Brief, strategy & proposition · Core
Communication objective
ELI5
The change in awareness, understanding, feeling or behaviour the advertising is meant to support.
Used in conversation
“The communication objective needs to be explicit in the treatment, not left for production to guess.”
Definition
The change in awareness, understanding, feeling or behaviour the advertising is intended to support.
Here “Communication objective” means: The change in awareness, understanding, feeling or behaviour the advertising is intended to support.
Pitch context
You may encounter “Communication objective” in advertising & director treatments conversations or materials.
Why it matters: Helps interpret the brief, director treatment, bid, award, production process and campaign deliverables.
Connected terms
- Call to actionThe communication objective defines the intended audience effect; the call to action specifies what the audience should do.
Sources & evidence · 4
Supporting source families. This entry is an editorial synthesis rather than a quotation from one canonical glossary.
- Association of Independent Commercial Producers — AICP Guidelines and Best PracticesSupporting source family · institutional · checked 2026-08-14
- IPA / APA / ISBA — Production Pitch Process Initiative and Best PracticeSupporting source family · institutional · checked 2026-08-14
- AICP — AICP Bid FormSupporting source family · primary · checked 2026-08-14
- pitch.dog — Pitch Dictionary Deep Research SynthesisSupporting source family · practitioner · checked 2026-08-14