An integrated marketing communications approach: the role of humor on the synergy between print advertising and packaging

Abstract

The present dissertation explores the role of humorous content as advertisement and package cue, based on the “encoding specificity principle”. It discusses how the “incongruity resolution process”, the “dual coding theory” and the “picture superiority effect” influence the processing intensity and direction, and provides practical guidelines for the design and the choice of a successful ad retrieval cue. It seems that a humorous retrieval cue (a humorous picture in particular) can increase not only ad and brand specific and overall reactions but also positive attitudes towards the ad. Moreover, humorous retrieval cues seem to direct viewer’s processing to the unexpected picture, to the headline of ad and to the most relevant brand claims, increasing the recall of these creative elements. On the contrary, humorous retrieval cues do not seem to affect the recall of other pictorial ad elements that are irrelevant with humor manipulation, such as the overall setting of the ad and other se ...
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DOI
10.12681/eadd/32010
Handle URL
http://hdl.handle.net/10442/hedi/32010
ND
32010
Alternative title
Προσέγγιση της ολοκληρωμένης επικοινωνιακής στρατηγικής μάρκετινγκ: συνέργεια μεταξύ έντυπης διαφήμισης και συσκευασίας επώνυμου προϊόντος, μέσω της χρήσης του χιούμορ
Author
Hatzithomas, Leonidas
Date
2009
Degree Grantor
Aristotle University Of Thessaloniki (AUTH)
Committee members
Ζώτος Γεώργιος
Μπουτσούκη Χριστίνα
Πλακογιαννάκη Εμμανουέλλα
Αυλωνίτης Γεώργιος
Χατζηδημητρίου Ιωάννης
Καλογιάννη Τζίμητρα
Discipline
Social SciencesEconomics and Business
Social SciencesOther Social Sciences
Keywords
Humor; Integrated marketing communications; Ad retrieval cues
Country
Greece
Language
Greek
Description
2, xvi, 391 σ., im., tbls., fig., ch.
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