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A test of media effectiveness for Imperial Margarine

This paper describes the use of radio as well as television as an advertising medium and the resulting effect on sales of Imperial Margarine. A television-only market was used as the control. Radio ran at weight levels equal to television in one...

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

Authors: Sharon Paskowitz, Bill Bennett

Company: Nielsen

June 15, 1999

Assessing radio advertising effectiveness

When respondents are asked to recall ads in a “real world” context radio does well both in absolute terms and relative to television. Aided ad recall in this study averaged 32% across ninety-one radio ads vs. 38% a cross seventy-four ads...

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

Authors: Jackie Ferris, Owen Charlebois

June 15, 1999

Subscriber loyalty measurement and management throughout Latin America

This paper describes a subscriber loyalty measurement and management program jointly developed by Galaxy Latin America and the Burke which encompasses varied national regional and language differences while addressing the indicators that are...

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

Authors: Cary J. Nadel, Sandro Mesquita

Company: Burke, Inc.

June 15, 1999

Using consumer panels in media research

This paper examines two distinct but related hypotheses: advertising does have short term effects; and incremental exposures do have incremental effect. This paper aims at tracking the effects of TV and press on the purchase of brands by an upmarket...

Catalogue: Seminar 1998: Towards Total Communications Strategies

Authors: Ravi Moorthy, Praveen Tripathi

October 20, 1998

Does clutter degrade the media environment?

This paper analyzes of one aspect of the quality of the television environment - commercial clutter - and its effects on viewers. Despite an increasing preponderance of evidence that clutter has a negative effect on commercial effectiveness,...

Catalogue: Seminar 1998: Towards Total Communications Strategies

Author: Debbie Solomon

October 20, 1998

Psychographic targets after an economic crisis

Traditionally, media research by TV networks in Mexico analyzed the the audience by either demographic or geographic segmentation. In 1994, the Mexican peso suffered from a huge devaluation, which affected life style and aspirations of the audience,...

Catalogue: Seminar 1998: Towards Total Communications Strategies

Author: Idalia Cruz Garza

October 20, 1998

The case of the near-sighted bombardier

Demographic targeting is a core strategy of modern media planning and buying. It is, presumably, a powerful technique for reducing cost by directing messages to consumers who are more likely to buy. But this simple idea of how demo-targeting works is...

Catalogue: Seminar 1998: Towards Total Communications Strategies

Author: Erwin Ephron

October 20, 1998

Media research at a TV station

The paper makes the case that many TV stations underuse the opportunities offered by media research. We distinguish research for learning (program department, general management) and research for teaching (sales department). Preferably, both are...

Catalogue: Seminar 1998: Towards Total Communications Strategies

Author: Thomas Neumann

October 20, 1998

Untangling the confusion of TV scheduling theories

Complex theories of how advertising works in terms of response, repetition and decay have been merged and confused with the audience- delivery-based media planning concepts of reach and frequency. This paper discusses distinctions that should be made...

Catalogue: Seminar 1998: Towards Total Communications Strategies

Author: Jayne Zenaty Spittler

October 20, 1998