Understanding Effective Advertising: How, When, and Why Ads Work reviews and summarizes
an extensive body of research on advertising effectiveness. In particular, it summarizes
what we know today on when, how, and why advertising works. The primary focus of the book
is on the instantaneous and carryover effects of advertising on consumer choice, sales,
and market share. In addition, the book reviews research on the rich variety of ad
appeals, and suggests which appeals work, and when, how, and why they work.
The first comprehensive book on advertising effectiveness, Understanding Effective
Advertising reviews over 50 years of research in the fields of advertising, marketing,
consumer behavior, and psychology. It covers all aspects of advertising and its effect on
sales, including sales elasticity, carryover effects, content effects, and effects of
frequency. Author Gerard J. Tellis distills three decades of academic and professional
experience into one volume that successfully dismisses many popular myths about
advertising.
Understanding Effective Advertising will be an important addition to courses at the
graduate or undergraduate level in advertising, marketing, communication, and journalism.
It will also be an invaluable reference for professionals and researchers working in these
fields.
Table of Contents
Pt. I Understanding Advertising 1
1 Evaluating Advertising 3
2 Sweet, Secret Workings of Advertising 11
3 A General Theory of Firms' Advertising 27
4 Measures of Advertising's Effectiveness 43
5 Research Designs to Assess Advertising Effectiveness
53
Pt. II Findings from Market Studies: When and How Much
Advertising Works 69
6 Market Effects of Advertising Intensity 71
7 Advertising's Dynamic and Content Effects 93
Pt. III Findings from Experimental Studies: How and Why
Advertising Works 109
8 Advertising as Persuasion 111
9 Argument in Advertising 135
10 Emotion in Advertising 147
11 Endorsement in Advertising 179
Index 195
About the Author 203
216 pages, Hardcover