What the Metaverse Means for Marketers
Speakers at an ARF Town Hall gave their predictions on the development of the metaverse and described how metaverse marketing platforms will impact marketers’ strategies.
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What the Metaverse Means for Marketers
On September 21, 2022, speakers from Kantar, Meta, Next Media Partners, Snap, VMLY&R, Wunderman Thompson Intelligence and XRGuild shared insights into how the Metaverse will impact marketers. They discussed implications for interoperability as well as paid advertising.
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What Makes Product Placements Effective?
Product placements have grown in recent years and the practice is predicted to increase even further. According to a new “Global Product Placement Forecast” by media economists PQ Media, global product placement spending has rebounded at double-digit rates in 2021 and is forecast to do so again this year. What makes this strategy effective? Decades of research provide us with several useful insights.
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Product placements have increased and are predicted to grow further. Research provides insights on how to make them effective.
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What’s Behind Consumer Recall of Brands Co-Appearing in TV Programs?
Consumers’ short- and long-term memory and recognition of brands that co-appear in television programs is affected differently when the juxtaposed products are either in the same or different categories, and when the brands are either familiar or unfamiliar, new research shows. The findings are intended to help strengthen product placement strategies and decisions around choosing the right co-appearing partners.
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Why Content Quality Matters So Much in Native Advertising
Practitioners who develop native advertising campaigns should pay close attention to where they place mentions of their brand. This empirical study found that a poorly written article that is associated with a brand message will lead to negative perceptions about both the brand and the credibility of the news source.
Member Only AccessThe Relationship Between Product Placement and the Performance of Movies: Can Brand Promotion in Films Help or Hurt Moviegoers’ Experience?
The authors of this September 2015 article in the Journal of Advertising Research, Reo Song, California State University, Long Beach; Jeffrey Meyer, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio; Kyoungnam Ha, University of New Haven, West Haven, Connecticut, studied the relationship between product placement and the performance of movies.
Their study examined how product placements related to the performance of the media context through word of mouth about the movies. The authors analyzed whether advertising in the form of product placements in films impacted consumer enjoyment of the movie, and, in turn, whether the related positive or negative WOM about the film impacted box-office revenues.
The authors investigated the relationship between product placements and the performance of 122 movies released between 2000 and 2007 and found that product placements had both helpful and harmful consequences. This finding elucidates the heretofore unknown relationship between product placements and programming performance.
-Product placements exhibited a positive relationship with movie revenues, but when used in excess the relationship with revenues turned negative.
-The relationship between product placement and the benefits a consumer receives from media programing is robust across movies with different budgets and qualities.
Important managerial implications suggested by this research:
-Both media programmers and advertisers may need to reevaluate the widely assumed negative effects of product placements based on the findings of this study.
-Firms that produce media programing and those that place advertising in such media can enjoy a win–win situation from product placements, especially if those placements involve major brands that are familiar to consumers.
-However, too much of this positive can become negative. As the number of placements passes a saturation point (44, as the current study demonstrated), the relationship with movie performance turns negative. In particular, programing firms that give in to the temptation to allow too many placements may suffer weaker programing performance when holding all other factors constant. The average number of placements in the current sample was 16, suggesting that movie studios might understand both the positive and the potential negative effects of product placements.
-Studios should continue to limit the number of product placements to a reasonable boundary and avoid excessive placements (e.g., more than 50), which generally appear associated with poorer box office performance.
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Silence is Golden: Brands Win Supporting Roles
Dan Aversano, SVP, Client & Consumer Insights at Turner Broadcasting and Chad R. Maxwell, SVP, Research at Starcom MediaVest Group developed a partnership to increase the effectiveness of IPPs (In-Program Placements).
Insights included:
- Authenticity and relatability are vital if the brand is to communicate effectively. Both content and context are important to effectiveness.
- Subtler executions of IPPS can be more effective.
- Adjacencies with traditional ads can be maximized. When and where rules for adjacencies are important. But whether the companion ad for the IPP should be placed before or after the IPP depends on the situation, and should be tested.
Effective IPPs can be created if the following contextual components are considered:
- Viewers have different relationships with different product categories.
- Consistency is important.
- There are issues around “crossing the line.”
- Iconic brands are held to different standards.
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