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Characteristics of the poster audience in Great Britain

The OSCAR system for estimating audiences of individual poster sites was developed in the UK for the outdoor advertising contractors from 1981 and launched in October 1985. From a census of all poster sites audiences were modelled in the form of...

Catalogue: Seminar 1988: Media And Media Research

Authors: Pym Cornish, Richard Windle

June 15, 1988

Television usage in a multi-channel environment

The number of TV channels available in Europe as a whole has grown by more than a third over the last year. Not only are domestic broadcast channels spilling into neighbouring countries, but satellite and cable channels are also expanding their...

Catalogue: Seminar 1987: The Application Of Research To Broadcasting Decisions

Authors: Tony Dent, Nicholas Winkfield, Sian Lloyd

June 15, 1987

Lancia 1984 grand galá

Before the Lancia Grand Gala 1984 can be presented within the framework of brand promotion activity it is necessary, indeed absolutely essential, to define the background. Above all, the overall auto market is as we shall see in direct contrast to...

Catalogue: Seminar 1985: Below-The-Line And Sponsoring

Authors: Tino Biglia, Franco Cagnasso

November 6, 1985

The use of market research to segment and communicate effectively with the market for travel and entertainment cards in the countries of Western Europe

This paper outlines how the European Market Research Department of the American Express Card Division has used market research to help its individual marketing teams (based in the various European countries) develop segmented marketing and...

Catalogue: EFMA/ESOMAR Seminar 1982: How Research Can Help Financial Organisations Communicate Internally And Externally

Author: Paul Szwarc

Company: American Express Company

June 15, 1982

Advertising, promotions and direct marketing

The paper begins with an analysis of the spectacular development of the direct marketing Europe and the United States, followed by an examination of the causes of this development. The second part of the paper stresses the crucial importance of...

Catalogue: AMA/ESOMAR Conference 1981: From Advertising To Communication Research

Author: Sylvère Piquet

June 15, 1981

Levi's: The art of staying ahead

Founded in 1850, Levi Strauss is now the largest clothing manufacturer in the world. The historical development of the Company is traced, and the astonishing growth in the blue jean market from the 1950s onwards. The way that the Levi Strauss Company...

Catalogue: Seminar 1980: Social Change Analysis As A Tool For Strategic Planning And Decision Making

Authors: Judith Blundun, Christine Restall

June 18, 1980

Practical frameworks for advertising and research

Not many researchers started as copywriters. And few of these can be as lucid about research as is the following paper. An historical and practical review of advertising theories sets the scene. It reminds us that methods which worked in one...

Catalogue: Market Researchers Look At Advertising: A Collection of ESOMAR papers 1949-1979

Author: Mary Tuck

June 15, 1980

Complementary of methods in copy-testing

This paper argues that the advance in knowledge about the communication process of advertising has been insufficiently applied in the context of copy-testing methods, in particular of pre-testing methods. It surveys the progress of social...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1979: The Challenge Of Eighties

Authors: Piet Vanden Abeele, I. Butaye

June 15, 1979

Constraints and opportunities in children's television advertising

The main objective of this paper is to highlight some of the common pitfalls associated with the execution of television advertising addressed wholly or in part to a child audience. For a variety of reasons much of the television advertising to this...

Catalogue: Seminar 1978: Researching Children

Author: Vivienne G.T. Price

October 1, 1978