Upcoming Events

Cognition Council: Values in Advertising or the Content Around It, Part I
OCTOBER 14 @ 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM EDT
Do social values, such as appeals to altruism, social justice, and sustainability in an ad impact consumers’ perception of the brand? If so, how and through which cognitive pathways, and for which population segments? Conversely, do ads that appear within potentially divisive content affect brand-related behaviors? Brand safety continues to be a major concern for advertisers in 2021 as news events and public comments on social platforms continue to ignite concern and controversy.

In 2020, the Cognition Council hosted an event with presentations about advertising in news programming and news sites. This event on Oct. 14—and the one that follows it in December (Part 2)—will expand on that research with fresh investigations from Twitter, an academic research team, and members of the Cognition Council. Learn more.

Research and Past Event Highlights

The Relevance and Power of Context in Today’s Media Environment
This pair of panels provided an in-depth look at two major issues in taking context effects into account in media planning and buying — advertising within news content and programmatic buying. In the first panel, speakers from NBCU, CNN, and Lumen Research presented research on the effectiveness of advertising within news content on television and on digital platforms. The second panel featured a discussion with speakers from Nestle, Reset Digital, Hearst, Crackle, and Mindshare on the potential opportunity for integrating the context in which an ad is placed into programmatic buying. Find presentations and video here.

Context Effects: Updates from the Front Lines
This special session at the ARF’s AUDIENCExSCIENCE conference focused on the question of how marketers can use context to enhance their ads’ performance and avoid context that might impact the ad and brand negatively. After a summary of prior research on this topic by the ARF’s Horst Stipp, Bill Harvey, Executive Chairman at RMT, Inc., synthesized research on the substantial improvements in ad performance that can occur when consumers’ reactions to context and the ad align on several emotional dimensions, rather than just one. Kimberly Rose Clark, Ph.D., Senior Lecturer at the Dept. of Psychological & Brain Science, Dartmouth College, then presented the results of her experiment on congruence between context and ads based on their gain or loss framing. The final presentation from Robin Garfield, EVP of Research and Scheduling at CNN, reviewed the evidence on the power of news programming as a context for ads.

Manuel Garcia-Garcia

SVP, Neuro & Behavioral Sciences Center of Excellence
Cognition Council Chair

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