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Who wears the pants in the family?

This paper explores the relationship between purchasing influence within the family (i.e., husband and wife) and advertising readership in magazines. It addresses the question: To what extent is purchasing influence, or buying behaviour, related to...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1977: Research For Decision Making

Author: William J. Wilson

August 28, 1977

Generalizations from accumulating copy test results

Over four years, 323 print advertisements were studied for stopping power and/or communication. Stopping power is measured by exposing ads from slides on a magazine-size rear projection screen, for 1.25 sec. unless stopped by respondent; percent who...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1977: Research For Decision Making

Author: Eugene C. Pomerance

June 15, 1977

Plus print

PLUS PRINT: what exactly does it mean? PLUS PRINT is the title of an intermedia advertising effectiveness study. It stands for the effectiveness of advertising in electronic media plus additional advertisements in consumer magazines, demonstrated by...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Monograph Series Vol.3: Print Media Research

Author: Rolf Speetzen

June 15, 1977

Using linguistic coding to explore the way advertisements in press and TV communicate

The paper describes a research project which explores some aspects of the way advertisements in press and television communicate - as seen from the perspective of the consumer. Special emphasis is given to the technique used to handle the vast...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1976: Research That Works For Today's Marketing Problems

Authors: Guy Consterdine, Colin McDonald

June 15, 1976

Cinema versus television

This paper presents two studies on intermedia comparison between cinema and television. Research compared overall recall, recall of details - both of sound and image - acceptation and refusal, credibility and the variations of brand image concerning...

Catalogue: Seminar 1976: Beyond Vehicle Audiences

Author: Louis Marton

March 1, 1976

Setting TV advertising in context

The paper reviews work connecting aspects of the response to TV advertising to the surrounding programme context. New results from the UK are presented suggesting that there is little variation in absence during breaks among the stable viewing...

Catalogue: Seminar 1976: Beyond Vehicle Audiences

Author: Tony Twyman

March 1, 1976

Weighting reading frequency

We are facing a dilemma: more information is wanted about as many target groups as possible and the quality of media contacts. We know from a number of field experiments that exact figures regarding media coverage largely depend on the design of the...

Catalogue: Seminar 1976: Beyond Vehicle Audiences

Author: Friedrich W. R. Tennstädt

Company: Institut für Demoskopie Allensbach GmbH

March 1, 1976

A new way to measure page-confrontation

If in future one will try to measure the chance of perception of an advertisement, the page confrontation probability is an indispensable link in the chain. Besides, in media selection, it gives the possibility to use page confrontation chance as a...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1974: The Challenges Facing Marketing Research

Authors: Johan J. M. van Tulder, Coen C. J. de Koning, Jan D. Noordhoff

September 1, 1974

The use of management information in media advertising

The paper sets out to examine the function of advertising for a retail organisation; the need to select the correct target audience at whom to direct it; the criteria for media selection; the creative approach and the subsequent measurement of...

Catalogue: Seminar 1974: Management Information For Retail Organisations

Author: John Hawthorne

April 1, 1974