Saturday, July 21, 2012

UFS 201 - 3rd Vocabulary Entry

1. Media planner
    Meaning: a job title in an advertising agency or media planning and buying agency, responsible for selecting media for advertisement placement on behalf of their clients.


2. Peak time
    Meaning: time period of greatest demand on the carrier's system. Generally corresponds to all periods except late nights and weekends.


3. Neon sign
    Meaning: glass tube lighting in which a gas and phosphors are used in combination to create a colored light.


4. Tabloid
    Meaning: a newspaper having pages half the size of those of a standard newspaper, typically popular in style and dominated by headlines, photographs, and sensational stories.


5. Trade journal
    Meaning: a periodical, magazine or publication printed with the intention of target marketing to a specific industry or type of trade/business. The collective term for this area of publishing is the trade press.


6. Window dresser
    Meaning: someone who decorates shop windows.


7. Zapping
    Meaning: to kill or destroy as if by shooting.


8. Press agent
    Meaning: a person employed to organize advertising and publicity in the press on behalf of an organization or well-known person.


9. Effective reach
   Meaning: the number of people who will see an ad the most effective number of times. The most effective frequency.


10. Gate fold
      Meaning: an oversized page in a book or magazine folded to the same size as the other pages but intended to be opened out for reading.

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