Press advertising: equal to TV in building brands
Robert Heath and Stuart McDonald
More money is spent on print in the UK than on any other single medium. Yet anyone who has worked in advertising will know that print advertising is rarely regarded as being capable of launching or maintaining big brands. Most of the money spent on print tends to be on ads designed to dispense quantities of information – retail promotions, car dealer ads, holiday deals, and so on. When print is used thematically, it is usually alongside TV, with TV getting the lion's share of...