Swot Analysis for Usa Today
1. What opportunities in the marketing environment did Gannett seize in launching USA Today? How did the company learn about and respond to these opportunities?
Research and update the case information as much as possible with current research, and then conduct a comprehensive SWOT analysis for USA Today.
Gannett noticed two trends or opportunities in the reading public and took advantage of those trends. The first one is the increasingly short attention span among a generation nurtured on television; the second is the growing hunger for more information. The newspaper’s primary mission was to provide more news to their readers in less time. They targeted the young and well-educated because he noticed that they were busy and care about the news (they targeted nontraditional newspaper readers) unlike their competitors. Typical readers turned out to be professionals, usually managers, about 40 years old, well educated, with an income of about$60,000 a year. USA Today capitalized its market opportunities by listening to their readers. They provided personal level communication, provided news in a clear, upbeat, positive way. They were also the first color newspaper and captured readers using a TV set like distribution box. They were very unique and out of the box. In addition to this, Gannett’s research had shown that readers get most of their information from such snippets and they were also interested in sports, movie reviews, and health information so he didn’t just limit it to traditional news, he added diverse news about several topics like sports. I believe that the company knew about opportunities by closely communicating with their customers and conducting research and responding to their consumer’s needs by continuously re innovating and adding values to fit the reader’s lifestyle and interests. For instance, when they knew that a lot of their readers are not only interested in traditional news, but they are also sports junkie they added more subjects like
Research and update the case information as much as possible with current research, and then conduct a comprehensive SWOT analysis for USA Today.
Gannett noticed two trends or opportunities in the reading public and took advantage of those trends. The first one is the increasingly short attention span among a generation nurtured on television; the second is the growing hunger for more information. The newspaper’s primary mission was to provide more news to their readers in less time. They targeted the young and well-educated because he noticed that they were busy and care about the news (they targeted nontraditional newspaper readers) unlike their competitors. Typical readers turned out to be professionals, usually managers, about 40 years old, well educated, with an income of about$60,000 a year. USA Today capitalized its market opportunities by listening to their readers. They provided personal level communication, provided news in a clear, upbeat, positive way. They were also the first color newspaper and captured readers using a TV set like distribution box. They were very unique and out of the box. In addition to this, Gannett’s research had shown that readers get most of their information from such snippets and they were also interested in sports, movie reviews, and health information so he didn’t just limit it to traditional news, he added diverse news about several topics like sports. I believe that the company knew about opportunities by closely communicating with their customers and conducting research and responding to their consumer’s needs by continuously re innovating and adding values to fit the reader’s lifestyle and interests. For instance, when they knew that a lot of their readers are not only interested in traditional news, but they are also sports junkie they added more subjects like