reach & frequency

Announcing: WOW! The Wit & Wisdom of Erwin Ephron

Erwin Ephron was a luminary in our industry and his words and writings still ring true today on so many pertinent topics. These include media planning, research, targeting, budgeting, data quality, engagement, reach and recency, digital marketing and so much more. The ARF is honored to announce that we have been bequeathed an enormous cache of Ephron’s writings. This windfall includes Ephron’s newsletters from 1992 to 2010.

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JAR Best Papers: Digital Video vs. TV Ad Spend, and Context Effects in Advertising (Event Summary)

  • Insights Studio

At this Insights Studio, JAR Best Paper winning authors discussed their findings on allocating spending across digital video and TV advertising, and the impact of media context on advertising memory. A Q&A panel then applied these insights to the industry and today’s marketplace. Guest panelist JAR Editor-in-Chief John Ford flagged topics of interest for future submissions to the Journal, including artificial intelligence, neuro-based analyses of effectiveness, cross-platform research, and the impact of Covid-19 on advertising.

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The Myth of Targeting Loyal, Niche Audiences

  • Harsh Taneja (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
  • JOURNAL OF ADVERTISING RESEARCH

With unlimited consumer choices in the digital marketplace, advertisers often turn away from websites with mass appeal and toward niche outlets, for their small, but potentially loyal audiences. Such a strategy is actually unwise, diminishing reach, according to evidence from a study analyzing double-jeopardy effects in digital media usage.

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Precision Marketing for Precision Medicine (Event Summary)

  • WEDNESDAY WEBCAST

This webcast presented by W2O Group brought together experts from Swoop and IPM.ai, Takeda and Twitter Client Solutions - Health to discuss some of the new methods and technologies that are making precision marketing possible for health care companies—especially the use of clinical and claims data to identify and target both HCPs and consumers with relevant marketing while protecting patient privacy and HIPAA compliance.  Editor’s Note: The full summary is available to members only.

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What Short Commercials Can and Can’t Deliver

  • Duane Varan (MediaScience) and Magda Nenycz-Thiel, Rachel Kennedy, and Steven Bellman (all at Ehrenberg-Bass Institute)
  • JOURNAL OF ADVERTISING RESEARCH

Short ads of six to seven seconds or less on television can provide an efficient option compared with longer, more expensive commercials. But there are limits to what they can deliver, particularly in a cluttered environment. This study offers guidance on how, when and where to use short ads.

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