
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Strategic Research
and Evaluative Research
• Strategic research
– Information gathering process that
enhances the design at a creative strategy
level
– Covers the issues that lead to the creation
of advertising
• Evaluative research
– Assesses the effectiveness of your decisions
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Strategic Research
• Begins with secondary research
– Exploration of all available published
information
– May lead to primary research, customized
research conducted for the first time
• End users of secondary and primary
research
– Writers, art directors, and producers – Media planners and buyers
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Sources of Secondary
Research
• Government organizations – Census
• Trade associations
– American Association of AdvertisingAgencies
– Radio Advertising Bureau
• Secondary Research Sources
– FIND/SVP, Off-the-Shelf Publications,Dialog Information Services, Lexis- Nexis, Dow Jones News/Retrieval
• Secondary information on the Internet
– Company web sites
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Primary Research
• Primary research suppliers – Firms that specialize in interviewing,
observing, recording, and analyzing the
behavior of those who purchase or influence the purchase of a good or service
– Well-known primary research suppliers
• A.C. Nielsen
• Simmons Market Research Bureau(SMRB)
• Mediamark Research, Inc. (MRI)
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Question
• Are the following databases developed
from primary or secondary resources?
– National television ratings
– Consumer brand’s ad awareness scores
– Household penetration levels for VCRs
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Strategic Research
Organization
• 1950s: major ad agencies had large
research departments
• 1960s and 1970s: English ad agenciesdeveloped the account planning process
• Use research to gain information about the
brand in its marketplace, consumer
perspectives, or both
• Use the research to contribute to addevelopment
• The account planning concept has
spread worldwide
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Strategic Research
Organization
• Information comes from many
sources, including:
– Qualitative data: understand howconsumers behave and why
– Quantitative data: numerical data
• Interpreting information a task for
the account planner
– Develops and implements ad strategy – Understands the target audience and can
organize huge amounts of information
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The Strategy
Document • Also known as a
creative brief
• Document has 5major parts
Marketing objectives
The product
The target audience
The promise
The brand personality
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Strategy Document
• Marketing objectives
– Reviews the competition
– Establishes a goal for the campaign
– Includes• Past and present sales figures
• Market shares of brand andcompetitors
• Competitor advertising and
promotional resources, tactics, practices
• Other relevant information
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Strategy Document
• Brand personality
– Brands have personalities
• Ads for brands with winning
personalities seek to perpetuate that personality
• Ads for brands with less desirable
personalities work to remedy the
problem
– Personalities can be elicited by:• Asking consumers what the brand
would be like if it were an animal or
person
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Strategy Document
• The promise
– Ads promise a reward for
buying or using the
advertised product or service• Promise section tells
writers and art directors
which reward ads should
promise
• Support section lists factsabout the brand’s
attributes that will make
the promise most
acceptable to users
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Evaluative Research
• Tests whether the advertising has
worked
• Used to make final go/no-go decisions
• Problem: there is no sure-effectiveness
test
– Many truths in numbers
– Advertising is only a part of the overall
campaign
– Advertising has many purposes
– Evaluative methods change all the time
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Evaluative Research
Before Execution
• Message evaluation
research
– Aids in the
development of ads
– Identifies most
promising alternatives
– May be relatively
informal or formal
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Evaluative Research
Before Execution
• Methods of contact
– In person, by telephone, by mail,
via the Internet
• Survey research
– Structured interviews to ask large
numbers of people the same
questions
• Observation research – Placing researchers in natural
settings to record the behavior of
consumers
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Evaluative Research
Before Execution
• Cognitive psychology and the use of
metaphor
– Wants and needs may be so embedded that
language is insufficient as acommunications tool
– People may think in images, not words
• Communication assessment
– One-on-one interviews – Shoppers evaluate ads in a comfortable
setting
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Evaluative Research
Before Execution
• Content analysis of competing ads – Systematic audits of competitor’s
advertisements
• Readability tests – Short words and sentences make for easier
reading
– Text is analyzed using Flesch formula
• Easy sentences average 14 words with 139
syllables per 100 words
• Test Marketing – Representative community used to test ads
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Evaluative Research
Before Execution
• Physiological measures
– Eye movement tracking
– Pupillometer
– Psychogalvanometer-A device for
determining changes in the electrical
resistance of the skin in response to
emotional stimuli
– Tachistoscope-images or visuals are shown
on the screen
• There are concerns about the validity
of these measures
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Evaluative Research
During Execution
• Coincidental surveys
• Used with broadcast media
• Attitude tests – Survey individuals exposed to the ad
• Tracking studies
• Wave analysis
• Consumer diaries• Pantry checks
• Single-source tracking
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Evaluative Research
After Execution
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Implications of Evaluative
Research
Evaluative Measures of Advertising Effectiveness
Evaluative
Measure
Strengths Weaknesses
Memory:Recall
Norms provide highreliability
Low validity as indicator of sales
Memory:
Recognition
Speed, low cost, reliability Low validity as indicator of
sales
Persuasion
tests
Speed, low cost, moderate
reliability
Problems related to audience
composition, environment,
brand familiarity, and cost
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Implications of Evaluative
Research
Evaluative Measures of Advertising Effectiveness
Evaluative
Measure
Strengths Weaknesses
Directresponse tests
Few reliability or validity problems
High cost
Frame-by-
frame tests
High validity Low reliability, high cost
In-market
tests
Relevant results Low validity
Brand
tracking
Relevant results, brand is a
better representation of
product than advertising
High cost, complex process
diminishes the importance of
ad
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Research
Challenges• Globalization
• New Media Technology
• Virtual Research• Embedded Research
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Questions
• A new radio station is moving into your
community. Management is not sure
how to position the station in this
market and has asked you to develop astudy to help them make this decision.
• What key research questions must be
asked?
• Outline a research program to answer these questions using the methods from
these lectures.