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It’s a media quartet
Here is how The New York Times handles its subscription drive across platforms
The German financial daily, Handelsblatt, displays its new campaign across airports.
The Wall Street Journal Europe carries in-house ads selling its product across the platforms
Here is how Austria’s financial daily, WirtshaftsBlatt promotes its offerings across platforms
South China Morning Post introduced changes across all three platforms in May 2011
If there is one thing that I always remind my clients, especially when it comes time to plan a marketing campaign to launch new products——as we prepare to do November 11 in Malaysia, with the relaunch of the New Straits Times——is that we must show the product in its various platforms, NOT just one of them.
As I travelled through Europe the past few days I was able to see that two financial media organizations, Handelsblatt and the Wall Street Journal, are doing just that through their new campaigns.
At the Frankfurt Main Airport, one can see many well illuminated displays of the newspaper and how the information is presented through the media quartet: mobile, online, print and tablet.
The Wall Street Journal Europe carries frequent in house ads doing the same thing.
Let your audience know that you are in the business of good storytelling, and that you present it to them in whichever format is more convenient.
From Bild today
Frank Deville sends us this interesting photo, published by http://www.bild.de in its app today (it is a regular section about the Best Pics of the Day). An artist in Mumbai, India, creating a mural painting of Steve Jobs.
TheMarioBlog post #878
Starting to Rethink GarciaMedia.com
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