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
