Optimal media planning for multi‐products in segmented market

Optimal media planning for multi‐products in segmented market

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Article ID: iaor20113509
Volume: 217
Issue: 16
Start Page Number: 6802
End Page Number: 6818
Publication Date: Apr 2011
Journal: Applied Mathematics and Computation
Authors: , ,
Keywords: programming: goal, marketing
Abstract:

Promotion is an essential stage of any product life cycle. All firms either concerned with single or multiple products promote their products. Advertising is the most dominated form of promotion for most of the products. Our research focuses on firms which produces a multiple range of products and advertise them using available media options. The budget constraint forms the major restriction. The existing research in media allocation of multiple products ignores the market segmentation and formulates the media plan assuming all segments alike. In this paper we formulate a media planning problem for allocating the available budget in multiple media that are found suitable for the advertising of multiple products considering marketing segmentation aspect of advertising. The objective is to maximize the total reach in all the segments. Goal programming technique is used to solve the problem. A case study is presented to show the real life application of the model.

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