 aggregated the studies as part of its ongoing research into how TV, online and magazine ads impact consumers throughout the five stages of the consumer buying process—aided brand awareness, ad awareness, message association, brand favorability and purchase consideration/intent. The new aggregation revealed that magazines performed consistently well across all stages of the buying process, and in fact had far greater and more efficient impact on the late stages of brand favorability and purchase intent than the other media.
Ellen Oppenheim, executive vice president/chief marketing officer of the Magazine Publishers of America, spoke to Publishing Executive Inbox about the results and what they mean for the magazine publishing industry.
INBOX: What do you find most impressive about these results?
ELLEN OPPENHEIM: I think two things are really impressive. Number one, Dynamic Logic does its own aggregation of client-commissioned studies. This is the third one they've done [previous studies were compiled in 2005 and 2007], and with all the changes in the media environment [over that time], magazines remain the leading driver of the very important stages of the purchase funnel—of brand favorability, which is where attitudes shift, and purchase intent, which gets people to buy.
So I think the consistency is one. The other is that this is the first time Dynamic Logic has done anything studying ROI. And when they released that, [it became clear that advertising campaigns] couldn't win with ROI if magazines weren't in the mix.
INBOX: What does the study's findings mean for magazine publishers?
OPPENHEIM: It means we have a very good story to share with clients about why magazines are important to include in the media plan. … This research does show magazines work, but it's incumbent upon the advertisers to do their research. And that's what's so interesting about this: You've got all these client-commissioned summaries, and they're just telling the same story again and again.
There's another company, called Marketing Evolution, who studied ad effectiveness in 2006 and efficiency [ROI] in 2008, and what you see [between the two companies' studies] is this pattern that's pretty impressive. But one of the challenges magazines face is that they're a very personal medium, and what makes them so valuable to consumers makes them harder to measure in terms of advertising—there's no signal coming out; it's harder to track.
The pattern for magazine advertising is unmistakable. Each and every time you see a study, you see the importance of magazine advertising in helping drive sales.
INBOX: What role do magazine ads play in influencing consumers? How are they different from other advertising mediums?
OPPENHEIM: The thing we've seen through other independent research is that consumers like magazine advertising, primarily because they can control it and it also tends to be very contextual.
What happens in the buying process is advertisers buy magazine ads for a campaign because they fit with the creative and marketing objective. Whereas in other media sometimes they just drop ads in based on the audiences where they're not as contextually relevant. We know that consumers like magazine advertising and they pay attention to it, so that helps it to work harder. And we think that's the reason why magazines are performing so well.
INBOX: If magazines are so important to generating ROI from ad campaigns, why are magazine ads falling?
OPPENHEIM: Well ads are falling in almost every medium right now because advertising budgets, in general, are down. So the rising tide lifts all ships, and unfortunately the lowering tide lowers all ships. We're sort of caught in that mode.
But as you know, measurement is an area in advertising that's getting a lot of scrutiny. … Every medium is facing questions about measuring effectiveness, and I think one of the things that's unique about Dynamic Logic's study is that it's not about measuring the eye balls to the medium, it's really about measuring results.
The study enables magazines to go talk to clients about being results-oriented. And certainly, at a time when clients are under so much pressure to make their advertising budgets—which are falling—perform, the fact that magazines can help them understand the role that magazines play in that performance is helpful. But it requires education. It's education on the part of the seller and on the part of the advertising community.
INBOX: What would you recommend magazine publishers do with this information?
OPPENHEIM: I'm encouraging magazine publishers to be able to talk about this as part of selling their own magazines. Clearly their job is to promote their own properties. But as part of what's going on with all the uncertainty about advertising together, we think this can help magazine sellers because it not only speaks to the role of magazines, but you get some insights into the role of TV and online ads as well. This isn't about selling against one medium or another, but how all the media work together, and it speaks very strongly to the role magazines play in helping cause the sale.
INBOX: Is there something magazine publishers can glean form this report to boost Web sales as well?
OPPENHEIM: First of all, one of the things you see is that all the media are contributing at all the stages. So it says you need all the media, and it says the Web site is a valuable component in the media plan all together. Secondly, if you look on page six of the report and look at the "Cost Per Person" results, magazine and online did very well in a number of those phases. So it speaks to the fact that both media are valuable.
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So; self care.  
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**Things will get better. You will not always feel like this. You will feel a little different tomorrow