To be sure, âSunday Night Footballâ remains the most expensive program on TV for advertisers, commanding an average of $637,330 for a 30-second spot. But its ability to gain more from Madison Avenue remains in doubt. Last season, the average price of a 30-second ad in the show fell 0.8% to $623,425.
In other words, selling, marketing, and advertising costs are not part of getting the products ready to sell. Since these costs are not incurred solely for the purpose of manufacturing products, they are not considered product costs. By default, since these costs are not product costs, they are period costs.
Before a product can embark on its journey through the four product life cycle stages, it has to be developed. New product development is typically a huge part of any manufacturing process. Most organizations realize that all products have a limited lifespan, and so new products need to be developed to replace them and keep the company in business. Just as the product life cycle has various stages, new product development is also broken down into a number of specific phases.