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Communicating Crime Reduction

Spreading the word - using paid publicity

Overview

Spreading the word - using paid publicity

Introduction

What do we mean by paid publicity?
The role of paid publicity
When paid publicity pays
Planning a publicity strategy

Media selection

Hints and tips
What happens next?
Evaluation
The Welsh language act
Useful resources
Further reading

Media selection

The term ‘paid publicity’ covers a wide range of different media – each best suited to delivering messages to a target audience in slightly different ways. The diagram below illustrates how some types of media – such as advertising are very good at reaching a mass audience through the power of television, radio and the press, but can only really carry simple straightforward information. Other types of media – like public reach relatively a relatively small audience i.e. the people who turn up on your stand at an event, but the face to face contact possible at event means that a complex messages can be communicated and explained in detail at an individual level.

                           

 

You should think carefully about the choice of media when developing your communication strategy. The following table highlights some of the factors you may wish to take into account

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