Assessing a Media Campaign

The role of the media is to both inform and to sell. More often than not, the “sell” or the commercial becomes the most influential of the media forms. Advertising companies do not limit themselves to one form of medium anymore. An ad in the yellow pages, just won’t do. Instead, they create ad “themes” that cross over in between magazines, newspapers, billboards, radio ads, movies, television and increasingly more often the internet.

Assignment: Listen to the episode “Old Media, New Media, Borrowed Media and Blue Media” from the CBC radio program The Age of Persuasion with Terry O’Reilly. Then answer the following questions.

 

 

 

 

 

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