Here’s one of the headlines in today’s Washington Post Newspaper:
The article relates the plight of local TV stations where their rates for prime time advertising have dropped, in some cases as much as 75%, and there are still a lot of availability.
As the article points out, this is translating into a dramatic increase in direct response television advertising, because the spots are available and cheap. So, DRTV merchants can afford the spots and can make money with them.
We need to watch to see if how long this trend lasts. Certainly, it should last until the economy recovers enough for traditional advertisers to reclaim their budgets. But it could also have the same type of impact that the internet had on print advertising.
The internet taught mainline advertisers that there was a way to measure their print advertising directly, rather than just thru “gross rating points” or “gross impressions.” This may do the same for television advertising — we’ll have to wait and see.
In the meantime, we may see a boom in DRTV advertising while the economy remains in the doldrums.
What fascinating times we live in!!
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