15 pages, The current study applied a “mixture-amount modeling” statistical approach—used most often in biology, agriculture, and food science—to measure the impact of advertising effort and allocation across different media. The authors of the current paper believe advertisers can use the mixture-amount model to detect optimal advertising-mix allocation changes as a function of their total advertising effort. The researchers demonstrated the use of the model by analyzing Belgian magazine and television data on 34 advertising campaigns for beauty-care brands. The goal is to help advertisers maximize desirable outcomes for campaign recognition and brand interest.
22 pages., Via online., Researchers used quota convenience sampling to investigate consumer decision making and brand commitment for food brands promoted as "healthy." Findings indicated that familiarity can help increase purchase intentions and brand commitment for healthy brands with low credibility. However, to go beyond a transactional exchange to one that is relation in nature, familiarity, credibility, and quality are all crucial for fostering brand commitment.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 141 Document Number: D06282
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Accessed August 6, 2015., Poster presented at the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association and Western Agricultural Economics Association annual meeting, San Francisco, California, July 26-28, 2015. 2 pages