Almost every public communication campaign has a knowledge or awareness component, particularly in the campaign’s beginning stages. Often the first measures of awareness come before the creative design phase with public polling to determine where the public stands on the issue at hand. That first measure then becomes a baseline for later comparative assessments, and raising awareness can be one of the campaign’s first measures of progress. One criticism of campaign evaluations, however, is an overreliance on knowledge or awareness as a measure of success. It is important, but it does not give a complete picture of a campaign’s effects.