J3040 In Class Exercise
Spring 2008
1)Direct Mail
You are going to purchase 10 DM drops of 2500 each. What is the total cost of these drops? You want to do 5 drops each to Absentee Owners and Owner Occupied.
2500 x .62 =$2492.40 per drop x 10 drops =$24,924.00
Space / Paper30-sheets
Hybrid Rotary / $1,000 / $28 / Each-change every 28 days
Pre-emptable / $500 / $28 / Each-change every 28 days
8 Sheets / $350 / $15 / Each-change every 28 days
Transit Shelters / $150 / $22 / Each-change every 28 days
14 x 48 Bulletins
Perms / $2,500 / $1.50 / Per square foot
Preemptable / $850 / $1.50 / Per square foot
Showings / 30-sheets & Bulletins / 8-sheets & Bus Shelters
#25 / 40 / 50 / Panels
#50 / 80 / 100 / Panels
#100 / 160 / 200 / Panels
2)Outdoor
Use the information above to cost out the schedules and determine how many GRP’s the schedule will receive per month and over the life of the schedule.
40 Pre-emptable 30-sheets Jan-Sept $21120 100 GRP’s
50 8-sheets Jan –Sept $18250 100 GRP’s
20 Pre-emptable Bulletins Jan-Sept. 672 sq. feet x 1.50=$1008 +$850 x 20 $18008 50 GRP’s
25 transit shelters Jan-Dec$172 x 25= $ 1800 50 GRP’s
Total =$59178 month for 300 GRP’s x 9 months =$710136 2700 GRP’s $263.01 cpp
3)Radio
You are going to purchase 2 3-week flights of radio in 2nd quarter and 2 3-week flights of radio in 3rd quarter. Each flight will be at 100 GRP’s per week and be 60% AM Drive and 40% PM Drive
205 X 60 =$12300
257 x 40 =$10280
2nd Qtr ttl=$22580 x 6 weeks =$135,480
202 x 60 =$12120
240 x 40 =$ 9600
3rd Qtr ttl =21720 x 6 weeks =$130,320
2nd and 3rd Qtr TTL =$265,800
But, you have great media negotiators that can negotiate this for 80% of rate card, so 265,800 x .80 =$212,640
4)Television
You are going to purchase 1 3-consecutive week flight per quarter of Television. The GRP levels will start at 125 grp’s for week 1, 100 GRP’s for week 2 and 75 GRP’s for week 3. Your daypart mix is going to be 50% Early Morning, 30% Day and 20% Early News.
300 TRP’s per quarter
Qtr 1 150 GRP’s of EM at 237
90 GRP’s of Day at 267
60 GRP’s of E News at 250 =$74,580
Qtr 2 150 GRP’s of EM at 273
90 GRP’s of Day at 308
60 GRP’s of E News at 305 =$86,970
Qtr 3 150 GRP’s of EM at 249
90 GRP’s of Day at 257
60 GRP’s of E News at 283 = $77,460
Qtr 4 150 GRP’s of EM at 307
90 GRP’s of Day at 330
60 GRP’s of E News at 319 = $94,890
Total 1200 GRP’s/ $333,900
Your media buyers can negotiate this at 80% of rate card, so .80 x $333,900 =$267,120
5)Newspaper
You are going to purchase a classified Real Estate ad in the Phoenix paper on Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Each ad is going to be 4 column inches. The ads will run every other week for a total of 25 weeks
Classified-Real Estate Wanted / Per lineDaily / $35
Saturday / $42
Sunday / $56
This is per line Per column Inch
Each Column inch =14 lines
Thurs 14 lines x 4 inches =56 lines @ $35 each = $1960
Friday 14 lines x 4 inches =56 lines @ $35 each = $1960
Saturday 14 lines x 4 inches =56 lines @ 42 each =$2352
Sunday 14 linex x 4 inches =56 lines @ 56 each =$ 3136
Total of $9408/week x 25 weeks =$235,200