Examining Effects of Advertising Campaign Publicity in a Field Study

Previous experimental research found that the pre-exposure of publicity about advertisements has two distinct but related effects in advertised brand recall: (a) a facilitative effect on publicized brands and (b) an inhibitive effect on nonpublicized brands.

Examining Effects of Advertising Campaign Publicity in a Field Study

Hyun Seung JinKansas State UniversityXinshu ZhaoUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel HillSoontae AnKansas State University
In an article entitled "Commercials Become News and the Airtime is Free," Philip Dusenberry, a former chairman of the BBDO advertising agency, told The New York Times (Rothenberg, 1990):

The advertising in news takes on more value because it's being mentioned in a non-advertising context…. Anytime you release a new advertising campaign, you would be wise to bring in your PR people ...

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