Abstract Title: Brand exposure in television. A comparison between SVT and TV4 2003 and 2006. Number of pages: 57 including appendix Author: Axel Victorin Period: Spring 2008 Course: Media and Communication studies C University: Division of Media and Communication, Department of Information Science, Uppsala University Purpose/aim: The aim of this study is to evaluate the prevalance of brand exposure in Swedish public service television, SVT and TV4. The Swedish public service TV broadcasting company, Sveriges Television (SVT) advertises itself as purveyor of free television, without commercial or political interference. A B-level essay, written some years ago, showed that the SVT policies were not always observed throughout the entire organisation. The aim of this essay is, by using quantitative research, to study whether SVT is letting commercial interests have their say in the programmes by exposing brand names and logotypes. Material/method: The study is performed through examining 40 hours of television from SVT and 40 hours from TV4, as reference. TV4 is a Swedish commercially funded broadcaster, working under similar legislation as SVT. A quantitative method has been developed for this study. Results: The results of the study shows that while TV4 stays on a fairly steady level concerning brand exposure, brand exposure in SVT has decreased significantly between 2003 and 2006. The reason for this is beleived to be increased awareness of the issue in the SVT organisation, possibly due to product placement being more debated and acknowledged in recent years. Keywords: SVT, TV4, product placement, brand name exposure, television, marketing

Thesis (M.B.A.)----University of North Carolina Wilmington, 2008. / Title from PDF title page (viewed May viewed May 28, 2009) Includes bibliographical references (p. 35-37)

SLOVÁČKOVÁ, T. Product placement and its influence on consumer behaviour. Brno, 2015. 205 p. Master thesis. Mendel University in Brno, Faculty of Business and Economics. Thesis supervisor: Ing. Martin Souček, PhD. This diploma thesis deals with product placement in Czech environment and its influence on consumer behavior. Methods of eye-tracking and in-depth interviews have been used in the practical part of this thesis. Based on the results of the con-ducted research, marketing recommendations with possible practical application were created.

This thesis deals with marketing communications. Describes marketing communication tools that are applied to the final consumer. The theoretical part focuses on the first part of the definition of marketing, its definition and historical development. The following section describes first general marketing communication and the communication process. Another part deals with various tools of communication mix. The last subchapter discusses the concept of product placement (PP). Characterizes the meaning of product placement, defines types and forms, and in the last part describes the situation regarding the placement of products on the Czech market. The research builds on the theoretical basis of the first chapter. It focuses primarily on product placement in the Czech Republic. It characterizes the product placement in TV shows and series. The second part of this work is focused on collecting and processing information regarding awareness abbreviated PP and that information are statistically tested. In the last chapter are results of research concluded, interpreted and evaluated.

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This thesis is a study about subliminal messages and consumer attitudes towards the use of product placement as subliminal advertising and their behaviors afterwards. The effects of subliminal advertising have been ambiguous and controversial for a long time. Therefore this thesis was designed to understand consumer attitudes towards the way companies use product placement in movies or TV shows and how it may affect their behaviors by using focus group interviews, and the previous study about consumer attitudes towards product placement were also studied. As for the interviews, the samples from Karlstad University were divided into three groups: the Swedish group, the French group, and the German group; so that the results can be compared in order to see if people from different cultural backgrounds have different points of view. The results showed that most of the participants have the same idea that subliminal advertising is interesting, and as long as the product placement does not ruin the entertainment that they are supposed to get from watching a movie, then the attitude is still positive. The behaviors that can happen the most are talking with friends and looking up for information about products or brands, but the possibility of them to buy those brands are less since it also depends on other factors, such as brand preferences, center of interests, and purchasing power.

The use of embedded marketing, the practice of seamlessly integrating advertising messages into entertainment vehicles, continues to grow as media consumption shifts to on-demand forms, and reaching audiences with traditional advertising becomes more challenging. This dissertation investigates cause placement, the term proposed for the social marketing equivalent of product placement, the more widely known form of embedded marketing. Cause placement is the promotion of pro-social causes by verbally and/or visually inserting related elements into entertainment programming. Cause placement merits its own stream of research, because consumers are expected to react differently to the placement of social issues than to the placement of commercial products. However, cause placement has enjoyed little empirical research. This two-essay dissertation proposes a theoretical framework for the relationship between six independent variables, three of which have not been previously investigated in the embedded marketing research, on three dependent variables that measure the effectiveness of cause placement. The independent variables are placement modality, placement centrality, programming genre, image of the character, consistency of the behavior, and brandedness of the cause. The dependent variables are recall of the cause, attitude toward the cause, and intention to support the cause. Each of the two essays tests a portion of the proposed framework. Essay 1 (Chapter 4) investigates the effects of brandedness of the cause and placement modality on the three dependent variables using a 2 (branded/unbranded) by 3 (verbal/visual/ both) between-subjects design. As hypothesized, a branded cause was found to yield better recall than an unbranded one regardless of modality. Contrary to expectations however, there was no interaction effect between modality and brandedness on attitude toward the cause and intention to support the cause. The branded cause resulted in higher attitudes than the unbranded ones, and there were no significant differences among the groups for intention to support the cause, likely due to a ceiling effect reached because of the familiar cause used. The pattern of results plotted for attitude toward the cause was in the predicted direction, such that for the unbranded conditions the both verbal and visual modality had the highest attitude while for the branded conditions the opposite was true. Essay 2 (Chapter 5) investigates the effect of image of the character and consistency of the behavior on the three dependent variables using a 2 (“good guy”/”bad guy”) by 2 (consistent/ inconsistent) between-subjects design. As hypothesized, recall of the cause was higher when the main character’s behavior was consistent with his personality, regardless of the image of the character. Also as predicted, there was an interaction effect between image of the character and consistency of the behavior, such that attitude toward the cause was higher for consistent than inconsistent behavior when the image of the character was “bad guy,” but there was no significant difference in attitude toward the cause for consistent versus inconsistent behavior, when the image of the character was “good guy.” The analogous pattern hypothesized for intention to support the cause did not hold, however, perhaps due to the moral obligation that participants may have felt to follow the promoted behavior regardless of their personal attitude toward the cause. Limitations for both essays are discussed, as well as areas for future research.

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Product placement as one of the modern tools of marketing communication has become very important. This is also the case of the Czech Republic, especially after recent legislative changes and related legalization of product placement. The thesis characterizes product placement, states its particular forms and methods of evaluating its effectiveness. The aim of the thesis is to determine the difference between product placement in a situation when in an audiovisual work is presented in the first case known brand, in the second case unknown brand and in the third case fictitious brand. This is examined by the executed experiment based on watching a video with three type situations and filling in a subsequent questionnaire survey. Analysis of the survey results reveals that product placement is the most effective when displaying known brand, using unknown brand is considerably less effective and that the effectiveness of fictitious brand is the lowest. On the basis of statistical hypothesis testing, it is confirmed that there is a statistically significant relation between brand knowledge and its effectiveness.

The goal of this Master's Diploma Thesis was to compare the use and perception of the product placement promotion technique in the Czech Republic and in Russia. It focuses mainly on the use of this technique in films and TV shows. First of all, the term product placement is defined, its history and measuring of its effectivity are described briefly, plus some examples of successful and unsuccessful product placement are presented. Subsequently, the legal framework regulating product placement in the Czech Republic and in Russia is compared, together with examples of the use of product placement and with available data from public opinion polls. The practical part presents the results of an online survey among 190 Czech and 190 Russian respondents / viewers. It appears that there are no great differences -- although Czechs watch TV more (and domestic TV shows), and Russians go to the cinema more. However, it does seem that Russian respondents tend to buy promoted products more often. Still, the survey only had a form of a tentative probe.