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SPLIT RUN [3 records]

Record 1 2010-10-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Advertising Agencies and Services
  • Advertising Techniques
DEF

A technique used to test the effectiveness of advertising copy. Two different versions of the same advertisement are printed in the same press run of an issue of a particular publication, so that some of the copies contain one version of the ad and the others contain the other version.

Key term(s)
  • split run

French

Domaine(s)
  • Agences et services de publicité
  • Techniques publicitaires
DEF

Technique destinée à mesurer les réponses relatives à deux annonces différentes, en insérant chacune d'elles dans la moitié des exemplaires d'un support de presse également distribués.

Spanish

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Record 2 1994-10-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Printing Processes - Various
CONT

In a split run, a publisher inserts new advertisements aimed at one market [e.g. Canada] into editorial material already prepared for another market [e.g. the U.S.A.].

CONT

Lower advertising rates are possible because the split-run would not incur the cost of producing, as a Canadian magazine must, the entire editorial for the Canadian market.

Key term(s)
  • split-run

French

Domaine(s)
  • Procédés d'impression divers
OBS

selon le cas

Spanish

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Record 3 1976-06-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Industrial Techniques and Processes

French

Domaine(s)
  • Techniques industrielles

Spanish

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