This document summarizes advertising effectiveness testing. It discusses:
- Advertising effectiveness testing determines how well ads achieve objectives based on consumer response.
- Testing occurs before (pretesting) and after (posttesting) campaigns to select ad executions, improve ads, and evaluate strategy effectiveness.
- Methods include laboratory tests which lack realism but allow control, and field tests under natural conditions which lack control.
- Specific techniques covered include concept testing, rough tests, portfolio tests, on-air tests, recall tests, and recognition tests.