A dialogue on advertising effectiveness and efficiency

Our conclusion is that either brand management, or agency, or both may be at fault in not insisting on specific goals and measurements.

A Dialogue on Advertising Effectiveness and Efficiency

Tim Ambler, London Business School, and Simon Broadbent, BrandCon Limited, discuss how advertising evaluation could be sharpened

Simon:

When the Institute of Practitioners in Advertising (IPA) started its Awards scheme in 1980, I wrote about goals, effectiveness and accountability. I saw three steps:

  1. Agree goal(s).
  2. Measure how far they were achieved, and the contribution of the advertisements.
  3. Compare the bottom-line benefit of this ...

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