Quiz:  What is the Best Description for Each Media Term?

 

What's the best way to describe each of the following?  Check your answer by clicking "+"!

 

 

Impression?

 

hmtoggle_plus1A person in the audience

No, because if that one person sees a commercial five times, that's five impressions not one

hmtoggle_plus1One commercial  is seen by one person one time

Yes!  An impression is the contact or event that occurs when one person sees one ad once.

hmtoggle_plus1Evoked recall or motivation prompted by an ad

While R&F helps a planner tailor a campaign for effectiveness or awareness or sales response, those effects are not calculated into the measures for R&F

 

 

50,000 Impressions?

 

hmtoggle_plus150,000 people saw our ad

This is true ONLY if we're talking about one, single airing of a commercial seen by 50,000 people.  But a commercial seen twice by each of 25,000 people also has created 50,000 impressions.

hmtoggle_plus150,000 contacts occurred

This is the better answer because it's counting the contact events, rather than people.  10,000 people seeing an ad five times, or 25,000 people seeing it twice, or 50,000 people seeing an ad once -- those all count as 50,000 impressions.

 

 

Universe?

 

hmtoggle_plus1Everyone

No:  if we want to target our advertising to adult women, then we aren't going to worry much about men or children.  Adult women are then our target and our universe.

hmtoggle_plus1Everyone we're interested in talking to

Yes!

hmtoggle_plus1Everyone exposed to the ad

No:  The universe is who we'd like to talk to. Once that's settled, we go onto do the R&F to figure out how to actually expose them to our ad.

 

 

GRP?

 

hmtoggle_plus1A number used to compute costs and delivery

Well, yeah, true.  But a deeper understanding would be helpful.

hmtoggle_plus1Coverage of the market

"GRP" doesn't really carry a sense of the coverage or breadth or reach of your advertising.  Suppose you want to reach all adults 18+ and you blow a million bucks advertising in overnight hours on the Fly-Fishing Channel. It would be hard to say you've "covered" the market in any way.

hmtoggle_plus1Amount of advertising we place in the market

Yes. GRPs is a measure of the sheer bulk of the advertising we're placing in a market

 

 

Duplication?

 

Suppose you have two networks (or dayparts, or programs, or magazines, or whatever), "A" and "B".  Is "duplication" then ...

 

hmtoggle_plus1the portion of the universe reached by both A and B?

All 5 answers are correct.  "Duplication" is the general idea of looking at how two vehicles share audience, and there are lots of ways we might measure and evaluate it.

hmtoggle_plus1the portion of the universe reached by either A or B?

All 5 answers are correct.  "Duplication" is the general idea of looking at how two vehicles share audience, and there are lots of ways we might measure and evaluate it.

hmtoggle_plus1the portion of A's audience also reached by B?

All 5 answers are correct.  "Duplication" is the general idea of looking at how two vehicles share audience, and there are lots of ways we might measure and evaluate it.

hmtoggle_plus1of people reached by either, those reached by both?

All 5 answers are correct.  "Duplication" is the general idea of looking at how two vehicles share audience, and there are lots of ways we might measure and evaluate it.

hmtoggle_plus1the percent increase in reach that B adds to A?

All 5 answers are correct.  "Duplication" is the general idea of looking at how two vehicles share audience, and there are lots of ways we might measure and evaluate it.

 

 

Reach?

 

hmtoggle_plus1The unduplicated sum of audiences

We're looking for the best description, and this one just confuses too many people

hmtoggle_plus1Net audience

A little better, but people still get confused by "net"

hmtoggle_plus1Who saw the ad, ever

Yes!  Reach is the way your friends talk about a commercial:  did you EVER see an ad?

 

 

Frequency?

 

Among the people in our target audience, is "frequency" ...

 

hmtoggle_plus1the average number of times they saw our commercial?

No:  frequency is only averaged among people who have been exposed at all

hmtoggle_plus1among the people who saw it at all, the average number of times they saw our commercial?

Yes!

 

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