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Observation, reading and evaluation of evening paper advertisements contra weekly magazine advertisements

Are there any differences in the effects of advertisements in evening newspapers and advertisements in weekly magazines? In what ways do they differ and how should you explain the differences? These were some of the questions raised by VECTU - the...

Catalogue: Seminar 1982: Improving Media Research

Authors: Kjell Sjögren, Fred Bergholtz

June 15, 1982

Measuring regional and local readership

Regional and local newspapers in Norway, as elsewhere, are threatened by developments within the newspaper market itself, by developments in the wholesale and retail trades, and by expected developments in the electronic media field. In this...

Catalogue: Seminar 1982: Improving Media Research

Authors: Per Langhoff, Harald Skare

June 15, 1982

Researching print communications

Although we may have entered the era of the microchip, the bulk of communications initiated by corporations and government departments are still print communications. Billions of such communications are issued every year. They are often not as...

Catalogue: AMA/ESOMAR Conference 1981: From Advertising To Communication Research

Author: John M. Caffyn

June 15, 1981

How the opinion polls conquered the editorial papers of Swedish newspapers

In order to investigate this problem we have studied a sample of editorials in three leading Swedish newspapers during the last fifty years. We chose to examine three newspapers with different political outlooks. Dagens Nyheter is the largest morning...

Catalogue: ESOMAR/WAPOR Seminar 1980: Opinion Polls

Author: Sören Holmberg

June 15, 1980

Survey on opinion, attitude and voting intention during the 1979 British general election campaign

In the weeks just prior to the British general election of May 1979 Research Services Ltd. conducted a series of four surveys for a London Sunday newspaper, the Observer. In some ways, there was nothing unusual about the four surveys. They were of a...

Catalogue: ESOMAR/WAPOR Seminar 1980: Opinion Polls

Authors: Michael Warren, Anthony King

June 15, 1980

Advertising and promotional policy and research on its effectiveness

The subject here is a newspaper, treated not as an advertising medium but as a product to be promoted. The approach is simple and down to earth. The whole cycle is described, from a description of the product and its users to the determination of...

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

Author: Basilio Riesco

June 15, 1980

Measuring editorial needs

In November 1978 a new tabloid newspaper was launched in the Midlands and Northern areas of England. It was positioned directly against existing popular newspapers. Marplan, on behalf of The Sun, monitored its launch in order to predict its sales...

Catalogue: Seminar 1979: Publishing And The Communications Industry

Author: John Clemens

Company: Marplan Forschungsgesellschaft mbH

November 1, 1979

Star track

This paper describes the thinking and planning that lay behind the launch of Britain's newest daily newspaper, the Daily Star, and the role played by research in the overall marketing operation. The main research project described in this paper was...

Catalogue: Seminar 1979: Publishing And The Communications Industry

Author: Iain McLellan

November 1, 1979

Estimating the market share, readers profile and important attributes of a newspaper

This paper tries to demonstrate how a marketing research project aids decision makers to improve the validity and reliability of their decisions. A survey was undertaken to find out the present and future levels of market share, the appropriate ratio...

Catalogue: Seminar 1979: Publishing And The Communications Industry

Author: Kemal Kurtulu

November 1, 1979