This study access using creativity tools to achieve Advertising Effectiveness in Organizations. The major objective of this study was to examine how to use best creativity tools to achieve advertising effectiveness in organizations, specific objectives includes determining the influence of brainstorming on achieving advertising effectiveness: To examine the impact of Humor in achieving Advertising Effectiveness. The design of the study was descriptive survey with a sample size of 89 subjects randomly selected, A Structural Questionnaire was the Instrument used to gather Data from the field for Analysis; Multivariate Regression was employed to rest the four hypotheses formulated. The findings revealed that the influence of brainstorming on achieving advertising in organization were greater than the influence of Humor, Novelty and creativeness (58.34>23A1 and 12.074) respectively. The study concluded that organization should strengthen on these two major that yield the highest value for achieving advertising effectiveness in organizations. The study recommended among others that the model used in this work should, be properly adopted by the firm's for adequate sustainability of its existence.
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