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Practical frameworks for advertising and research

Not many researchers started as copywriters. And few of these can be as lucid about research as is the following paper. An historical and practical review of advertising theories sets the scene. It reminds us that methods which worked in one...

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

Author: Mary Tuck

June 15, 1980

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

Constraints and opportunities in children's television advertising

The main objective of this paper is to highlight some of the common pitfalls associated with the execution of television advertising addressed wholly or in part to a child audience. For a variety of reasons much of the television advertising to this...

Catalogue: Seminar 1978: Researching Children

Author: Vivienne G.T. Price

October 1, 1978

Research to aid the design of cost-effective holiday brochures

Survey research has played a central role in the development of the Thomson Holidays brochure style. This paper looks in detail at research conducted at two stages in this development when the approach to the brochure design was reviewed and will...

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

Authors: Cathy Riley, Nigel Spackman

Company: Harris Interactive (Europe)

September 1, 1978

Are long-term effects possible or measurable?

This paper brief reviews some evidence often quoted in relation to quantitatively evaluating advertising expenditure. The need to relate quantitative methods to facts and theories of consumer behaviour is emphasised. A view of consumer buying...

Catalogue: Seminar 1978: The Business Of Advertising

Author: Tony Twyman

June 14, 1978

The use of qualitative research in the development of effective advertising

This paper outlines how the authors use qualitative research on rough anamatic commercials to develop finished advertising films. It describes the way in which we believe research should be used and tries to spell out the principles upon which the...

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

Authors: David Cowan, Chris Cowpe

September 1, 1976

The use of market research as positive aid to improving promotional strategy, execution and evaluation within a total communication concept and specifically in relation to advertising

This paper summarises a market research programme that was carried out before, during and after the Martini 'Wonderful World' promotion in England in the spring of 1975. In our experience it is all too often true that promotional material is...

Catalogue: Seminar 1976: The Contribution Of Research To Decision Making Promotions

Authors: Michael J. Franklin, David Wilding

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

Standardizing advertising for the international market

Should advertising of various products and services be standardized in the international market, or are there too many cultural obstacles? At one extreme is the view that one basic advertising theme is desirable because of similarities in points of...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1975: Quality In Research

Author: Steuart Henderson Britt

August 1, 1975