One of the biggest challenges in place branding lies in the ability to include stakeholders in brand building process. This is presented in the case of Slovenia, where country brand building was approached from an identity perspective. A three-step approach was employed in order to target three...

Because packaging reaches consumers at the critical moments of purchase and consumption, it has become an important marketing tool for food manufacturers and retailers. In this paper, I first review how the marketing, health and nutrition claims made on packaging create “health halos” and...

When corporate sponsors want to maximize their exposure, they often focus sponsorship dollars on events, teams, and athletes that will prove to be reliable, respectable, and, most important, repetitive advertising outlets. Analyzing the factors that increase a broadcaster's propensity to display...

Online-Produktbeschreibungen stellen eine immer häufiger genutzte Informati-onsquelle im Rahmen von Kaufentscheidungen dar. Um festzustellen, wie sich Bilder und Power-Wörter, wie z.B. „neu“, auf die Wahrnehmung einer Webseite und das Informationsverhalten der Internetnutzer auswirken,...

This paper explores the impact of packaging, labeling and free sample on the buying behaviour of consumers of a communicationally backward area of India. The hypothesis is that the packaging, labeling, sample has strong influence on consumer buying behaviour. Two factorial approaches are adopted...

Marketers distinguish between three types of media: paid (e.g., advertising), owned (e.g., company website), and earned (e.g., publicity). The effects of paid media on sales have been extensively covered in the marketing literature. The effects of earned media, however, have received limited...

This paper provides a comprehensive study of the structure and dynamics of online advertising markets, mostly based on techniques from the emergent discipline of complex systems analysis. First, we look at how the display rank of a URL link influences its click frequency, for both sponsored...