Poll: Video Games Fail To Trigger Parents' Interest
DDI: 97
Ubiquitous coverage of the AP survey about the video game habits of parents strikes an uneasy chord with my attitudes toward video games as a burgeoning advertising medium. Given the AP teamed with AOL to conduct the survey, there's little doubt that the study had the ulterior motive of promoting AOL's successful foray into online gaming to garner attention of media buyers targeting parents. But there is little supporting research on the market that concurs with the survey's conclusion that parents will not be playing along with their children, thus shunning advertisers from including adult-focused messaging and virtual billboards within the gaming experience. Marketers who are considering advergaming as a potential media buying opportunity should look at the AP data for directional, and not decisive, purposes only.
Ubiquitous coverage of the AP survey about the video game habits of parents strikes an uneasy chord with my attitudes toward video games as a burgeoning advertising medium. Given the AP teamed with AOL to conduct the survey, there's little doubt that the study had the ulterior motive of promoting AOL's successful foray into online gaming to garner attention of media buyers targeting parents. But there is little supporting research on the market that concurs with the survey's conclusion that parents will not be playing along with their children, thus shunning advertisers from including adult-focused messaging and virtual billboards within the gaming experience. Marketers who are considering advergaming as a potential media buying opportunity should look at the AP data for directional, and not decisive, purposes only.
posted by Darren Bosik at
Monday, November 19, 2007
