Digital video recorder proliferation and new commercial audience metrics are making television networks' revenues more sensitive to audience losses from advertising. There is currently limited understanding of how traditional advertising and product placement affect television audiences. We...

Product placement is the incorporation of commercial content into noncommercial settings, that is, a product plug generated via the fusion of advertising and entertainment. This paper aims to study the memory effects of Product Placement in Bollywood movies, with simultaneous comparison between...

In Japan, TV platforms regulate themselves as to the length of the advertisements they air. Using modified Hotelling models, we investigate whether such self-regulation improves consumer and social welfare or not. When all consumers choose a single TV program (the utility functions of consumers...

The phenomenon of internet influencers is among the most discussed issues in marketing to children. The amount of time children spend on the internet increases every year, which increases the risk of becoming the target of influencer marketing. Studying the impact of influencers on children is...

Previous literature on WOM has consistent findings on the positive and significant effect of WOM volume on product sales, but literature on WOM valence has been mixed. In this study, we explain the reason for the mixed effect of WOM valence on product sales by considering heterogeneous...