The future of advertising - media relations?

Technological developments such as remote control and the VCR are giving consumers greater control over the television medium, but changes in consumer attitudes and behaviour have already anticipated this, and are fostering a new view of 'advertising' which will result in a wider range of media with the balance dramatically shifted.

The future of advertising - media relations?

-in times of accelerating change

Richard Woods and James Walker

Technological developments such as remote control and the VCR are giving consumers greater control over the television medium, but changes in consumer attitudes and behaviour have already anticipated this, and are fostering a new view of 'advertising' which will result in a wider range of media with the balance dramatically shifted. And the transfer of power from advertiser to consumer means that unless agencies abandon their restricted definition of media and re-define themselves as communications specialists, they risk an uncertain future....

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