Advertising in India is a cherished industry. Be it due to the
passion for new technologies, products, and services, or the available
buying power, or empathy for ads attempting to communicate, audiences in
India have always been the prime Target Group for advertisers from
across the world. At the beginning of 2014, the leading Advertising
Agencies in India evaluated the Top 5 Media of Advertising that have
been popular for the advertisers and the audiences in the country.
Airports
Hardly any other
platform has enjoyed the levels of success attained by Airport
Advertising in the country. Nowhere else, can an audience be found, that
is as pristine for Advertising as the Indian airports. 77% of the air
travelers are SEC AB males and 87% are in the age group of 25-55,
including key decision makers of companies from across the world. So we
have an audience that is interested in buying and with the power to buy.
Since it began with AAI’s first advertising tender in 1987, the medium
has constantly been a favorite platform of various brands.
DMRC
The DMRC, along with providing a faster and better organized means of
transportation, opened up another avenue for Advertising India. Even
though the medium had gone through a struggling period in the initial
years, it is beginning to attract a host of advertisers as seen in the
period between December 2013 and January 2014. The initial struggle
happened primarily as the medium was overhyped. It has since then,
sprung right back into action. Going by the innovative approaches that
are being taken, it is bound to grow at an even faster rate.
Mobile and Internet
India woke up a little late to the boom of the Online Medium. However,
since that time, the rate of progress shown by the online agencies has
been commendable. The nation was soon put on the world map of digital
advertising, providing the latest services in the field. The 229% growth
in the sales of smartphones and availability of fast internet services
fuelled the growth of this sector by huge margins. The consumers here
have now grown accustomed to clicking on the web banners in order to
land at the pages offering purchase or key specifications of the
products or services. With the world consumers moving towards the mobile
medium, the Indian audience is completely prepared to match every step
in the march towards buying on the go.
Mall Activations
Indian buyers have always been more accustomed to buying from a
brick-and-mortar sale point. This is one of reasons why the mall culture
was successfully incorporated here at such a fast pace. Mall
Activations provide opportunities of promoting before an audience that
has come to a mall for the purpose of buying. In short, they are already
in the buying mood. Mall Activations offer one of the rare
opportunities of attracting an audience that is already primed for
buying. They have always remained popular platforms for promotional
campaigns.
Roadside Hoardings & Unipole
Placing Roadside Displays is another prominent way in which Indian
audiences can be attracted. This is one of the oldest mediums of Outdoor
Advertising and still thrives in India. It is a very effective way
reaching the interior areas that are still without any access to the
other means of promotions.
Looking at the above top platforms,
it is obvious that the Indian audience has not lost its affinity for the
traditional mediums while embracing the latest digitalized versions.
Predictions for the coming times, based on the above study, largely
reflect a continued growth for the above 5 mediums. Airport Advertising
is set to continue being the king of Advertising in India, DMRC will see
increased activity, and the Online Medium will speed up to stand along
the best in the world.