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Pre-testing with rough prototype commercials

Pre-testing with rough prototype commercials is now an established procedure for U.S. advertisers and agencies. Rough prototypes, of the animatic artwork, still photo or live action "rough cut" variety can be inexpensively produced and evaluated for...

Catalogue: Seminar 1983: Effective Advertising- Can Research Help?

Author: Harold M. Spielman

June 15, 1983

Using cumulative pretest experiences to improve the effectiveness of radio commercials

The work reported here is based on a pretesting procedure developed by Radio Recall Research of Homdel, New Jersey, U.S.A. and analyzed by Drs. Sard and Sewall, Over the years pretested radio commercials have been classified on a wide variety of...

Catalogue: Seminar 1983: Effective Advertising- Can Research Help?

Authors: Dan Sarel, Murphy Sewall

June 15, 1983

Observation, reading and evaluation of evening paper advertisements contra weekly magazine advertisements

Are there any differences in the effects of advertisements in evening newspapers and advertisements in weekly magazines? In what ways do they differ and how should you explain the differences? These were some of the questions raised by VECTU - the...

Catalogue: Seminar 1982: Improving Media Research

Authors: Kjell Sjögren, Fred Bergholtz

June 15, 1982

Evaluating advertising campaigns

Nestle is strongly concerned with making right decisions about budgets, media and advertising strategies, and, consequently, with monitoring its campaigns. Nestle has been tracking some parameters, generally supposed to be connected with the way...

Catalogue: AMA/ESOMAR Conference 1981: From Advertising To Communication Research

Authors: Marc Vincent, José-Maria Riera Vidal

Company: Nestlé

June 15, 1981

Evaluation of a corporate image campaign

Many corporations have begun intensive advertising campaigns to improve their public images. These programs involve taking a strong stand on matters of public policy. This paper will examine two diverse approaches to the problem. One company has...

Catalogue: AMA/ESOMAR Conference 1981: From Advertising To Communication Research

Author: Malcolm B. Ochs

June 15, 1981

Energy saving in private households

The programme of research described here is ambitious. Not many products have the benefit of so high an expenditure on research. What emerges is the complexity of the consumer’s choice. Admittedly the decision involved is a conscious and...

Catalogue: Market Researchers Look At Advertising: A Collection of ESOMAR papers 1949-1979

Authors: Nicholas Phillips, Elizabeth H. Nelson

June 15, 1980

Measuring the effectiveness of advertising in the industrial press

As yet, measurements of the effectiveness of campaigns in the industrial press are rarely used, and have not always found a specific adaptation to industrial problems. A study carried out by us on the direct and indirect effects of the industrial...

Catalogue: Seminar 1979: Publishing And The Communications Industry

Author: Cecile Kreweras

November 1, 1979

Researching a complex social problem

The present paper describes a programme of research set up to aid decision-making about the potential use of advertising to combat vandalism. Starting from a review of the current state of knowledge, research was designed to fill in some of the gaps...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1979: The Challenge Of Eighties

Authors: Sally Stainforth, Tony Twyman

June 15, 1979

Reducing promotion costs

The purpose of this paper is to show that frequently the biggest variables in the effectiveness of a communication campaign with doctors are the message and creative concept. It will attempt to show that heavy expenditure on a campaign does not...

Catalogue: Seminar 1979: The Changing Environment For Pharmaceutical Marketing

Authors: Colin N. Maitland, J. Vanamali

June 15, 1979