Radio Promotions Worth 3 Times their Weight in Gold
Wednesday, June 30th, 2010800-599-RADIO | Text DR Radio to 511-511 | 714-787-0101 International
By the RadioActive Media Team
The right promotion will impress an advertiser’s audience, increase visibility, connecting it by association with stations, concerts, contests, or other events. At RadioActive Media we are adamant that a promotional campaign deliver 3-4 times the media investment. A client spending $100,000 to participate in a media event should expect a great return, around $300-400,000, on that commitment. It takes experts to evaluate and negotiate packages of tremendous value.
The team at RadioActive Media participates in creating packages in concert with radio stations. They look at events and contests for possibilities. Often canned station packages won’t provide enough value, aren’t appropriate or creative enough to explore all the potential added value.
If a station has a booth at an event, how can leads be generated for the advertiser? Can brochures be given out at the booth? Can visitors sign up for giveaways, expressing their level of interest for the product/service?
If there’s a concert, how about on-screen exposure and sponsor messages at intervals?
Obviously every client and opportunity has to be carefully matched and their entire program developed and planned extensively. With that said, let’s go ahead and look at many of the options for campaign inclusion.
While the rules for sweepstakes have caused stations to be leery of collecting audience information to pass through to advertisers, it’s absolutely possible and easy to encourage visitors to receive discounts, coupons, prizes or other benefits when they go to either the station or advertiser website and give permission (opt-in) for additional messages.
Stations can do emailings to their own subscribers, or promote on their Fan Pages. Advertisers should expect promos for participating as sponsors in contests. Speaking of social media, there are a myriad of opportunities for expansion of exposure in promotion on Twitter, Flickr, YouTube, to name a few.
When stations use other media like print or TV, they can feature sponsors. Many times they’ll have spots voiced by talent at no additional charge. Inclusion in press releases and mentions in appearances by promotion teams are more great examples of stretching value. “Bumpers” or audio messages going into commercial, news and other station breaks kick the impression level up another notch.
New opportunities are expanding. Stations have iPhone apps. Sirius XM provides offer codes to pad displays. Radio ads have calls-to-action that ask consumers to text message which can generate text, audio, video responses and coupons. Driving traffic to websites is just the beginning of what’s possible.
To learn more about how radio promotional campaigns can be developed into spectacular successes for consumers and advertisers alike, reach out to Jeff Pollak at 800-559-RADIO (7234), text DR RADIO to 511-511.
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