How Advertising Works: The Role of Research (Graduate Survival Skills)

ISBN 10: 076191241X / ISBN 13: 9780761912415

Published by SAGE Publications, Inc, 1998

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: How Advertising Works: The Role of Research (Graduate Survival Skills)
• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Publication Date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 076191241X
• ISBN 13: 9780761912415
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

John Philip Jones, best-selling author of WhatÆs in a Name?, Advertising and the Concept of Brands, and When Ads Work: New Proof That Advertising Triggers Sales, has edited an authoritative handbook of research procedures that determine effective advertising. All participants in the advertising processùclients, media, and agenciesùare fully represented in How Advertising Works. Chapter authors reflect a global mix of academic and professional backgrounds and include Leo Bogart, Andrew Ehrenberg, Simon Broadbent, Herbert Krugman, and John Philip Jones himself. Most chapters have been specifically written for this volume and are complemented by a few adaptations of classic articles. The result is a single "knowledge bank" of theory and practice for advertising students and professionals. Future handbooks, also edited by John Philip Jones, will address key topics of advertising agency operation, brand building, and multinational advertising. How Advertising Works will be of interest to students and professionals in advertising, marketing, and communication

About the Author

John Philip Jones entered academe in 1981 after a 25-year career in advertising with J. Walter Thompson in Europe, is a tenured Professor in the Newhouse School at Syracuse University, and was Chairman of the Advertising Department for seven years. He has published ten books on advertising and numerous journal articles, and his work has been translated into German, Spanish, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Portuguese, Turkish and Arabic. In 1991, John Philip Jones was named by the American Advertising Federation as the Distinguished Advertising Educator of the Year. In the same year he became a member of the Council of Judges of the Advertising Hall of Fame. In 1994, he was elected a member of the National Advertising Review Board. In 1996, he received a major award from Cowles Business Media and the American Association of Advertising Agencies for leadership in the media field. There were two prize winners, the other being NBC Sports. He received the Telmar Award in 1997, for extending the concept of Short-Term Advertising Strength (STAS) from television to print media. In 2001, he received the Syracuse University Chancellor’s Citation for Exceptional Academic Achievement.