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The contributions of advertising testing to the development of effective international advertising

This paper is a case history : we tested two commercials in six European countries. In the first part, we show how diverse the advertising test results and the main efficiency measurements can be from one country to another. We identify four factors...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1992: The Race Against Expectations

Authors: J. Andrew Davison, Erik Grab

Companies: Nestlé, GfK

September 1, 1992

How to save media money in advertising

This is a practical paper which draws extensively from the experience gained over many years of continuously tracking TV advertising campaigns. The purpose of the paper is to demonstrate firstly how a new research-based approach can provide new...

Catalogue: Seminar 1992: Media Research Meets The Future

Author: Bruce E. Smith

June 15, 1992

Turning results into action

This paper will discuss a highly successful and cost-effective direct-marketing/image campaign at MCTs Central Division that returned $299,000 in monthly revenue in six months on an initial investment of $16,000. The program was the result of...

Catalogue: Seminar 1992: Business To Business Marketing

Author: Debra L. Zahay

June 15, 1992

Audience measurement and communication effectiveness

Every day, managers of T.V, channels, in France like in most other western Countries, receive in their office tables and graphs showing the day before audience of T.V. broadcasts. They discover the number of viewers at each time segment throughout...

Catalogue: ESOMAR/ARF Worldwide Broadcast Audience Research Symposium 1992

Author: Michel Brulé

Company: BVA Group

June 15, 1992

Measuring the value of print advertising

Advertising testing should be an integral part of a successful brand management system. For this reason the continuous tracking of consumer attitudes in a product category is recommended. With computer-interview disks always in the field, the tracked...

Catalogue: Seminar 1991: Publishing For An Optimal Product

Author: Ian D. Greig

June 15, 1991

New measures of advertising effectiveness

This paper describes the work undertaken by Family Circle magazine, in conjunction with Citicorp POS Information Services, and Simmons Market Research Bureau, to measure the effects of magazine advertising on the sales volume of advertised products....

Catalogue: Seminar 1991: Publishing For An Optimal Product

Author: Rebecca M. McPheters

June 15, 1991

The joint effect of several marketing activities

It is rarely possible to study the effect of several marketing factors simultaneously. New media, however, may provide such opportunities. Teleshopping does so, because here sales is linked directly to product, price, advertising, media plans, etc....

Catalogue: Seminar 1991: How Advertising Works And How Promotions Work

Author: Ole Stenvinkel Nilsson

June 15, 1991

An evaluation study of joint EC/ETC advertising to American prospects for pleasure travel to Europe

This paper illustrates the use of multi-criteria to evaluate an international travel advertising campaign. The effectiveness of print advertisements that contain coupons for response were measured on several different criteria: 1) the number of...

Catalogue: Seminar 1991: Travel And Tourism Transition

Author: Edward Berrol

Company: Ogilvy

June 15, 1991

How do press ads really work and how can we measure their performance more realistically

This paper discusses a number of issues critical to the development and evaluation of creative press advertisements and campaigns. It begins with the information gap that currently exists regarding the influence of context on the perceptions of the...

Catalogue: Seminar 1991: Publishing For An Optimal Product

Authors: Wendy Gordon, Andrea Berlowitz

June 15, 1991