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ADVERTISING AGENCIES
Learning Outcomes
What is the role of advertising agencies?
Functions of advertising agencies?
Types of advertising agencies?
What is the role
of advertising
agencies?
Advertising Agency
According to American marketing Association, "An
Advertising agency is an independent business
organization composed of creative and business
people who develop, prepare and place advertising
in advertising media for sellers seeking to find
customers for their goods and services."
FUNCTIONS OF ADVERTISING AGENCY
1. Contacting Clients: Advertising agency first of all
identify and contact firms which are desirous of
advertising their product or services
Advertising agency performs following functions:
2. Planning Advertisement: Advertising agency's
next function is to plan ad for its client.
3. Creative Function: Creative people like - the
copywriters, artists, art-directors, graphic-specialists
have to perform the creative function which is most
important part of all advertising function.
5. Approval of Client: Ad-copy is shown to the client
for his approval
6. Media Selection and scheduling: It is very
important function of ad-agency to select
appropriate media for its clients.
7. Executing: Now, media is selected for time or space,
ad is delivered to media, checked, verified, and released
in media. After ad release payment is done to media and
client is billed for the services provided.
FUNCTIONS OF ADVERTISING AGENCY
8. Evaluation Function: After execution, it is the
responsibility of ad-agency to evaluate the
effectiveness of ad to know how beneficial the ad is
for its client.
9. Marketing Function: The advertising agency also
performs various marketing function like- selecting
target audience, designing products, designing
packages, determining prices, study of channel of
distribution, market research, sales promotion,
publicity, etc.
FUNCTIONS OF ADVERTISING AGENCY
10. Research Function: Ad-agency performs various research
functions like- research of different media, media cost, media
reach, circulation, entry of new media, information regarding
ratings, and TRP's of TV programmed, serials.
11. Accounting Function: Accounting function of ad-agency
includes checking bills, making payments, cash discounts
allowed by media, collection of dues from clients, Advertising
and Sales Promotion.
FUNCTIONS OF ADVERTISING AGENCY
Advertisement Execution Styles
is a kind of ad strategy that utilizes everyday scenarios to
integrate a product into the daily dynamics of consumers.
slice-of-life advertisement
Lifestyle that focuses on creating a connection between a product or service and the consumer's
lifestyle.
Spokesperson/Testimonial usually features a celebrity, company official, or typical consumer making a
testimonial or endorsing the product
Fantasy creates a fantasy for the viewer built around use the product
Real/Animated Product create a character that represents the product in advertisement
ROLE OF ADVERTISING AGENCIES
• Creating an advertise on the basis of information
gathered about product
• Doing research on the company and the product
and reactions of the customers.
• Planning for type of media to be used, when and
where to be used, and for how
• much time to be used.
• Taking the feedbacks from the clients as well as
the customers and then deciding
• the further line of action
TYPES OF ADVERTISING AGENCIES
There are basically types of advertising agencies.
1. Full service Agencies
 Large size agencies.
 Deals with all stages of advertisement.
 Different expert people for different departments.
 Starts work from gathering data and analyzing and ends on
payment of bills to
the media people.
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2. Interactive Agencies
 Modernized modes of communication are
used.
 Uses online advertisements, sending
personal messages on mobile phones, etc.
 The ads produced are very interactive,
having very new concepts, and very
innovative
3. Creative Boutiques
 Very creative and innovative ads.
 No other function is performed other than
creating actual ads.
 Small sized agencies with their own
copywriters, directors, and creative people.
5. In-House Agencies
 As good as the full service agencies.
 Big organization prefers these type of agencies
which are in built and work only for them.
 These agencies work as per the requirements of
the organizations.
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