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Companies That Use Combative Advertising May End Up with a Black Eye

Category: Business
Duration: 00:08:42
Publish Date: 2006-06-14 15:41:34
Description: John Zhang has a message for Cingular Wireless and Verizon Wireless or for that matter any company that uses its ads to attack a competitor. Instead of luring away your competitor’s customers you may just be hurting yourself. Zhang a Wharton marketing professor has found that combative ads -- the sort of comparative spots that beer makers particularly Anheuser-Busch and Miller are famed for -- may backfire. Instead of pulling consumers to an advertiser they may just make people indifferent to all offerings in a product category. ”Combative advertising a characteristic of mature markets is defined as advertising that shifts consumer preferences toward the advertising firm but does not expand the category demand ” Zhang says in his research paper titled ”A Theory of Combative Advertising.”

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