Friday 27 April 2012

Lecture 14- Social Media & Communication

Lecture 14
  • Mass and New Media
  • Aspects of advertising strategy
  • New Media
  • Academic and Industry debates
  • New media- works through engagement and involvement
Sutherland (2009)-  need to break with past media model
 
Old media model
  • Advertising strategy emotive 
  • required speaking to the masses 
  • Lever global print campaigns
High feeling strategy today 
  • Remember Reach campaign (2010)- started as an interactive website 
  • involve people with past, involved emotionally and creatively in ads 
Old & new communication 
  • transmit (old) 
  • cybernetic (new)
  • Shift between mass to 'my' media 
  • Personalised audience involvement 
  • Usual to pass on viral ads across internet to that of printed ads
  • Voluntary viewings (video viewings online) 
  • Forced viewings (TV or print) 
  • Trevor Beattie- BMB
  • ' From talk about to talk with...'
  • Celebration of New Media
  • The Invisible Children Campaign- 5th March KONY 2012, April 20th
  • Celebrities were involved in this campaign
  • New Media changing, teaching and learning
  • Communication Buzz: Pre-testing Propagation, Dependent on seeding- Scale of placement
  • Beattie- The Big Creative Idea, ' More is More'
Old Spice advert

An audience with Sir John Hegarty, 25.3.10
No. 1 Agencies can innovate e.g NYC tourism campaign
The idea character of NYC = street culture= street musicians.
Linked 2 campaigns  'Dig Out Your Soul'. New album tracks released to NYC street musicians to play
Announcements made websites with Google maps
Performances video recorded (fans) & uploaded YouTube.
Caused buzz music press = global
Creatives collaborated directly with NYC street musicians
TA helped to create & distribute content
 
The third screen 
  • mobile phones 
  • fastest growing market in creative industry 
Kairos factor 
  • principle of presenting the desired message at the opportune moment 
Impact of new media on advertising agency 
Structures of agencies need to change- social from the inside 
New media impact has a 3rd layer of communication 
Audience- producer of culture 
No medium is dying just a different role 
New media is up close and tactile 
Golden age for creativity  
 
Lets go forth campaign

Future
Nike digital sport
overlay of experiences google and facebook