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Back to the fundamentals of media research

The present situation in media research shows changes on four main aspects: abundance of data and processing supplies speeding up of mutations and acceleration of trends dispersion of practices and explosion of rules and inter- penetration between...

Catalogue: New Monograph Series Vol. 7: Better Research For Better Media Decisions

Author: Dina Raimondi

August 1, 1999

Untangling the confusion of TV scheduling theories

This paper discusses the distinctions that should be made in media scheduling between the theories of how advertising works (response functions and decay) and the tactics of media buying (cover and frequency). It draws on the modeling analysis work...

Catalogue: New Monograph Series Vol. 7: Better Research For Better Media Decisions

Author: Jayne Zenaty Spittler

August 1, 1999

New multimedia-based methods of marketing research for the publishing industry

This paper discusses the use of ‘simulation technology' (multimedia simulation systems) in marketing research for the publishing industry it starts from an investigation of the concept and the essential features of simulation and shows how...

Catalogue: ESOMAR/FIPP Conference 1999: Strategic Publishing

Authors: Kenneth Tobyn, Bruno Patierno

Company: SCENARI SRL

June 15, 1999

The Dutch media experience and values study

As in many countries advertisers in The Netherlands have come to realise that reach figures and ratings are only half of the story. This paper describes a study concentrating on how customers experience the media. A total of 1 077 individuals...

Catalogue: ESOMAR/FIPP Conference 1999: Strategic Publishing

Author: Alfred E. Bronner

Company: Veldkamp Marktonderzoek

June 15, 1999

The relationship between awareness tracking and media investments

The following paper presents the results from the work that Carat Media & Research Norway has done on awareness tracking studies on radio. This research shows that radio may be an excellent tool in the media mix but also that the creative works done...

Catalogue: ESOMAR/ARF Seminar 1999: Radio On The World Stage

Author: Jarle O. Thalberg

June 15, 1999

Taking PPM out of the lab and into the field

Since 1992 Arbitron has been developing and testing a personal portable meter (PPM) system capable of detecting exposure to any audio medium both in-home and out-of-home. With this system an inaudible identification code is embedded into the audio...

Catalogue: ESOMAR/ARF Seminar 1999: Radio On The World Stage

Authors: Robert H. Patchen, Ronald S. Kolessar

Company: Nielsen

June 15, 1999

Employing individual diaries for radio measuring

This paper considers several issues: whether there is a drop in the total level of radio listening from day one to day seven during a one-week diary; whether the number of stations in a diary influences the total level radio listening; and finally...

Catalogue: ESOMAR/ARF Seminar 1999: Radio On The World Stage

Author: Kristian Arnaa

Company: KANTAR TNS Malaysia

June 15, 1999

Putting market research at the heart of the media planning process

This paper looks at the challenges faced by advertisers in Latin America in making the most efficient use of their advertising budget. The paper starts by discussing what advertising efficiency is and how that can be optimised. It then goes on to...

Catalogue: Latin America 1999: Marketing In Latin America In The 21st Century

Authors: Aurora Yasuda, Scott Spence

Companies: IBOPE Inteligencia, KANTAR TNS Malaysia

June 15, 1999

Why modernist media solutions are failing in a post-modern world

This paper demonstrates that harmonisation is no longer valid given the fragmentation and subsequent reconstruction of conventional media around a new media hub, the Internet. It argues that harmonisation is a modernist concept fumbling around in a...

Catalogue: Seminar 1998: Towards Total Communications Strategies

Author: Richard S. Wilson

October 20, 1998