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The Price of Credibility

The need to be present in social networks leads more companies to desert traditional media and head for the Internet.

Yet the game might not be worth the candle, when the medium lacks credibility to the point where it actually makes TV advertising look trustworthy. Louise Kelly, Gayle Kerr, and Judy Drennan from the Queensland University of Technology conducted a study, published in the Journal of Interactive Advertising, assessing the attitudes of younger audiences with regard to advertising on social networking websites. The results indicate that participants Read the rest of this entry »

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Predictable Future

New research may allow advertisers to sigh with ease and erase the gap between words and actions.

Emily Falk of the University of California Los Angeles and her colleagues have managed to predict the actions of research participants better than participants can themselves. In their study, the scientists took brain scans of 20 volunteers while reading them information about sunscreen and asking whether they’d use the products during the next week. Surprisingly, only half of the participants were able to correctly predict their future actions. Interpretations of the brain scans found that approximately 75 percent of actual behavior was predicted correctly through the use of functional magnetic resonance imaging (FMRI).

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An Idea Too Early

Message, 3/2009

WillesIn the mid-90’s, Mark Willes introduced controversial structures to rescue the Los Angeles Times, yet in the end arduous opposition brought him down. Had his strategy been implemented, however, today’s crisis may not be as grave.

The days when local newspapers enjoyed regional monopolies are long gone, largely due to the ever-expanding Internet and rising competition. Punishment for overlooking the  desires of readers is much more severe nowadays, according to online journalism expert Pablo Boczkowski. Journalists may no longer dismiss their publics’ interests without severe punishment. Read the rest of this entry »

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“We React to the Customer’s Demands”

Neue Zürcher Zeitung, August 22, 2008
How Craigslist Revolutionised the Classifieds Business in the U.S.
Some count him among the gravediggers of the daily newspaper, but for many he is the benefactor of all those who are buying or selling, searching or finding, leasing or renting through the classifieds and who, so far, have had to pay quite dearly for it – whether they post their small ads in traditional newspapers or on the Internet.

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Newspapers in Search of Job Advertisements

Neue Zürcher Zeitung, February 01, 2004

Two studies from Germany and the USA
For three years now, the media industry has been confronted with a continuing decline in demand for employment advertising. Newspapers have been especially hard hit by this downturn. A fact, that can only partially be explained with poor economic conditions, as two recently published studies show.

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