Five of the billboard studies reported enough data to figure out the density of tobacco advertising in different neighborhoods.
Program directors gauge phone requests, conduct phone surveys, scan the Billboard charts, study the playlists of competing stations and listen to relentless pitches from radio promotion executives at record companies.
Pop music lyrics are more sexualized now than they were in 1959, according to a recent BYU study of Billboard Hot 100 songs from 1959 to 2009.
Around Tunis, locals are craning necks to study giant billboards that depict colourful cartoon characters going through a 12-step process.
"On the contrary, it creates a way to remove a significant amount of small, medium and large billboards in neighborhoods in exchange for a few industrialized zones along the freeways". Councilwoman Cindy Miscikowski, who voted against the measure, called instead for further study of the billboard blight, concentrating on the removal of illegal billboards.
The findings in this study, titled "The Billboard Effect: Still Alive and Well," underscore consumers' reliance on hotel websites when researching and booking their rooms, but also show that non-direct channels still influence lodging purchase decisions.
This larger and more exhaustive study analyzes the billboard effect based on booking behavior related to 1,720 reservations for InterContinental Hotel brands for the months of June, July, and August of three years (2008, 2009, and 2010).
Study after study has shown billboards degrade communities, both visually and economically.
A recent study found that the billboard ads do indeed distract drivers.
The Physician's Committee For Responsible Medicine, the group sponsoring the billboard, cites as justification for the billboard a study linking once-a-day hot dog consumption to a 22% increase in colorectal cancer.
