{"id":2648,"date":"2025-08-06T00:20:40","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T00:20:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.smartsims.com\/support\/?post_type=ht_kb&#038;p=2648"},"modified":"2025-09-01T04:10:58","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T04:10:58","slug":"awareness-rating-in-music2go-marketing","status":"publish","type":"ht_kb","link":"https:\/\/www.smartsims.com\/support\/article\/awareness-rating-in-music2go-marketing\/","title":{"rendered":"Awareness Rating in Music2Go Marketing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The effectiveness of your advertising budget and allocation (mix) is measured by the awareness of your product in the minds of customers. You can track your Product&#8217;s Awareness rating and compare with competitors through the <em>Market Summary <\/em>report.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"290\" src=\"https:\/\/www.smartsims.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-9-1024x290.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2651\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.smartsims.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-9-1024x290.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.smartsims.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-9-300x85.png 300w, https:\/\/www.smartsims.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-9-768x217.png 768w, https:\/\/www.smartsims.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-9-50x14.png 50w, https:\/\/www.smartsims.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-9-60x17.png 60w, https:\/\/www.smartsims.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-9-100x28.png 100w, https:\/\/www.smartsims.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-9.png 1259w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>To influence your rating, you should increase your total Advertising expenditure, improve your Advertising mix and invest in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smartsims.com\/support\/article\/sales-promotion-music2go-marketing-simulation\/\">Sales Promotion<\/a> activities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Each market segment responds differently to adverting expenditure. Customers in the Music and Fitness markets are sensitive to advertising, meaning investing in an effective campaign should result in increased demand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To get the most out of your advertising budget you will need to know the media viewing habits for each market (being how much do customers watch\/use the different media channels). Then, combine this Advertising Reach (what percentage can be reached for a given spend). This enables you to determine an optimal advertising mix across the channels, as well as how much to spend on each channel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The table below provides the proportion of each market that can be reached using the different media channels: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"167\" src=\"https:\/\/www.smartsims.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-12.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2659\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.smartsims.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-12.png 683w, https:\/\/www.smartsims.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-12-300x73.png 300w, https:\/\/www.smartsims.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-12-50x12.png 50w, https:\/\/www.smartsims.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-12-60x15.png 60w, https:\/\/www.smartsims.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-12-100x24.png 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Advertising Reach chart shows the proportion of the viewing audience that can be reached in each media channel at different levels of expenditure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"735\" height=\"439\" src=\"https:\/\/www.smartsims.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/2025-09-01_16-08-27-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2714\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.smartsims.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/2025-09-01_16-08-27-1.png 735w, https:\/\/www.smartsims.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/2025-09-01_16-08-27-1-300x179.png 300w, https:\/\/www.smartsims.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/2025-09-01_16-08-27-1-50x30.png 50w, https:\/\/www.smartsims.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/2025-09-01_16-08-27-1-60x36.png 60w, https:\/\/www.smartsims.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/2025-09-01_16-08-27-1-100x60.png 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 735px) 100vw, 735px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>For example, an advertising investment of $4 million in TV will reach approximately 40% of the audience. Then by looking at the Media Viewing Habits table above, we can see that this would then reach 40% x 97% = 38.8% of the Fitness market, and 40% x 85% = 34% of the Gaming market. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You will note that each media channel has a different shaped curve. Some are steep initially and then flatten out, such as Print. This indicates a high audience reach on small investments, but as you spend more the increase in reach decreases significantly. Alternatively, others feature a flatter curve, such as Digital Media. This means more investment is required to reach your audience, but the level of reach is relatively constant regardless of total spend. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Purchase the <em>Audience Coverage <\/em>and the <em>Competitor Media Expenditure <\/em>reports each year to assess how effective your advertising budget and mix were last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The effectiveness of your advertising budget and allocation (mix) is measured by the awareness of your product in the minds of customers. You can track your Product&#8217;s Awareness rating and compare with competitors through the Market Summary report. 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