the aim of this study was to describe and determine the relationship between satisfaction and customer loyalty and word of mouth advertising in zanjan bodybuilding clubs. the population of this study included all customers of bodybuilding clubs in zanjan city who had at least one year of physical activities in these clubs. 280 customers were randomly selected from bodybuilding clubs and data of...

An important decision for a firm is how to allocate its advertising budget among different types of advertising. Traditional advertising, such as advertising on television and in print, serves the purpose of building consumer awareness and desire about the firm’s products. With recent developments in technology, sponsored search (or paid search) advertising at search engines in response to a ke...

BACKGROUND Federal and state public health agencies in the United States are increasingly using digital advertising and social media to promote messages from broader multimedia campaigns. However, little evidence exists on population-level campaign awareness and relative cost efficiencies of digital advertising in the context of a comprehensive public health education campaign. OBJECTIVE Our ...

Motion picture industry is characterized by extensive advertising and word-of-mouth among (potential) consumers. We develop a simple computational model of consumer behavior to study the interaction between these two forces. WOM that propagates through fixed social network is affected by the mismatch between consumer’s expectations and realized quality of the film. As a result, intensive advert...

Given the difficulties of properly estimating demand in the presence of advertising, advertising has often been omitted. This paper uses a Monte Carlo experiment of price-and-ad-setters to show that the omission of advertising can cause substantial biases in estimation, even in markets with relatively low ad-sales ratios and when advertising appears to be statistically insignificant. I then val...

Although there is much practical interest in Web advertising as a component of marketing on the Internet, there is little theory or evidence about how it works in the context of Web content. This paper reports a laboratory experiment that examines the impact of advertising format (less or more intrusive), medium (print or Web) and Web content structure (linear or non-linear) on a broad range of...

Journal of Advertising Education (A publication of the Advertising Division of the Association for Education in Journalism & Mass Communication). Focuses on teaching methodology, curriculum, accreditation, administration, and other issues related to teaching advertising. Cumulative index available online from Vol. 1, summer 1996, to the present issue. Subscription required or membership in AEJM...

Journal of Advertising Education (A publication of the Advertising Division of the Association for Education in Journalism & Mass Communication). Focuses on teaching methodology, curriculum, accreditation, administration, and other issues related to teaching advertising. Cumulative index available online from Vol. 1, summer 1996, to the present issue. Subscription required or membership in AEJM...

We consider a setting where agents select among competing products of unknown quality by costly sequential search. The agents are active on an online social network, and late movers benefit from possibly being able to see early movers’ purchase decisions. In this setting we consider the impact of advertising by firms, and the incentives of the underlying social network platform. We consider dis...

This study aims to investigate young consumers’ views about advertising from generation perspective. Specifically, it seeks to scrutinize the effects of both advertising beliefs and personal values on their attitude towards advertising. As past studies review little about the implication of generation on advertising attitude in developing markets, the study looks into the subject matter from th...