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In-home scanning and people meters: Information enhancement or respondent overload?

This paper examines advertiser and agency perspectives on single source data. The authors present a method of evaluating different single source systems based on the informational need for which each service was designed to address. The "focal point"...

Catalogue: ESOMAR/ARF Worldwide Broadcast Audience Research Symposium 1992

Authors: Joseph C. Philport, Roger E. Godbeer

Company: Colgate-Palmolive

June 15, 1992

Adults and young teenagers

The objectives of the paper are: -Measure readership of most print media types such as dailies, weekly and monthly magazines. -Measure viewership of all television broadcast time segments and of video -Measure radio audience Compare press readership...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Conference 1992: The Opportunity Factors To Business Success In The Post War Middle East

Author: Akram Raffoul

June 15, 1992

From media exposure to spot ratings

Up to now, the evaluation of media plans as part of an advertising strategy has only been possible at the level of the communication medium. For the medium television, supplementary data concerning the advertising medium, i.e. the spot ratings, are...

Catalogue: Seminar 1991: The Expansion of Broadcast Media

Author: Karl Zimmer

June 15, 1991

TV coverage of the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona

This paper discusses the process involved in a network's acquiring the rights to telecast the Olympics and examines the role research played in NBC's decision to acquire the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona. The paper will provide a brief historical...

Catalogue: ESOMAR/ARF/JMA Conference 1990: America, Japan and EC '92

Author: William S. Rubens

June 15, 1990

Quality of exposure and advertising effectiveness

In recent times we notice a worldwide trend in media research to move beyond the vehicle contacts towards exposure to the advertising message. This is an easy task in the case of electronic media, if one believes in meter data. With print media we...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1988

Author: Rolf Speetzen

September 1, 1988

Spending research money

What strategy should be adopted by researchers who want to help media planning? The traditional route has been to provide databases on media exposure, and these will continue to be required though their design, and access to them, could be improved....

Catalogue: Seminar 1984: Media Research- Does It Really Affect Media Planning?

Author: Simon Broadbent

June 15, 1984

Techniques for targeting television advertising to product users

The belief in the potential for direct targeting of television advertising has grown out of five years' experience conducting fourteen Commercial Recognition Studies. In total, one hundred and five housewife- targeted commercials, forty five...

Catalogue: Seminar 1982: Improving Media Research

Authors: Sue Stoessl, Suzanne Hatley

June 15, 1982

Area tests and consumer surveys to measure advertising effectiveness

The problem considered here is the measurement of advertising effectiveness, especially when the results are to be used to help decide how much to spend and what media types to use. We have found two techniques useful: area tests; and consumer...

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

Authors: Susanna Segnit, Simon Broadbent

June 15, 1980

The quality of magazine and tv exposures

The objective of media planning is to establish, within the framework of the budget for a specific advertising target, the optimum cost-effective combination of carriers for the advertising in question. As a rule, the selection of the media is based...

Catalogue: Seminar 1980: Media Measurement And Media Choice

Authors: Rolf Speetzen, Wilfried Wenzel

June 15, 1980