Slide 8.
Chapter 8
Campaign planning
for digital media
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Learning objectives
• Assess the difference in communications
characteristics between digital and traditional
media
• Identify the main success factors in managing a
digital campaign
• Understand the importance of integrating online
and offline communications
• Relate promotion techniques to methods of
measuring site effectiveness
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Questions for marketers
• How do the characteristics of digital media differ
from those of traditional media?
• How should I plan an online marketing
campaign?
• How do I choose the best mix of online and
offline communications techniques?
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Key campaign planning issues
• Goal setting and tracking – which specific goals should be
set for online campaigns and how do we measure success?
What response mechanisms will be most effective?
• Campaign insight – which data about customer and
competitor behaviour is available to inform our decision?
• Segmentation and targeting – how can we target and reach
our different audiences?
• Offer and message development. How do we specify our offer
and key messages?
• Budgeting and selecting the digital media mix – How should
we set the budget and invest in different forms of digital
media?
• Integration into overall media schedule or plan – how should
we plan the media schedule which incorporates different
waves of online and offline communications?
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Characteristics of interactive marketing
communications
• From push to pull
• From monologue to dialogue
• From one to-many to one-to-some and one-to-
one
• From one-to-many to many-to-many
• From lean-back to lean-forward
• Changes in nature of marketing communications
• Increase in communications intermediaries
• Integration
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Summary of differences in characteristics of traditional media and digital
Table 8.1
media (note that rows 10–12 are similarities between the two media types)
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Measures used for setting campaign objectives or assessing campaign
Figure 8.7
success increasing in sophistication from bottom to top
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Figure 8.8 An example of effectiveness measures for an online ad campaign
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Conversion marketing approach to objective setting for web
Figure 8.9
communications
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Table 8.3 A range of targeting and segmentation approaches for a digital campaign
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Figure 8.12 Example of CODAR framework for integrated communications
Source: www.centreforintegratedmarketing.com
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Options for the online vs offline communications mix: (a) online > offline,
Figure 8.13
(b) similar online and offline, (c) offline > online
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Recommendations of the mix of investment in digital media for direct and
Figure 8.14
brand response campaign
Source: Zed Media (www.zedmedia.com)
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Figure 8.15 Example of different referrers contributing to a sale for a car rental company
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Figure 8.16 Examples of the referring mix for an airline.
Source: Lee (2011)
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Example of the sequence of visits to a site in generating conversions
Figure 8.17
where two or more digital media channels were involved (Codes for channels:
D = Display, S = Search, X = Aggregator)
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Figure 8.18 Spreadsheet template for digital campaign budgeting
Source: www.smartinsights.com/conversion-model-spreadsheet
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Figure 8.20 Integration of different communications tools through time
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Integrated marketing communications 1
• Coherence
• Consistency
• Continuity
• Complementary
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Integrated marketing communications 2
• Based on clearly identified marketing
communications objectives
• Full range of target audiences
• Management of all forms of contact
• Range of promotional tools
• Range of media
• Selection of most effective tools and media
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Figure 8.21 The Tourism Ireland Taxi Challenge
Source: Tourism Ireland (www.tourismirelandtaxichallenge.com)
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Figure 8.22 Facebook social plug-ins (http:developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins)
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