Heh. This certainly goes against the orthodoxy of some, these days. I've thought for a long time that advertizers were overreacting. Bert --------------------------------------- http://www.dtg.org.uk/news/news.php?class=countries&subclass=0&id=3500 Report: TV advertising has "greatest impact on consumers" Links: www.mgeitf.co.uk Television advertising still has the greatest impact on consumers according to a survey published by Deloitte and YouGov on behalf of the Media Guardian Edinburgh International Television Festival. Of the 2,123 viewers polled, 64% of respondents ranked television commercials as the advertising format with the most impact. Television advertising had the most impact on young viewers, with three quarters of 18-24 year olds ranking television advertising top. With regards to online advertising, 12% of consumers chose search advertising as one of the top three types of advertising with the most impact and 8% ranked banner advertising in their top three. Howard Davies, Media Partner said "Online advertising's poor showing relative to television may surprise given that the former has often been portrayed as television's nemesis. "However, what television does best-display and brand building is what online struggles with. Online advertising is best at search, which previously newspapers, had excelled at, particularly for classified." The research also identified that 44% of respondents had researched a company, product or service online in response to a television advert and over half of the respondents combined watching television and internet browsing. Davies added: "The relationship between television and web advertising appears to be more symbiotic than directly competitive, with the top three choices for online activity whilst watching television being: reading email (81%), social networking (48%) and buying products online (37%)." DTG Staff 21.08.2009 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can UNSUBSCRIBE from the OpenDTV list in two ways: - Using the UNSUBSCRIBE command in your user configuration settings at FreeLists.org - By sending a message to: opendtv-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line.