horizontal and vertical intergration and cooperatives
Explain:
What
horizontal integration is?
This is where a
production company expands into other areas of one industry. This means that
the company can develop in a particular area of production or they can buy
out another company that deals with these areas.
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Benefits / PROS
-It
helps to create more money and makes the company more popular among readers.
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The more technology literate people will read
the magazine online, so horizontal integration helps to reach a wider
audience.
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Drawbacks / CONS
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One drawback of
Horizontal Integration is that misfortunes from a recently obtained business
may cut into the benefits from an existing one. Hence new acquisitions must
be made just after cautious investigation.
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Explain:
What vertical integration is?
This is when the
production company has the ownership of the means of production, distribution
and exhibition of the film by the same company, because of this they receive
all the profit.
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Increased competitiveness.
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Greater process
control
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Increased
market share.
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Increased
supply chain coordination.
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Decreased cost.
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-Vertical Integration can also have some setbacks
such as it reduce operational flexibility and limit access to the best
suppliers.
-Suppliers may order less than the
lowest cost-efficient scale needed to produce the product
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Explain:
What
co-operative is?
Media cooperatives
are a form of cooperative that report on news based on the geographic
location of their membership, or the general interests of the membership.
Often they are a form of alternative media, critical of capitalism, with
left-wing stances.
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High viewership
and broad reach. Possibly still the highest reach medium.
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High impact.
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Demographic
targeting is possible with opportunities to target by interest.
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Expensive media
buy.
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Expensive
production.
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Declining
ratings and decreasing audience.
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People can
channel surf and skip commercials, or edit them out altogether.
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Poor
geo-targeting, although using local channels can solve this to an extent
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