The softer intrusion of print

Erwin Ephron contends that growing commercial avoidance (via TiVo, PVR etc.) does not threaten mass media.

The Softer Intrusion of Print

Erwin Ephron

In the past an article on consumer response to advertising would describe how advertising works. Today it more likely describes how it does not. The most carefully monitored response to advertising right now is commercial avoidance.

At a recent private meeting, the research head of a TV network suggested the percentage of audience lost to advertising avoidance and inattention was pretty similar across different media. His convenient conclusion was that commercial avoidance does not change relative media value. As goes TV, so go mass media; a doomsday scenario for advertising, if you are...

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