دانلود رایگان مقاله انگلیسی صفحه آرایی تبلیغات - تاثیر استراتژی بر سودمندی تبلیغات تطبیقی - امرالد 2017

Abstract

Purpose – Extant research on comparative advertising has focused only on “market leader” comparisons (a brand targeting the market leader), whereas in the marketplace, “multi-brand” comparisons are more prevalent (Kalro et al., 2010). Moreover, most research focuses on direct comparisons only. Hence, this research aims to investigate the interplay between comparison ad strategy (“market leader”/“multi-brand” comparisons) and comparison ad format (direct/indirect comparisons) on the effectiveness of comparative advertising. Design/methodology/approach – This paper uses four 2 2 fully crossed factorial designs (comparison ad format: direct vs indirect and comparison ad strategy: market leader vs multi brand) with established and new brands in two categories: powdered detergents and smart phones. All studies were conducted in metropolitan cities of India. Findings – By and large, the experiments indicated that direct (indirect) comparisons lowered (heightened) perceived manipulative intent and enhanced (reduced) attitude-toward-the-ad for multi-brand (market leader) comparisons. Practical implications – Findings suggest that when advertisers use comparative advertising, they may use direct ads when using multi-brand comparisons and use indirect ones when using market leader comparisons. It could also be argued that when advertisers use multi-brand comparisons because of fragmentation in the marketplace, they may directly compare against these multiple brands. When advertisers need to compare against a market leader, they may do so indirectly. Originality/value – This research is among the first to investigate multi-brand comparisons that are widely used in the industry and that too in the context of both direct and indirect comparison formats.

General discussion

For both new and established brands (in both the product categories), results show that under multi-brand (market leader) comparison strategy, direct (indirect) comparison format is more effective in reducing perceived manipulative intent. We found strong support for this thesis for all the four experiments. However, for the high utility-low hedonic, new brand (i.e. New Shield), the perceived manipulative intent for indirect market leader and indirect multi-brand conditions were very similar. We see that the direct multi-brand strategy and the indirect market leader strategy are more effective in enhancing attitude-toward-the-ad in two out of four situations [i.e. the hypotheses were supported for high utility-low hedonic established brand (i.e. Biological Ariel) and for high utility-high hedonic new brand (i.e. Quova)]. In the new brand condition, particularly for the high utility-low hedonic product category (New Shield), the hypothesis is not significant for attitude-toward-the-ad. Also, in the high utility-high hedonic category established brand condition (Nexus 5), the hypothesis is not supported for attitudetoward-the-ad.