This study examined the disjunctive styles of the print media in the Nigerian advertising world. To demonstrate the kind of their fragmentations, the researcher utilised ads from beverages, banks, books, and institutions, harvested from The Punch newspaper, billboards, and textbooks as data. The...

The aim of this paper is to analyze a specific printed advertisement from two different semiotic points of view. First, we apply the interpretative instruments provided by the Barthes’ school of thinking (focused on the description of explicit signs taken in isolation). We then attempt to...

Diversity is an important concept in business and marketing and is utilized in campaigns to attract consumers. This study examines the level of diversity in print media that targets the niche market of gays and lesbians. Race and gender are examined to determine if, in fact, marketers are being...

Images-cum-texts are remarkable instruments of persuasion; that seems the reason for their romantic intimacy in many advertising communications. Thus, this paper examined some connections that exist among the product, image, and text as devices communicating a single message to readers. Ten...

Newspapers are everywhere so the advertisements. Though challenged by the Internet, the print continues to be a credible media for the advertisers. The present media environment suggests that marketers and audiences have more choices and options than in the past. While the print industry suffers...

Advertising being a study of human behavior and responses is subject to unpredictability and lack of clear answers. Its answers are at best probabilistic and never ever universal truths. As advertising is a lot about strong images and perceptions, the intensity of the imagery is quite...

Advertising context refers to the surrounding or the environment within which an advertisement is found. Context in the case of print advertisement includes other advertisement of related or similar products, or of unrelated products, news contents, articles and editorial content etc. A consumer...

The study made aesthetic judgments on four select newspaper advertisements employing the visual analysis approach and hedging it on subjectivity and universal validity planks of Kant's theory. The ads were analyzed qualitatively and quantitatively using a modification of the Likert scale which...

The main purpose of the present study concerns the investigation of how afro-descendants individuals have been portrayed by Brazilian magazine advertisements along the timeframe ranging from 1968 up to 2006. The aim is to identify any progress, setback or stabilisation on the way these...

Buying a home is considered a major financial decision and one of the most expensive purchases an individual can ever make. While acknowledging the complex and multi-faceted due diligence that buyers usually invest before buying houses, the role of advertisements in marketing new-build homes...

Using a dataset of 15 million UK job adverts from a recruitment website, we construct new economic statistics measuring labour market demand. These data are ‘naturally occurring', having originally been posted online by firms. They offer information on two dimensions of vacancies—region and...

Using a dataset of 15 million UK job adverts from a recruitment website, we construct new economic statistics measuring labour market demand. These data are 'naturally occurring', having originally been posted online by firms. They offer information on two dimensions of vacancies--region and...

This paper provides evidence of the incidence and variety of low-price guarantees (promises to match or beat a rival's price) using data obtained from newspaper advertisements in thirty-seven metropolitan areas in the United States. In all, we have a total of five-hundred and fifteen low-price...

Children are not only precious in society; they are the future of any nation. These are assertions that sensitize this study as an examination of the ways that advertising professionals utilize children to achieve persuasive goals. Eight advertisements oriented in the features of children were...

The exponential growth in digital media has raised questions about the relevance of printmedia in the overall marketing mix. In this study, we evaluate the relative effectiveness of printand digital media in advertising using a multi-methodological approach. Using eye-tracking...

The newspaper industry is a two-sided market: the readers market and the advertising market are closely linked by inter-market network externalities. We estimate market power in the Italian newspaper industry by building a structural model which encompasses a demand estimation for differentiated...

Despite an increased level of females’ participation in sports, the media coverage is still very low and inadvertently the use of female athletes as product endorsers has received limited attention. The purpose of this study is to provide an empirical insight into the frequency and nature of...

Objective – This paper presents a discourse study on the print advertisements of a particular theme in Malaysia, that is, Malaysia Day, for social and commercial functions by a telecommunication company. Methodology/Technique – The print advertisements studied were analyzed in a detailed...