A prevailing view is that increased media weight for frequently purchased brands in mature product categories usually does not lead to increases in sales. However, the role of advertising executional cues and viewer responses on media weight induced sales has not yet been examined. The authors...

This paper examines the effects of sequential movie releases on the dilution and the enhancement of celebrity brands. The authors use favorability ratings collected over a 12-year period (1993 to 2005) to capture movement in the brand equity of a panel of actors/actresses. A dynamic panel data...

The authors test six theoretically-derived hypotheses about ad characteristics that influence digital sharing. Two completely independent field studies test these hypotheses using over 11 measures of emotions and over 60 ad characteristics. The results are consistent with our theory and robust...

The authors study how ad cues attect consuMer behavior in new versus well-established markets. The authors use theoretical insights from consumer information processing to argue that the same ad cues can have different ettects on consumer behavior, depending on whether the market is new or old....