Impact of Media Context on Advertising Memory: A Meta-Analysis of Advertising Effectiveness

Media professionals and scholars have examined the influence of media context on advertising effectiveness for more than 50 years, but clarity regarding media-context effects remains lacking, amid an abundance of mixed results.
Kwon, King, Nyilasy and Reid

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  • Mixed results are abundant in the literature on how media context influences advertising effectiveness.
  • Increased consumer media involvement, media–advertising-context congruency, and higher program liking are media-context factors that more likely will improve advertising memory. Programs with violent, sexual, and suspenseful content and ones ...

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