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Oscar

The paper describes how the two research companies involved set about the project, the kind of results that were obtained, the working system that has been established, and suggests probable implications for the future of outdoor advertising....

Catalogue: Seminar 1986: New Developments In Media Research

Authors: Derek Bloom, Tim S. Bowles

June 15, 1986

A quantified study on what people do during commercial breaks

By using a mostly forgotten research technique of observation, we were able to obtain, in an unorthodox way, a clear insight into how television, including the use of all new technology, is used during the commercial breaks. We were also able to...

Catalogue: Seminar 1986: New Developments In Media Research

Author: Chris Horsley

Company: Bates CHI & Partners

June 15, 1986

A new method for the measurement of the effectiveness of poster campaigns

This paper describes a research-program that started with a check on the execution of poster campaigns. By means of samples drawn from the files of poster sites in the Netherlands each month a number of sites was checked on the presence of posters...

Catalogue: Seminar 1986: New Developments In Media Research

Author: Theo Hess

Company: NIPO

June 15, 1986

Country ways

The original intention of "Coisas da Roga" (Country days) was to have a better understanding of the relationship between rural people in the Brazilian state of Sao Paulo - "country folks", as- they call theirselves - and the big city consumer...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1985: Broadening The Uses Of Research

Authors: Clarice Herzog, Lea Maria Chagas Cruz

Company: Ogilvy

June 15, 1985

Towards making better new product ads

This paper reviews several recently-published studies, all of which provide practitioners with some research-based guidelines on how to make more effective new product advertising. These studies begin to fill a gap which has existed in the otherwise...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1985: Broadening The Uses Of Research

Author: David W. Olson

June 15, 1985

Decoding medical advertising

This paper describes the use of semiotics as an aid to monitoring competitive activity. We have taken a collection of typical ads appearing in the British Medical Press, and subjected them to a semiological analysis. On this basis we have drawn...

Catalogue: EPHMRA/ESOMAR Seminar 1985: Pharmaceutical Competitor Analysis

Author: Peter Cooper

Company: QRi Consulting Ltd.

February 27, 1985

Processing the meaning of stimuli in the absence of stimulus-identification

Because perception is important in the field of advertising, some perceptual phenomena and theoretical insights are discussed, since several misconceptions, mysticisms and controversies seem to exist with regard to 'subliminal perception' and the...

Catalogue: EMAC/ESOMAR Symposium 1984: Methodological Advanced In Marketing Research In Theory And Practice

Author: Mark J. A. Zoon

June 15, 1984

How children use television advertising and how we can learn to communicate more effectively with them

The paper describes a small-scale exploratory study among school-children, supplemented by preparatory desk research, and by interviews with a variety of adult professionals working in the broad field of child communications. The overall objective...

Catalogue: Seminar 1984: Marketing To Children And Young Consumer

Authors: Emer Rodnight, David Williams

Company: Ogilvy

June 15, 1984

Greek tourism in the 1980s widening the market

This paper attempts to explain the thinking behind Aspect Advertising's decision to advertise the attractions of Greece as a tourist destination by using Posters at "off-peak" times of year rather than what had been the previous practice - to support...

Catalogue: Seminar 1983: The importance Of Research In The Tourism Industry

Author: Dan O'Donoghue

June 15, 1983