With the arrival of cable and satellite TV in the 1990s, national advertisers switched to brand-building on TV screens. Brands such as Asian Paints, Fevicol, Cadbury and Vodafone used the reach of mass TV to propagate their message.
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Discussion Questions:
- What is advertising?
- What is an advertising channel?
- How does this story represent an example of an advertising channel?
- Why do businesses and brands use more than one channel as part of an ad campaign?
- How do you think they determine which channels to use?
- What is cinema advertising?
- Based on what you learned in this news story, is cinema advertising growing? Why?
- Will cinema advertising eventually eclipse traditional TV advertising? Why or why not?
- Have you ever seen an advertisement at a movie theater? What was it?
- Based on the data presented in this story, does cinema advertising provide an attentive audience? Why might that be important to advertisers?