Event marketing has during the last decade become a wide spread marketing method. This is because the marketing Clutter has increased heavily during the past years and brands are looking for new ways to reach their target audience. The previously well accepted marketing measurement "satisfaction" has shown tendencies no longer to be sufficient for success in today's competitive marketplace. Therefore, the research has somewhat moved to the measurement "brand love" to explain differences in strategic consumer behavior. That is the background to why this report examines and answers the question if a brand through event marketing can enhance brand love.

The challenge that companies currently face in their attempts to break through the media Clutter has resulted in an increased use of provocative advertising worldwide. History shows that this strategy can result in a brand crisis due to negative consumer sentiment. Despite this fact, advertisement generated crisis remain a relatively unexplored field in the academic world of marketing. The objective of this thesis is to further explore crisis creation from provocative advertising, evaluate the affiliated negative consumer consequences, and to examine the effects of two contrasting company strategies to remedy these types of crisis situations. An experiment was conducted on Swedish and Norwegian students in order to examine whether the communication and information sharing between the target consumers and others could explain the development and consequences of provocative advertisement crisis due to its psychological effects.

Along with the increasing trend of online advertising comes an increasing avoidance behaviour from the observers. The marketing communication now requires a valuable content, which leads to the creation of new online advertising forms; including content marketing, advertorials, online ads and the latest rising star - Native Advertising. The last-mentioned also constitutes the basis and object of study for this paper. The purpose of this study is to shed light into this relatively unexplored topic and concretize the true effects. There are many examples of how Native Advertising is framed and implemented, but little hard facts and real figures.

Today endless choices exist for a customer in the grocery store in terms of information, products, brands and prices. Consequently, it is important for retailers and brand owners to gain insights in how they can manage to break through the Clutter to reach the customer. Displays that include some kind of motion element are assumed to possess an attention grabbing ability, which is a necessary first step in influencing the customer?s decision making. Therefore we have explored whether so called dynamic displays are efficient in grabbing attention and influencing customer behaviour.

SAMMANFATTNING Uppsatsens titel: AFP ? En ny väg runt mediebruset!? Seminariedatum: 2007-01-19 Ämne/kurs: FEK 591 Magisteruppsats, 10 poäng (15 ECTS) Författare: Alexander Högman, Anders Lindén, Christian Nilsson Handledare: Per-Hugo Skärvad Nyckelord: AFP, Framgångsfaktorer, Medieval, Dolt budskap, TV. Syfte: Uppsatsen inledande syfte är att tydliggöra fenomenet AFP i teori och praktik och därigenom skapa en förståelse för hur fenomenet fungerar. Vidare ämnar uppsatsen att kartlägga, beskriva och analysera faktorer som karaktäriserar framgångsrik AFP. Metod: Undersökningens design är utformad för att belysa vilka faktorer som är viktiga för att nå framgång med AFP.