Creative & Branded Content

How Consumers Emotionally Process Green Advertising

  • Myriam Martínez-Fiestas, María Isabel Viedma del Jesus, Juan Sánchez-Fernández, Francisco J. Montoro-Rios

How do consumers emotionally process and react to messaging intended to prompt responsible behavior toward the environment? This JAR paper sought to answer that question and found that positive messages emphasizing the benefits of environmentally responsible behavior (as opposed to those focused on the negative) are more likely to achieve positive results.

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Neuroscience Behind Better Creative

  • Carl Marci, M.D. – Chief Neuroscientist, Nielsen Consumer Neuroscience; David F. Poltrack – CRO, CBS Corporation; President, CBS VISION; ARF Board Chair; Leslie Wood – CRO, Nielsen Catalina Solutions

Great creative can drive a 15x lift in incremental sales over ineffective creative, according to this study from CBS, Nielsen Catalina Solutions, and Nielsen Consumer Neuroscience. But how do you know what great creative is before it goes on air? This study shows how a combination of neuroscience tools can help identify what makes creative great.

How Facial Expressions Can Predict Ad Sharing

  • Daniel McDuff, Microsoft Research; Jonah Berger, Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania -- JOURNAL OF ADVERTISING RESEARCH

Why do some ads get shared more than others on social media? This study used facial coding algorithms to quantify the facial expressions of thousands of individuals in response to video ads. The findings help advertisers predict how different emotions influence sharing, and provide a deeper understanding of the complexities between emotion and transmission.

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