Product Placement/Branded Content
Mi hui Pak
Branded Entertainment and Product Placement seems to be a growing business –the 2009 emarketer article shows that ad spend in this media increased 4% from last year. However, there is still a dearth of substantive research on how and if PP works better than traditional commercials.
ADVERTISING EFFECTIVENESS
The 2005 NBC study found that:
Recall for Traditional Commercials and Product Placement, when shown alone, was the same (50%).
Highest recall was found when Traditional Commercials and Product Placement were shown together (67-68%).
The findings from a 2006 Nielsen Media Study: The Performance of Brand...