
Students will be introduced to Marketing Management, Marketing Communication and Advertising. Students will get an overview about the global and Indian Advertising Industry.
Students will be introduced to the 5 Ms of Advertising for developing an Advertising programme: Mission, Money, Message, Media and Measurement.
Students will learn about Segmenting and Targeting Markets and Brand Positioning.
Students will learn about types of Involvement, Motivations, Appeals, and Ad Executions.
Students will learn about Creative Tactics and Trends in Print Advertisements.
Students will learn about the Creative Tactics and Trends in Audio-visual Advertisements.
Dear friends, please create a print advertisement for an existing company's product with creative layouts, headlines, body copy, tag lines, logos and images as discussed. Students can design simple print ads to begin with using Microsoft Word, Photoshop and PicsArt. Examples for designing print ads are given in the attached powerpoint file.
Students will be able to create an audio-visual advertisement for 20-30 seconds for an existing brand.
Students will learn about Media Planning and Media Strategy decisions.
Dear friends, you are allotted a budget of Rs. 5 crores/$ US 1 million for an Advertising Campaign for 1 year for which you have to create a media plan using actual rate cards from media companies. You may use various media such as print, television, digital, outdoor, transit and other media.
Sample Advertising Rates:
•Times of India Advertisement Rates: Rs. 60/- per sq.cm.
•The Cost of Advertising in Deccan Chronicle starts from Rs. 300 and goes as high as Rs. 25 Lakhs.
•Local TV stations in India charge from Rs. 1 lakh to 10 lakh for creating a 30-second commercial.
•NDTV Rs 290 per sec. for telecast.
•Times Now Rs 380 per sec. for telecast.
•Product catalogue design: Rs. 2500/per page (Gracia Marcom, Ahmedabad).
•Leaflet designing charges : Rs. 1000 (Planners Advg Pvt Ltd, Mumbai).
•Rs. 0.35 per leaflet printing charges (4 colours advanced Offset Printing).
•Rs 70/sq ft photo printing (Printposters.in) for hoardings.
Students will learn about the top Ad Spenders, Ad Agencies, Ad Awards and Ad Gurus in India and the world.
Advertising Management is a course that begins with Marketing Communication and the tools of the Marketing communication mix. It will provide an overview about the size and growth of the Advertising industry as a whole in India and the world. The course will acquaint students with the objectives and characteristics of Advertising and its role in the Marketing Communication mix. The course provides knowledge on developing a creative strategy for advertising. This includes decisions such as Message generation, Message evaluation and selection, message execution and Social responsibility review. Students will learn various creative tactics and executions used in print and audiovisual advertisements. Creative tactics include brand awareness tactics such as brand recognition and brand recall tactics, as also informational and transformational brand attitude tactics. Advertising executions include slice-of-life, testimonial, demonstration, comparative techniques, refutation, fantasy, musical, humorous, anachronism and other creative executions. The course will also create awareness on media planning and provide knowledge on developing a media strategy. The course will create awareness on the emerging trends in advertising. Students will gain knowledge on leading Ad spenders, Ad agencies, Ad gurus and Ad awards in India and the world. And finally students will be able to use the creative tactics to develop advertisements on their own using the necessary software.