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How do press ads really work and how can we measure their performance more realistically

This paper discusses a number of issues critical to the development and evaluation of creative press advertisements and campaigns. It begins with the information gap that currently exists regarding the influence of context on the perceptions of the...

Catalogue: Seminar 1991: Publishing For An Optimal Product

Authors: Wendy Gordon, Andrea Berlowitz

June 15, 1991

The message is (or may be) the medium... But is certainly not the message!

Under this somewhat iconoclastic title, referring to the equally and deliberately iconoclastic statements from McLuhan, we want to show that good intellection of an advertising message often depends not so much on the actual message, more on the...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1991: Marketing In A New Europe

Author: François Laurent

June 15, 1991

Using advertising research in the 1990's, putting the horse in front of the cart

Due to the expected changes in the fast moving consumer goods market in the 1990's, in terms of the geographical expansion and increasing brand and media competition, it is assumed that advertising decision risks will be higher than ever before....

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1990: Using Research For Marketing In The 90's

Author: Mansour Elganady

September 1, 1990

Introduction

In the complex world of advertising today, in the face of dramatic changes in media, consumer lifestyles and corporate structures, there is a tendency on the part of advertising professionals, both agency and client, to feel that they must reinvent...

Catalogue: ARF Guidelines Handbook

Author: Malcolm A. McNiven

June 15, 1990

Selecting advertising routes for older target audiences (more than one way to skin a cat)

Our paper describes TBWA's approach to analysing advertising and how it can be used to isolate the different ways of communicating most effectively to old people as various brands' messages differ. The approach basically involves splitting the...

Catalogue: Seminar 1989: The Untapped Gold Mine

Authors: Jane Fiori, Patrick Peigne

June 15, 1989

Adjustment of advertising to continually developing values: An operative model of analysis

The rapidly developing social and cultural scene is bringing about a parallel change in values, attitudes and life styles. This is reflected on the consumer's choice of products and brands. In Italy in particular the consumer is bombarded by a mass...

Catalogue: Seminar 1989: Is Marketing Keeping Up With The Consumer?

Authors: Graziella Messina, Franco Barbero

June 15, 1989

The mature market

In recognition of past neglect of mature consumers, Colgate-Palmolive is changing its ways. The initial steps have been taken and a continuing program will be maintained. The intent is to enrich the knowledge and understanding of mature consumers,...

Catalogue: Seminar 1989: The Untapped Gold Mine

Authors: Jacklyn H. Posner, Meryl Bass, Jim Figura

Company: Colgate-Palmolive

June 15, 1989

Conversations about advertisements

The paper covers an experimental study that looks at an alternative methodology for pre-testing television commercials. Current methodologies appear to prejudice the utility of Ad response data by imposing an environment on respondents that may do...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1988

Author: Colin Bowring

September 1, 1988

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