What is an Advertising campaign?

ppuser4 September 21, 2009April 14, 2017 Marketing and Advertising

Advertising is a communication whose purpose is to inform potential customers about products and services and how to use and obtain them. Every major medium is used to deliver these messages, including: television, radio, movies, magazines, newspapers, video games, the Internet, and billboards. The activity of attracting public attention to a product or business, as by paid announcements in the print, broadcast, or electronic media is known as advertising. Advertising is often placed by an advertising agency on behalf of a company. Advertising spending has increased dramatically in recent years.

Advertising campaign
An advertising campaign is a series of advertisement messages that share a single idea and theme which make up an integrated marketing communication (IMC). Advertising campaigns appear in different media across a specific time frame.

The critical part of making an advertising campaign is determining a campaign theme, as it sets the tone for the individual advertisements and other forms of marketing communications that will be used. The campaign theme is the central message that will be communicated in the promotional activities. The campaign themes are usually developed with the intention of being used for a substantial period but many of them are short lived due to factors such as being ineffective or market conditions and/or competition in the marketplace and marketing mix.