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Inside the JAR: Budgets, Attention, and Audiences — New Evidence for Smarter Advertising Across Channels

Inside the JAR: Budgets, Attention, and Audiences — New Evidence for Smarter Advertising Across Channels

  • ARF
  • JOURNAL OF ADVERTISING RESEARCH

On April 8, 2026, the ARF featured three new articles from the Journal of Advertising Research focusing on advertising budget allocation, viewer attention, and digital magazine audience analysis. Sönke Albers presented research on optimal rules for allocating advertising budgets across movie distribution stages, extending previous work by incorporating carryover effects between stages. Zack Bhan discussed findings on ad repetition's impact on viewer attention, revealing that attention declines more rapidly in connected TV (CTV) compared to linear TV (LTV) due to higher engagement with content in CTV environments. Kaye Chan and Mark Uncles analyzed actual viewing behavior of digital magazine subscribers, finding that circulation numbers overstate actual ad delivery, with only 37% of subscribers repeating viewing content from issue to issue, with most subscribers being infrequent viewers. The presentations were followed by a Q&A session where speakers discussed practical implications and limitations of their research findings.

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AUDIENCEXSCIENCE 2026

AUDIENCEXSCIENCE 2026

  • ARF

ARF’s annual AUDIENCExSCIENCE conference showcased the most urgent challenges and recent breakthroughs in audience measurement. Industry leaders gathered in NYC March 18-19 to examine the rapidly changing intersection of AI, marketing, media, and consumer insights. As AI shifts research workflows, alters measurement systems, and changes consumer behavior, we explored new insights on how audience measurement is adapting to rapid change. Content is currently available to conference attendees.

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