Conference report: Future of Advertising Research - Social media, pretesting, behavioural economics and neuroscience
Manfred Mareck
Social media
According to the latest findings from the UK TouchPoints survey, social media still only plays a small (albeit growing) role in consumers' lives. Still, social networks and the buzz they can generate are becoming an increasingly attractive channel for advertisers to connect with their customers or to create brand advocates. And this brings new challenges to advertising researchers - some of which were the topic of WARC's morning session of this year's Future of Advertising Research Conference.
With half a billion...