Case Study Analysis – USA Today: Innovation and Evolution MBA505 –Marketing Management Carol Rodriguez Jones International University April 2013 a. What opportunities in the marketing environment did Gannett seize in launching USA Today? What unmet benefits are added and what value is created for the customer by USA Today? Gannett was brilliant to seize a great opportunity to niche market news. True to the definition of niche marketing which seeks to understand and meet the needs of a target
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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;
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USA Today launched in September of 1982 and was considered poor journalism and quickly acquired the nickname “McPaper” (MCartney‚ 1997). The paper was arranged in colorful four segment outlines that could be easily accessed and read. Even though they received much criticism early on‚ the paper found its readers and gained momentum especially to the casual reader. USA Today was ahead of it’s time in 1982 and unknowingly deviated from the normal newspaper prior to the onset of the internet age
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Macroenvironmental Factors The macroenvironmental factors that will affect USA Today are namely economic‚ social‚ political and technological. 1. Economic The economic environment for USA Today were relatively unstable due to the rising costs of newsprints in the mid 2000s. As printing cost is one of the major cost of newspaper‚ the rising cost in printing have definitely affect USA Today and its survival. This means that USA Today have to find solutions to solve the rising cost problem and its has
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to pin-point the strategical advantages USA Today has over the competition to continue our growing success into the new project. I would exploit what has made USA Today competitive within the newspaper industry. Marketing decisions‚ as describe in Chapter 1‚ explain the importance of product‚ price‚ distribution‚ and promotion. According to MaRS Discovery District‚ by following this marketing-mix‚ I can accomplish my company goals while reaffirming USA Today’s core value and brand loyalty
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USA Today - Pursuing the Network Strategy By January 2000‚ USA Today (USAT) was the highest circulated newspaper in the United States (J. Roberts‚ Tushman‚ 2005). Even though the company has had positive operating profits for the last years and indications on an increase in 2000‚ Tom Curley‚ USAT’s CEO‚ was concerned about a couple of trends affecting USAT. In January 2000 Curley presented a vision of a “networked” USAT to his senior staff. In his speak he tried to imply that the industry is about
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1) The “network strategy” is CEO Tom Curly’s vision to integrate USA Today’s three main business units or media channels: Newspaper‚ Online and TV. The Online unit currently operates independently with their own sources of news content‚ editing‚ production and distribution. Tom Curly believes that by integrating the three channels they can better leverage the USAT brand as well as its news gathering‚ editing and distributing capabilities across the multiple channels. The success of this strategy
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Hussein Hassan Tantawy 900072827 MKTG 480 Case 1 Dr. Hegazy USA Today: innovation and Evoultion in a Troubled Industry 1) What Opportunities in the marketing environment did Gannett seize in launching USA Today? How did the company learn about and respond to the opportunities? Answer these same questions for USATODAY.COM On its debut in 1982‚ USA Today was reckoned as America’s first National general-interest daily newspaper. Being the global information juggernaut that he is‚ Gannett
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USA TODAY Strengths 1. Hotel Circulation 2. Cheaper for Technological Circulation 3. Number One For Sports Coverage 4. Relates To More People Who Do Not Have A Strong Business Background 5. Easier Comprehension For Lower Education Level Readers 6. More Popular in Lower Income Families (under $80‚000) 7. Use of Google Ads 8. Popularity Greatly Exceeds the Competition Outside the WSJ 9. Short Distribution to Circulators Weaknesses 1. Decline of Paper Reading 2.
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