Double jeopardy (marketing)

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Double jeopardy is an empirical law in marketing where, with few exceptions, the lower-market-share brands in a market have both far fewer buyers in a time period and also lower brand loyalty.

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The term was originally coined by social scientist William McPhee in 1963 who observed the phenomenon, first in awareness and liking scores for Hollywood actors, and later in behaviours (e.g. reading of comic strips and listening to radio presenters). [1] Shortly afterwards Andrew Ehrenberg discovered the double jeopardy law generalised to brand purchasing. [2] Subsequently, double jeopardy has been shown to apply across categories as diverse as laundry detergent to aviation fuel, [3] across countries and time. [4]

This empirical law-like phenomenon is due to a statistical selection effect that occurs if brands are broadly substitutable selling to much of the same types of people (often referred to as a lack of product differentiation and market partitioning). The double jeopardy empirical generalization is explained and predicted by the NBD-Dirichlet theory of repeat purchase. [5] [6] See also Schmittlein, Bemmaor and Morrison (1985). [7]

Marketing strategy implications

The main implication of double jeopardy is that market share growth depends substantially on growing the size of a brand's customer base. [8]

So brand managers of a smaller market share brand should not be reprimanded for lower customer loyalty metrics. Also, they should not be expected to build customer loyalty to the brand without substantially increasing the brand's market penetration. [9]

Exceptions to double jeopardy

There are two potential deviations from double jeopardy, (1) a brand with unusually low penetration and consequently higher loyalty constituting its market share (known as a niche brand), and (2) unusually high penetration and low repeat-purchase rates (known as a change-of-pace brand). [10] Known examples include:

These may also be seen as different examples of brands with restricted distribution; each individual retailer brand is only available in one store chain, Hispanic TV channels will only be selected by Spanish speakers (a form of restricted distribution), Easter egg distribution is restricted by time – everywhere but not for very long.

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References

  1. ↑ McPhee, William N (1963), Formal Theories of Mass Behaviour. New York: The Free Press of Glencoe
  2. ↑ Ehrenberg, A.S.C. (1996) "Towards an Integrated Theory of Consumer Behaviour," Journal of the Market Research Society, 11 (No. 4, October), 305–37.
  3. ↑ Ehrenberg, Andrew S C, Gerald G Goodhardt, and T Patrick Barwise (1990), "Double Jeopardy revisited," Journal of Marketing, 54 (3), 82–91.
  4. ↑ Ehrenberg, Andrew S C, Mark D Uncles and Gerald G Goodhardt (2004), "Understanding brand performance measures: Using Dirichlet benchmarks," Journal of Business Research, 57 (12), 1307–25
  5. ↑ Goodhardt, Gerald J, Andrew S C Ehrenberg, and Christopher Chatfield (1984), "The Dirichlet: A comprehensive model of buying behaviour," Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, 147 (5), 621–55.
  6. ↑ Ehrenberg, Andrew S C, Mark D Uncles and Gerald G Goodhardt (2004), "Understanding brand performance measures: Using Dirichlet benchmarks," Journal of Business Research, 57 (12), 1307–25
  7. ↑ Schmittlein, David C., Albert C. Bemmaor, and Donald G. Morrison (1985), "Why Does the NBD Model Work? Robustness in Representing Product Purchases, Brand Purchases and Imperfectly Recorded Purchases," Marketing Science, 4 (3), 255–266
  8. ↑ Sharp, Byron (2010). How Brands Grow. South Melbourne: Oxford University Press.
  9. ↑ Ehrenberg and Goodhardt, Marketing Research, Spring issue. 2002.
  10. ↑ Kahn, Barbara E., Manohar U. Kalwani, and Donald G. Morrison (1988), "Niching Versus Change-of-Pace Brands: Using Purchase Frequencies and Penetration Rates to Infer Brand Positionings," Journal of Marketing Research, 25 (November), 384–90.

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