Sophisticated neuroscience research “discovers” what good copywriters have always known
Talk about killing flies with an elephant gun. Nielsen, the audience research company, put together a consumer neuroscience group to help advertisers learn how to “break trough the clutter” of “competing messages constantly fighting for consumers’ attention.” A worthy goal when you consider that in an average day, every man, woman and...
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Widespread use of ad blockers may bring something worse to your screen
“Browsing the web without ads is actually kind of nice,” wrote Advertising Age June 19, 2014. “No popups stealing your screen. No autoplaying video ads making the page load as slowly as if it were being dialed up through America Online circa 1999.” And, notes Ad Age, people who...
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Avoid the “And then what?” effect
Way back when dinosaurs roamed the Earth, televisions were black-and-white, and telephone deregulation was a gleam in Ronald Reagan’s eye, there was this ad that Western Electric, the monopoly Bell System’s manufacturing division, ran in major magazines. It showed a photo of a small electric fan wired to a...
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Research reveals why you’re going to believe this post
This post may not be true. Actually, it is. But even if it weren’t, you’d be more likely to believe it. That’s because it has something some others don’t — a picture. Advertising professionals have long known that a picture makes an ad stand out and attract more readership than an...
Read MoreDon’t spend more to make your advertising less effective
There are times when doing too much can be as harmful to your bottom line as spending, and doing, too little. Audience size isn’t everything In buying media, for example, the temptation is to go for as large an audience as you can. It’s only logical. Logical, yes, but not necessarily...
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