A Coffee Chain Could Not Understand Why Its New Commercial

question 95

Multiple Choice

A coffee chain could not understand why its new commercial was not successful at improving sales. The commercial, which showed its latte followed by a jingle, had aired for a month on popular television stations. This commercial was not successful because:

• A) television advertising is not an effective medium for promoting coffee.
• B) jingles are not effective at creating conditioned responses to brands.
• C) the commercial should have played the jingle before showing the latte.
• D) the television commercial was shown for a month, any product associations between the jingle and the latte became extinct.

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