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How does advertising affect loyalty?

Understanding and measuring advertising and buyer loyalty have both been on marketers' agendas for many decades. However, the act of bringing the two agendas together has been limited due to the data requirements associated with doing so...

Catalogue: WM3- Worldwide Multi Media Measurement 2008

Authors: Leslie Wood, Rachel Kennedy, Colin McDonald, Carl Driesener, Gerald J. Goodhardt

June 1, 2008

Excerpt from ESOMAR 1997 Prices Study

The aim of the Prices Study is to provide an indication of the relative pricing of various types of research projects, at different levels: o within each country, where sample sizes permit; o between different countries within a region; o across the...

Catalogue: New Monograph Series Vol.8: International Marketing Research

Authors: Colin McDonald, Jean Pilling

January 1, 1999

The Eurowinter project

This paper describes how an international research project using standard quota sampling methods was used as part of an epidemiological study investigating the relationships between cold weather and excess winter mortality in eight different...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1998: The Power Of Knowledge

Author: Colin McDonald

Company: McDonald's Corporation

September 1, 1998

The changing context for research

The first point is that the industry has continued, impressively, its worldwide growth. The most recent published estimate, by ESOMAR for the year 1997, puts the current value of research by market research institutes at 10.4 billion EURO, equivalent...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Handbook Of Market And Opinion Research

Authors: Colin McDonald, Phyllis Vangelder

September 1, 1998

What is the short-term effect of advertising?

This paper describes the new methods of analysis which were developed to isolate this relationship in such a way that it is not contaminated by spurious variables. Nine of the product fields covered by the diary have been studied: washing powders,...

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

Author: Colin McDonald

June 15, 1980

Using linguistic coding to explore the way advertisements in press and TV communicate

The paper describes a research project which explores some aspects of the way advertisements in press and television communicate - as seen from the perspective of the consumer. Special emphasis is given to the technique used to handle the vast...

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

Authors: Guy Consterdine, Colin McDonald

June 15, 1976

A brief critique of the Fishbein and other attitude models

My approach to the Fishbein model and other models in this paper is going to be critical to a certain extent. I would like to make clear that this is not to be taken for condemnation. The Fishbein model does indeed provide some very useful insights...

Catalogue: Seminar 1971: Translating Advanced Advertising Theories Into Research Reality

Author: Colin McDonald

June 15, 1971

Addendum

In the original printed paper I said that a difficulty about the concept of "focus" was to know how to measure it, and that the nearest I could get was the brand image questioning system used on the API, which allows people to mention or not mention...

Catalogue: Seminar 1971: Translating Advanced Advertising Theories Into Research Reality

Author: Colin McDonald

June 15, 1971

What is the short-term effect of advertising?

This paper describes the new methods of analysis which were developed to isolate this relationship in such a way that it is not contaminated by spurious variables. Nine of the product fields covered by the diary have been studied: washing powders,...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1970: The Practical Application of Market Research

Author: Colin McDonald

September 1, 1970