Firms that sell via a direct channel and via indirect channels have to decide whether to allow third-party sellers to use the trademarked brand name of the product in their advertising. This question has been particularly controversial for advertising on search engines. In June 2009, Google started allowing any third-party reseller for a product to use a trademark, such as ‘Doubletree,’ in the ...

Paid placements on search engines reached sales of over $10 billion in the U.S. last year and represent the most rapidly growing form of online advertising today. In its classic form, a search engine sets up an auction for each search word in which competing web sites bid for their sponsored links to be displayed next to the search results. We model this advertising market focusing on two of it...

As TV consumption evolves from traditional linear programming to more on-demand viewing, advertising is also changing, seeking tailor content best match the interests of viewers. Addressable an interactive form that combines online data personalization with aim addressing individual viewers and improving outcomes. This study investigated whether audience engagement (indexed by self-report likin...

OBJECTIVE To examine the presence of features of sales promotion in cigarette advertising in United States magazines, and to describe trends in youth (ages 12-17) exposure to such advertising (termed "promotional advertising"). DESIGN Analysis of 1980-1993 annual data on: (a) total pages and expenditures for "promotional advertising" (advertising that contains features of sales promotion) in ...

Title of Dissertation: ESSAYS ON ADVERTISING AND PRICE COLLUSION Kartikeya Singh, Doctor of Philosophy, 2005 Dissertation directed by: Dr. Deborah Minehart University of Maryland, College Park Chapter I: Persuasive advertising alters consumers’ tastes and creates brand loyalty. The established view in the economics literature is that such advertising is anti-competitive and results in higher pr...

OBJECTIVE Health advocates have focused on the prevalence of advertising for calorie-dense low-nutrient foods as a significant contributor to the obesity epidemic. This research tests the hypothesis that exposure to food advertising during TV viewing may also contribute to obesity by triggering automatic snacking of available food. DESIGN In Experiments 1a and 1b, elementary-school-age childr...

We examine the asset value of advertising expenditures for a sample of takes the form of future cash flows, which derive from future sales. Future sales are influenced by advertising expenditures, 320 firms with reported advertising expenditures for each of the 10 consecutive years ending in 1994. We find that, depending upon the which alter customer preferences for particular products or vendo...

Paid Search algorithms play an important role in online advertising where a set of related ads is returned based on a searched query. The Paid Search algorithms mostly consist of two main steps. First, a given searched query is converted to different sub-queries or similar phrases which preserve the core intent of the query. Second, the generated sub-queries are matched to the ads bidded keywor...

W use data from a large-scale field experiment to explore what influences the effectiveness of online advertising. We find that matching an ad to website content and increasing an ad’s obtrusiveness independently increase purchase intent. However, in combination, these two strategies are ineffective. Ads that match both website content and are obtrusive do worse at increasing purchase intent th...

This study examined the behavior of online searchers in relation to keyword advertising according to the theory of advertising avoidance. A total of 451 volunteers were recruited for an experiment. A computer program and an eye-tracking device were used to measure the number of clicks and eye movements. The findings show that the number of clicks for to obtain organic search results is higher t...