If you have already heard about aerial advertising and know it has
something to do with a banner flown by an airplane then you still do not know
all the secrets behind aerial advertising. There is a lot more to aerial
advertising than a banner flying across the sky. You will be surprised at how
effective aerial advertising really is and once you have discovered some well
kept secrets you will become a real fan of this advertising strategies.
The first important issue to understand is that aerial advertising is not
at all as costly as most people think it is. Most of us think that as airplanes
are costly to fly then consequently so will the advertising be. But have you
really considered the costs of all the other forms of advertising such as
newspaper ads, TV commercials and billboards just to name a few? If you compare the costs of aerial
advertising with the latter mentioned advertising methods you will find that
aerial advertising costs 50 cents per thousand prospects, while for a TV
commercial you can spend hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Few of us actually realize the potential aerial advertising has, but it is
in fact the most attention grabbing form of advertising there is. It has been
statistically proven that aerial advertising is remembered by people for a
longer period compared to other types used habitually. Literally, the media and
other forms of advertising are no match whatsoever to aerial advertising when
it comes to visual impact of promotional messages.
Studies were carried out on people having seen an aerial ad and they were
asked specific questions. Nearly ninety percent recalled the airborne banner
after more than thirty minutes from its passage, eighty percent even remembered
the name business proposing the product or service and nearly seventy percent
remembered what the promotional message was, having given their full attention
to the banner.
Aerial advertising takes the lead as an attention grabbing and long lasting
ad. Other forms of advertising strategies offer advantages but also have a
downside on the way they influence the public or on the impact a certain
message has on them. On TV ads people may simply change channels and never even
see the ad you spent so much on, or in newspapers skip the page where you ad
has been published. When an airplane passes overhead most people look up
because of the engine buzz and will notice the banner trailing behind.
Aerial advertising is the best kept secret of the marketing strategies and
is seriously competing with the other classic forms of advertising. Its
cost-effectiveness is blatant and if you target your public and have the plane
fly over carefully selected areas with a promotional message that will have an
impact on potential clients, then aerial advertising is the best choice for
your business success.