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Freedom and control in creative activity

In market research we are all aware of the growing demand for better procedures for creating and testing effective advertising. Manufacturers not unnaturally wish for evidence that their expenditure on advertising will achieve maximum results....

Catalogue: Seminar 1966: The Role of Market Research In The Creation of Advertising

Author: Peter Tyler

June 1, 1966

An over-all measurement of advertising effectiveness

I am concerned here with an attitude to pre-testing as much as a particular technique. Overall measures of advertisements are needed but it is in this area that the arguments arise. Incidentally, I shall be talking purely in terms of television...

Catalogue: Seminar 1966: The Role of Market Research In The Creation of Advertising

Author: Charles W. Clunies-Ross

Company: Nestlé

June 1, 1966

Use of periodic quantitative surveys in view of the adjustment of advertising strategies and of a better understanding of the process of advertising action

Advertising as a means of action on human behaviour is quite typical of our age; however, the assumptions we make, the theories we develop in that field, the research we are currently conducting to test the impact of advertising are still deeply...

Catalogue: Seminar 1966: The Role of Market Research In The Creation of Advertising

Author: Alain de Vulpian

June 1, 1966

The seven deadly sins in advertising research

Year after year industry invests ever increasing amounts in advertising, in order to keep up with the great competitive struggle. The sums thus spent go into hundreds of millions. Advertising should and must create advantages in competition. That's...

Catalogue: Seminar 1966: The Role of Market Research In The Creation of Advertising

Author: Herbert Flögel

June 1, 1966

A long look at advertising research

One obvious way to build such knowledge would be to prepare a systematic programme of regular research. Desirable as this might be, it is not the aim of this note to advocate such programmes . What is advocated is more realistic : that each new piece...

Catalogue: Seminar 1966: The Role of Market Research In The Creation of Advertising

Author: Lucy Webster

June 1, 1966

How research can have greater creative utility

To summarise, the essential conclusion that I have tried to argue towards is that the dichotomy between the creative man and the research man is false. The research man has got to understand what the creative man needs as he has to provide it. The...

Catalogue: Seminar 1966: The Role of Market Research In The Creation of Advertising

Author: Keith Fell

June 1, 1966

Pre-testing on the "creative workshop"

Creative Workshop is a quick, relatively inexpensive pre-testing service designed for the J. Walter Thompson Company Limited to help the creative people and to improve the quality of the advertising. Broadly speaking, in our approach we hope to get...

Catalogue: Seminar 1966: The Role of Market Research In The Creation of Advertising

Author: Robert Fletcher

June 1, 1966

Non-awareness and non-usage

In this paper, we report some empirical findings concerning the relation between a sales-type variable such as brand usage and a communication variable. In trying to measure communication, people use a variety of different variables. We consider here...

Catalogue: Seminar 1966: The Role of Market Research In The Creation of Advertising

Authors: Andrew S. C. Ehrenberg, Michael Bird

June 1, 1966

Pupil response as a means of evaluating television commercials

Today we are reporting on the first test carried out in England. For those of you who are unfamiliar with the basis of pupil response I will describe it very briefly. The technique is based on the fact that in constant light conditions the pupil of...

Catalogue: Seminar 1966: The Role of Market Research In The Creation of Advertising

Authors: Gareth Johns, Jack Potter

June 1, 1966