TY - JOUR
AU1 - Frazer, Eric J.
AB - PurposeTo assess changes in advertising the British children’s annual, Chatterbox, over the first three decades of the twentieth century.Design/methodology/approachThe products/firms involved were identified and the advertisements classified into product groups. The advertising content was examined in terms of the intended audience and the five longest-running advertisements were analysed to gauge trends at the single-product level. Attention was also given to long-term changes at the product-group level, the effects of the Great War and the roles of the publisher, editor and advertisers.FindingsIn total, 457 advertisements were documented over 1900-1930 representing about 80 different products/firms. They were classified into 10 distinctive groupings with Food Ingredients, at almost 26 per cent of the total, being the most abundant. Overwhelmingly, the advertisements were directed at middle-class women/mothers (∼75 per cent of the total), then children (∼15 per cent) with men/fathers essentially being ignored. The five longest-running advertisements (over 25 per cent of the total) showed little evidence of change but there were significant trends at the product-group level, in marketing to children and in average advertisement size, particularly during the last two decades of the study period, partially reflecting gradual social and technological changes.Originality/valueComprehensive quantitative analysis of advertising in children’s magazine literature over several decades is problematic because of the difficulty in accessing sufficient source material. The present study is exhaustive and establishes a reference point for the assessment of advertising in similar publications in the post-Victorian era.
TI - The Chatterbox annual 1900-1930: an advertising backwater?
JF - Journal of Historical Research in Marketing
DO - 10.1108/JHRM-10-2017-0064
DA - 2019-05-20
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/emerald-publishing/the-chatterbox-annual-1900-1930-an-advertising-backwater-oTvvcLbrlb
SP - 181
EP - 202
VL - 11
IS - 2
DP - DeepDyve
ER -