Category: Ad Pre-Testing
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“It is always cheaper to do the job right the first time.”
This quote from businessman Philip Crosby has often served as the rallying cry for advocates of modern management practices. At its heart is a simple truth; it takes less time and effort to improve a process than it does to revise each unit created from that process. In fact, Crosby’s work showed that measurement systems…
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Surpassing the Norm – Better Approaches to Providing Meaningful Context – Part II
In Part I of this blog series, we examined some of the practical issues with the use of standard normative data for providing context for advertising research. While having the global databases and expertise to provide traditional database averages as the situation warrants, MSW●ARS also offers approaches to the question of context that avoid the issues…
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Surpassing the Norm – Better Approaches to Providing Meaningful Context – Part I
Context is important. Consider the story of little Johnny, just returned from school with a test paper for his father to sign. “Hi Dad, could you please sign this for me,” Johnny said uncertainly, handing the paper to his father. “Mm, a 75 huh,” Dad said thoughtfully pursing his lips, “what was the class average?”…
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It Made Me Laugh, It Made Me Cry – But Did It Make Me Buy?
Due to his Vulcan upbringing, Star Trek’s Mr. Spock was known for his ability to detach himself from emotion and arrive at decisions from a purely logical standpoint. As for the rest of us – not so much. Humans are emotional creatures. We may diligently do our homework in gathering the facts – fuel economy,…
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Don’t Be Fooled, Ad Wearout Is Real!
One of the most persistent point-of-view requests we get from clients concerns wearout of their advertising. Why; because ads are expensive to produce and media is costly. What we would all like to hear is that ads don’t wearout and that they will continue to drive brand sales at the same rate regardless of the…
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Effective Ethnic Advertising Results From Understanding the Cultural Impact on Your Brand
Effective Ethnic Advertising Results From Understanding the Cultural Impact on Your Brand With a purchasing power estimated to reach 1.5 trillion this year, the U.S. Hispanic segment has become a key target for many advertisers. With our studies proving that Hispanics tend to be more responsive to advertising than their non-Hispanic counterparts in terms of…
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Clarity or Contempt: What Does Familiarity Breed? A Look at Branding Cues
A continuing advertising campaign can bring instant recognition to a brand’s communications. In an era in which consumers are drowning in commercial messaging and in which a thirty second advertisement is considered long, this could certainly be considered a benefit. However, we are all familiar with the adage “familiarity breeds contempt”. Can a continuing campaign…
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How to Turn the Cord Cutting Trend into an Advantage
For many years, cable and satellite television services have been viewed almost as a utility akin to electric, water or telephone service – as an essential. However, recent trends toward cord cutting – the discontinuation of cable service – and cord shaving – changing to smaller and less expensive television packages – is dramatically changing…
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Creative is King – Long Live Great Creative!
Not since the advent of the television ad in 1941 has the potential for new ad formats been so great. The emergence of digital platforms is enabling marketers to experiment with a number of new ad formats, each of which could revolutionize marketing as we know it. Throughout 2014 we have been highlighting the most…
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Mobile Ads – The Timely Pocket-Sized Ads with Big Potential
Not since the advent of the television ad in 1941 has the potential for new ad formats been so great. The emergence of digital platforms is enabling marketers to experiment with a number of new ad formats, each of which could revolutionize marketing as we know it. Throughout 2014 we have been highlighting the most…