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An Experiment In Testing Advertising Levels By Measuring Natural Test Market Variation, Michael Latta Dec 2013

An Experiment In Testing Advertising Levels By Measuring Natural Test Market Variation, Michael Latta

Atlantic Marketing Journal

A field experiment utilizing a new experimental approach to measuring advertising exposure which provides a range of levels of exposure was conducted in eight main test market and eight fringe cities for a global Fortune 500 company consumer durable product. The results showed: a) targeted rating points of advertising delivered are strongly related to advertising effectiveness, and b) this effect is attributable to advertising level and to whether the members of the target audience live close to or far from the broadcast source.


Effects Of Product Number And Brand Breadth On The Evaluations Of An Extended Product, Min Sun Yeu, Hye Yeon Yuk, Bo Ha Kim, Yoo, Seong Wan Cho, Jun Sang Yeo, Chan Su Park Oct 2013

Effects Of Product Number And Brand Breadth On The Evaluations Of An Extended Product, Min Sun Yeu, Hye Yeon Yuk, Bo Ha Kim, Yoo, Seong Wan Cho, Jun Sang Yeo, Chan Su Park

Asia Marketing Journal

This paper was motivated by two gaps in the extant literature on brand portfolio planning. First, research has shown that, as the number of products connected to a brand increases, the extended product receives more favorable evaluations. However, this result was obtained by comparing two brands with different number of products while controlling the brands` breadths. Hence one may question if the above result would hold when the brand is narrow as well as broad. Second, the literature has investigated the effect of brand breadth on the perceived fit and evaluations of an extended product within a relatively limited range …