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Recognition versus recency

Through-the-Book and Recent Reading are the current "hot potatoes" in media research and we constantly see them being thrown from hand to hand. The following paper attempts to show the advantages and disadvantages of both TTB and RR. In doing so, we...

Catalogue: Seminar 1986: New Developments In Media Research

Author: Rolf Speetzen

June 15, 1986

The paradox of 'the new qualitative research'

This paper reviews some features of the current state of qualitative research in the UK. The concept of the New Qualitative Research is defined in terms of a combination of volume, status and theoretical orientation. The authors fervently hope that...

Catalogue: Seminar 1986: Qualitative Methods Of Research

Authors: Stephen Wells, Tony Lunn

June 15, 1986

The democracy of opinion polls

I would like to suggest that the polling industry should not agonise too much about getting elections wrong. Error may be good for you; an occasional disaster can be good for the industry and good for the public. If polls were to have too long a run...

Catalogue: Seminar 1986: Opinion Polls

Author: David Butler

June 15, 1986

The influence of poll data on public opinion

This contribution has three aims: 1. To determine the existing assumptions about possible negative influences of opinion polls. 2. To determine what can be said about these assumptions from the point of view of empirical social science. 3. To outline...

Catalogue: Seminar 1986: Opinion Polls

Author: Wolfgang Donsbach

June 15, 1986

Situation and recent developments in France

In this paper, we try to give an overview of the present situation of opinion polls in France and of the main recent developments in the field.

Catalogue: Seminar 1986: Opinion Polls

Author: Jacques Antoine

June 15, 1986

The current situation of opinion polling round the world

A somewhat general survey of the condition of opinion polling round the world is reported. In Western Europe and the English speaking countries in particular they are firmly embedded, recognised and understood by politicians and journalists, together...

Catalogue: Seminar 1986: Opinion Polls

Author: Norman L. Webb

June 15, 1986

Sponsorship

What I propose to do is discuss a few of the key issues affecting sponsorship and then go into some detail about how we handle it in Ford, recognising that in our case the lines between sponsorship and sales promotion get rather blurred. I believe...

Catalogue: Seminar 1985: Below-The-Line And Sponsoring

Author: Stuart Turner

November 6, 1985

Introduction to the seminar

We will be discussing the use of promotion and sponsorship in the marketing mix, dealing with the state of the art and trends. And, of course, within the framework of the ESOMAR umbrella, we will pay particular attention to roles of research in...

Catalogue: Seminar 1985: Below-The-Line And Sponsoring

Author: Mario van Hamersveld

Company: Philips International

November 6, 1985

Towards making better new product ads

This paper reviews several recently-published studies, all of which provide practitioners with some research-based guidelines on how to make more effective new product advertising. These studies begin to fill a gap which has existed in the otherwise...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1985: Broadening The Uses Of Research

Author: David W. Olson

June 15, 1985