what advertising can learn from brain science (2013 update)
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This is an edited version of my talk "What Advertising Can Learn from Brain Science" for the TMRS/APRC "Sense and Sensibility" conference in Bangkok on 1st November 2013. The talk covers the evidence on what drives advertising effectiveness, the brain science of the emotions and how to link brand experience to the emotional goals of customers. The talk references Brand esSense which is available from 3rd November 2013.TRANSCRIPT
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What Advertising!Can Learn From !
Brain Science 1 November 2013
Neil Gains
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• Emo%onal adver%sing • Emo%onal decisions
• Emo%onal signals
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Emotional beats rational (in the long term)
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Source: Advertising Effectiveness: The Long & Short of It. IPA UK 1012
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Emotions build price elasticity
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Source: Advertising Effectiveness: The Long & Short of It. IPA UK 1012
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Emotions increase sales volume (in the long term)
Source: Advertising Effectiveness: The Long & Short of It. IPA UK 1012
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Decision making
“We are to thinking as cats are to swimming, we can do it if we have to.” Daniel Kahneman
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System 1 and System 2
11 million bits per second 50 bits per second
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Environmental cues set expectations
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Is someone watching you?
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Sales when German music is playing
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A. North, D. Hargreaves and J McHendrick (1997)
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Sales when French music is playing
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A. North, D. Hargreaves and J McHendrick (1997)
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What do you associate with these cues?
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Hotels and Shopping Malls meet different emotional needs
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ARTIST
EXPLORER
REBEL
JOKER
SEDUCER
EVERYMAN
CAREGIVER
IDEALIST
RULER
GURU
CATALYST
Hotels Shopping Malls Hong Kong, general sample, August 2013
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Hotels vs Shopping Malls
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ARTIST
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JOKER
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Hong Kong, general sample, August 2013
Hotels
Top Hopes
Different
Responsible
Caring
Passionate
Unique
Shopping Malls
Top Hopes
Different
Original
Funny
Individual
Playful
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Do you want to feel cared for?
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Or do you want to feel unique?
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"The point of a story can penetrate far deeper than the point of any bullet." -‐ LAWRENCE NAULT
"The point of a story can penetrate far deeper than the point of any bullet." LAWRENCE NAULT
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Stories follow archetypal structures
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Seven plot structures
Overcoming the monster
Rags to riches
Quest
Voyage and return
Tragedy
Comedy
Rebirth
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The mythology of beauty
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The natural path from rags to riches
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Patterns – in the world or in the mind?
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Fire together, wire together
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• Metaphor
• Archetype • Signal vs Noise
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Synaesthesia – the blending of the senses
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Kiki and Bouba: which is which?
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Story archetypes are “patterns in the mind”
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Successful brands have emotional focus
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Which archetype is LEGO?
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Branding is all about signal detection
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• Context gives relevance
• Emotional stories engage • Unify, Simplify, Amplify
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