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Exceeding Expectations: Enhancing Newspapers' Online Ad Performance




Exceeding ExpectationsHow well do online newspapers perform for their advertisers in contrast to other Web sites? Do they have any advantages that the industry can exploit? Do certain formats or practices do better than others?

To determine the answers, NAA commissioned market research company Dynamic Logic to analyze the ability of newspapers' online advertising campaigns to impact branding metrics. The New York-based marketing effectiveness firm has compiled a MarketNorms™ database that draws on more than 1,000 measured campaigns, 10,000 creative executions and one million respondents.

Dynamic Logic researchers discovered that newspaper campaigns perform "on par" with MarketNorms. But online newspapers excel in impacting brands in the financial services and travel categories and in building persuasion in the automotive category, significantly outperforming MarketNorms in these industries. Expectations were exceeded even more in retail, but from a comparatively much smaller sample size.


First Published:
July 15, 2004