Frequency of Exposure
in Media Schedules
In some situations, advertisers with a small
advertising or promotion budget are limited
to using only one medium. However, advertisers
with a good budget often use several
media simultaneously, which is known as synergistic
advertising or synergistic marketing.
The task is to determine which media combination
will provide the greatest reach and
frequency for the product or service. A substantial
amount of media research has been
devoted to this question, much of it concentrated
on the development of mathematical
models of advertising media and their audiences.
The mathematical derivations of these
models are beyond the scope of this book.
However, the following paragraphs describe
in simplified form the concepts underlying
two models: stepwise analysis and decision