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New qualitative descriptors of magazines' potentiality to convey efficiently advertising messages

Magazines have a unique characteristic, which is an advantage that no other media can display : the particular link between a reader and "his" magazine : to read a magazine means more than just to be in contact with a media, it means a personal...

Catalogue: Seminar 1995: Strategic Publishing And Advertising Accountability

Author: Dina Raimondi

November 1, 1995

Readership measurement in Europe 1994

This first ESOMAR review of the current state of play innational and international readership research throughout Europe testifies to the diversity ofconditions, needs, resources and research cultures that now exist. The methodological issuesof how...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Codes And Guidelines

Author: ESOMAR B.V.

September 1, 1994

FRY

The CESP has carried out two types of experiment on measuring First Reading Yesterday (FRY). The first was performed during the National Readership Survey (NRS) in 1988. A questionnaire on yesterday reading was given by phone three weeks after the...

Catalogue: Seminar 1994: From Door-To-Door To Satellite

Authors: Hugues Chavenon, Françoise Dupont

June 15, 1994

The new French magazine survey

The present paper explains why the French press decided to create a new readership measurement tool. It discusses the technical and political reasons behind the change in the screen, the choice of vertical questioning, the introduction of a question...

Catalogue: Seminar 1994: From Door-To-Door To Satellite

Author: Jean-Louis Marx

June 15, 1994

Media research

Generally speaking, advertisers are not very interested in media research as such. Of late, accountability of advertising expenditures has become a key topic. The popularity of the advertising effectiveness awards is growing, but the focus of the...

Catalogue: Seminar 1994: From Door-To-Door To Satellite

Author: Marion Appel

June 15, 1994

Target groups redefined

At the suggestion of the BURDA publishing company in OfFenburg— publisher of Mein schoner Garten, the gardening magazine with the largest circulation in Europe-the Allensbach Institute has for the first time tested the 'flow' concept developed...

Catalogue: Seminar 1993: Competition In Publishing

Author: Rüdiger Schulz

Company: Institut für Demoskopie Allensbach GmbH

June 15, 1993

It's all in the cover

There is more to publishing a new consumer magazine title than just coming up with the "right" cover design; but it is clearly a very critical component. As a researcher it is of primary concern to first establish a real understanding of the key...

Catalogue: Seminar 1993: Competition In Publishing

Author: Stephen Thomas

June 15, 1993

Making a newspaper more reader-friendly

Analysing research data for Tages-Anzeiger in 1990 made it evident that reading meant glancing at articles or reading headlines only. The aim was therefore to improve the intensity of reading by making the readers spend more time reading an issue of...

Catalogue: Seminar 1993: Competition In Publishing

Author: Gaby Bachofner

June 15, 1993

Aspects of postmodern reading public

In the western democratic societies of today where mass-produced individualism is prevalent, there is increasing evidence that classical target group segmentation based on sociodemography and conventional typologies, conventional in that they are...

Catalogue: Seminar 1993: Competition In Publishing

Author: Dieter Reigber

June 15, 1993