Study | Magazines more engaging than television, radio

[Pralhad Jadhav]

Magazines more engaging than television, radio

 

An IMRB study commissioned by the Association of Indian Magazines throws up some interesting findings on magazines vis-à-vis media like television, radio, internet and newspapers

The Association of Indian Magazines (AIM), the apex body of magazine publishers in India, commissioned leading market research firm IMRB in 2010 to conduct a large survey, covering a sample size of 3,600 over 10

cities. The study released at the Indian Magazine Congress held in Chennai on February 23 and 24, has shown high engagement scores for magazines on all key parameters like ad avoidance, information seeking, purchase intent and such.

Industry leaders urged AIM to take these findings forward and create an index as a composite score, which would clearly demonstrate the extent to which magazines are engaging, vis-a-vis other media. “That’s exactly what we did,” says AIM President Mitrajit Bhattacharya, adding: “We ran a regression analysis on the same data and came out with weights for individual indices like Mind Measures (weight .59), Ad Avoidance (-.32) etc. and then we created a Composite Index.”

A two-step process was followed to create the Engagement Index. The first step entailed running a regression on a key dependent variable and evaluating the hierarchy of each of the partial engagement indices. The second step required evaluating each medium on the partial engagement indices and arriving at a final Engagement Index.

The study demonstrates that magazines are twice as engaging as television and radio (239 indexed to 100 of Radio).

Source | Daily News Analysis | 2 March 2015

 

Regards

 

Pralhad Jadhav

Khaitan & Co.