Demographics and psychographics
1) What information do media companies use to create a demographic profile of their audience? Certain sections of the population e.g. age, gender, education, social class, race, jobs and home. 2) Why are media companies and advertisers increasingly using audience profiling and not just demographics? They need to know more about their audience than simply age, gender or where they live. 3) What are the seven different Psychographic groups? The Aspirer, The Explorer, The Reformer, The Mainstreamer, The Succeeder, The Struggler, The Resigned 4) Write a brief summary of what each Psychographic group is seeking or motivated by. Young and Rubicam invented a successful psychographic profile known as their 4Cs Marketing Model: Cross Cultural Consumer Characterisation. They suggested people fit into one of seven groups. Resigned Rigid, strict, authoritarian and chauvinist values, oriented to the past and to Resigned roles. Brand choice stresses safety, familiarity and ec...