media

1. Communication channels through which news, entertainment, education, data, or promotional messages are disseminated. Media includes every broadcasting and narrowcasting medium such as newspapers, magazines, TV, radio, billboards, direct mail, telephone, fax, and internet.

2. Data storage material divided into three broad categories according to the recording method: (1) Magnetic, such as diskettes, disks, tapes, (2) Optical, such as microfiche, and (3) Magneto-Optical, such as CDs, and DVDs.

There are a lot of self-fulfilling prophesies in business. Customers tend to gravitate toward what they think will be dominant, especially for products and services with high switching costs, because they don't want to opt for a company that might not survive and because the dominant vendors on average have better products and services. So perception leads reality, and those who are expected to win become more likely to win. For this reason, marketing needs to be focused on perception management. If a company can get the media to pick them as the horse to bet on, they'll be more likely to succeed.

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