Just days before the upfront TV program presentations -- and advertising market -- is set to begin, one of most senior TV advertising executives is making her case for big time national TV networks.
It is still the best deal in town -- especially in compared to digital media wannabees.
Backed by a new Accenture study conducted for NBCUniversal, the big TV-media company, Linda
Yaccarino, chairman of advertising sales and client partnerships, says the research for “premium content” -- that is
big TV programming -- delivers “four times as much brand awareness for every dollar spent as paid social media, and more than 11 times as much as short-form digital video.”
So does that mean no money should go to social media? Nope.
Yaccarino did ad: “Effective marketing strategies are built on smart media mixes, as well as an understanding of the
strengths and weaknesses of each medium.”
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She didn’t detail the downfalls of social media -- or traditional media like TV.
For sure, all marketers won’t agree
on the mix of media -- traditional and new media -- these days. Every marketer has different sales concerns, dynamics and goals.
Still, traditional TV selling executives will push that they
are catching up to social media and others -- claiming they have more “advanced data and optimization capabilities.”
Last year, TV networks did get a windfall of sorts when it
comes to questions over digital media problems -- scale, viewability, fraud, brand safety and other issues.
Yaccarino says “television has caught up with digital, and is offering
marketers the data solutions they crave.” Well, maybe. Much of TV still works off of metrics derived from panels -- not specifics from content usage, engagement, consumer purchasing behaviors,
and specific ROI measures.
Though still strong and effective, some would says TV has a lot of catching up left to do.
Still, NBC is putting up -- committing $1 billion of inventory of
its $10 billion for data-driven deals as part of its effort to catch up. Perhaps one good question: Why just 10%? And what specific programs are included in that 10%? Here’s another to ask; Two,
three or six months down the road, how many takers?
Finally, to Yaccarino’s ultimate question that everyone would hopefully answer: How much did marketers’ sales improve from those
new media plans?