6. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1992 Pepsi-Cola Plans Big Effort To Exploit ‘Uh-huh’ Theme As soon as Pepsi-Cola introduced Ray Charles as the spokes-singer for its Diet Pepsi brand, growling, "You got the right one baby, uh-huh!" it seemed the decision had indeed been the right one. Consumers immediately took to the infectiously cheerful advertising created by BBDO Worldwide, ranking the campaign among the most likable and memorable of 1991. The phrase entered the vernacular, appearing on a line of licensed clothing and on cans and bottles of the soft drink. There was just one uh-uh amid the uh-huhs: Diet Pepsi's market share ended the year as flat as day-old cola, according to Beverage Digest , an authoritative industry newsletter. It ranked fourth among America's leading soft drinks in 1991, with an 8 percent share, unchanged from 1990. So, eager to translate Diet Pepsi's advertising success into sales, Pepsi executives are planning one of the industry's most extensive, and expensive, marketing blitzes ever on behalf of the 28-year-old brand. Beginning during CBS's telecast of the Grammy Awards on Feb. 25, Diet Pepsi will embark on an elaborate series of events intended to convince America that this April is "National Uh-huh Month."
7. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1992 Is ‘Heartbeat’ Campaign Selling Cars? It is one of the best-known advertising campaigns in the country and yet the product it sells has experienced a slide in market share since the effort began four years ago. The television commercials of Lintas Campbell-Ewald's “Heartbeat of America” campaign for Chevrolet are famed for slow-motion shots of parents frolicking with their children and the insistent thump of the “Listen to the Heartbeat of America” song. Although print ads are often less memorable than television, both “Heartbeat” executions have scored consistently high in consumer recall. The “Heartbeat” campaign scored No. 3 in Adweek's “America's Favorite Print Campaigns,” behind Ford and Pepsi-Cola. Yet Chevrolet is losing ground. According to Ward's Communications Inc., a leading trade publisher, Chevrolet's share of the American car market in 1986, when “Heartbeat” began, totaled about 15 percent. By 1989, it declined to 13.6 percent. Bob Garfield, a columnist for Advertising Age , took notice of the gap between the campaign's visibility and Chevrolet's sales. “I may be the only person in the hemisphere to think so,” he wrote recently, “but my view is that ‘Heartbeat’ is simply a glitzy, stylish, somewhat sexy, extremely catchy, painstakingly cultivated archetype of puffery – because Chevrolet is not the heartbeat of America.” He added, “It's a declining entry level car brand, and it desperately needs to communicate quality and value, not some fading vestige of ubiquity.”
12. Change in Sales as a Function of Change in Advertising Budget (Ackoff & Emshoff, 1975) Budweiser Beer
13. The BehaviorScan® System The BehaviorScan® system, a service of IRI, is a real-life laboratory in which manufacturers test marketing variables within a controlled environment for both new and established brands. The current BehaviorScan® markets are Pittsfield, MA; Marion, IN; Eau Claire, WI; Midland, TX; Grand Junction, CO; and Cedar Rapids, IA. Past BehaviorScan® markets utilized for tests contributing to this study included: Williamsport, PA; Rome, GA; Salem, OR; and Visalia, CA. The markets are large enough to test in, but small enough to allow precise control of testing variables and product distribution, and virtually complete coverage of grocery store product purchasing. BehaviorScan® testing occurs at the consumer level. Consumer purchasing information is electronically collected from each representative household that has been recruited and maintained in each BehaviorScan® market. Panel members shop with an ID card which is presented at checkouts in scanner-equipped grocery and drug stores, allowing IRI to electronically track over time each household's purchasing, item by item.
14. The BehaviorScan® System For tests of alternative T.V. advertising plans, the BehaviorScan® household panels are split into two or more subgroups that are balanced on past purchasing, demographics, and stores shopped over a one-year base period. This matching procedure makes it easier to attribute differences in the test period to the effect of the treatment rather than to preexisting differences between groups or to an interaction between the test variable and pre-existing differences. After a suitable period of time (usually a year), the test is ended and the results are analyzed using analysis of covariance to remove any consistent influence of uncontrolled factors (e.g., competitive and test brand promotions), so that the impact of the test treatment can be seen more clearly.
15. The BehaviorScan® System Using split cable technology, commercials can be substituted at the individual household level, allowing one subgroup to view a test commercial, while the other views a control ad, or enabling one subgroup to receive heavier advertising weight than the other. In all of the BehaviorScan® markets, cable is the most viable way of receiving an acceptable television signal. In each market, IRI maintains permanent warehouse facilities and has an in-market staff to control distribution, price, and promotions. Competitive activity in all categories is monitored and a complete record of pricing, displays, and features permits the covariate adjustment of differences that occur across stores.