Resources Library by ANA

The NMPP and freedom in newspaper and magazine distribution in France

Newspapers and other periodicals are still an important part of the communications Industry today, and they make an immense contribution to the work of informing the masses, and thereby to the forming of opinions from adolescence on. It is therefore...

Catalogue: Seminar 1979: Publishing And The Communications Industry

Author: Kurt Arbogast

November 1, 1979

Complementary of methods in copy-testing

This paper argues that the advance in knowledge about the communication process of advertising has been insufficiently applied in the context of copy-testing methods, in particular of pre-testing methods. It surveys the progress of social...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1979: The Challenge Of Eighties

Authors: Piet Vanden Abeele, I. Butaye

June 15, 1979

Effective media selection

What I plan to do is to speak rather narrowly to the subject which was - you recall - the cost of effectiveness of different media and in doing so, to touch upon each of the papers though not in any case at any great length, as that's really more for...

Catalogue: Seminar 1978: The Business Of Advertising

Author: Timothy Joyce

June 1, 1978

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

The perception of media contents by producers and audience

The present study shows a technique for studying the discrepancy between audience's and source's perception of communication. In the process of doing so findings are presented from a study of the perception of TV programs by the audience and by the...

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

Author: Flemming Hansen

Company: AIM Create

June 15, 1976

Media research beyond the gap

There is a gap between the stimulus which an advertisement offers to the consumer and the response which it evokes; there is a gap between the medium as it is designed by its editorial staff and the medium as it is used by its audience; there is a...

Catalogue: Seminar 1976: Beyond Vehicle Audiences

Authors: Douglas Richardson, Tom Corlett

March 1, 1976

Qualitative media research in the market-place

The purpose of this paper is to discuss the position of qualitative media data in relation to the interests and orientations of the various parties potentially concerned in its generation and use. It is argued that these orientations have resulted in...

Catalogue: Seminar 1976: Beyond Vehicle Audiences

Author: Brian Allt

March 1, 1976

Expanding the domain of the agenda-setting function of mass communication

The impact of mass communication -- the ability to effect cognitive change among individuals -- has been labeled the agenda-setting function of mass communication. Here may lie the most important effect of modern mass communication, the ability of...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1975: Quality In Research

Authors: Maxwell E. McCombs, Henry F. Schulte

August 1, 1975

The function of media

Media have very different characteristics, not only in terms of differences in readership or listenership and this type of related dimensions, but I am also thinking of differences in communication capacity based on differences in the level of...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1974: The Challenges Facing Marketing Research

Author: Benno Stoppelman

September 1, 1974