Future of Advertising

Sven Blom
Chen Li
Klaas-Jan Molendijk
Willem de Ruiter
Chaitu Satbhai

Introduction

What is a advertising? According to Wikipedia:

Generally speaking, advertising is the promotion of goods, services, companies and ideas, usually by an identified sponsor.

(around 25)

Klaas-Jan:

What is advertising (figure page 539)?
What are the objectives? (e.g. inform, persuade, remind or reinforce)
Why is advertising necessary? (e.g. need to demands, points-of parity and points-of-difference, and see figure on page 558 > Kotler)
How does advertising fit in marketing? (e.g. value delivery process, brand equity, page 537)
What are general qualities of advertisements? (e.g. pervasiveness, amplified expressiveness and impersonality)
Is the role of advertisement changed in the last decades?
What are the available advertisement media types? (e.g. newspaper, TV, internet, radio)
What are the advantages and limitations of these media types?
What are important non-technological trends which affect advertising? (customization, globalization, competition, empowerment, desintermediation)
What is the general advertising process (see page 568)?
How can the Product Life Cycle (intro, growth, maturity, decline) be related to advertising?
How differs advertising of goods from advertising of services?
What affects the advertising budget? (e.g. stage in PLC, frequency, product substitutability, market share, competition)
What can be said about advertising timing? (see page 582, Kotler)

Willem:

Sven:

Chaitu:

With the ability of Internet to facilitate targeted advertising, will advertising be more effective in the future?
Will Internet advertising significantly increase compared to televised and printed advertising?
Will Internet advertising become the most expensive channel of advertising?
How will advertising wars be waged over the Internet? (Currently for printed or televised advertisements, the highest paying advertiser wins the slot. However, with targeted Internet advertising, the competition between advertisers changes somewhat.)
What other modes of advertising will grow besides Internet-based advertising?
What modes of advertising will diminish due to the growth of new methods?

Chen Li

What are the future criterias of a good advertisment?
How much information will a person confront everyday in the future, how will it influence advertising?
How can ICT besides Internet impact on advertising? e.g. mobile technology,etc
What will people in the future feel about advertising? (psychological factors)
Is there going to be any legal issues?(can Internet advertising impings your privacies, spyware can be illegal in the future?)
What are the social factors which will influence on advertising?(people's educational level,social ethical issues)
What are the global culture trends, and what can it influence advertising?(Will the whole world became one entity that shares the same culture, or will be more diversified?)
What will be the living style of people in the future impact on advertising?
What will be the average life-span of an advertisment in the future?
Are there any new business concept could change the logic behind advertising?(like NIKE's way of advertising a figure instead of a product, will similar things happen?)

(to do at monday after class)

Increasing information availebility for consumers (internet comparing)
Increasing knowlodge of consumer (internet reviews, independend users reflection)
Increasing populairity of media on demand
Growing diversity of media
More personalized adds (individualization)
Consumer's ability to skip adds
Growing consumer resistance to adds

Note: just some ideas, we will work on it on monday!

(yet incomplete)