How Advertising Trends Have Changed Today?

By Author: Sanjay Sharma
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Unlike conventional practices, modern advertising has undergone tremendous changes. Traditional media seems to have gone through a death-blow while new age media is emerging as preferred mode of advertising. Television Advertising, Radio Advertising and Print advertising still work, however, new age media such as internet and mobile phones have so far emerged as in-demand modes of brand promotion. Brand commercials reach out to customers through different formats providing affluent interaction like never before. In order to have a brief idea about the various changing trends of brand advertising, let us go through the following paragraphs.

Television Advertising or brand commercials through television media are no more the same. Television is still a preferred medium of promotion by various brand owners. However, the content and style of television ads have observed incredible changes over the years. Television media has also merged with internet media to provide maximum reach to potential customers. Customers no more rely upon a single medium of advertising like television to learn about new products and their details. ...
... Multi-media advertising of brands provide a better-off impact on modern target customers. Smart customers/buyers are also continuously using the synergy created from the very convergence of internet and television ads so as to avail of the best deals for brands of their choice.

Radio Advertising is again second to none when it comes to emerging with online ads. Radio commercials these days provide bottom line messages such as ‘Follow us on twitter/facebook at this ID or visit our website http://www.worldwideadvertisingnetwork.com’ etc. It is a different issue of discussion whether it’s a web-based advertising world today. However, it has been rightly defined by some marketing experts that conventional media will merge with contemporary media and that brand advertising will no more be the same.

Print Advertising practices at present are also highly affected by digital technology. Digital publication sets the tone of modern print ads. Unlike conventional tools and techniques, modern print ads are outcomes of digital printers that provide a more polished look about the advertised brand. The endless introduction of digital technology has provided added advantage to various print advertising practices.

Especially from the perspective of tools used for brand promotion, modern advertising has indeed observed remarkable changes. Modern brand owners have exclusive choice of advertising media to launch their promotion campaigns. Increasing importance of launching ad campaigns through multi-media also comprises of one of the ongoing trends of modern advertising. Emerging brand owners can avail of the best advertising solutions for their brands through multiple as well as merged channels of brand promotion.

Some ad campaigns for brands create a lasting impression on customers’ mind thereby providing a life-like appeal. The messages of such ads revolve around themes such as ‘celebrate life’, ‘be what you always want to be’, ‘log on to happiness’ etc. Each of the appeal provides a unique brand message to customers simultaneously affecting their buying behaviour. As a matter of fact, it can be well quoted that advertising provides a life-like appeal to customers through ways more than one. In the following paragraphs, the role of advertising as a marketing tool is briefly discussed as a supportive point of the above statement.

Marketing is mandatory for every business that targets maximum sales and revenue. Advertising is a main tool of brand marketing. Advertising infact makes the marketing world go round. A marketing plan of a brand (no matter how good the idea or theme is) requires to be shared through a proper advertising campaign. Advertising refines the brand communication to be delivered in a presentable as well as customer friendly way. Customers may fail to understand the marketing plans of a brand, but comprehending the brand message in the form of an advertisement is pretty easy for customers.

Though it’s a world of machines and machineries, some human-touch or life-like appeal is always required to communicate with customers. To cite an example, an IT company that plans a marketing strategy to communicate with its target customers cannot talk in a technical language that would be more or less Greek for customers to comprehend. Hence, the company needs to provide a proper brief of the overall marketing plan and discuss the same with the advertiser. The advertiser will frame the marketing plan into a presentable as well as customer friendly brand message. To put in a nutshell, be it any kind of brand, a life-like appeal or human touch is an important input of any advertising message of a brand as any.