Television Advertising and Online Search

Management Science, Forthcoming

36 Pages Posted: 24 Feb 2020

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Mingyu Joo

University of California, Riverside - School of Business

Kenneth C. Wilbur

University of California, San Diego (UCSD) - Rady School of Management

Bo Cowgill

Columbia University - Columbia Business School

Yi Zhu

University of Minnesota - Carlson School of Management

Date Written: March 1, 2013

Abstract

Despite a 20-year trend toward integrated marketing communications, advertisers seldom coordinate television and search advertising campaigns. We find that television advertising for financial services brands increases both the number of related Google searches and searchers’ tendency to use branded keywords in place of generic keywords. The elasticity of a brand’s total searches with respect to its TV advertising is .17, an effect that peaks in the morning. These results suggest that practitioners should account for cross-media effects when planning, executing, and evaluating both television and search advertising campaigns.

Keywords: Advertising, Information Search, Media, Search Engine Marketing, Television

Suggested Citation

Joo, Mingyu and Wilbur, Kenneth C. and Cowgill, Bo and Zhu, Yi, Television Advertising and Online Search (March 1, 2013). Management Science, Forthcoming, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2265012

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Kenneth C. Wilbur

University of California, San Diego (UCSD) - Rady School of Management ( email )

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Rady School of Management
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Bo Cowgill

Columbia University - Columbia Business School ( email )

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New York, NY 10027
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Yi Zhu

University of Minnesota - Carlson School of Management ( email )

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Minneapolis, MN 55455
United States

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