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March 2010Volume 50, No. 1

CONTENTS

Editorial:IsAnybodyListening? Geoffrey Precourt

Viewpoint:Media—NoLongertheCabooseJoel Rubinson

Commentary:HowMorePreciseMagazineInputsCanImproveMediaMixModeling—TheImpactofMoreBalancedMetricsonROIJames Collins, David Dixon, Wayne Eadie, Mark Reggimenti, David Shiffman, Julia Soukhareva, Judy Vogel, and Britta Ware

IsAnybodyListening? TheValueofListening:HeedingtheCalloftheSnuggie

David Wiesenfeld, Kristin Bush, and Ronjan Sikdar

ThePowerofAtlas:WhyIn-StoreShoppingBehaviorMattersJacob Suher and Herb Sorensen

PuttingListeningtoWork:TheEssentialsofListeningStephen D. Rappaport

CanOldMediaEnhanceNewMedia?HowTraditionalAdvertisingPaysOffforan Online SocialNetworkMarkus Pfeiffer and Markus Zinnbauer

FinancialMarketsandMarketing:TheTradeoffbetweenR&DandAdvertisingduringan EconomicDownturnSurinder Tikoo and Ahmed Ebrahim

ChangesinSocialValuesintheUnitedStates,1976–2007:“Self-Respect”IsontheUpswingas“ASenseofBelonging”BecomesLessImportantEda Gurel-Atay, Guang-Xin Xie, Johnny Chen, and Lynn Richard Kahle

CostPerSecond:TheRelativeEffectivenessof15-and30-SecondTelevisionAdvertisementsKate Newstead and Jenni Romaniuk

ArtfortheSakeoftheCorporation:Audi,BMWGroup,DaimlerChrysler,Montblanc,Siemens,andVolkswagenHelpExploretheEffectof SponsorshiponCorporateReputationsManfred Schwaiger, Marko Sarstedt, and Charles R. Taylor

What’sUp?ExploringUpperandLowerVisual Field Advertising EffectsKendall Goodrich

JOURNAL OF ADVERTISING RESEARCH IS ANYBODY LISTENING?

VOL. 50, NO. 1 MARCH 2010