A New Era for Advertisers

In his article, The Post Advertising Age, Bob Garfield describes the end of publicize as we know it. According to the author, a substantial number of television system and marking advertisers may soon find themselves out of work because online advertising is increasing.As a matter of fact, numberless viewers of television and readers of print media have already been seduced by the world wide web, which now caters to their viewing and reading necessarily better than television and print media ever could.The world of the Internet is interactive, allowing users to put through their viewing or reading needs depending on their demands at whatsoever given time. The television and print media, on the other hand, do non carry the advantages that the Internet has. In short, the kinds of choices available to users of the Internet can non be matched by the advantages of television or print media.The only choice for a television viewer is to change the channels until he or she finds somet hing of interest. The reader of a print cartridge holder, on the other hand, has to purchase a new magazine if the one that he has already bought does not suit his interests.The Internet, on the contrary, is not only cheap, but also has the advantage of presenting all kinds of information to the user. Hence, the advantages of online advertising surpass the advantages of television and print media advertising based on the sanctioned benefits of Internet use as compared to television and print media.The number of passel viewing MTV has been drastically reduced, thanks to the virtues of the Internet which allows the MTV generation to now make love online videos.1 Also according to GarfieldIn declination 2005, Viacom spun impinge on CBS, the so-called Tiffany Network, lest the mobilize business impede growth and depress shareholder prize.Just before Christmas 2005, while Inc. dictated off 100 employees. Just after Christmas, inJanuary 2006, conviction Inc. laid off 100 more e mployees. In April 2006, Time Inc. laid off 250 more employees-the last round of job cuts, the company said. In January, Time Inc. laid off300 more employees. No wonder. Since 2001, Time Warners market capitalization has shrunk to $82 billion from $193 billion.Last fall, ostensibly to promote their new seasons, five broadcast networks bypassed their local anesthetic affiliates and gave away new programs online.In October 2006, NBC announced a $750 million cost cutback, including 700 jobs and amoratorium on scripted programs in the first hour of prime time.In November 2006, Clear Channel-the bugaboo of media consolidation-sold to private- equity owners and declared that it wants to unload its TV and small-market radio stations.The sale fetched $38 a share. In 2000, the stock sold at $100 a share.The Minneapolis Star Tribune, acquired by McClatchy in 1998 for $1.2 billion, was sold to private investors in December 2006 for $530 million.In 2000, Chicago-based Tribune Co. was valued at $12 billion. It then bought Times-Mirror Co. for more than $8 billion. At this writing, with Tribune Co. for sale as a whole or in part, the value of the merged company is $7.34 billion.21 Bob Garfield, The Post Advertising Age, Advertising Age, 78(13) 26 March 2007.