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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