Research for creative development
Roderick White
This introduction to Admap's report on research for advertising discusses the use of research to aid campaign development. Ideally, research should be useful at every stage of creative development. In practice, it is often hard for research to contribute, especially because creatives are unhappy about having their work, at any stage, subjected to judgement by those who don't understand it. The solution lies in realising that good research should not be judgemental, but creative; it can use the same techniques that creatives use to liberate ideas. This...