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…

Quantifying the effectiveness of Attribute Marketing In 2016, Seven adopted a new strategy for developing and selling integrated sponsorship packages for their major TV brands – Attribute Marketing. The theory behind Attribute Marketing is that the attributes of a media brand transfer and strengthen the same attributes of the sponsor’s…

There’s nothing like getting right into people’s heads when you are trying to sell something to them, which is why companies are tapping into neuroscience and behavioural economics to work out how to improve their marketing. Neuroscience uses brain imaging to take a sneak peek at which areas are activated…

Samsung Gauges Brain Activity to Develop TV Ads That Work on Apple Fans After a wave of enthusiastic publicity followed by an equal measure of skepticism, neuromarketing seems to finally be getting some respect. Samsung and the firm Neuro-Insight told an audience of marketing researchers last month how they analyzed…

Brands that subtly weave a product they are trying to sell into a wider narrative stand a better chance of consumers recalling it later, a five-year neuroscience study has found.  In fact, ‘subtle’ advertising resulted in a 17 per cent higher memory encoding response than those that went…

  The Advertising Standards Authority ( ASA ) recently published a list of advertisements that received the most complaints throughout 2015. While only one item in the top ten had complaints against it upheld by theASA, many of these ads seem to have hit a nerve despite their innocuous appearance. Neuro-Insight…

Center Parcs – Bears Heather Andrew sheds light on the subconscious impact of five of the latest holiday ads. While the winter chill is still fresh, holiday advertisers are making sure that our minds are on the sunny breaks ahead. The most recent wave of holiday ads all take…

Understanding how the brain works is playing an increasingly significant role in marketing communications as marketers strive to improve the effectiveness of their advertising. Consumer neuroscience involves a range of different technologies aimed at measuring consumers’ brain activity in order to analyse subconscious reactions to advertising. These are difficult to…