Given the current economic times, marketers are looking to optimise every dollar invested in supporting brands and maximise any competitive advantage they can. This presentation reviews the basic principles of TV advertising response implied by the Global Ipsos Tracking databases and determines if they align with media buying practices throughout Asia Pacific. This process suggests there is considerable potential for improving advertising ROI across the region.
Social media are hot - Facebook, Twitter or YouTube- everyone can share viewer experiences. Rather than focus on the influence that 'new' social media have on television viewers, this paper stresses the importance of 'old' social viewing: watching television together within a household as well as outside the home (work place, pub, school). Although television is often experienced in the physical company of others, surprisingly little attention has been paid to the social impact by researchers. The 2010 FIFA World Cup illustrates the importance of television as a social medium.
This paper revisits predictions made in one of the very first papers about Return Path Data delivered in 2005 at WAM . Incorporating findings from a qualitative survey of clients conducted exclusively for this paper, the presenters examine how the new technique has evolved in terms of business need and research techniques. The unique aspects of both PeopleMeter and RPD data are contrasted to underline the complementary nature of both approaches.
As magazines are increasingly delivered in multi-platform digital formats, and the internet continues to grow as an advertising medium, the convergence of these two trends leads buyers and sellers to seek one single source for media and consumer purchase information. This paper describes the development of a cross-media consumer database including the 'split-weights congruent fusion' model used while highlighting the many insights gained from this important product with numerous examples. A key benefit of this fused database is the ability of magazines and national newspapers to prove the strength of their combined audience over traditional and digital platforms.
Most conference papers and presentations tend to focus on one of the following: users/buyers of products and services, brands, or methodology. This paper, by contrast, looks at market researchers themselves and asks whether social media in general and Twitter in particular are changing the way that researchers communicate with each other. The paper is complemented by an interactive event held at the ESOMAR APAC Conference in Bangkok (April 2010). The paper starts by providing some background information on Twitter, before moving on to explore the ways that market researchers are beginning to utilise Twitter, both as medium for research and as a method of opening up new and exciting channels (and back-channels) amongst researchers. The paper includes four in-depth reviews of the impact of Twitter in Australia, China, Japan and New Zealand. Finally, the paper draws the threads together in an overall summary and list of key recommendations.
The cross-media audience measurement has been operational in France since December 2008. This new tool requested by the French media market is an innovative approach to quantify the media brand audience across media.This presentation will introduce the tool and the first key findings after 7 months of launching.
A new tool, Touchpoint, uses co-branding theories to plan a media mix across platforms that best match the brand profile of an advertiser. This is done by matching the brand profile of the advertiser to that of a media vehicle through hundreds of characteristics in a two-dimensional map, developed from close to 50 000 interviews.Touchpoint is a new, complementary way to view media planning to deliver high ROI and ad effectiveness while at the same time positioning a brand in the mind of the consumer. The viewer receives a more interesting and adapted commercial message that is less likely to fall in with the rest of the commercial noise.
One of the most challenging issues in retail marketing is knowing which media forms have been used by consumers prior to entering the retail environment. Drawing from the on-going U.S. Simultaneous Media Consumption (SIMM) studies, in this session, we will present examples of what combinations of external and internal media shoppers who plan to make purchases in a product category in the next 90 days have consumed, in what combinations and which they say influence them the most in their purchase decisions. 31 external media forms and 13 in-store activities are evaluated in several product categories including grocery, apparel, electronics, medicines and HBA.
A major stress point for media researchers today is the inadequacy of established approaches in generating insights for the planning and buying of new and emerging ad media. On one hand we are constantly pushed towards sample-based, quantitative methods for they are often deemed as more rigorous. However, they often fall short in providing rich context that explains motives and attitudes driving new media use: particularly when such use must be related to the interactions with a product. On the other hand we are pulled towards innovative methods to work through challenges such as the low penetration or awareness of emerging channels and declining response rates. Such is the world of increasingly fragmented media markets. This paper is a discussion of what we have found to be more productive research methods for uncovering the impact of new media on brand awareness, consideration, and purchase as well as consumers' reliance on new digital platforms. It is our view of the strengths and weaknesses of the different options Microsoft Advertising have used of late. We share information on what our major research agency partners are doing to inject innovation into their practice. As conclusion we make specific recommendations on how researchers can be progressive.
The best time to reach a potential buyer of your product with your brand's advertising is immediately before they make their choice. There is a wide literature advising the media planner to do just that. While the theory of recency planning is well known, practitioners still plan schedules that do not follow the principles of this theory. These other scheduling options have arisen for two reasons; (1) because there is considerable confusion amongst media planners as to how to best reach large numbers of potential buyers close to their purchase; and (2) because alternative theories have been proposed that suggest it is not only important to reach potential buyers, but also to advertise to them with some level of frequency (i.e. effective frequency). In this paper we conduct a simple test of 'recency planning theory' to demonstrate that continuity scheduling should still be the default for media planners. We compare the purchasing distributions of groups of buyers who were exposed to brand advertisements within days and weeks of buying those brands. We find that these groups buy differently. Project Apollo's legacy is a sneak peak at the empirical evidence to demonstrate that media schedules vary in their effectiveness.
Online TV viewing has proven most dynamic last year. The Netherlands has the second largest broadband penetration in the world and is a forerunner in streaming of TV programmes. The association of public broadcasters NPO includes video on demand services since 2002. In October 2007 more than 10 million streams of TV programmes were requested. RLT broadcasting group, MTV and other broadcasters also offer similar streaming services. Today broadcasters produce their own reports on programmes streaming performance, but the TV industry expressed to SKO the need of a comprehensive, transparent and independent report that estimates new online audiences. The first TV audience reports containing TV streams will be issued from April 2008. This will be the first time to report online TV viewing as extension to traditional viewing. Our presentation reviews the new streaming report which enables programme performance evaluation, by combining actual TV ratings with the number of requested streams for a given broadcast. In our paper we show reported streaming TV content which not only includes regular programmes, but also additional content that is only shown online. We will present our first results and we will further outline the opportunities to integrate on-line viewing with TV audiences in the future.
This presentation reports on early, but very promising, research results toward an innovative media selection factor. Media Ad Xponent(SM) isolates a program's contribution to a commercial's ability to motivate incremental brand sales, above and beyond its ability to deliver recent category purchasers. This new learning evidences the economic value of single source data and supports our belief that it will soon return to the marketplace.