Advertising Budgeting Professor Close: Sources: Cravens and Percy (1998) Murphy, Cunningham and de Lewis (2011)

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Advertising Budgeting

Professor Close

Sources:
Cravens and Percy(1998); Murphy, Cunningham and de Lewis
(2011)
We will discuss these topics of
Advertising Budgeting:

1.Why Crucial

2. The 3 Budgeting Methods

3. Trends in Ad Budgeting

*Note, please refer to advertising


as INVESTING, not spending, in
our class and in your briefs…
why do I say that?
1. Budget is Crucial
to Ad Strategy
Target Audience

Advertising
Objectives

****Advertising
Budget****

Creative
Strategy

Advertising Media and


Programming Schedules

Implement and Evaluate


Strategy Effectiveness
So, Why is ad or IBP budgeting
crucial?

•Frankly, a company’s success is a


function of its growth in sales and
profits
•What fuels that growth?
ADVERTISING and MARKETING
•This, in turn, sparks WOM (and this
can be free!)
•The economy has ups and downs, as
do specific industries (Note: the soft
drink industry dropped 4% in 2008
when our economy started hurting—so
Pepsi invested $1.2 BILLION 2008-
2011 in a marketing overhaul)
•THINK…..Is this common sense?
Would you advertise more, status quo,
or less when times are tough?
Tough Times? So,
Re-Allocate to lesser Investments
Which are relatively smaller
investments?

New Media

Direct Advertising
Marketing : TV, Radio,
WOM$ Outdoor,
Print
Personal Sales
Selling Promotion

Event Marketing

Public
Relations
Your CEO asks you to
propose an ad budget.

How would you calculate the


ad budget?

Why would you pick this


method?
2. Three Ad/IBP Budget Methods

(I don’t even want to mention the 4th…)

Budgeting Method #1a~The


Percentage of Past Sales Method

A2 = ƒ (S1)

Where:
A2 is the total ad budget for NEXT year
(year 2 or quarter 2)

ƒis a percentage figure


(see NAA industry norms)

S1 is sales for period 1 (or last year’s sales)


Budgeting Method #1b~The
Percentage of Forecasted
Future Sales Method

A2 = ƒ (S2)

Where:
A2 is the total ad budget for
NEXT year (year 2 or
quarter 2)

ƒ is a percentage figure
(see NAA industry norms)

S1 is sales for period 1 (or


last year’s sales)
Budgeting Method
#1~Percentage of
Sales
Features Drawbacks

 Arbitrary.
• Fixed percent of sales,  Budget may be too high
often based on past when sales are high.
expenditure patterns.  Budget may be too low when
• Relatively simple (if you sales are low.
have the information) • Ignores long-term effects

• You must calculate ad • You need benchmarks.


allocations as a fixed • You need advertising to sales
percentage of PAST SALES ratios for the industry (note
(e.g., last years’ sales) these are computed each year
by pro. Ad organizations)

• Industries vary a lot (e.g.,


• Can help with franchising. malt beverages invest 10% of
annual sales on advertising;
movie theatres are closer to
just 1% industry average)

• Note: Peckham’s Formula: • Note: about 3% is an average


for new products, set S.O.V. ad 2 sales ratio
@ 1.5 times your desired
market share two years out
Budgeting Method
#2~Competitive-Parity Method
(I call it the market share
approach…)
ASV = (AF)
______

Ac + AF

Where:
ASV is the firm’s advertising share of voice
(S.O.V) (anyone care to remind us what
S.O.V is?)

AF is the firm’s advertising expenditures


for the period in question

Ac is all competitors’ advertising


expenditures for the period in question

At least, think about a competitive analysis


LV

Brand 2003 Sales Percent Operating


Billions Change* Margin
Louis Vuitton $3.80 +16% 45.0%

Prada 1.95 0.0 13.0

Gucci** 1.85 -1.0 27.0

Hermés 1.57 +7.7 25.4

Coach 1.20 +34.0 29.9

*At constant rate of exchange **Gucci division of Gucci Group Data: Company reports. BW

LV increased advertising 20% in


2003―spends just 5% of revenues
on advertising―half the industry
average
Cravens and Percy 1998 cited *Business Week, March 22, 2004, 98-102.
Budgeting Method
#2~Competitive-Parity
Features Drawbacks
Budgeting Method
#3~Objective and Task

A = ƒ (objectives)
Where:
A is advertising investment
(the firm’s advertising
expenditures for the period
in question)

Objectives are things that


you want to achieve in said
time period (awareness,
trial use, etc.)
Link Objectives to Budget

 Need Recognition

 Finding Buyers

 Brand Building

 Evaluation of Alternatives

 Decision to Purchase

 Customer Retention

 …Others?
Budgeting Method #3~
Objective and Task

Features Drawbacks
Budgeting Method
Recap
(Cravens and Percy and Murphy, Cunningham and de Lewis)

Features Drawbacks

Percentage of Sales Percentage of Sales


 Fixed percent of sales,  Arbitrary.
often based on past  Budget may be too high
expenditure patterns. when sales are high
 Can help with franchising.  Budget may be too low when
sales are low.

Comparative- Parity Comparative- Parity


 Budget is based largely  Differences in marketing
upon what competition is strategy may require different
doing. budget levels.

Objective and Task Objective and Task


 Set objectives and then  The major issue in using this
determine tasks (and costs) method is deciding the right
necessary to meet the objectives so measurement
objectives. of results is important.
Whichever method you
choose, budgets vary
due to:

 Target Market(s)
 Desired Positioning
 Role of Promotion in
Positioning
 Product Characteristics
 Stage of Life Cycle
 Situation Specific Factors
(examples?)
Which ad or IBP
budget method is
generally a best bet?
Objective
and Task

All You Can Budgeting Percent of


Afford Methods Sales
(note: this (note:
is not a Future or
good idea past)
usually…
Proceed Competitive
with -Parity
caution.
Ad/IBP Budgeting
I would argue for Objective
and Task, because of the logic
and the strategic approach
with long-term appropriation
and flexibility.

Budget
Allocation

Media/ Creative
Scheduling Strategy
3. Recent Trends in
Ad/IBP Budgeting
Decisions
• More Promotions/Less Ads
• International Markets mean more
competition and harder to measure market
share
• Clutter. Clutter. Clutter.
• Signaling Theory
• Short-term pressure to brand managers
• Less umbrella branding strategy (more
narrow)
• Advocacy ads
• CSR movement
• Green movement
• Online ads a 25$ BILLION a year industry
(young, mobile, and measurable)
• Experiential/Event Marketing gaining
prominence
Approx. Annual
Expenditures
(billions)

$600
Personal Selling
Sales Promotion
$400 Event Marketing

Advertising

$200

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