Public and nonprofit organizations have limited financial resources to spend on advertising their message/ mission and have historically not used advertising as extensively as for-profit organizations (Lovelock and Weinberg 1984). On the "Information Superhighway" information can be shared in milliseconds to global audiences at a fraction of the cost of the traditional mediums of communication....

advertising appeal plays a significant role in the execution of advertising. in service advertising, they are of more importance because of the peculiar characteristics of services. this study attempts to investigate the impact of emotional and rational appeal on service advertising. this study also studies the impact of typology of service as a moderating variable in the relation of advertisin...

Television advertising levels in Europe are regulated according to the “Audiovisual Service Media Directive”, where member states of the European Union usually impose stricter regulation on their Public Service Broadcasting (PSB) channels. The present model evaluates the effects of symmetric and asymmetric regulation of ad levels on competition for viewers and advertisers in a duopoly framework...

Advertising appeal plays a significant role in the execution of advertising. In service advertising, they are of more importance because of the peculiar characteristics of services. This study attempts to investigate the impact of emotional and rational appeal on service advertising. This study also studies the impact of typology of service as a moderating variable in the relation of advertisin...

Many natural games have both high and low cost Nash equilibria: their Price of Anarchy is high and yet their Price of Stability is low. In such cases, one could hope to move behavior from a high cost equilibrium to a low cost one by a “public service advertising campaign” encouraging players to follow the low-cost equilibrium, and if every player follows the advice then we are done. However, th...

New media, e.g. the internet, are no longer just the playground for “online-freaks”, firms have recognized the chances offered by online communication. An empirical study, conducted by the LudwigMaximilians-University of Munich, Germany, reveals that service industries (mainly financial service providers) regard online advertising as very important (Schwaiger 1998). When asked about future impo...