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Media advertising is hanging tough in the battle to rebuild its share of marketers’ budgets.





According to the 19th Annual Survey of Promotional Practices, sponsored by Cox Direct in Largo, Fla., media advertising last year accounted for 27.4 percent of promotional dollars spent by packaged goods marketers. That’s still below the 34 percent share advertising received in 1986, but it continues the gains made since media hit bottom at 24 percent in 1994.





Trade promotions still eat the largest share of the budget pie: 47.7
















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