Ad Effectiveness & ROI

Context Effects: The Impact of TV Ads On Subsequent Ads

  • Michael Sankey, Ph.D.; Mark Truss
  • Forethought; JWT

To tackle the rarely studied topic of how a TV commercial affects ones that follow, this study analyzed the halo effects of two types of ads with important findings. Among them, it showed that an ad evoking negative feelings, such as anger or fear, can affect the ad that follows in terms of ad evaluations, brand perceptions, and purchase intent. The authors also raised a question regarding context in programmatic buys.

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Tips on Improving Ad Effects Via Context Alignment

  • Chris Bacon, Horst Stipp, ARF ORIGINAL RESEARCH

What aspects of context alignment have the most impact on ROI? Research on context effects from the ARF’s “How Advertising Works, Today” project reinforced prior work showing that context does affect ROI, while offering new learning, including suggestions to enhance ROI, such as considering media involvement, creative message, and clutter.

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How to Improve Ad Creative to Avoid Ad Blocking

  • Horst Stipp and Manuel Garcia-Garcia, The ARF

Brands are built in the brain. The ARF’s experiments with neuro-science since 2011 have demonstrated that great creative resonates with consumers’ hearts and minds. But as consumers watch ads on multiple devices, are the neural processes still as potent? This ARF Original Research demonstrates the neural synergies across media platforms to bolster ad recall.

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Five Steps to Making Mobile Ads More Effective

  • Manuel Garcia-Garcia, The ARF - ARF ORIGINAL RESEARCH

Optimizing mobile creative was identified by the ARF as a priority industry issue in 2017 and led to original “How Advertising Works, Today” studies. Learning showed that the majority of mobile ad campaigns do not deliver optimal ad creative and revealed five ways to make such advertising more successful and reduce ad avoidance.

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Enhancing Ad Testing Via New Techniques

  • Leslie Wood and Kyle Gerhart, Nielsen Catalina Solutions

Nielsen Catalina Solutions (NCS) pioneered Cognitive Analytic techniques to make the traditional single-source ad testing analysis even more powerful. Adding variables such as purchase behavior, ad exposure, or timing of visit, NCS improved the precision of their analysis to detect even smaller sales lifts due to TV advertising.

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What Lift & ROI Measurement Products Exist Today?

  • ARF Cross-Platform Measurement Council

Relevant key performance indicators (KPIs) have become increasingly important over the last decade for evaluating the impact of marketing and media spending. Today, numerous companies offer products that measure “ROI” and “lift,” But, for many, it is difficult to differentiate them. This prompted the Online-Offline Metrics Working Group of the ARF’s Cross-Platform Measurement Council to create: The Guide to Lift and ROI Measurement Products. This comprehensive report highlights the product offerings of 27 companies in the space.

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What Drives Global Sponsorship Costs?

  • Jonathan A. Jensen and Benjamin Albano, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Joe B. Cobbs, Northern Kentucky University, and B. Tyler, University of Massachusetts Amherst
  • JOURNAL OF ADVERTISING RESEARCH

Until 2020, sponsorship expenditures by brand marketers were soaring, but COVID-19 changed the equation. Nevertheless, a new study conducted prior to the pandemic— analyzing multiple years of prices paid for sponsorships of Formula One racing teams—fills a gap in the body of research that otherwise focused on sponsorship returns but neglected the related investment.

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