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Media Planning - Maximizing Gross OTS

Prof. A K Rao and M R Rao
1996
Working Paper No
89
Body

The problem of generating a cinema schedule for advertisement to maximize gross OTS ( Opportunities-To-See ) attracted the attention of media plan researchers. The development of a cinema schedule so that desired Reach is achieved in each town and the total cost of advertisement does not exceed a given budget was formulated as a mathematical programming problem. The problem has a linear objective function with nonlinear constraints and integer variables, A heuristic procedure was developed by researchers in the past to solve the problem. In this paper a nested dynamic programming formulation is given to obtain an optimal solution to the problem. The structure of the optimal solution and solution procedure for a special case is also discussed.

Key words
Media Planning
WP.IIMB_.89.pdf (1.14 MB)

Media Planning - Maximizing Gross OTS

Author(s) Name: Prof. A K Rao and M R Rao, 1996
Working Paper No : 89
Abstract:

The problem of generating a cinema schedule for advertisement to maximize gross OTS ( Opportunities-To-See ) attracted the attention of media plan researchers. The development of a cinema schedule so that desired Reach is achieved in each town and the total cost of advertisement does not exceed a given budget was formulated as a mathematical programming problem. The problem has a linear objective function with nonlinear constraints and integer variables, A heuristic procedure was developed by researchers in the past to solve the problem. In this paper a nested dynamic programming formulation is given to obtain an optimal solution to the problem. The structure of the optimal solution and solution procedure for a special case is also discussed.

Keywords: Media Planning
WP.IIMB_.89.pdf (1.14 MB)