A Long Engagement: Why the debate about engagement metrics misses the point

Over 40 years ago Bass and Parsons declared that measuring the impact of advertising on sales is the most difficult and controversial problem in marketing.

A Long Engagement: Why the debate about engagement metrics misses the point

Jennifer Taylor

INTRODUCTION

The debate about whether particular media, vehicles or advertising message types are more engaging is not new. Much of the research that provides the foundation in this area was conducted in the 1980s (Newstead, Reynolds, and Riebe, 2009)— but there is a renewed vigour in the search for understanding what engagement is, how to measure it, and how reaching an audience that is more engaged can be beneficial for advertising. The relatively recent addition of social media to the media landscape has increased both interest...

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