In case you missed our event, “The Listening Brain”, here are the full presentations from our speakers. Lindsey Clay, CEO of Thinkbox, discusses how music has been crucial in driving impact of some great TV campaigns Jeremy Pounder, Futures Director of Mindshare unveils new research, in…

Audio media is enjoying a renaissance, as mobile audio services (podcasts, audiobooks, music streaming) are integrated into our day to day lives and voice assistants bring a new dimension to audio technology. Changes like these have the potential to shift the balance between audio and visual media, weakening…

Source: PepsiCo via YouTube “Clearly we missed the mark, and we apologize…We did not intend to make light of any serious issue.” Issuing the above statement is any modern marketer’s nightmare. There are few hits that strike harder than having to 1) pull, and 2) apologize for a creative that…

The latest studies reveal that web users are in a different mindset depending on the site they visit. So, Twitter commissioned neuroscience research to investigate how marketers can optimise their advertising to take advantage Martyn U’ren is head of research in the APAC region for Twitter. His job is to…

Neuroscience expert Richard Silberstein explains how advances in understanding long-term memory can optimise adverts displayed on smartphones Professor Richard Silberstein is one of the world leaders in neuroscience research in advertising. He can’t, he jokes, read your mind. But If you let him hook you up to an SST…

The 2016 US Presidential nominee race certainly generated a fair amount of debate, much of which can be attributed to the polarising, non-mainstream candidates occupying both Republican and Democrat camps. By using the hype generated by the real Presidential campaign, streaming giant Netflix was able to hijack the media and…

In our previous article we analysed award winning advertisement by VW ‘Laughing Horses’ to ask the question of whether an entertaining advertisement would also be commercially effective. Today we take a look at the effect of using popular songs in advertising, specifically the nostalgic song ‘Tiny Dancer’ to determine whether…

Grabarz and Partner’s Laughing Horse campaign landed a Silver Lion award at the 2017 Cannes Lions Festival. Neuro-Insight aimed to determine the advertisement effectiveness by measuring brain activity to see how 50 females and 50 males responded to the Laughing Horses ad. The specific technology used by Neuro-Insight is…

To call the U.K. a nation of smartphone zombies sounds sensational, but a recent IPA TouchPoints project revealed that we spend half of our waking hours consuming media and online information. Our reliance on mobile devices shows no signs of slowing, and the annual flurry of new technology gadgets launched…

Teads commissioned the research with Time Inc. and The Atlantic Researchers mapped the brain’s reaction to ads on premium publishers’ websites versus Facebook. Teads chief marketing officer Rebecca Mahony said the goal was to give publishers a better view of how effective their ads really are. Publishers’ own websites…