The goal of this paper Is to investigate social advertising in Italy as a concept (what It is, what it means, how people see it) and as communication through some examples of current advertising. It considers a qualitative research concerning the concept of social advertising as well as the language and style used. The research was carried out by Delfo In 1989 on behalf of Pubblicita Progresso, an Institute which promotes socially useful advertising on a strictly voluntary basis. It was one of the first attempts made to study and analyse social language. As a matter of fact, social advertising in Italy Is still something new and consequently research, especially qualitative, concerning them is quite recent. In this paper we will explain the structure of the research project, with particular attention to the methodology and techniques used as well as the sample considered. Descriptions will be provided concerning the different implications that social advertising has for both the individual and the family. The techniques used (creative and analytical/ psychodrama) enabled Delfo to thoroughly investigate expectations and resistance towards this issue. One of the main facts which emerged from this research was the necessity of finding the proper language, the right treatment as well as the most suitable communications tools for social issues. We include descriptions of some examples of social, advertising, in order to clearly stress which aspects must be taken into consideration and which elements could he seen as distracting. The conclusions resulting from the research underline that social advertising must obey advertising rules (In terms of expression, treatment, message). At the same time, since It Is "social advertising" it must also necessarily take Into account people current awareness of social phenomena and society in Italy. After the necessary adjustments, this conclusion can be TRUE also for other countries.
This paper describes a programme of research used to develop a campaign against heroin abuse in the UK and to evaluate its effects among young people and parents. The effects of the campaign in interaction with surrounding publicity and resultant family debates are discussed in some detail and an explanation given of how its success among young people was inferred from the complex set of findings. The effects among parents were less satisfactory. The way in which the research was used by government in decision making and in public debate and controversy are also described. The value of accessibility of data to the public is discussed. The main conclusions are that survey research methods can be applied to 'difficult' topics, that they can provide for public accountability in relation to public service campaigns and thereby support the extension of mass communication techniques into new areas. They also provide feedback on the government policies which is a valuable addition to the democratic process, if full public accessibility is assured. The importance of evaluating advertising effects taking account of the whole background of media coverage and communications is emphasised.
This paper will demonstrate how research was used to solve one of Egypt's most serious problems "Infant Mortality Resulting from Dehydration". Today, four years later, we are, indeed happy and proud, to state that as a result of the advertising campaigns, the mortality rate has dropped. In the next few minutes, we will demonstrate, how research was used undertaken, to develop this most successful public service advertising campaign. The research was carried out, in four stages, to develop 3 advertising campaigns.
This papers presents the main results of a research study aimed at defining the communicational strategy to be applied through a national TV campaign promoted by the French Committee on Health Education, and concerning alcoholic overconsumption.
The paper describes a small-scale exploratory study among school-children, supplemented by preparatory desk research, and by interviews with a variety of adult professionals working in the broad field of child communications. The overall objective was to increase our understanding of how children use television advertising in general, and within this, to concentrate on the nature and emotional weaning of the communications that result from children's exposure to advertisements, rather than on subsequent behavioural effects. The most important specific aims were: A ) to investigate children's reactions and attitudes to "educational" ads, compared with ordinary commercial ads that they liked, and; B) to try to deduce some valid practical rules for producing successful TV advertising communications for children, whether for commercial purposes or in health and safety education.
Each year the Central Office of Information presents a campaign against Drinking and Driving at Christmas, and usually evaluates its effectiveness by surveys before and after the campaign. This paper describes an experiment to devise and test a limited first interview confined to the behavioural elements of the questionnaire, which would be capable of repeat administration without conditioning.
This paper covers the general approach and research methods employed in evaluating the effectiveness of a specific central government advertising campaign. The advertising was conducted on a regional basis covering 2 T.V. areas and their corresponding police districts. The campaign was designed to encourage home security, concentrating on the fitting of window locks as a means by which to reduce significantly the opportunity for burglary. The research findings, together with other complimentary information (e.g. local Crime Prevention Officers reports), were used to aid the decision on whether to plan a national advertising campaign with the same objectives. Also the research findings were used to justify the allocation of extra public funds from the Treasury in order to finance the national campaign.
In the course of the past decade, the Dutch government has come to play an increasingly active role with respect to changing attitudes of the Dutch public-at-large. The initiatives for attitude-influencing campaigns came from Ministries and from pressure groups. In this paper we shall speak about noise-pollution and non-smoking. On both subjects attitude-influencing campaigns were drawn up, but it was not a Ministry's signature that could be found under these campaigns.
This paper describes an advertising campaign to attract new blood donors, and the programme of research which was conducted to assess it. The main medium used was radio, and the advertising called upon potential blood donors to contact the telephone answering and recording service, Teledata. Four stages of research were involved, direct response analysis, a telephone follow-up survey, an awareness tracking study, and qualitative research.
Advocacy advertising is a subset of corporate institutional advertising and is concerned with the propagation of ideas and elucidation of controversial social issues of public importance in a manner that supports the position and interest of the sponsoring corporation and projects the sponsor in the most positive light. Advocacy advertising has many facets and can range from largely educational and informational character about a particular issue or general idea to the advocacy of a specific political or legal act, adoption of a public policy, or attack on the actions of a particular political group or governmental agency. Thus a campaign could be both adversary and non-adversary in character.
The paper demonstrates the important role research can play in the development of an advertising campaign aimed at children. Following increasing concern about the safety of children on the roads, a detailed set of procedures to guide children across the roads safely, was developed in the United Kingdom. The set of procedures, called the Green Cross Code was promoted to children aged 5 to 12 (in terms both of teaching and encouragement to use the Code) by a variety of means, including advertising aimed at children themselves. Initially the emphasis of Green Cross Code advertising to children was placed on teaching the Code as a set of rules to be followed. These detailed rules form a very complex communication to children, with particular difficulties at the lower end of the age range. A considerable amount of research has been carried out in connection with this advertising campaign and the paper describes the methodology employed in detail.
The present paper describes a programme of research set up to aid decision-making about the potential use of advertising to combat vandalism. Starting from a review of the current state of knowledge, research was designed to fill in some of the gaps in knowledge quickly and to provide evidence on whether advertising could help if so how it should be approached. Subsequently research contributed to the design and evaluation of a anti-vandalism campaign.