{"id":395,"date":"2004-07-29T01:47:22","date_gmt":"2004-07-29T01:47:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=395"},"modified":"2004-07-29T01:47:22","modified_gmt":"2004-07-29T01:47:22","slug":"more_on_media_ad_rates_circulation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=395","title":{"rendered":"More on Media &#8211; ad rates &#038; circulation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tribune owned Newsday is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adrants.com\/headlines\/2004\/07\/newsday-boss-moves-to-stamp-out-fire.php\">evidently offering reduced ad rates<\/a> and a guaranteed circulation minimum (&#8220;rate base&#8221;).  Any business\/organization that is not evaluating\/changing ad spending is operating at a competitive disadvantage.<br \/>\nKevin Delaney <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/0,,SB109096704005275566,00.html?mod=home%5Fpage%5Fone%5Fus\">writes that new media<\/a> is increasingly challenging &#8220;old media&#8221; for effective ad dollars:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>When executives at DaimlerChrysler AG&#8217;s Jeep division wanted to promote an extra-rugged version of their Wrangler brand last year, they commissioned a videogame that allowed players to drive a Wrangler Rubicon up steep inclines and across rivers. The game &#8212; &#8220;Jeep 4&#215;4: Trail Of Life&#8221; &#8212; was relatively inexpensive to produce and the company gave it away online.<br \/>\nWithin six months, 250,000 consumers had downloaded it and handed over their names and e-mail addresses to Jeep. Nearly 40% of them said they were considering buying one of its vehicles.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Another bit of evidence that things are indeed changing.  I&#8217;ve subscribed to the New York Times fishwrap version since my days at the UW in the early 1980&#8217;s.  This week, I cancelled my print subscription (I no longer subscribe to any print newspapers).  I&#8217;ve found that the internet is far more useful and interesting from an international, national and increasingly local perspective.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tribune owned Newsday is evidently offering reduced ad rates and a guaranteed circulation minimum (&#8220;rate base&#8221;). Any business\/organization that is not evaluating\/changing ad spending is operating at a competitive disadvantage. Kevin Delaney writes that new media is increasingly challenging &#8220;old media&#8221; for effective ad dollars: When executives at DaimlerChrysler AG&#8217;s Jeep division wanted to promote [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}