The Simulation of Efficiency Parameters of Periodical Advertising
With periodic advertisements, the effective scope changes in time as follows: increasing during the flight, and decreasing during a gap in advertising. This gives rise to the following tasks: research into the dependence of the effective scope of the audience on periodic advertisement placement parameters, i.e. flight duration, advertisement gap duration, memory lag; research into the dependence of flight scope on the quantity of intra-flight periods of ad placements, periodic advertisement budget optimisation. These goals can be achieved by media planning mathematical theory methods developed in the author’s earlier research works. This paper describes methods for analysing some indicators of periodic advertising effectiveness developed within the framework of a mathematical media planning theory, in particular the methodology for managing the level of communicative effectiveness of periodic advertising through changes in the duration of advertisement gap, memory lag, the quantity of intra-flight placements. The developed theory enables the analysis and forecast of the maximum, minimum and average audience scopes of periodic advertising depending on parameters of advertising impact intensity, flight duration, and advertisement gap. With the help of the developed methodologies, it is possible to manage the level of communicative effectiveness of periodicals by finding the optimum ratio of the above mentioned parameters. In addition, these techniques make it possible to optimise the budget for periodic advertising. In particular, the research work proposes a technique of quantitative optimisation of periodic advertisement placement parameters; exemplifying the technique of forecasting the value of the effective scope of a flight. The dependencies of the size of the audience coverage on the number of intra-flight periods are obtained. It has been defined that memory lag parameters limit the maximum attainable flight reach. It has been shown that the optimal advertisement budget at a chosen level of advertising impact intensity and at a preset memory lag depends on the ratio between the flight duration and advertisement gap.