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<title><![CDATA[Editorial: On the need for advertising and public policy research]]></title>
<link>http://www.warc.com/articles/IJA.asp?ID=90035</link>
<author>Charles R. Taylor</author>
<description><![CDATA[Editorial of IJA Volume 28 Number 4, by Charles R. Taylor.]]></description>
<pubDate>1 Sep 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Tailor-made single-item measures of doubly concrete constructs]]></title>
<link>http://www.warc.com/articles/IJA.asp?ID=90036</link>
<author>Lars Bergkvist and John Rossiter</author>
<description><![CDATA[The present study addresses how to measure three constructs commonly used in advertising research, namely attitude towards the ad, brand attitude and brand purchase intention. The study replicates and extends Bergkvist and Rossiter's 2007 finding that single-item measures are equally predictively valid as multiple-item measures of basic doubly concrete - see Rossiter's 2002 C-OAR-SE procedure constructs in marketing, namely AAd and ABrand. One extension is that the finding holds for free-standing, tailor-made single-item measures, whereas the previous study establishes this result only for single-item measures extracted from multiple-item measures. Another extension is that single-item equivalence of predictive validity further holds for another widely employed dependent variable construct, PIBrand. The present study goes beyond Bergkvist and Rossiter's study in that it shows that items commonly used in multiple-item measures of AAd and ABrand vary in their predictive validity and that, in some cases, the differences are substantial. The main finding is the further empirical proof that multiple-item scales are unnecessary for validly measuring basic constructs.]]></description>
<pubDate>1 Sep 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[The effect of ad value, ad placement and ad execution on the perceived instrusiveness of web advertisements]]></title>
<link>http://www.warc.com/articles/IJA.asp?ID=90037</link>
<author>Lou Ying, Tor Korneliussen and Kjell Gr&amp;#248;nhaug</author>
<description><![CDATA[This study addresses factors in advertising that lead to interstitial ads being perceived as intrusive. Eight theory-driven hypotheses were derived and tested. The results indicate that the perception of intrusiveness of ads can be controlled by aspects of ad value, ad placement and ad execution.]]></description>
<pubDate>1 Sep 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Agency practitioners' meta-theories of advertising]]></title>
<link>http://www.warc.com/articles/IJA.asp?ID=90038</link>
<author>Gergely Nyilasy and Leonard N. Reid</author>
<description><![CDATA[Research on practitioner theories of advertising uncovered that agency practitioners not only have definite theoretical beliefs about how advertising works, they also have meta-theoretical beliefs, fundamental presuppositions about the nature and possibility of knowledge in advertising. The meta-theoretical belief in creativity and its dictum of 'no rules' was found to be more important than any other guiding principle in advertising work. The primacy of creativity denies the possibility of any other moderator-focused theories that would prescribe 'rules' for creative content. Practitioners believe that the ontological status of advertising as a territory defined by creativity, art and tacit skill places it mostly outside the reach of scientific modelling. While practitioners acknowledge that knowledge about advertising is 'layered' i.e. certain aspects of it are more explainable by the legitimation system of science, they also insist that the creative 'layer' is much thicker than other layers. A further qualifying factor is practitioners' epistemological scepticism, which questions the validity of both academic and commercial social research as applied to advertising, and suggests instead that knowledge about advertising is better understood as 'common sense'. The study's findings have fundamental consequences for the professional aspirations of the advertising industry as well as the academician-practitioner gap in advertising.]]></description>
<pubDate>1 Sep 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[What matters most in advertising campaigns? The relative effect of media expenditure and message content strategy]]></title>
<link>http://www.warc.com/articles/IJA.asp?ID=90039</link>
<author>Bas van den Putte</author>
<description><![CDATA[Three main factors determine the effect of advertising campaigns: message content strategy, advertising expenditure and previous consumer behaviour. This study investigates the relative strength of each of these influences. Four possible campaign targets are taken into account: campaign recall, campaign likeability, brand recall and intention to purchase the advertised brand. A study of 40 advertising campaigns, evaluated on average by 1200 consumers, shows that, after controlling for the effect of previous purchase behaviour, the effect of message content strategy is generally larger than the effect of advertising expenditure. Nevertheless, more media expenditure positively influences campaign recall and influences brand recall and purchase intention of small brands. The most effective message content strategy differs per campaign target, but overall awareness and likeability strategies are most effective. For purchase intention only, the emotions strategy can be advised. The information strategy is best avoided.]]></description>
<pubDate>1 Sep 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Is there global inclusion of authors in the five leading advertising journals? A regional comparison 1998-2007]]></title>
<link>http://www.warc.com/articles/IJA.asp?ID=90040</link>
<author>Michael Polonsky and Les Carlson</author>
<description><![CDATA[A question that has been raised in academia has to do with whether there is global inclusion of authors in publishing. While this issue has been explored in some areas in business and marketing it has generally not been investigated across 30 years of advertising research activity. This paper seeks to examine the global inclusion of authors in five advertising-focused journals. We found that, while there appears to be an increase in international publishing activity in advertising compared to data extrapolated from past studies, published advertising research still reveals a North American bias/domination. A failure to be globally inclusive may lead to an under-exploration of academic issues and perspectives, as important 'non-US' issues could possibly be ignored.]]></description>
<pubDate>1 Sep 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Green advertising revisted: Conditioning virtual nature experiences]]></title>
<link>http://www.warc.com/articles/IJA.asp?ID=90041</link>
<author>Patrick Hartmann and Vanessa Apaolaza-Ib&amp;#225;&amp;#241;ez</author>
<description><![CDATA[In green advertising research, images of pleasant nature scenery have been classified as vague, unspecific and possibly ineffective green claims, as opposed to substantive, informational claims. In this study, the concept of virtual nature experiences is introduced to point out a perceptual mechanism through which the association of a brand with nature imagery may indeed lead to significant advertising effects. Consumers' exposure to specific nature imagery in green brand communications may lead to pleasant feelings analogous to those experienced in 'real' nature. If adequately conditioned, these 'virtual nature experiences' may enhance the consumer's attitude towards a given brand. The perceptual and attitudinal effects of substantive green claims and nature imagery are analysed in the scope of an experimental study. The field study consisted of a national survey, allowing for the relative statistical representativeness of the sample. Results of the study confirm significant perceptual and attitudinal effects of both informational claims and virtual nature experiences. The latter are identified as a distinct perceptual dimension of green brand associations, and turn out to wield additional positive influences on the consumer's attitude towards the brand.]]></description>
<pubDate>1 Sep 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Comments: A four-year retrospective]]></title>
<link>http://www.warc.com/articles/IJA.asp?ID=90042</link>
<author>John B. Ford</author>
<description><![CDATA[John B Ford, outgoing Editor of the Comments section of IJA, reflects on the last four years of readers's contributions to this discussion forum.]]></description>
<pubDate>1 Sep 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Book Review: Kenneth Roman - The King of Madison Avenue: David Ogilvy and the Making of Modern Advertising]]></title>
<link>http://www.warc.com/articles/IJA.asp?ID=90043</link>
<author>J. David Slocum</author>
<description><![CDATA[A book review of Kenneth Roman's The King of Madison Avenue: David Ogilvy and the Making of Modern Advertising]]></description>
<pubDate>1 Sep 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Book Review: Dan Ariely - Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions]]></title>
<link>http://www.warc.com/articles/IJA.asp?ID=90044</link>
<author>Rory Sutherland</author>
<description><![CDATA[A book review of Dan Ariely's Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions]]></description>
<pubDate>1 Sep 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Ex Libris]]></title>
<link>http://www.warc.com/articles/IJA.asp?ID=90045</link>
<author>Scott Goodson</author>
<description><![CDATA[Scott Goodson, founder &amp;amp; CEO of the advertising agency StrawberryFrog in New York discusses his reading habits, likes and dislikes, and recommends a range of his favourite books.]]></description>
<pubDate>1 Sep 2009</pubDate>
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