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How to Pick the Best Place to Advertise

How to Pick the Best Place to Advertise

Gardeners totally get Reader Engagement, because they know that where you plant matters.  They look at what they want to grow, and the best spot to plant. Your marketing message is no different, you plant those seeds in the best place-where your audience is the most engaged and receptive. MME (Multi Media Engagement Study) as reported by Experian defines and examines five key dimensions of engagement and examines how each plays an important role in how media connects with connects with its audience.

So, for a particular target audience that you want to grow in your business, rate your marketing channel on these 5 factors.


Does your current marketing venue get all 5 stars?

1. Inspirational:

  • Consumers are inspired by message and have an emotional connection to it

2. Trustworthy:

  • Consumers trust a particular program, magazine or website and believe it is telling the truth without sensationalizing

3. Life Enhancing:

  • Consumers feel they are learning about new things and places from a particular program, magazine or website, helping to make better life decisions.

4. Social Interaction:

  • Fodder for conversations with friends and family.

5. Personal Timeout:

  • Provide an escape for consumers, who like to relax and unwind while reading or watching them

Some results of the study include:

Americans gave news media highest marks for Social Interaction, indicating that they regularly talk with friends and family about things they see on news programs or read about in news magazines or on online news sites.

In addition, news media get high scores for Trust, meaning that while other research has shown Americans don't necessarily trust "the media" at-large, consumers believe that the news they personally consume provides them with accurate and trustworthy information, Experian Simmons said.

News magazines rate higher for Trust than online and TV news, but news websites are considered more Life Enhancing.

And, among the TV and magazine news properties evaluated, Experian Simmons found that the most talked about news property is The Drudge Report, followed by:

  • The New York Times
  • Countdown with Keith Olbermann
  • The O'Reilly Factor
  • The Wall Street Journal

Of the same 48 news properties, Google News was the least likely to generate any type of social interaction. Next to last was MSNBC's Morning Joe, followed by:

  • Yahoo News
  • CBS Evening News with Katie Couric

According to the study, Trust and Social Interaction don't necessarily go hand-in-hand. The most-talked-about Drudge Report scored 12% above average for Social Interaction and ranked #1 in that dimension, while scoring 10% below average for Trust, for which it ranked #46.

News media gets the lowest overall scores in the Personal Timeout dimension. When Americans want to escape, the last place they'll turn it to the news, says the report. But, TV programs that regularly feature news satire are less engaging than real news except when it comes to the Personal Timeout dimension.