The Constant-Sum Game Called Advertising

Advertising campaigns are intended to build brands, but they don’t work in a vacuum. Consumers are bombarded with messages from a variety of brands, most of which are intended to build the advertised brand and to win market share. In fact, advertising typically works as a constant-sum game; one brand’s rise is another’s fall. Given this dynamic, it’s surprising that most advertisers and advertising researchers don’t pay closer attention to how competitive advertising affects their own brands.

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Author: Communicus

Communicus is an advertising research firm specializing in integrated campaign measurement solutions that isolate the impact of a brand’s advertising. For over 50 years, Communicus has partnered with Fortune 100 brand advertisers, providing research and consultation enabling brands to fully understand how to build more successful advertising and IMC campaigns, maximizing advertising’s impact on brand perceptions and behavior.

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