Deceptive advertising is also known as “False Advertising”. It is one form of advertising that will equip consumers with false and misleading information.
2. Explain me what Makes An Advertisement Unfair?
If it is likely to cause a substantial injury to the customer, which consumer cannot avoid. If it not beneficial to the customer
3. Tell us how Can You Use Word-of-mouth As A Marketing Tool?
You can generate it by offering a new, good quality and unique product or service that is reasonably prices.
4. Tell me what Do You Understand By Surrogate Advertising?
Surrogate advertising is an indirect form of advertising, which is used in situations where advertising will be legally banned.
5. What is outbound Marketing?
Outbound Marketing is the more traditional way of marketing in which the company consistently reaches out to its target audience with its promotional messaging. This aspect includes reaching out to potential clients via digital platforms like by running ad campaigns, emails, and calls etc.
Unfair advertising is very dangerous to consumers that involve legal binding. When there is an occurrence of public policy and consumer rights violation in an advertising message, then it is coined as “Unfair advertising”.
7. Explain me what Is Different Between Advertisements And Sales?
Advertisement-means creating awareness about the product to the world
Sales-means make available that product in the market for using it by the consumers for an exchange of monitory value.
8. Tell us what Do You Understand By Advertising?
Advertising is any paid form of non-personal presentation and promotion of ideas, goods, or services by an identified sponsor.
9. Do you know what Is Photo Editing?
The photographs affecting negatively to the public sentiment and psychology should be avoided. Thus before publishing a photograph in any media it needs to be edited, whether the photo has some massage to public and should consider the public interest.
10. Explain me how would you setup, track, and analyze if a campaign was a success?
Talk about the driving goal of the campaign which could vary from increasing brand awareness, generating leads, or boost social media followers. According to the objective of the campaign, a strategic plan would be laid out.
You must also talk about tracking the progress of the campaign via Google Analytics or any other reputed monitoring tool to stay updated with the campaign's progress. Explain how you are going to go about it. It is important that you mention visions which can be acted upon.
11. Tell us how Important Disclaimer Or Disclosure Does Should Be In Ads?
The information should be presented very clearly and conspicuously so that the same will be noticed by the customer and understand the same. A very neat fine print is very important on the bottom of the print ad.
12. Tell us in Advertising When Is Pricing Used To Influence The Customer?
In advertising, pricing influences consumer behavior leading to purchase and non- purchase. The factors, which affect these relationships are: unique value effects, substitute effect, shared-cost effect.
13. Tell us what attracted you to Digital Marketing industry?
Be honest here.
Answer why you applied for this job in the first place? Did the industry's reputation attract you? Or the high-paying jobs in Digital Marketing industry? Talk about the potential that you see in Digital Marketing in both near and long-term future. This would also help you showcase that you're well read and updated about your chosen field.
By asking this question, the interviewer wants to know your commitment to the industry and see what makes you the best pick among all the candidates available. Therefore, it is important that you show full commitment and enthusiasm for the industry.
14. Explain what Do You If You Run Out Of Ideas For New Ad?
One should always be creative when you are in advertising field. When you are running out of ideas refer internet, forums, open source ad sense, and blogs, advanced search engine options, use various communication groups, and approach them for to get ideas.
15. Tell us do you know the difference between branding and direct marketing?
☛ In branding:
An advertiser needs to expose his brand on applications and sites with mass reach. The most popular methods are custom ads, YouTube ads, remarketing, and display ads target.
☛ In direct marketing:
The advertiser is interested in communicating with the target audience. The most common campaigns are dynamic search ads, shopping ads, Search Network Only etc.
16. Explain me how do you stay updated with news and latest Digital Marketing trends?
This question is asked quite often. Since Digital Marketing is a dynamic field, it is important to stay updated with the blogs, books, webinars, and podcasts to go for. Some of the popular resources to stay updated on Digital Marketing are websites like Mashable, blog by WordStream, Social Media Examiner, The Neil Patel Blog etc.
You must already be aware of these sources and if you're not, spend some time on these and be aware of what these are. So that you don't end up saying something that you are fully aware of, as a follow-up question can get you in trouble.
17. Tell us how Would You Design And Promote An Advertising Campaign?
An advertisement campaign must comprise of the following:
☛ A solid marketing plan
☛ Advertising budget
☛ Media buying and planning
☛ Choosing the right target audience
☛ Selection of relevant advertising medium
☛ Consistency in campaign theme and
☛ Frequency.
18. Please explain what Do You Know About Internet Advertising?
Today Internet is one of the easiest means to advertise which in turn helps marketers to consume. There are certain rules, which have to be followed and applied as similar to other forms of advertising. Those rules will help business and consumers to maintain the internet credibility, which is a highly effective advertising medium.
19. Explain me how Would You Involve In Yourself In A Book Club?
Get together in a core group – It is much easier to get involved in a book club with two or three people who already have some connection. Sometimes you might find people to joining book club right away.
Set a regular meeting time – As you can imagine, it is often difficult to coordinate that many schedules. Go ahead and set a regular meeting time and date for your book club with your core group. By setting the time, you avoid playing favorites when working around schedules and are up front about what commitment is required.
Look for Advertisement a book clubs- The best advertising is often word of mouth. You could also look for a book club in other print media.
Learning about Establish ground rules – Get together with your potential book club members and learn about ground rules should include how books are chosen, who hosts, who leads discussions, and what kind of commitment is expected. If you did not set the meeting time with your core group, do that now.
20. Explain me what Qualities Does A Person Need To Be Successful In The Field Of Advertising?
The following are the qualities required to be successful in the field of advertising:
☛ Creativity
☛ Strategic focus
☛ Knowledge and expertise in the field of advertising
☛ Holding a relevant qualification in the field of advertising
☛ Market research orientation
☛ People skills etc.
21. Explain me what are the limitations of Online Marketing?
Some of the limitations of Digital Marketing are:
☛ Intense Competition : since online marketing is easily accessible, cost-effective and more accountable by design, it has become a preferred method for most brands. It's an uphill task to stand out and get noticed amongst such intense competition.
☛ It can get overwhelming : there is so much information, so much data, onslaught of tools for everything, too many options that it's easy to get overwhelmed and become confused. It takes practice and experience to get your head around it.
☛ Analytics is only as good its user : sure, there's analytics for every thing but you can't do anything with plain data unless you know how to read it and how to make good use of it. It can easily become misleading and you can get stuck in chasing vain metrics and burning marketing cash at the wrong places.
22. Tell me in what ways can you categorize the term Digital Marketing?
This is one of the most commonly asked questions in a Digital Marketing interview. This is also one of those trap questions that could give away the level of your understanding of basics. Even though there are many ways to categorize Digital Marketing, owing to the dynamism and vastness of available options, the term Digital Marketing is generally categorized into two major segments from the point of view of traffic and lead generation
23. Please explain is Advertising The Only Way To Entice A Target Market Towards Product?
Advertising is not the only way to entice customers to buy the product. Advertising itself can't sell products or services. It is one of the elements in the marketing mix of product, price, place and promotion. And the four elements of the marketing mix when focused on consumer satisfaction results in attracting the target consumer to the product or service. Advertising is an effective tool to communicate, convince and induce purchaser behavior of consumers when all the other elements are aligned to consumers tastes and interests.
24. Tell us what is the most effective way to increase traffic to a website?
To effectively increase traffic to a website, one should focus on building referral links and to invest in consistent SEO management. It will not only help one gain visitors but will also help in building brand recognition. However, the most important factor is to focus on User Retention by providing a good User Experience.
For instance, getting a Moz link and receiving 10k visitors on the website is quite a good result. Though you must note that the conversion rate will be relatively low. However, the converted leads are certain to land on the website multiple times. But if you focus on creating a good user experience and in turn on retaining users, you will experience an increased conversion rate gained from those thousands of visits in a couple of months. By focusing on engaging the user, you can build a platform on which people will keep coming back.
25. Tell me is there anything we are doing wrong right now? How would you change it?
Here comes the question which demands you to know a lot about the company for which you have applied. Therefore, it is always better to do your research and go through the company's website, check their social media profiles, get a clear idea about their clients and then you will easily know what is wrong with company's current strategy. However, just because you spotted some shortcomings, don't just jump on the opportunity to point it out.
It is perfect to point out their mistake but never end your answer without a proper explanation of why you think it is a problem and what could be the possible solutions to fix those issues.
Insurance is a pure service. The intangibility of the service makes it difficult for people to appreciate its worth. The advertisement campaign should therefore be straight forward and simple. The message can be benefit-based visual picturization. A comfortable, though bereaved family, old couple (happy), children's education / marriage etc.
27. Explain me what Is A News Article?
A news article is a gathering of facts written by journalist published in the news or the print media.
28. Tell us how Can You Launch A Marketing Campaign On A Shoestring Budget?
Word-of-mouth is the key.
29. Explain me what Factors Would You Consider To Decide The Target Audience Of Your Ad?
The following are the factors to be considered before deciding the target audience for any advertisements:
☛ Age
☛ Working class(professionals)
☛ Non – working class(Retired/Home makers)
☛ Socio economic status
☛ Region specific
☛ Religion/community etc.
The number of different persons or households exposed to a particular media, schedule at least once during a specified time period - is called reach. Whereas. The number of times within the specified time period that an average person or household is exposed to the message - is called frequency. They are not inversely proportional. One can choose different channels to use different segment's using appropriate frequency. However, within a segment the rule seems to be applied.
31. Explain me what Is The Purpose Of Vrrp?
Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP) is a non-proprietary redundancy protocol described in RFC 3768 designed to increase the availability of the default gateway servicing hosts on the same subnet. This increased reliability is achieved by advertising a “virtual router” (an abstract representation of master and backup routers acting as a group) as a default gateway to the host(s) instead of one physical router. Two or more physical routers are then configured to stand for the virtual router, with only one doing the actual routing at any given time.
If the current physical router that is routing the data on behalf of the virtual router fails, an arrangement is made for another physical router to automatically replace it. The physical router that is currently forwarding data on behalf of the virtual router is called the master router. Physical routers standing by to take over from the master router in case something goes wrong are called backup routers.
32. Tell me are There Any Limits On Ads For Alcoholic Beverages Can Run And How They Can Exhibit?
The ads shown for alcoholic beverages should be very truthful to the best of the knowledge unlike other ads. In addition to these alcohol ads, contents or placement may not be directed to underage customers. Few broadcasters place additional restrictions as to when and where these alcohol ads should run.
33. Tell us what Are The Evidences One Should Hold For The Claims They Get On The Ads They Put Up?
Whenever company runs an ad it should have a reasonable basis for the claims they get, which is the evidences for the claims that they receive. These claims must be healthy and safe claims and which has a competent and scientific evidences that is evaluated by qualified people and can be reviewed, modified, and can make additions to it.
34. Explain me what Is The Truth Involved In Advertising Rules Which Applies To Advertisers?
☛ 1. Advertisers should always ensure the following is kept in mind before advertising.
☛ 2. Advertising must always be highly truthful non-deceptive.
☛ 3. Ads should be a fair deal.
☛ 4. Advertisers should always keep backups on the claims and have evidence for their advertising.
No. Google has not done that before.
