Advertising: Strategy, Creativity and Media, 1st edition
- Chris Fill |
- Graham Hughes |
- Scott De Francesco |
Title overview
The book covers advertising from top to bottom, with extensive coverage of traditional and contemporary approaches to all advertising media and a wealth of contemporary examples from around Europe and beyond. This book is the essential companion for undergraduate, postgraduate and professional students studying Advertising, Media and related subjects.
This edition includes a Companion Website.
- ViewPoint features give a practitioners perspective of the world of Advertising, then poses a question and a task to help you analyse what you have read.
- Mini-cases provide a wealth of current examples from around the world.
- Scholars’ Papers point students in the direction of some of the leading academic papers about advertising, providing an immediate link to other ideas and influential thinking'.
- Chapter Summaries, Review Questions and References conclude each chapter and help the student to reinforce the key learning outcomes from the chapter.
- Companion Website for students contains revision podcasts, weblinks to interesting articles and useful resources and further activities for students.
- Teaching aids for lecturers include an Instructor’s Manual and PowerPoint slides of all the figures and tables that appear in the book.
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Table of contents
Chapter 1- An Introduction to Advertising
Chapter 2- OK, so is this the right meaning?
Chapter 3- Advertising; theories, concepts and frameworks
Chapter 4- Advertising: Strategies, Planning & Positioning
Chapter 5- Creativity, Content & Appeals
Chapter 6- Brand communications: the role of advertising
Chapter 7- The Advertising Industry
Chapter 8- Traditional Media
Chapter 9- Digital media and emerging technologies
Chapter 10- Media Planning
Chapter 11- Measuring advertising efficiency and effectiveness
Chapter 12- Standards and Responsibilities
Chapter 13- Contemporary Issues in Advertising
Author bios
Chris Fill BA, MSc. FCIM, is a Director of Fillassociates. The company develops teaching and learning materials related to marketing, communications and corporate reputation. He has authored many books, including his internationally recognised Marketing Communications text. The company also provides training, evaluation, project management and consultancy services for a variety of organisations. Formerly a Principal Lecturer at the University of Portsmouth, Chris is now an Advisory Professor at Poitiers Business School, is associated with the Institute of Practitioners’ of Advertising, and is a Fellow and former Senior Examiner at the Chartered Institute of Marketing. www.fillassociates.co.uk.
Graham Hughes is a former Principal Lecturer at Leeds Business School, Leeds Metropolitan University where he taught marketing communications, advertising and media strategy and brand management at undergraduate, postgraduate and professional levels. He has taught extensively on international programmes in China, Malaysia, India and southern Africa. He is now a freelance tutor and writer in marketing communications.
Scott De Francesco PhD., has designed and taught innovative communications-based study programmes at universities in the United Kingdom, the United States and Australia. In addition to an expertise in advertising, he collaborates on international film projects for the Museum of Modern Art (NY) and has made original film translations for the Janus/Criterion foreign films collection. He has also served as media planner for a subsidiary of Ogilvy & Mather. He lives in New York City.