Calculating TV impacts from your media budget is relatively easy. The formula is: Budget / CPT x 1,000 So, if your budget is £250,000 and your CPT is £5 then you are buying 50,000 thousands of impacts or 50,000,000 impacts. In TV media planning these calculations are usually based on a 30 second ad. But … Read More
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What is a TV Audience Impact?
TV audience impacts are a measure of audience volume in media planning. In traditional media they are called impacts, in digital media they tend to be called impressions. What is the definition of a TV audience impact? An impacts is: One person Seeing one ad At one time Example: If 5 million people watch an … Read More
How is brand advertising different to direct response advertising?
Brand advertising techniques are very different to direct response advertising techniques. Even when you are running an integrated multi-channel campaign it is important to understand the key differences between the two approaches so that you can orchestrate your overall campaign plan and budget to deliver maximum ROI. To illustrate some of the key differences here … Read More
How do TVRs build media reach and frequency?
As we saw in the “what is a TVR” post a TVR is a percentage of a given target audience in a given geographic base. But is a TVR any more than that? Well, yes it is. A TVR is an important factor in calculating how media activity builds reach and frequency. Reach is the … Read More
What is a TVR?
This is a question that many marketers don’t want to ask, especially when they are halfway through the agency’s TV presentation. The trouble is, the agency team have been talking about TVRs for about 20 minutes, the coffee’s gone cold and you daren’t chip in to ask “exactly what is a TVR?” Put very simply … Read More