BUSINES-TO-BUSINES VERSUS BUSINES-TO-CONSUMER ADVENTISING: AN ANALYSIS OF THE SERVICES AD IN THE BRAZILIAN MAGAZINES
Abstract
Several types of announcements exist, some are of goods, of ideas and, finally, of services. Being more specific, ad emphasizing services is less used than ad with focus in goods. The present article tests six hypotheses in relation to the comparison of the ad contents with focus business-to-business and business-toconsumer. In the same way, it is also verified the existence of different target in the content elaboration. The seven variables were: announcement type, appeal, headline, quality, price, segmentation and electronic address. The data were obtained from 34 business magazines published in Brazil, totaling a sample of 812 ad; which 29% were to services business-to-business and 71% focus businessto-consumer. The results demonstrated the rejection of just one hypothesis, reinforcing the idea certain characteristics that ad business-to-business possesses. Additional comments and study contributions conclude the article.
KEYWORDS: Ad; Service; Content analysis; Business magazine.
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