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The reliability of television audience ratings

Television audience ratings are extremely important for the evaluation of television programmes, stations and commercials. It is argued that, as a result of various sample and other characteristics of the Dutch people meter panel, daily ratings of...

Catalogue: ESORMAR/ARF Worldwide Electronic And Broadcast Audience Research 1994

Author: Arie K. den Boon

May 1, 1994

Who is watching?

The world of TV is changing everywhere, majorly influenced by the advent of satelltites. This change increases competition between TV stations and as such has a major impact on TV audience measurement. Because of the increasing number of stations,...

Catalogue: ESOMAR/MERF/IAA Conference 1994: Challenges And Opportunities For Research In The Middle East

Author: Thomas Neumann

January 1, 1994

Copy research... who needs it?

This paper argues that a holistic assessment of the conceptual appeal and the persuasive power of a piece of copy is best made by the ultimate consumer rather than an inward looking "expert opinion” as sometimes suggested by people in the...

Catalogue: ESOMAR/MERF/IAA Conference 1994: Challenges And Opportunities For Research In The Middle East

Author: Mahmoud Aboul-Fath

Company: Procter & Gamble

January 1, 1994

Research tools for business strategies

The paper highlights the commitment of General Motors to marketing research, not for the sake of doing research but as a tool for making decisions and taking actions on the marketing scene. It shows how research has paid off for General Motors and...

Catalogue: ESOMAR/MERF/IAA Conference 1994: Challenges And Opportunities For Research In The Middle East

Authors: Roy Rutherford, Peter Wise, Joseph Khoury

January 1, 1994

Advertising quality and market share

The increase of the quality of advertising offers an important possiblity to improve the success of a brand without costs being automatically increased. Pretest measures for commercials as e.g. the AD*VANTAGE test system are thus intensively used by...

Catalogue: ESOMAR/EMAC/AFM Symposium 1993: Information Based Decision Making In Marketing

Authors: Claudia Schmies, Raimund Wildner

Company: GfK

June 15, 1993

Aspects of postmodern reading public

In the western democratic societies of today where mass-produced individualism is prevalent, there is increasing evidence that classical target group segmentation based on sociodemography and conventional typologies, conventional in that they are...

Catalogue: Seminar 1993: Competition In Publishing

Author: Dieter Reigber

June 15, 1993

The Canadian media directors' television council commercial awareness model

This manuscript discusses the development of the Canadian Media Directors Council (CMDC) Television Commercial Awareness Model. The CMDC model allows advertisers to estimate the awareness levels that are generated from television advertising media...

Catalogue: ESOMAR/EMAC/AFM Symposium 1993: Information Based Decision Making In Marketing

Authors: Marshall Rice, Brad Davis

June 15, 1993

Retail audit panels, international brands and advertsing expenditure in Hungary

The paper is divided into three parts. The first one describes the retail structure pre- 1989 and the rapid developments in the last 3 years in terms of the numbers and profile of retail outlets. The sources are official statistics and a retail...

Catalogue: Seminar 1993: Marketing Integration Of West And East Europe

Authors: Yiannis Papadopoulos, George Sphiktos

June 15, 1993

The systemic approach to publicity evaluation (Spanish)

Advertisements constitute a powerful means of communicating and establishing cultural values throughout all of society. The receivers of these messages respond to them in terms of their vital situation as subjects and as members of social groups ....

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1992: The Race Against Expectations

Authors: Marta Vaccarini, Ana Amuchastegui

September 1, 1992