Tag: CCPersuasion
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The Use of Humor in Video Advertising
Humor is a commonly used technique in video advertising. In fact, some advertisers use humor in nearly all the commercials they run. Humor allows agencies to be creative and viewers enjoy being entertained. But of course, the purpose of a video ad is to promote the featured brand. Advertising legend David Ogilvy cautioned against the…
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Delivering Predictive Brand Growth in an Age of Continuous Disruption
Introduction There once was a day when the equity and health of brands were stable. Brand teams could expect that the fundamental performance of the category and the competitive set changed little on a short-term basis. Category reviews and brand tracking research reinforced this perspective as the numbers typically saw limited, significant change on even…
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| Chart of the Week | Fast Food
MSW’s RDE Analytic Framework rests on a study that found that three equity dimensions (Relevance, Differentiation, Emotion) are responsible for driving a significant portion of brand growth. Our ongoing Chart of the Week series is dedicated to sharing RDE results for a variety of categories. If you have questions about your category – give us…
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Validation: More Important than Ever!
More than 100 years ago, John Wannamaker was famously quoted as saying: “Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is, I don’t know which half.” Only half? Fast forward 100 years, and many marketers still don’t know how much of their advertising is wasted. And with the myriad new methods for…
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Chart of The Week – Athletic Shoes
MSW’s RDE Analytic Framework rests on a study that found that three equity dimensions (Relevance, Differentiation, Emotion) are responsible for driving a significant portion of brand growth. In the coming weeks our Chart of The Week will be dedicated to sharing RDE results for a variety of categories. If you have questions about your category…
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A Case Study – How to Know Which Competitors’ Customers Your Ad is Going to Steal
Across categories, companies/brands will oftentimes create an advertising initiative that is meant to target a certain competitor, or groups of competitors. In doing so, they likely employ a communication strategy that they believe will target those consumers currently purchasing products/services from said competitors. The problem is: How do they actually know if their communication strategy…
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Dissecting Ad Effectiveness Using Our Scene-To-Scene Exercise
Have you ever struggled to understand why your ad is performing the way it is? Or better yet, which part of the ad is driving its result – and how you can duplicate (or avoid) it in future development efforts? If so, then we have the perfect solution, and it utilizes our validated CCPersuasion metric…
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Stop Them in Their Tracks! The Importance of Gaining Viewer Interest Quickly
Stopping Power in advertising can be defined as an advertisement’s ability to capture audience attention and interest. For a print advertisement this would represent an ad causing a reader to stop reading an article or flipping the pages and take notice of the ad. For a video commercial this would represent an ad’s ability to…
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Independent Audit Confirms MSW-ARS TouchPoint® Copy Test System’s Powerful Linkage to Financial Performance
Last week the Marketing Accountability Standards Board (MASB) announced that TouchPoint®, MSW-ARS’s advertising copy test solution, has completed the Marketing Metric Audit Protocol (MMAP) – MASB’s formal process for validating the relationship between a marketing measurement and financial performance. TouchPoint uses a behavioral, multi-media experience to collect the criterion CCPersuasion® metric. This unique approach avoids…
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MSW-ARS’s Copy Test Solution, TouchPoint® Completes MASB Independent Metric Audit
News Release FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE MSW-ARS’s Copy Test Solution, TouchPoint® Completes MASB Independent Metric Audit Lake Success, NY, February 15, 2018 – MSW-ARS announced today that their advertising research solution, TouchPoint has completed the Marketing Metric…