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The loss of effectiveness of television advertising centred on advertising spots has caused the development, and subsequent consolidation, of new forms of advertising within this medium. While management assumes that these new forms of advertising generate greater recall, in order to justify their usage, there is a noticeable lack of research evidence to prove this supposition. Therefore, in this article we use a representative sample of Spanish television audiences to compare the advertising recall that advertising spots generate, as opposed to that occasioned by a combination of new television advertising formats. The empirical analysis was carried out by means of an Ordered Probit model, which showed that the new forms of advertising gave rise to better recall than advertising spots, as much with regard to aided as with unaided recall.

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The traditional TV advertising model is being challenged as TV audiences increasingly consume content on-demand and fragment across viewing platforms. This article outlines how Channel 4, the UK broadcaster, launched its viewer-centric database to future-proof its business for this connected world. Connected viewing, and its return path data, presents broadcasters with key strategic opportunities: the opportunity to develop closer two-way relationships, to stimulate incremental viewing, and to create new revenue generating opportunities. The strategy introduced a universal registration service for online and multi-platform users, built the database infrastructure to support this initiative and used the first-party data that it gathered to evolve its viewing product and the opportunities it offered to advertisers.

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This article discusses presentations on the future of media given during Ad Week Europe 2013, and features insights from speakers ranging from tech giants like Google and Facebook, to agency holding groups like WPP. The main themes of the presentations are: that incorporating a real-time element to marketing, often through brand "newsrooms", is being increasingly looked-at by brands; that deep integration between TV and digital efforts is often crucial to campaign effectiveness; and that the digital ad market remains in flux, with significant uncertainty over the rise of programmatic buying and the make-up of online adspend.

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This analysis of video-on-demand (VOD) advertising argues that TV has moved "beyond fragmentation", as programs are being carried on new digital and mobile platforms. As a part of this trend, VOD viewership has been growing at double digit rates, but the paper argues that there has been little understanding of how commercials perform in VOD - despite the value of advertising time in VOD. The paper discusses research looking into the pre-roll VOD ad format, which suggests that the "pre-roll" has a very high value. The methodology behind this assertion is explored. It follows that this high value of audience for pre-roll gives advertisers a unique opportunity to connect with engaged viewers.

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With television advertising targeting undergoing a revolution in capabilities and accuracy, this paper reviews a variety of different targeting algorithms. These range from the traditional age-gender targeting methods employed based on Nielsen ratings, to new approaches that attempt to target high probability buyers using Set Top Box data.

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Periodically tracking public sentiment toward television advertising (TVA) is an important barometer for the advertising industry and its myriad stakeholders. To date, however, most studies of consumers’ attitudes to TVA have been cross-sectional. This study, alternatively, provides a quasi-longitudinal examination of Australian attitudes toward TVA across four time points (2002, 2005, 2008, and 2010). Findings suggest that although attitudes toward TVA are generally negative, in fact they have not deteriorated over time. Considerable scope consequently exists for improving consumer attitudes toward TVA.

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This study explores how message delivery may differ for television commercials that appear in various pod positions. Channel changing at the onset of commercials often may lead to higher exposure levels for advertisements in the first pod position. When advertising pods are relatively long, viewers may return within the pod, so commercials in the first and last pod positions may have higher exposure levels than commercials in middle pod positions. The set of advantageous pod positions, however, can differ in commercial breaks that appear near the beginning and end of programs. Ideas for audience measurement, media buying, and advertising creative are developed.

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This study investigated whether (and how) online video platforms displace television with respect to time investment and viewership. To that end, this study employed mail surveys of a random sample of Internet users throughout the United States. This study revealed that the existence of the time displacement effect depends on (1) what type of online video venues consumers use; (2) how much video content overlaps between online video platforms and television in general; and (3) what type of video content consumers watch online. Specifically, the current study found that the time spent using the Internet to watch user-generated videos and on video-sharing sites reduced the time spent watching television as a consequence.

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Asian-Americans lack the advertiser recognition and investment levels enjoyed by other ethnic groups in the United States. Given this demographic group’s greater purchasing power and comparable growth rate, online survey and in-depth executive interviews reveal how US Asians’ income, language, and other audience traits are valued by US television advertisers and compares these perceptions to those for Hispanics. Recommendations are offered to overcome reported advertiser misperceptions and agency obstacles and to help encourage investment in this growing and affluent demographic segment.

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In this article, executives from Yahoo, AOL, Fidelity and Tremor Media discuss how their companies are formulating new strategies, and thus reflect the changing habits among their target audience. The shift towards "Web 3.0" implies a more personalised, targeted and engaging experience, which can be supported by Big Data, but must not let numbers replace a focus on creating ideas and products which truly delight consumers.