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Media Planning and Buying

A tailored strategy to effectively reach your target audience.

Most campaigns miss their audience.

This leads to wasted ad spend and missed opportunities for growth. KKBC addresses this by leveraging deep market insights and crafting customized strategies to ensure your brand’s message reaches the right people at the right time, maximizing both engagement and return on investment.

What is media planning and buying?

Media planning and buying is the strategic process of selecting and purchasing the right media channels to effectively reach your target audience and achieve marketing objectives.

It’s not just about ad placements; it involves understanding where your audience engages, what content they consume, and how to deliver your message at the most impactful times.

At KKBC, we conduct in-depth research to identify the most effective channels for your audience, whether through digital platforms like programmatic advertising or traditional media like TV and print. We then negotiate and secure the best media space, ensuring your ads are prominently placed to maximize ROI. Our approach focuses on continuous optimization, adjusting strategies in real-time to enhance campaign performance and drive sustainable growth.

Benefits of media planning and buying for B2B businesses

Increased visibility through strategic placement

Reaches a broader audience by leveraging
diverse media channels.

Targeted audience engagement

Involves reaching and connecting with your
ideal customers through customized approaches.

Cost-efficient strategies for maximum impact

Optimizes media spend by focusing on channels
that deliver the highest impact.

Measurable results for informed decisions

Tracks performance in real-time and adjust
strategies to ensure continuous improvement.

Enhanced interaction through relevant content

Creates a better user experience, leading to
higher response and satisfaction.

Improved ROI with strategic targeting

Utilizes conversion-specific keywords to boost
user actions such as registration, subscription,
and more.

Flexible media strategies

Ensure adaptability to changing market
conditions with dynamic adjustments.

Integration with broader marketing campaigns

Aligns media planning with your overall marketing
strategy for a cohesive brand message.

Sustainable growth through consistent efforts

Provides sustainable growth, with traffic
increasing even without constant updates.

Media planning and buying tactics

Our Work

Awareness-focus Programmatic Display Campaign

Our strategy led to an impressive 179% over the planned impressions, reaching nearly 10 million IT decision-makers for a US multinational software company.

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Lead Generation with Content Syndication Campaign

Our strategic full-funnel campaign exceeded expectations, delivering 113% of planned leads and reaching 1,044 companies in 3 months.

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How we do it

Market analysis

We begin by analyzing the market to gain a clear understanding of your industry and competitors. This helps us identify key trends and opportunities. By assessing the media landscape, we choose the most effective channels to reach your audience.

Targeting strategy

Our strategy focuses on identifying and reaching the right audience. Using detailed demographic and behavioral data, we ensure your campaign effectively targets those most likely to engage with your business. This precision helps make the most of your media budget.

Creative development

We develop creative content that resonates with your audience. Collaborating with you, we design ad creatives that align with your campaign goals. Each piece is tailored to fit the selected media channels for maximum impact.

Performance measurement

We monitor the performance of your campaign using key metrics like impressions and clicks. This allows us to make necessary adjustments, ensuring the campaign stays on track to meet its objectives.

Getting started

What we need from clients to get started on their media planning and buying campaign?

Timeline & Deliverables

Lead time

The initial setup, including asset preparation and campaign launch, typically takes 1-4 weeks. Depending on the type of campaign (e.g., content syndication, eDM, banners), results can start to be observed after the launch, with ongoing optimization throughout the campaign. Exact timelines for results vary by the nature of the media strategy and campaign goals.

Deliverables

  • A detailed report on media performance, covering audience segmentation, budget allocation, and channel effectiveness.

  • A comprehensive review of current strategies, identifying technical and strategic improvements to optimize media planning and buying performance.

  • A thorough analysis of competitor performance in your industry, highlighting successful strategies and areas where they underperform.

  • Regular reporting on media planning and buying performance, including key metrics like impressions, clicks, conversions, and ROI.

  • A detailed end-of-campaign report summarizing overall performance, key insights, and strategic recommendations for future improvements.

  • Information provided by media vendors will include essential details such as contact information, job title, company data, and department affiliation. These will be delivered directly to the client in Excel or CSV format, respecting data privacy.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Several factors influence the effectiveness of media planning and buying, including audience targeting, channel selection, budget allocation, ad creatives, timing, and media mix. Ensuring that each of these elements is optimized and aligned with your campaign goals is crucial for maximizing ROI.

Guaranteed lead campaign means that the media will committed to give us the promised number of leads no matter how long the campaign will be. In rare cases, it is possible that a campaign will continue for more than six months if we haven't received the promised number of leads (in this case, adding an additional asset is highly recommended or if the client wants to end the campaign early, we can try to contact the media to end the campaign and they will only bill us based on the number of leads we received.

Guaranteed period campaign/ estimated leads campaign means that the campaign will only run for certain period of time (usually around 1 week - 3 months). In this case, there’s a chance that we might received 0 leads until the end of the campaign.

It depends on the tactics, as follows:

  • WP Download :
  • Survey :
  • Telemarketing (MyNavi) :
  • Advertorial (Lead Gen) :

The media will take the assets into consideration when calculating the content rate. They need to evaluate whether or not the assets are engaging enough for the audience. If we share the assets too late, the assets may be mismatched and the campaign may not acquire the target leads on time (especially for guaranteed plans).

We would recommend at least 3-5 assets. This is so that later when the campaign starts running, the media is able to do A/B testing and evaluate which assets work best. It’s better to have more assets in the beginning, than start with one and adding more later.

We will try to provide an estimation with the requested targeting as much as possible, but please kindly note that in some cases, we may not be able to provide the exact targeting due to many factors (media availability, asset availability, etc). In case we have to go with non-segment targeting, we will apply the following basic exclusions:

  • List of competitors (up to 5 companies are usually free of charge)
  • Excludes free email addresses (Gmail, Yahoo, etc). This means we will only receive leads using company emails, to some extent.
  • Excludes students, housewives, single-person companies
  • Excludes single-person companies

It all depends with the lead conditions. To know the answer to this, we first need to know the company's list (competitor, partner list) or industry etc. that client wants to exclude. Then we can check with each media to see if it is possible( usually the cost per lead will be higher). Please be noted that the media might refuse to give us an estimations if the targeting is too strict.

No. Since most content syndication campaigns are guaranteed leads, in general, it would take 2-3 months to run the campaign.

Unfortunately no. In this case, we need the client to reduce the targeting so the media able to provide us with a new estimations.

Discounts in local media campaigns are based on the media vendor’s discretion.

Net Costs/Budget are the price we receive from media. Gross Budget, on the other hand, already includes the margin for KKBC’s fee (15%-20%).

Media campaign success is measured using various Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) such as reach, impressions, click-through rates, conversions, cost per acquisition, and return on ad spend (ROAS). Tools like Google Analytics, media reporting dashboards, and tracking pixels help in monitoring these metrics.

Yes, SEO can play a significant role in online reputation management by promoting positive content, improving the visibility of favorable pages, and managing search results to minimize the impact of negative information.

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