Campaign direction

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Channel, and what each one can carry

Lesson 4 of 10 in Campaign direction.

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Every channel has a budget of attention and a physical reality. A roadside poster gets under two seconds. Six words, no more. A poster on an underground platform gets four minutes from somebody with nothing else to look at, and can carry an essay. They are not the same medium, and treating them as one is why so much outdoor work is unreadable.

An ink drawing of a car speeding past a simple pear billboard beside a commuter on an underground platform reading a long text-filled poster.
A roadside billboard seen in a flash and a platform poster read slowly.
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  1. Question 1, locked

    Which of these words means this? “Where the work appears. Each has a different attention budget.”

    • Channel
    • Variant
    • Attribution
    • Distinctive asset
  2. Question 2, locked

    Which of these words means this? “How long somebody will actually give you there. Usually shorter than planned for.”

    • Master frame
    • Executions
    • Attention budget
    • Channel-native
  3. Question 3, locked

    Which of these words means this? “How long the format allows. A poster on a platform is different from one on a road.”

    • Dwell time
    • Degradation
    • Teaser
    • Baseline

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