Brand & media management: campaign creation

How do i.d's methods apply to the mediasphere? If you're a PR pro, avid marketer, or consumer advocate, it's all on this sequence of pages.

1 Information gathering
2 Message development
3 Situational analysis
4 Campaign creation
5 Results analysis

You know what to say. But how do you say it?

Turning a strategic or tactical message into a topical story with engaging copy is where your PR professionals and partner agencies come in. It's also where i.d can help.

The creative side of your media strategy works best best when backed up by solid information about what subjects to approach, how to approach them, and where resources are best allocated. Perhaps a competitor's campaigning mainly in one publication or on one topic. Should you be attacking him head-on, or coming in from the side? Taking his territory, or establishing your own?

Such decisions deserve solid support from data, ensuring your creative output is plain-spoken, focussed, and sure of itself. Because creating a campaign is a partnership.