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This study investigated the relationship between Super Bowl advertising and advertisers’ market valuation, identifying several factors that influence the financial rewards of this media-placement strategy. Specifically, the authors examined the impact of each commercial’s featured characters and appeals—and the product benefits promoted—on abnormal stock returns for sponsoring companies that appear in Super Bowl advertising. Event study results showed that Super Bowl advertising is positively related to abnormal stock returns for advertisers. Cross-sectional regression analyses also indicated that market value of Super Bowl advertisers is positively related to likeable characters, emotional appeals, and approach messaging. The combined use of likeable characters with either emotional appeals or approach messages also is positively associated with firm valuation.

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This article demonstrates how television commercials can be put into different customised programming contexts to improve ad performance. To determine this, Turner Networks, the cable television owner, commissioned a large-scale study of 10,000 consumers' in-depth responses to over two dozen commercials. The research found that one of the ways contextual programming can work is by priming the audience to be more receptive to an advertising message, which can turbocharge commercial breakthrough power. Another dimension that determines in-market ad effectiveness is motivation, which is improved by the congruence between the programme content and the commercial execution. Congruence can occur in four areas: a sense of place and the semantic, episodic and procedural memory systems. Examples of how these principles can be applied to TV scheduling are included.

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This article explores how changes in advertising content can lead to different perceptions of a media vehicle. In two experimental studies, the advertising content of a magazine is manipulated in terms of being high-end-versus-low-end, for high-versus-low reputation brands, and high-versus-low execution quality. The results show how the advertising content can be either beneficial or detrimental for magazine perceptions. By looking at the influence of advertising content—rather than advertising quantity—the studies complement advertising-clutter research and point to different ways in which media owners can manage their advertising content.

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While marketers often rely upon banner ads to generate revenues, it is unclear as to how these ads might influence consumer perceptions of host websites. In this paper, we conduct three studies to examine the effect of animation and brand advertised in a banner ad on consumers’ attitude towards a host website, as well as word-of-mouth behaviour. Results of the first study reveal that consumers are irritated with unfavourable banner brands and that irritation, in turn, negatively affects their attitude towards the host website. We demonstrate that banner brand and banner type serve as contextual cues that influence judgements of the host website due to a forward spillover effect. Findings of the second study demonstrate that a host website, corollarily, serves as a context to negatively influence evaluations of favourable brands mainly for animated banner ads – a reciprocal spillover effect. The third study validates and extends the findings of the first study by adopting methodological pluralism through a different approach to stimuli selection and experimental manipulation. Results indicate that, while presence of animation has a negative influence on the host site and WOM behaviour when the brand advertised is an unfavourable one, it neither benefits nor hurts a host website evaluation and WOM behaviour when a favourable brand is advertised. Managerial implications of our findings are also discussed.

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While the use of celebrity in ads is impactful, research has shown that it is also a little less persuasive. There are certain markets, such as financial services, where stars fail to make an impact and there are markets in which the advertising codes make it impossible to use celebrities, such as alcoholic drinks. But having decided that using a celebrity is an appropriate and strategic route, the brand owner should be aware that there are six main ways to use a star. The advertising testimonial is the most well-known but also the most expensive and most difficult to get right. This article also explores the other five options, including using celebrity sponsorships and leveraging celebrity owners, and examines the main challenges brands face when using such strategies.

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Three studies investigate the moderating role of divided attention in the relationship between thematic (in)congruency between a web page and a web ad, and evaluations of and click intention towards the embedded web ad. The first study establishes the traditional priming effect in sequential web page – web ad exposure. Study two manipulates viewers’ opportunity to divide their attention when simultaneously exposed to a web page and a web ad, and Study three measures divided attention by means of gaze jumps in a simultaneous exposure situation. In the case of simultaneous exposure to a web page and a web ad, a congruency effect occurs when there is little opportunity to divide the attention between the web page and the ad, and when there are few gaze jumps between the web page and the web ad. In these cases, web ads that are thematically congruent with the web page result in more positive responses. This effect reverses when there is more opportunity to divide the attention between the web page and the web ad, and when the number of gaze jumps is high: web ads incongruent with the web page lead to more positive responses. Undivided attention benefits web ads that are congruent with the web page in which they are embedded, but divided attention benefits those that are incongruent with the web page.

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Native advertising, in its simplest form, can be described as 'an advertising unit designed to integrate seamlessly with a user's consumption experience'. The recent buzz around native advertising within digital can be traced to the decline in banner advertising but marketers are looking to spend digital budgets elsewhere. There is no standard digital platform, so the social networks and large digital players, such as YouTube and StumbleUpon are leading the way by creating their own.

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Relevance, difference, emotional impact, recency and frequency are the general characteristics of advertising that people readily remember. While it is usually believed that media delivery is responsible for recency and frequency, the media vehicle can also shape the way people respond to the message itself. Relevance can be delivered through media by reaching the right people at the right time. Difference can be achieved through using a media channel that is unusual for the brand's category or through sponsoring specific and distinctive vehicles. Media can also help deliver emotion through transference from associated content, or even via the channels themselves, which consumers may have unconsciously linked to particular qualities.

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In this paper, Neuro-Insight and Bravo present results from a major neuromarketing study on the impact of contextual television advertising. The research indicates that a media/creative fit of several types can be successfully utilized to increase memory encoding for TV commercials. In particular, hybrid ads (which incorporate talent or other show elements with an advertiser's brand message) achieve the highest levels of effectiveness of all formats tested. Additionally, the research suggests that neo-contextual matches based on aligning thematic qualities of the creative with a program can outperform standard matches based on product category, and may be an under-invested portion of the market. Expanding opportunities for contextual relevance is suggested as one approach to mitigate the challenges posed by increased fragmentation and ad avoidance.

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A brand's reputation can now be driven and developed entirely by the consumer and it is they who can have a major influence on its success or failure. This shift has taken place because of a convergence of significant factors, each laying a foundation for the next and constructing an environment where the organisation is no longer the brand guardian. This article illustrates these changes by drawing on examples from the sports and event sponsorship sector and argues that tactical awareness-building campaigns that don't align with a brand's core values can be damaging. Examples discussed include DHL's sponsorship of the soccer team, Manchester United, and McDonald's sponsorship of the 2012 London Olympics.