The Canadian Advertising Research Foundation is a non-profit organization whose prime focus is advertising, communications and media research. CARF sets standards for research, promotes Canadian expertise and provides a forum for industry issues.

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August 2010
CARF Update

The August 2010 CARF Update features a wealth of informative reading on topics of special interest to marketers, researchers and advertisers. This month's focus is on early adopters, late bloomers, power users andbrand extensions.

Articles include the role of fun in early technology adoption; two studies of consumer response to brand extension; lead user theory and young adults; marketing to the mature traveler; the increasing importance of context for marketers; anticipating consumer behaviour for product launches; and lessons for harnessing corporate responsibility.

Click here for details of this month's update. Member password required to read full articles online.

 

A Forum for the Industry

CARF conferences, seminars and workshops provide leading edge updates on advertising measurement, research and applications. With subjects ranging from consumer demographics, attitudes and behaviour to media survey techniques and findings and advertising strategies, CARF conferences and seminars feature blue ribbon speakers from Canada and around the world, dealing with emerging media and advertising research issues that are timely, relevant and of immediate interest to the industry. Find out more >>.

 

NEW! CARF Seminar Presentations

Questioning Media Advertising: Six Media Respond
October 21, 2009

Radio, Out-of-Home, Magazines, Interactive, Newspapers and Television weigh in on the state of the media.

The economic downturn of 2009 made the complicated and fragmented media market even more of a challenge for advertisers wanting to ensure that their strained media budgets are spent in the most effective ways.

This seminar looked at the key usage statistics for each medium; its share of market; and the principle benefits of using each medium in a multi-media plan as well as new research breakthroughs and initiatives that will affect each medium in 2010 and beyond.

Read about the challenges and opportunities for each media. >>

Vancouver 2010: What Impact Did the Winter Olympic Games Have On the Way the World Views Canada?
March 10, 2010

Who followed the Games, the media they used, their impressions of the event and the country, and what their impressions mean for Canada.

The world has just had an intense, 17-day look at Canada. So what did it think? What impact have the billions of dollars that were spent to hold the Games had on the impressions and perceptions of our country, both within Canada and around the globe?

A presentation by Millward Brown’s Paul Gareau, Vice-President, Client Service examines an international study showing who followed the Games, the media they used, their impressions of the event and the country, as well as their thoughts on Olympic advertisers, and whether Canada is a country they'd like to visit.

Paul Street, Director of Research, CTV Inc., looks at the media and measurement perspective on the Games with a comparative review of the Vancouver 2010 Winter Games versus Calgary 1988.


Get an early overview of the consumer and media data collected following this momentous Canadian event. >>

More seminar presentations >>

 

FOR CARF MEMBERS

NEWSLETTER and MONTHLY UPDATES HIGHLIGHTS

Recent updates with links to online articles are listed here.
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Highlights from July 2010:
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Branding of post-purchase ancillary products and services - An application in the mobile communications industry

Enhancing mobile coupon redemption in fast food campaigns

Reducing online privacy risk to facilitate e-service adoption: The influence of perceived ease of use and corporate credibility

How do involvement and product knowledge affect the relationship between intangibility and perceived risk for brands and product categories?

Marketplace footprints: Connecting marketing communication and corporate brands

The cause manifesto

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Through an agreement between CARF and the World Advertising Research Center in the UK, selected Canadian research papers and opinions will be made available to a worldwide audience on its subscription site, warc.com.

 

 

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