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The relationship between researchers and creative people

This paper aims to examine in rather more detail the reasons for some of the unhappy relationships, and suggests five specific approaches which could make progress in eliminating the underlying causes. There seem to be three main areas of troubles :...

Catalogue: Seminar 1966: The Role of Market Research In The Creation of Advertising

Author: Stephen King

June 16, 1966

The co-ordination of the research and creative functions in a large advertising agency

Ogilvy & Mather Limited is a large UK advertising agency, part of a group which includes large agencies in three other countries with smaller offices in a further three countries. Six months ago the London agency reorganised the way in which...

Catalogue: Seminar 1966: The Role of Market Research In The Creation of Advertising

Authors: Mick Williamson, Julia Ann Burdus

Company: Ogilvy

June 1, 1966

The use of Telpex by creative men in an advertising agency

My paper especially deals with the second stage in the advertising cycle, "Creative development". When it is the researcher's job to assess rough campaigns in order to stimulate new creative ideas and eliminate creative errors. Telpex is the...

Catalogue: Seminar 1966: The Role of Market Research In The Creation of Advertising

Author: Günter Lott

June 1, 1966

A reassessment of the role of the pre-test in advertising research

What I would like to do is to suggest that ad pre-testing (or "copy-testing") techniques can be simplified considerably and their efficiency greatly improved by a reassessment of the role which the pre-test should play in improving the effectiveness...

Catalogue: Seminar 1966: The Role of Market Research In The Creation of Advertising

Author: Peter A. Rusby

June 1, 1966

Planning advertising strategy

Markets are segmented in many ways, most of which do not bear on the advertiser's problem. The objective is to find the one decisive mode. 2. The consumer weaves a whole world of meanings, values and associations around products. Many of these are...

Catalogue: Seminar 1966: The Role of Market Research In The Creation of Advertising

Author: Daniel Yankelovich

June 1, 1966

Measuring differing tasks in competitive advertising

The main object of this paper is to consider a number of different criteria which can apply when one is attempting to measure advertisements in terms of their effectiveness, and different ways of analysing data in terms of these criteria. In...

Catalogue: Seminar 1966: The Role of Market Research In The Creation of Advertising

Author: Gerald de Groot

June 1, 1966

Pre-testing advertisements at early stages of campaign development

I am going to talk first of all about a measure we have used to pre-test commercials at early stages of their development and then I'm going on to suggest how it might be possible to use this method to assess techniques used for evaluating finished...

Catalogue: Seminar 1966: The Role of Market Research In The Creation of Advertising

Author: P. A. Hoyes

Company: Ogilvy

June 1, 1966

The gold cup

n citing the case of the Gold Cup, our intention is to contribute to this seminar by indicating how this relational problem may be overcome and suggest the feasibility of a working methodology which can greatly enhance the creation of advertising and...

Catalogue: Seminar 1966: The Role of Market Research In The Creation of Advertising

Author: Robert E. Miller

June 1, 1966

The relationship between research and the creative process

Making research play its part not only before and after the creative process, but during the process. Traditionally, research was used to make preliminary studies , then to make tests on the finished advertisement. With the approach which we propose,...

Catalogue: Seminar 1966: The Role of Market Research In The Creation of Advertising

Author: Henri Joannis

June 1, 1966