Coming Off Air: The Consequences
When a brand stops advertising on TV, our tracking database shows that brand health may become vulnerable. However, when the time off-air is six months or less, the effects can be small. But on balance we see declines in purchase measures, and bigger brands are more likely to suffer a decline than smaller brands.
*Net Change: Percent of brands increasing – percent of brands decreasing (updated August 2018)
Longer periods off-air are much more likely to be damaging. A good example comes from the UK insurance market. A regular and reasonably heavy advertiser, this insurance company came off-air, with only one subsequent burst two years later. Consideration levels plummeted over the next few years.