Consumer Memory for Television Advertising: A Field Study of Duration, Serial Position, and Competition Effects

Rik G M Pieters and Tammo H A Bijmolt

Journal of Consumer Research, 1997, vol. 23, issue 4, 362-72

Abstract: The authors simultaneously analyze the impact on consumer memory of the duration and serial position of a commercial and of the number of competing commercials in a block using a marketplace database of 2,677 television commercials. Their results indicate that duration, competition, and the time lag until the onset of a commercial in a block have large effect sizes, while primacy and recency have only modest effect sizes. By decomposing serial position into its ordinal and time-lag aspects, this study shows that recency effects are masked by the time until the onset of a commercial in a block. The findings suggest that, given comparable costs and a goal to maximize brand recall, placing a commercial first is better than placing it last. In addition, the analyses identify several significant and previously undocumented interactions. Copyright 1997 by the University of Chicago.

Date: 1997
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