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Top 16 Direct Response TV Secrets Revealed for The DRTV Centre’s 16th Anniversary
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Aug 16, 2013, 03:00 ET

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London (PRWEB UK) 16 August 2013 -- DRTV (direct response television) can attract instant new customers and produce high returns on investment. There are many pitfalls, however, and failure can be costly. To celebrate its 16th birthday, The DRTV Centre, the leading UK specialist advertising agency, is sharing the top sixteen secrets learned over these sixteen years.

DRTV includes any TV advertising that asks consumers to respond directly to the advertiser, by calling Freefone number, visiting a web site or sending a text (SMS) message.

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#1. To guarantee the best DRTV script, listen carefully to the industry expert who suggests that it should follow a proven formula. He knows what he’s talking about. Many clients who are new to the medium want to break the rules – more often than not, their products fail.
#2. The attention of the viewer must be captured immediately; the message needs to be clear and relevant and quickly followed by a call-to-action (“phone now” for example, or "visit our website").
#3. A problem/solution scenario often works well – with the advertised product being the solution to the problem, naturally.
#4. Highlight the most important product benefits by featuring prominent titles on screen. Advertising agency creatives hate these - but they work.
#5. You might be tempted to use humour to capture attention. Don’t. Humour hardly ever works.
#6. Make it clear what response you want from the viewer. This is the call-to-action. Repeat it.
#7. Show and speak your 0800 Freefone number very early in your script and keep it on screen until the end.
#8. Crucially, use the most memorable 0800 numbers available. Response rates can be 50% higher for easy-to-remember numbers.
#9. DRTV media - experiment with different lengths of commercial. For some products, a 30 second commercial will pull response just as well as a 60, at half the airtime cost.
#10. Branding is a side effect of great DRTV commercials, not the other way around. Concentrate on the offer and on maximising response. Brand awareness will result later, directly from DRTV success.
#11. Campaign cost - avoid buying peak time spots. Lots of low rating spots in cheap daytime will produce a steady response at lowest cost per enquiry.
#12. DRTV results are accurately measurable; take the advice of industry media experts with respect to analysis. Such analysis will tell you which TV stations are performing well, what time length is best for your commercial, and what time of day and day of week are most cost-effective.
#13. Recognise that DRTV is a science. Identify your winners using response statistics. Stick with your winners and ditch your losers quickly.
#14. Testing a new product or service on-air will provide much more reliable guidance than using focus groups.
#15. In judging success beware of taking emotional decisions. Base your judgment purely on facts.
#16. Test, test, never rest - small improvements to the script can often have a disproportionate effect on response levels.

David Pearson, CEO of The DRTV Centre, explains: “Don’t try to reinvent the wheel. There are tried and tested ways to increase your chances of DRTV success. Use them and you will maximise your chances.”

Company info:
The DRTV Centre was established in London 16 years ago; uniquely, it is the only advertising agency in the UK to concentrate solely on direct response television.

The agency provides everything clients need to mount successful TV campaigns: strategies, idea creation, scriptwriting, storyboards, research, casting, location search, film/video production, music, voice-overs, transmission copies, channel selection, TV airtime booking and response analysis.

For further info, please call The DRTV Centre on 0800 635 9000.

David Pearson, The DRTV Centre, http://www.drtvcentre.com/, 0800 635 9000, [email protected]

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