Enhancing memorability: do remaining duration prompts affect advertising recall?

Previous research on exposure to TV commercials and recall of the commercials has been done in conditions where viewers did not know the exact duration of commercial breaks.

Enhancing memorability: do remaining duration prompts affect advertising recall?

Ruifeng Yu

Tsinghua University

Alan H.S. Chan

City University of Hong Kong

Ping Zhao and Yang Gao

Tsinghua University

Introduction

Television channel switching during commercial breaks is a common way of avoiding advertising, and seriously affects the effectiveness of TV as an advertising medium. There have been many studies on this topic (Danaher 1995; Siddarth & Chattopadhyay 1998; Van Meurs 1998; Tse & Lee 2001; Josephine et al. 2003; Moorman et al.2007), and the factors that influence viewer channel switching behaviour and viewer memory for commercials have...

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