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The dimensions of attractiveness in women's magazines

The paper describes a comprehensive analysis into images of female attractiveness that have been used in women's magazines. The research reveals that there are six different attractiveness types and each type is Perceived to have substantially...

Catalogue: ESOMAR/FIPP Conference 1999: Strategic Publishing

Authors: Ada Giaquinto, Michael Edwardson, Kip Williams, Ladd Wheeler

June 15, 1999

The value of women's magazines for advertisers

This study aims at analysing some of the most important Italian magazines for women. The survey investigates ten publications through a semiotic methodology and presents their positioning and features that makes each magazine absolutely unique -...

Catalogue: ESOMAR/FIPP Conference 1999: Strategic Publishing

Authors: Paola Furlanetto, Giulia Ceriani

Company: Ipsos MRBI

June 15, 1999

Beauty and the beast (Spanish)

This paper is as much the result of a recent study as the result of experience working with the women’s market in Brazil and considers in-depth the connection between consumers and brands. What we are trying to achieve with this study is to...

Catalogue: Latin America 1999: Marketing In Latin America In The 21st Century

Authors: Cecília Russo, Jaime Troiano

June 15, 1999

Where does the magazine finish and the reader start?

This paper will focus on the results of an ethnographic study, including a sample of women’s magazine readers. Ethnographic studies are a qualitative and in-depth approach, in which research analysts go through a period of close contact with the...

Catalogue: Seminar 1997: New Challenges And Opportunities For The Publishing Industry

Authors: Jaime Troiano, Lidice Salgot

June 15, 1997

Research in magazines

This paper concerns the creation and use of a readers’ panel for Gruner + Jahr’s three monthly women’s magazines in Spain: Dunia, Cosmopolitan and Marie Claire.

Catalogue: Seminar 1997: New Challenges And Opportunities For The Publishing Industry

Authors: Elena Sanchez-Fabres, Teresa Osma

June 15, 1997

The forgotten characteristic of print advertising

It is often assumed that television is the only medium which can convey emotions. This paper argues that print advertisements are also capable of arousing emotions. A total of twelve magazine advertisements were tested among readers of women’s...

Catalogue: Seminar 1997: New Challenges And Opportunities For The Publishing Industry

Author: Vivian Beck

June 15, 1997

The changing faces of Chinese women

China has been described as a sleeping dragon that has just woken up. The economic reform, combined with the rapid growth of foreign investment, has propelled the economy to double digit growth. The process of opening the Chinese economy is...

Catalogue: Asia Pacific Conference 1996: Marketing In Asia

Author: Yim Ling Sum

Company: Nielsen

November 1, 1996

A stimulating challenge

Qualitative research in the Arab speaking countries is a new development in a relatively young industry. The rich and diverse cultural and historical heritage of the region presents a stimulating task for the market researcher. This paper is an...

Catalogue: MENAP Forum 1996: Pressure On Profit

Author: Haifa Abbas

Company: Martpoint Marketing Research Consultants

March 1, 1996

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