In May 1996 the U.S. Supreme Court struck down Rhode Island’s ban on advertising prices of alcoholic beverages, making Rhode Island the subject of a natural experiment for measuring the impact of advertising on prices. Using Massachusetts prices as controls, we find that while advertising stores substantially cut prices of advertised products, prices of other products, at both advertising and n...

Brand marketers often wonder how they should allocate budget between TV and online ads in order to maximize reach or maintain the same reach at a lower cost. We use probability models based on historical cross media panel data to suggest the optimal budget allocation between TV and online ads to maximize reach to the target demographics. We take a historical TV campaign and estimate the reach a...

Mobile advertising is evolving rapidly and becoming the key mobile data and revenue drivers of the mobile contents market. More powerful mobile devices have made possible the creation of better and richer mobile advertising. Moreover, the integration of location-aware technologies such as Cell Identification and GPS (Global Positioning Systems) into mobile devices has inspired the development o...

Media planning consists of (1) establishing a desired market; (2) finding media (in particular, periodicals and television shows) which reach that market; and (3) allocating advertising funds to these media. This paper discusses the design, implementation and operation of an interactive, terminal -based computer system which manages a large data base and provides models that aid the advertising...

Purpose – The purpose of this study is to provide an overview of the economic and clinical impacts of direct-to-consumer (DTC) advertising on consumers and physicians. Design/methodology/approach – Controversy around the benefits and concerns associated with DTC advertising are summarized. The sources are sorted based on their position toward DTC promotions: defending or opposing. Two recent wo...

OBJECTIVE Young adults in the USA have one of the highest smoking prevalence rates of any age group, and young adulthood is a critical time period of targeting by the tobacco industry. The authors examined relationships between potential exposure to tobacco-related media campaigns from a variety of sponsors and 2-year smoking change measures among a longitudinal sample of US adults aged 20-30 y...

The allocation of marketing budgets across advertising and sales promotions has changed over the past decade with a marked decrease in the percentage of budgets directed towards advertising. Moreover, there has been much speculation regarding how these changes have affected a brand’s positioning vis-a-vis its competitors. In spite of this speculation, ` previous research has not examined the im...

this paper investigates the effects of advertising, profitability, concentration and research & development on the market share of iranian great food and beverage industries during the period of 2000-2011. for this purpose, we used the more than 50 employee's statistics of industrial 4- digit firms and panel data technique for estimating the model. the main results of this paper reveal that, th...