We investigate the causal effect of tweets on product demand using variation in microblogging caused by a partial block of the Chinese microblogging platform Sina Weibo due to political events. We analyze the effect of the activity decrease due to the block on viewership of a large set of TV shows that rely on Sina Weibo as an advertising platform. Using a set of difference-in-difference regres...

BACKGROUND Media advertisements especially radio and TV are one of the most important and effective ways for health promotion and consumption of healthy productions worldwide. Ministry of Health and some other ministries in Iran agreed to control and restrict the advertising of unhealthy products and services. Therefore, adequate supervision and monitoring should be done in this field. A conten...

This paper describes the process of an educational institution implementing an interactive television solution. The fundamental issue is the educational role within a TV environment as research continues to show that viewers expect entertainment on television. Edutainment, the successful integration of education into the entertainment environment of television, is not going to be a trivialisati...

December 2009 JOURNAL OF ADVERTISING RESEARCH 419 measure their success through user-response metrics such as click-through rate (CTR), conversion rate (Richardson, Dominowski, and Ragno, 2007), and bounce rate (Sculley, Malkin, Basu, and Bayardo, 2009), Google has been exploring how to use STB measurement to design equivalent measures for TV. Past attempts to provide quality scores for TV ads ...

Media multitasking competes with television advertising for consumers’ attention, but it also may facilitate immediate and measurable response to some advertisements. This paper explores whether and how television advertising influences online shopping. We construct a massive dataset spanning $3.4 billion in spending by 20 brands, measures of brands’ website traffic and transactions, and ad con...

Article history: Received 4 January 2011 Received in revised form 1 August 2011 Accepted 13 August 2011 Available online 15 September 2011 Advertising media are a means of communication that creates different marketing and communication results among consumers. Over the years, newspaper, magazine, TV, and radio have provided a one-way media where information is broadcast and communicated. Due t...

The past decade has seen the explosive emergence of online advertising as a major source of revenue for Internet publishers. Analyses of this phenomenon are mostly conducted in the sway of Google’s hugely successful search advertising program. In the early days of the Internet, before Google, virtually all advertising revenues were related to simple display ads. Yet by 2008 search advertising a...

Marketing and advertising: harmful to children’s health One of the biggest contributors to the explosive increase in childhood obesity, including such complications as type 2 diabetes, is aggressive marketing and advertising by the food industry, according to a group called Stop Commercial Exploitation of Children Coalition (SCEC). The group held its second annual Summit on the Commercialisatio...

There is a lack of published research data on the goal conversions of the real e-commerce systems and e-commerce users’ behavior in Macedonia and the Balkan countries. We present the findings of the 6 months research on the strategies applied on the regional e-commerce online bookstore Kupikniga.mk. Several conversion channels and combination funnels were applied, like paper flyers, TV and news...