Spot Length and Unaided Recall in Television: Optimizing Media Planning Variables in Advertising Breaks

The purpose of the current study was to analyze both the relationship between spot length and unaided recall in a real-world environment and the direct effect on recall of other advertising break-planning variables.

Spot Length and Unaided Recall in Television: Optimizing Media Planning Variables in Advertising Breaks

Josefa D. Martín-Santana

Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria

Pedro Reinares-Lara and Eva Reinares-Lara

Universidad Rey Juan Carlos

MANAGEMENT SLANT

  • A television spot's length influences recall levels, but the change in recall is not proportional to the change in spot length.
  • Spots included in advertising breaks shown midprogram generate three times as much recall as those included in breaks between programs.
  • Inserting spots in low-clutter advertising breaks increases recall by 40 percent, and this advantage is three times greater for spots lasting more...

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