A Microsoft Advertising White Paper looks at changes in audience behavior regarding print and online media.
Advertisers must ensure the balance between print and online advertising reflects the changing role of public consumption habits, particularly the growing importance of online advertising in various stages of the purchase funnel.
People are migrating from television to the digital media, where they interact.
Advertising is changing rapidly, to respond to rapid changes in public behavior, which is increasingly spending more time in front of computers, connected to the Internet, at the expense of time devoted to traditional media like television and especially printed media.
The ability to interact with the public in digital media can learn preferences, habits and interests of people, which in turn allows advertising messages to develop more and more tailored to those preferences, habits and interests, making the content of information in advertising of high-value for individuals.
The fall in newspaper advertising revenue equals the increase in internet advertising.
Theslogan Magazine remarked how advertising spending has recovered in the United Kingdom, as the economic and financial crisis comes to an end. However, only Internet and movie theathers registered more spending in 2009 than in 2008.
“In fact, online advertising increased exactly as the same amount lost by newspapers (4.2%). Coincidence? Probably not; in times of crisis, brands turned to a medium that provides greater guarantees and more measuring”.
Interaction between mobile telephony, barcodes, cameras and software permits "traveling" from print media to the web.
On its Friday edition, the print versions of Wall Street Journal had advertising from BMO Capital Markets. In the lower left part of the ad there was a barcode.