Resources Library by ANA

Advertising and promotional policy and research on its effectiveness

The subject here is a newspaper, treated not as an advertising medium but as a product to be promoted. The approach is simple and down to earth. The whole cycle is described, from a description of the product and its users to the determination of...

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

Author: Basilio Riesco

June 15, 1980

Measuring editorial needs

In November 1978 a new tabloid newspaper was launched in the Midlands and Northern areas of England. It was positioned directly against existing popular newspapers. Marplan, on behalf of The Sun, monitored its launch in order to predict its sales...

Catalogue: Seminar 1979: Publishing And The Communications Industry

Author: John Clemens

Company: Marplan Forschungsgesellschaft mbH

November 1, 1979

Star track

This paper describes the thinking and planning that lay behind the launch of Britain's newest daily newspaper, the Daily Star, and the role played by research in the overall marketing operation. The main research project described in this paper was...

Catalogue: Seminar 1979: Publishing And The Communications Industry

Author: Iain McLellan

November 1, 1979

Estimating the market share, readers profile and important attributes of a newspaper

This paper tries to demonstrate how a marketing research project aids decision makers to improve the validity and reliability of their decisions. A survey was undertaken to find out the present and future levels of market share, the appropriate ratio...

Catalogue: Seminar 1979: Publishing And The Communications Industry

Author: Kemal Kurtulu

November 1, 1979

What do readers do when their newspapers and weeklies fail?

In 1977 we had in Denmark a labour dispute giving stoppages in the publishing of dailies for a period of 3 weeks and irregularities in the publishing of weeklies. This happens every second year, but in 1977 it was a special situation as the greatest...

Catalogue: Seminar 1979: Publishing And The Communications Industry

Author: Sigurd Bennike

November 1, 1979

Reconstruction Of Fyns Tidende

This is an account of how the editorial staff and the marketing department through readership research were able to remodel an old traditional local newspaper in Denmark. The project that included market research as well as analysis of technical and...

Catalogue: Seminar 1979: Publishing And The Communications Industry

Author: Svend A. Linde

November 1, 1979

A disproportional sampling frame for readership surveys concerning publications with widely different circulation

The present paper describes a sampling procedure, which has been especially developed with the purpose of having local daily newspapers with widely different circulation represented in a study which can also be reported as a national probability...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1978: Value For Money In Market And Social Research

Authors: Flemming Hansen, Ole Ejnar Andersen, Sigurd Bennike

September 1, 1978

Summing up

Summary from the Seminar 1976 on "Research into distribution problems and consumer purchasing behaviour for the publishing industry".

Catalogue: Seminar 1976: Research Into Distribution Problems And Consumer Purchasing Behaviour For The Publishing Industry

Author: Edward W. Whitley

December 1, 1976

Living with inflation

Recent rapid inflation in Britain has led to a reappraisal of their needs by newspaper readers. This has led to considerable changes in their buying habits, and consequent marked shifts in the proportions of people who buy for different reasons....

Catalogue: Seminar 1976: Research Into Distribution Problems And Consumer Purchasing Behaviour For The Publishing Industry

Authors: J. Perry, M. J. Scott

December 1, 1976