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Advertising Age - How to Stop Them From Skipping: TiVo Tells All

How to Stop Them From Skipping: TiVo Tells All
Data Show Direct-Response Ads Hold Their Own in DVR Homes

By Brian Steinberg

Published: July 16, 2007
Can advertisers craft TV ads that will make viewers less eager to zap through them with a digital-video recorder? New data from TiVo seem to indicate two approaches that keep viewers' fingers off the fast forward are at opposite ends of the spectrum: either a bare-bones, direct-response model or the entertaining, high-production-value approach of movie ads.