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James Madison University

2017

Effie Awards

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An Analysis Of Original And Emerging Integrated Marketing Communication Touchpoints Among Recent Effie Award Winners, Amanda Zwerin May 2017

An Analysis Of Original And Emerging Integrated Marketing Communication Touchpoints Among Recent Effie Award Winners, Amanda Zwerin

Senior Honors Projects, 2010-2019

This study presents a brief overview of Integrated Marketing Communications (IMC) research, including effectiveness, and a discussion of the advertising competition landscape with a focus on the Effie Awards. We extend findings from the Quesenberry et al. (2012) study by investigating IMC touchpoint data within award-winning Effie campaigns from 2011-2016. Data was collected from the Effie database and then analyzed to explore how touchpoints have evolved. Results indicate that there are several new categories of touchpoints used in recent campaigns. We refer to these categories as Emerging Touchpoint Categories as a comparison against Quesenberry et al.’s category findings, hereafter referred …