Feature Article - Aggregate Advertising Models: The State of the Art

Aggregate advertising models relate product sales to advertising spending for a market as a whole. Although many models have been built, they frequently contradict each other and considerable doubt exists as to which models best represent advertising processes. An increasingly rich literature of empirical studies helps resolve these issues by revealing major advertising phenomena that models should encompass. These include sales responding upward and downward at different rates, steady state response that can be concave or S-shaped and can have positive sales at zero advertising, sales affected by competitive advertising; and advertising dollar effectiveness that can change over time. A review of aggregate models developed on a priori grounds brings out similarities and differences among those of Vidale and Wolfe, Nerlove and Arrow, Little, and others and identifies ways in which the models agree or disagree with observed phenomena. A Lanchester-motivated structure generalizes many features of these model...

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