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Types of Advertising

1. Print Advertising

2. Outdoor Advertising

3. Broadcast advertising

4. Covert Advertising

5. Surrogate Advertising

6. Public Service Advertising

7. Celebrity Advertising

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Print Advertising

If an advertisement is printed

on paper, be it newspapers,

magazines, brochures,

fliers that would be

considered a portable

printed medium, then it

comes under the banner of

print advertising.

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Newspaper

Brochures

Fliers

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Outdoor Advertising

• Advertising on bill boards or signboards, outside of a building and often by the roadside.

• The billboard advertising is very popular however has to be really terse and catchy in order to grab the attention of the passers by.

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Broadcast Advertising

• Broadcast advertising is a very popular advertising medium that constitutes of several branches like television, radio or the Internet

• The cost of television advertising often depends on the duration of the advertisement, the time of broadcast (prime time/peak time), and of course the popularity of the television channel on which the advertisement is going to be broadcasted.

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Covert Advertising

• Covert advertising is a unique kind of advertising in which a product or a particular brand is incorporated in some entertainment and media channels like movies, television shows or even sports.

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Surrogate Advertising

• Surrogate advertising is prominently seen in cases where

advertising a particular product is banned by law.

• Advertisement for products like cigarettes or alcohol which

are injurious to heath are prohibited by law in several

countries and hence these companies have to come up with

several other products that might have the same brand name

and indirectly remind people of the cigarettes or beer bottles

of the same brand

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Surrogate Advertising

• Kingfisher beer brands, which are often seen to promote their

brand with the help of surrogate advertising.

• The Health Minister had challenged the name of the

Bangalore Indian Premier League (IPL) cricket team, “Royal

Challengers”, which was such an obvious and blatant form of

surrogate advertising for liquor brand “Royal Challenge”.

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Public Service Advertising

• Public service advertising is a technique that makes use of advertising as an effective communication medium to convey socially relevant messaged about important matters.

• Examples : AIDS, energy conservation, political integrity, deforestation, illiteracy, poverty and so on.

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Celebrity Advertising

• Although the audience is getting smarter and

smarter and the modern day consumer getting

immune to the exaggerated claims made in a

majority of advertisements, there exist a section of

advertisers that still bank upon celebrities and their

popularity for advertising their products.

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More On Types of Advertising

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Transit Advertisement

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Direct E-Mail Advertisement

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Retail Advertisement

• Emphasizes the specific retail outlet as the place to

buy a specific range of brand.

• It can be local store advertising in local newspaper.

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Brand Advertising

• It is advertising with a strong emphasis on the

company brand (logo and/or company name) also

known as integrated marketing communications

(IMC).

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Non-Product Advertisement

• This kind of advertisement

is advertised from political

parties trade fraternal and

social group for the

purposes of safeguard

ideologies, social

betterment and institution.

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Reminder advertisement

• A marketing strategy typically consisting of brief messages

sent with the objective of reminding a target consumer

group about a product or service or of introducing a new

theme into an existing marketing program.

• Reminder advertising might be used by a business that has

already invested considerable resources in initially

promoting their product or service and still wishes to

maintain its competitiveness.

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Defensive advertisement

• A type of advertising that is initiated for the

purpose of combating a potentially damaging or

negative effect of a competitors ads.

• For example, political campaigns often involve

negative advertisements regarding a candidate,

paid for by the opposing candidate's political

party.

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Persuasive advertisement

• A type of product promotion that attempts to influence

a consumer in favour of a purchasing particular good

or service by appealing to their emotions and general

sensibilities.

• A business might engage in informative or persuasive

advertising to encourage first time customers to try its

product, in addition to reminding customers to

purchase a product they have previously bought.