Cinema Branding Could Be Best Medium In Small Town To Target Rural People For Brand Message And Engagement

Cinema can be explained as a 360 degree marketing environment, where placement opportunities are numerous. The easiest form of advertising through cinema is capturing the ideal screen space before the movie starts and during the interval.

The best example for cinema branding is Vicco, in the early 2000s, almost everyone in the theater had a reaction to Vicco Vajradanti. They created a brand through targeting the best and the average cinema theaters alike, where their print ads ran for years. At a point of time their jingle was stuck in moviegoers’ minds and people even started singing along.

Cinema advertising has grown at a CAGR of 11% in the last five years and it is predicted to grow further in the next five years. Entertainment remains to be a necessity to everyone even today and thus tapping that to find a way to warm into the hearts of the audience has proven effective. It is known to be most suited for smaller towns and rural areas due to the fact that cinema advertising has been the lowest avoidance medium. However, there are many more advantages to it than that.

Advantages of Cinema Branding in small towns and rural areas.

• Brand Awareness
  One of the noteworthy things about cinema branding is the great reach it provides, every show has hundreds of people and there are multiple shows in the day. This can mean thousands of audiences can be reached in a day and thus brand awareness becomes the biggest benefit of cinema branding.
  
  
• Diversified audience
  The spread provides the unique advantage of having a segmented audience without putting in any efforts. Every moviegoer cannot be defined in the same category and they often differ in age, gender, socio economic background etc. This diversification, if targeted through any other medium has to be executed very carefully and requires a lot of efforts during implementation but through cinema branding, the same can be done without breaking a sweat.
  
  
• Effectiveness
  Few other advantages unique to this medium when compared with others such as TV, radio etc. relate to the audience’s behavior. When seated in a movie theater, they are relaxed and their undivided attention is towards the screen, which is very difficult to achieve otherwise. The relax mood leads to better engagement while the undivided attention ensures that the message is being conveyed to the audience. This makes cinema branding more effective than other means of advertising as discussed above.
  
  
• Environmental factors
  A cinema hall has the benefit of a surround sound system, dim lighting and perfect visuals. When an ad is played in a theater as against when it is played on the TV or radio, it captures the audiences completely and thus has better impact because in a theater, it more like a media performance with the whole equipment set. The environment adds a lot of superficial value to a visual ad by giving it the required oomph.
  
  
• Cost Benefit
  Even though cinema branding cannot be listed as a cheap or low cost way of advertising, it’s worth can surely be estimated. The volume of reach and the impact make the few minutes, worth the expense incurred to make it happen.