The purpose of this study is to analyze the current status and problems of cable TV commercials and suggest solutions for the problems. Cable TV commercials are region-specific advertisements and the target advertisers are businesses, individuals, and...
The purpose of this study is to analyze the current status and problems of cable TV commercials and suggest solutions for the problems. Cable TV commercials are region-specific advertisements and the target advertisers are businesses, individuals, and public institutions. It has the advantages of raising concentration through region-specific commercials and improving awareness level through frequent exposure of commercials. Despite these characteristics, local advertisement market is shrinking due to nationwide advertisements centered on terrestrial TV and advertisements through new media such as mobile and internet. In case of cable TV commercials, there has been lack of scientific validation for advertising, and it is required to improve the quality of advertising products and to break from the business method centered on multi-level marketing and improve unit price.
In order to analyze these problems in detail, this study analyzed relevant documents in and out of Korea and conducted the first positive research on cable TV commercial market in Busan, Ulsan, and Gyeongnam. Then targeting 97 people involved in the cable TV commercial market in Busan, Ulsan, and Gyeongnam, a survey was conducted on their perception of the current status of local advertisement market and future prospect. The analysis of the collected data shows that workers in advertising and advertisers perceive the influence of cable TV as an advertising media to be high, while clearly understanding the above mentioned problems of cable TV commercial market. Therefore, this study suggests the development of mobile searching service for local advertisement as a way to solve the problems of cable TV commercial market and promote local advertisements.
Until now, TV commercials were produced through a single media and mobile and internet advertisements were made separately. So despite the high possibility that the two medias can be combined, the two were recognized as separate markets, and advertisers had go through totally different process to run ads. In contrast, the convergence business model suggested in this study makes it possible to use both TV and mobile medias with one production of advertisements. Through this, advertisers, who play the most important role in advertisement market, can cut down costs, time, and production process and can have convenience and cost saving effect.