Showing posts with label advertising. Show all posts
Showing posts with label advertising. Show all posts

2011-12-25

Your Brain on Ads -- Neuromarketing fMRI

Neuromarketing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Neuromarketing is a new field of marketing that studies consumers' sensorimotor, cognitive, and affective response to marketing stimuli. Researchers use technologies such as functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to measure changes in activity in parts of the brain, electroencephalography (EEG) and Steady state topography (SST) to measure activity in specific regional spectra of the brain response, and/or sensors to measure changes in one's physiological state (heart rate, respiratory rate, galvanic skin response) to learn why consumers make the decisions they do, and what part of the brain is telling them to do it.

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The neuromarketing concept was developed by psychologists at Harvard University in 1990. The technology is based on a model whereby the major thinking part of human activity (over 90%) including emotion proceeds in subconscious area that is below the levels of controlled awareness. For this reason the perception technologists of the market are very tempted to learn the techniques of effective manipulation of the subconscious brain activity. The main reason is to inspire the desired reaction in person’s perception as deeply as possible.




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95% of consumers purchasing
behaviours are guided by unconscious
buying process

Euronews-science, september 2011 - Tv report



Neuromarketing - Ads That Whisper to the Brain - NYTimes.com

WHAT happens in our brains when we watch a compelling TV commercial?

For one thing, certain brain waves that correlate with heightened attention become more active, according to researchers who have used EEGs, or electroencephalographs, to study the brain’s electrical frequencies. Brain waves that signal less-focused attention, meanwhile, tend to subside.

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If pitches are to succeed, they need to reach the subconscious level of the brain, the place where consumers develop initial interest in products, inclinations to buy them and brand loyalty, says A. K. Pradeep, the founder and chief executive of NeuroFocus, a neuromarketing firm based in Berkeley, Calif.

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A handful of neuromarketing firms, like EmSense, Sands Research, MindLab International and NeuroSense, now specialize in the latest mind-mining techniques — EEGs, M.R.I.’s, eye-tracking — or in older biometric methods that track skin, muscle or facial responses to products or ads.

2011-08-24

Facial Recognition Driven Advertising

Advertisers to try face scan technology - CBS News
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/08/23/earlyshow/leisure/gamesgadgetsgizmos/main20096018.shtml

  • (CBS News)  Imagine walking into a supermarket and having a digital billboard or kiosk determine what you want to buy for dinner before you've decided for yourself. A new facial recognition technology can do just that.
  • The billboard or kiosk can quickly analyze the facial features of the shopper then displays specific ads directed to them.
Facial Recognition Technology: Marketing to the 21st Century - NASDAQ.com
http://community.nasdaq.com/News/2011-08/facial-recognition-technology-marketing-to-the-21st-century.aspx?storyid=91622
  • Intel Corp. (INTC) makes facial recognition software and says it is widely adaptable.
    "You can put this technology into kiosks, vending machines, digital signs," said Christopher O'Malley, director of retail marketing for Intel's embedded and communications group. "It's going to become a much more common thing in the next few years."
    Adidas is working with Intel to develop digital walls with facial recognition for a limited number of stores in the U.S. or Britain. Kraft (KFT) is in talks with a supermarket chain to test face-scanning kiosks as well.
Intel Corp technology featuring Kraft Foods - YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Scb0ukKzPFI&feature=related

How Kraft's Face-Scanning Tech Will Tell You What You Like to Eat
http://mashable.com/2011/02/03/kraft-face-scanning-kiosk
  • Behind the Video Scanning Technology

     The most unique selling point for the Meal Planning Solution is its integration of anonymous video analytics software, which detects age and gender to determine which recipes a person may be interested in viewing. “The technology is approximately 86% accurate in determining gender,” Avalos explain. “For age, it depends on the bracket. For young adults and adults, the accuracy is approximately 70%. For children and seniors, the accuracy is approximately 80%.”
Kraft Store Kiosk Scans Your Face Then Knows What to Feed It [Video] | Fast Company
http://www.fastcompany.com/1716684/whats-for-dinner-intel-and-kraft-can-help-with-that-video
  • Dinner planning: It's the bane of every five o'clock shopper who can't bear to serve up frozen pizza one more night. Now, with the help of some spooky video analytics, Intel and Kraft aim to help harried shoppers come up with better--or at least different--solutions, right in their grocery aisles.
    Debuting at this week's 2011 National Retail Federation show (along with an amazing checkout counter of the future from Adidas), The "Meal Planning Solution," part of Intel's "Connected Store," is a sort of kiosk you might find in an upscale suburban market, catering to families desperate to find something the kids will eat.

2009-12-27

Targeted Viral Marketing may be Less Effective

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Trend setters may only be visible in rear view mirror:

Photo by Flickr user victoriapeckham. Click for source
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Duncan Watts's research tells advertising execs precisely what they don't want to hear: All their clever (and lucrative!) targeted viral campaigning may ultimately be less effective than good old mass marketing.

Influentials

In the "two step" model of marketing, well-connected Influentials amplify a trend by relaying media messages out to the social periphery. Marketers can therefore focus on the few as a way of reaching the many.

Accidental Influentials

Watts's theory says the emergence of a trend depends not on Influentials, but on the susceptibility of the public to the "virus." Social-network effects are so complex, he says, that trends are basically random.

http://images.fastcompany.com/magazine/122/order-chaos.jpg
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Igniting a Trend -- It's About Chance Not Choice?


"If society is ready to embrace a trend, almost anyone can start one. And if it isn't, then almost no one can."




Think about influenceability, rather than focusing on influence. Instead of focusing on individuals, focus on larger scale structures.

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Sources:
  1. Mind Hacks: Trend setters may only be visible in rear view mirror
  2. Order Versus Chaos -- Mass Marketing --Duncan Watts | Fast Company
  3. order-chaos.jpg (JPEG Image, 575x225 pixels)
  4. Igniting a Trend -- It's About Chance Not Choice? | An Itinerant Mind | Fast Company
Related:
  1. Is the Tipping Point Toast? -- Duncan Watts -- Trendsetting | Page 4 | Fast Company
  2. Chicago Journals - Journal of Consumer Research
  3. Duncan J. Watts - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  4. Collective dynamics of 'small-world' networks. [Nature. 1998] - PubMed result

2009-09-30

The Power of Negative Subliminal Messages

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British Broadcasting Corporation


Negative subliminal messages work

People can perceive subliminal messages, particularly if the message is negative, according to a UK study.

Eye

In three experiments at University College London, participants were briefly shown masked words and asked to classify them as emotional or neutral.

The Independent

Power of the hidden message revealed


Volunteers were shown a series of positive, negative and neutral words, such as "cheerful", "despair" or "box", for as little as 17 milliseconds – far too quick for the mind to perceive conventionally – and asked to decide whether or not each word had an emotional value.


Where the volunteers correctly identified a word as emotional – for example "flower", "peace", "agony" or "murder" – they were more efficient at picking out those with a negative meaning. In one test, where participants were shown each word for just 33 milliseconds, negative words were correctly spotted 77 per cent of the time, as opposed to 59 per cent for positive terms.


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Coca Cola

Coca Cola

In the 1950s, market researcher James Vicary claimed he could get more cinemagoers to drink Coca-Cola by flashing messages on the screen for a fraction of a second. He claimed sales of the soft drink jumped 58 per cent, but later admitted that the stunt was a fabrication.

Macdonald's

Macdonald's

In 2007, the appearance of a McDonald's logo in one frame of the Iron Chef America TV series led to accusations of subliminal advertising. The Food Network said it was an accidental glitch.

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Subliminal message
A subliminal message is a signal or message embedded in another medium, designed to pass below the normal limits of the human mind's perception. These messages are unrecognizable by the conscious mind, but in certain situations can affect the subconscious mind and can negatively or positively influence subsequent later thoughts, behaviors, actions, attitudes, belief systems and value systems.
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A collection of subliminal messages in advertising...

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Sources:
  1. BBC NEWS | Health | Negative subliminal messages work
  2. Power of the hidden message revealed - News, TV & Radio - The Independent
  3. Coca Cola In the 1950s, market researcher James Vicary claimed he could get m...
  4. Macdonald's In 2007, the appearance of a McDonald's logo in one frame of the ...
  5. Subliminal message - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  6. YouTube - Subliminal Messages
Related:
  1. Subliminal advertising really does work, claim scientists - Telegraph
  2. Subliminal Messaging Works Best When the Message is Negative - subliminal messages - io9
  3. Key to subliminal messaging is to keep it negative, study shows (9/28/2009)
  4. Negative Subliminal Messages More Effective - Econwatch - CBS News
  5. TG Daily - Be afraid... the message of subliminal advertising
  6. subliminal message - Google Search

2009-07-21

MoonPublicity -- Advertise on the Moon

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Space, the Final Frontier...For Advertising

Attempts at advertising in space or on the moon will never die--and here's the newest, on the 40th anniversary of the Moon landing.
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Robots to Advertise on the Moon

WEST VALLEY CITY, Utah, July 20 /PRNewswire/ -- It's one giant leap for robot-kind. New Shadow Shaping technology creates images on the Moon that can be seen from Earth. Robots are used to create several small ridges in the lunar dust over large areas that capture shadows and shape them to form logos, domains names, memorials or even portraits. Talk about the Man in the Moon! You can even carve your initials in a heart to impress your sweetheart.

Moon Publicity

Shadow Shaping Robot

New Shadow Shaping technology creates images on the moon that can be seen from Earth. Robots are used to create several small ridges in the lunar dust over large areas that capture shadows and shape them to form logos, domains names or memorials. For more information on licensing this technology click here.

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Sources:
  1. Space, the Final Frontier...For Advertising | Design & Innovation | Fast Company
  2. Robots to Advertise on the Moon
  3. Moon Publicity | Advertise on the Moon
  4. Moon Publicity | Advertise on the Moon
  5. YouTube - Robot to Advertise on the Moon
Related:
  1. Idiots Want Robots to Draw Ads On the Moon's Surface - Moon advertising - Gizmodo
  2. Another giant leap, advertising in the moon! | 20 July 2009 | www.commodityonline.com
  3. Branded Shadows on Moon's Surface - Advertising Lab: future of advertising and advertising technology
  4. NASA to Burn Sponsor Logos into the Surface of Mars | Universe Today

2009-04-05

EyeClick Interactive Displays




EyeClick – Futuristic interactive displays breathes life into advertising

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Israel based EyeClick is a world leader in interactive media display solutions. Comprising of Eye Step, EyeTouch and EyeWall. EyeStep, these kinds of displays transform floors, walls, and window areas into stunning interactive platform that attract and capture more attention from the target audience resulting in effective promotions and greater brand recall.
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Eyeclick - Interactive floors, surfaces, tables, windows
EyeStep – the unique interactive floor.

By combining interactive surfaces (a combination of our interactive flooring and wall display) with intuitive human body motion, we create full-body interaction – the perfect tool for innovative interactive marketing
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Interactive carpet -Dutch Ministry of tourism using Eyeclick


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EyeTouch – the unique interactive media platform.

EyeTouch transforms any glass surface into an interactive form of creative expression.
It creates on-the-spot interaction with passers-by at events.
In short, it’s the ideal tool for optimizing interactive point-of-sale
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EyeTouch from eyeclick.com

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EyeBoard is an interactive tabletop surface.

It is an innovative system that turns any ordinary board into an exciting self-activated experience (interactive board).
Activated by motion detection, each flat surface can be turned into an innovative information system – the ideal sales tool!
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EyeBoard - Magical Interactive Table


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EyeClick – Futuristic interactive displays breathes life into advertising
Eyeclick - Interactive floors, surfaces, tables, windows
YouTube - BACARDI
Eyeclick Calvin Klein
YouTube - EyeBoard - Magical Interactive Table
YouTube - Interactive carpet -Dutch Ministry of tourism using Eyeclick

2008-03-17

MediaCart -- Shopping with video advertisements


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- Your MINI Encyclopedia

Amazing : New Shopping Trolley

Designed in conjunction with computer giant Microsoft, the latest supermarket trolley will not only guide you to the exact shelf for the item you want, but will also help you keep a check on your diet.

Manufacturer MediaCart says the device could be in UK stores by 2009.

It will be able to download your shopping list - including lists recorded from your previous visits - and plot the quickest and easiest route around the store accordingly, pointing out where items are as you go.

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MediaCart
MediaCart

Brand Marketers can now reach shoppers at the Point-of-Purchase with powerful, targeted video advertising. Advertisements can be targeted based on the cart location as well as loyalty card demographics and prior shopping history. MediaCart® was developed together with retailers, CPGs and consumers as a technological solution to today’s retail realities.
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