Smarter video planning
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We live in an age of extreme distraction where our cognitive limits force us to take decision shortcuts. The human mind necessarily restricts itself and we cope by allocating just enough attention to make decisions that are ‘good enough’. Nobel-awarded economist Herbert Simon calls this ‘satisficing’, a combination of satisfy and suffice.
Combining limited human capacity and the reality that consumer buying behaviour is largely habitual and trivial, advertising, by definition, is incidental in our lives. This attention crisis is...