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account executive (AE)
The liaison between the agency and the client. They are responsible both for managing all the agency's services for the benefit of the client and for representing the agency's point of view to the client.
account planning
A hybrid discipline that bridges the gap between traditional research, account management, and creative direction whereby agency people represent the view of the consumer in order to better define and plan the client's advertising program.
advertising agency
An independent organization of creative people and businesspeople who specialize in developing and preparing advertising plans, advertisements, and other promotional tools for advertisers. The agency also arranges for or contracts for purchase of space and time in various media.
art director
Along with graphic designers and production artists, determines how the ad's verbal and visual symbols will fit together.
art studio
Company that designs and produces artwork and illustrations for advertisements, brochures, and other communication devices.
Association of National Advertisers (ANA)
An organization composed of 400 major manufacturing and service companies that are clients of member agencies of the AAAA. These companies, which are pledged to uphold the ANA code of advertising ethics, work with the ANA through a joint Committee for Improvement of Advertising Content.
brand manager
The individual within the advertiser's company who is assigned the authority and responsibility for the successful marketing of a particular brand.
business-to-business agency
Represents clients that market products to other businesses; also called high-tech agency.
centralized advertising department
A staff of employees, usually located at corporate headquarters, responsible for all the organization's advertising. The department is often structured by product, advertising subfunction, end user, media, or geography.
classified advertising
Used to locate and recruit new employees, offer services, or sell or lease new and used merchandise.
clearance advertising
A type of local advertising designed to make room for new product lines or new models or to get rid of slow-moving product lines, floor samples, broken or distressed merchandise, or items that are no longer in season.
cooperative (co-op) advertising
The sharing of advertising costs by the manufacturer and the distributor or retailer. The manufacturer may repay 50 or 100 percent of the dealer's advertising costs or some other amount based on sales. See also horizontal cooperative advertising, vertical cooperative advertising.
copy
The words that make up the headline and message of an advertisement or commercial.
copywriters
People who create the words and concepts for ads and commercials.
creative boutique
An organization of creative specialists (such as art directors, designers, and copywriters) who work for advertisers and occasionally advertising agencies to develop creative concepts, advertising messages, and specialized art. A boutique performs only the creative work.
creative director
Heads a creative team of agency copywriters and artists that is assigned to a client's business; is ultimately responsible for the creative product--the form the final ad takes.
departmental system
The organization of an ad agency into departments based on function: account services, creative services, marketing services, and administration.
development stage
In the agency-client relationship, the honeymoon period when both agency and client are at the peak of their optimism and are most eager to quickly develop a mutually profitable mechanism for working together.
digital interactive media
Electronic channels of communication-- including online databases, the Internet, CD-ROMs, and stand-alone kiosks--with which the audience can participate actively and immediately.
direct-mail advertising
All forms of advertising sent directly to prospective customers without using one of the commercial media forms.
electronic media
Radio and television, which may be transmitted electronically through wires or broadcast through the air.
fee-commission combination
A pricing system in which an advertising agency charges the client a basic monthly fee for its services and also retains any media commissions earned.
foreign media
The local media of each country used by advertisers for campaigns targeted to consumers or businesses within a single country.
full-service advertising agency
An agency equipped to serve its clients in all areas of communication and promotion. Its advertising services include planning, creating, and producing advertisements as well as performing research and media selection services. Nonadvertising functions include producing sales promotion materials, publicity articles, annual reports, trade show exhibits, and sales training materials.
general consumer agency
An agency that represents the widest variety of accounts, but it concentrates on companies that make goods purchased chiefly by consumers.
global marketers
Multinationals that use a standardized approach to marketing and advertising in all countries.
group system
System in which an ad agency is divided into a number of little agencies or groups, each composed of an account supervisor, account executives, copywriters, art directors, a media director, and any other specialists required to meet the needs of the particular clients being served by the group.
horizontal cooperative advertising
Joint advertising effort of related businesses (car dealers, realtors, etc.) to create traffic for their type of business.
incentive system
A form of compensation in which the agency shares in the client's success when a campaign attains specific, agreed-upon goals.
independent production house
Supplier company that specializes in film or video production or both.
independent research company
Research firms that work outside of an agency. They may come in all sizes and specialties, and they employ staff statisticians, field interviewers, and computer programmers, as well as analysts with degrees in psychology, sociology, and marketing.
in-house agency
Agency wholly owned by an advertiser and set up and staffed to do all the work of an independent full-service agency.
institutional advertising
A type of advertising that attempts to obtain favorable attention for the business as a whole, not for a specific product or service the store or business sells. The effects of institutional advertising are intended to be long term rather than short range.
integrated marketing communications (IMC)
The process of building and reinforcing mutually profitable relationships with employees, customers, other stakeholders, and the general public by developing and coordinating a strategic communications program that enables them to make constructive contact with the company/ brand through a variety of media.
interactive agency
An advertising agency that specializes in the creation of ads for a digital interactive medium such as Web pages, CD-ROMs, or electronic kiosks.
international agency
An advertising agency that has offices or affiliates in major communication centers around the world and can help its clients market internationally or globally.
international media
Media serving several countries, usually without change, available to an international audience.
international structure
Organization of companies with foreign marketing divisions, typically decentralized and responsible for their own product lines, marketing operations, and profits.
local advertising
Advertising by businesses within a city or county directed toward customers within the same geographical area.
local agency
Advertising agencies that specialize in creating advertising for local businesses.
maintenance stage
In the client-agency relationship, the day-today interaction that, when successful, may go on for years.
management (account) supervisors
Managers who supervise account executives and who report to the agency's director of account services.
markup
A source of agency income gained by adding some amount to a supplier's bill, usually 17.65 percent.
media
A plural form of medium, referring to communications vehicles paid to present an advertisement to its target audience. Most often used to refer to radio and television networks, stations that have news reporters, and publications that carry news and advertising.
media commission
Compensation paid by a medium to recognized advertising agencies, usually 15 percent (16 2/3 percent for outdoor), for advertising placed with it.
media-buying service
An organization that specializes in purchasing and packaging radio and television time.
multinational corporations
Corporations operating and investing throughout many countries and making decisions based on availabilities worldwide.
national advertisers
Companies which advertise in several geographic regions or throughout the country.
national agency
Advertising agencies that produce and place the quality of advertising suitable for national campaigns.
outdoor advertising
An out-of-home medium in the form of billboards.
point
In retailing, the place of business. In typography, the measurement of the size and height of a text character. There are 72 points to an inch.
prerelationship stage
The initial stage in the client-agency relationship before they officially do business.
print media
Any commercially published, printed medium, such as newspapers and magazines, that sells advertising space to a variety of advertisers.
printer
Business that employs or contracts with highly trained specialists who prepare artwork for reproduction, operate digital scanning machines to make color separations and plates, operate presses and collating machines, and run binderies.
product advertising
Advertising intended to promote goods and services; also a functional classification of advertising.
regional advertiser
Companies that operate in one part of the country and market exclusively to that region.
regional agency
Advertising agency that focuses on the production and placement of advertising suitable for regional campaigns.
regular price-line advertising
A type of retail advertising designed to inform consumers about the services available or the wide selection and quality of merchandise offered at regular prices.
sale advertising
A type of retail advertising designed to stimulate the movement of particular merchandise or generally increase store traffic by placing the emphasis on special reduced prices.
sales promotion department
In larger agencies, a staff to produce dealer ads, window posters, point-of-purchase displays, and dealer sales material.
speculative presentation
An agency's presentation of the advertisement it proposes using in the event it is hired. It is usually made at the request of a prospective client and is often not paid for by the client.
straight-fee (retainer) method
A method of compensation for ad agency services in which a straight fee, or retainer, is based on a cost-plus-fixed-fees formula. Under this system, the agency estimates the amount of personnel time required by the client, determines the cost of that personnel, and multiplies by some factor.
suppliers
People and organizations that assist both advertisers and agencies in the preparation of advertising materials, such as photography, illustration, printing, and production.
termination stage
The ending of a client-agency relationship.
transit advertising
An out-of-home medium that actually includes three separate media forms: inside cards; outside posters; and station, platform, and terminal posters.
vertical cooperative advertising
Co-op advertising in which the manufacturer provides the ad and pays a percentage of the cost of placement.
Web design house
Art/computer studios that employ specialists who understand the intricacies of HTML and Java programming languages and can design ads and Internet Web pages that are both effective and cost efficient.