Marketing communications in automotive industry

The aim of this Master's Thesis is to characterize and analyze the current design of automotive print advertising placed in nationwide magazine. The Thesis is divided into two main parts. The first part summarizes the basic theoretical aspects -- such as content and functions of advertising, media types and their characteristics, brands and reference groups. In the application part, I firstly describe how to perform content analysis and give a description of magazine Reflex. In the following analysis of data obtained from the content analysis I uncover and describe which elements are highlighted, how often the reference groups are used or which car colors are mostly applied. I also analyze texts and keywords mentioned in the advertisements. The following is a comparison of advertisements between 2003, 2008 and 2013. In conclusion, I answer research questions; summarize the most important findings from the performed analysis and present marketing recommendations