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WARC Best Practice, September 2019
This article provides marketers with information and guidance about using behavioural economics (BE) to inform marketing strategies.
Article
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WARC Best Practice, December 2018
Looks at the processes through which people make decisions, often sub-conscious, instinctive and driven by bias, and how to work with these processes effectively.
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Crawford Hollingworth and Liz Barker, WARC Best Practice, June 2017
This article explains the lessons from behavioural science about the formation of habits and lists six strategies that marketers can employ to build, maintain and disrupt consumer habits.
Case Study
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Jay Chiat Strategic Excellence Awards, Honor, Connection Strategy, 2019
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation used a 360-degree approach to speak to newlywed couples, and change the family-planning narrative in an attempt to tackle early pregnancy in India.
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Jay Chiat Strategic Excellence Awards, Gold, Connection Strategy, 2019
The New York Public Library encouraged young people to continue reading by launching Insta Novels, a set of long-form stories published across the Instagram Stories feature.
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Jay Chiat Strategic Excellence Awards, Gold, Product/Service Creation, 2019
Monash University, the Australian university, increased the safety of its students as they socialised by launching wristbands that detect when a drink has been spiked.
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Fiona Blades, Admap, October 2019
Looks at the hot topic of customer experience and how it may be time to embrace brand experience, ensuring every brand encounter is building a distinctive and positive narrative for the brand.
Case Study
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ARF Ogilvy Awards, Silver, 2019
Takeda Pharmaceuticals, a pharmaceutical company, increased registrations for its Entyvio Connect program in the US by creating new datasets to inform a programmatic display and video outreach.
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ARF Ogilvy Awards, Silver, 2019
Acuvue, a contact lens brand, launched an ad copy and digital banner campaign to reconnect with consumers in Japan, and encourage them to restart with Acuvue contact lenses.
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ARF Ogilvy Awards, Bronze, 2019
Pneumovax®23/Merck, a vaccine to protect against pneumococcal disease, increased awareness of Pneumococcal Disease (PD) by launching a branded video and delivering messages to healthcare providers in the US.
News
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24 September 2019
The notion that consumers are paralysed by an excess of choice – the findings of the famous ‘jam study’ – is too simplistic; choice overload sets in at different points depending on the type of product or service being purchased.
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19 September 2019
Branding, menus, pricing and location all play a role in consumers’ choice of QSR, but new research based on location data suggests global brands also need to look at population density and physical footprint – and finds that there is a high rate ...
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Crawford Hollingworth and Liz Barker, The Behavioural Architects, September 2019
Looks at how our understanding of choice has, and is, continuing to develop so that the amount of choice on offer can be tailored in the optimum ways, depending on the context, and even the person.
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Rory Sutherland, WARC Webinars, September 2019
Discusses four important areas of behavioural science: signalling, subconscious hacking, satisficing and psychophysics.
Case Study
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SABRE Awards, Asia-Pacific, Australia/New Zealand, Gold, 2019
Perpetual Guardian, a local fiduciary services company, improved the wellbeing and productivity of its employees by trialing a four-day working week in New Zealand.
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Thomas J. Reynolds and Joan M. Phillips, Journal of Advertising Research, Vol. 59, No. 3, 2019, pp. 268-280
The use of neuroscience methods in advertising research continues to grow, but it remains controversial.
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The Communications Council, Bronze, Australian Effie Awards, 2019
The Australian Government's Department of Social Services discouraged violence against women by launching TV and poster ads that highlighted Australians' unconscious taught bias.
News
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30 August 2019
The display price of goods and the number of reviews a seller has received can together shape buying decisions on e-marketplaces where shoppers choose between different vendors, according to a paper in the Journal of Advertising Research (JAR).
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Crawford Hollingworth and Liz Barker, The Behavioural Architects, August 2019
Aims to ‘de-bunk’ three key myths that have emerged in popular media by focussing on the facts – as per our current understanding – of system 1 and 2.
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Steve Wunker, WARC Best Practice, August 2019
Outlines the Jobs to be Done framework – starting with building a Jobs Atlas to assess real sources of unmet demand – which can help a company develop its competitive advantage.
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13 August 2019
As much as technical innovation, the application of behavioural science has been central to the success of the FANGs (Facebook, Amazon, Netflix and Google), an industry figure maintains, as they minimise cognitive load through constant testing of ...
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Richard Chataway, WARC Best Practice, August 2019
Explores how the major digital companies are able to leverage their knowledge of consumer behaviour by continually experimenting towards better user experiences – and how any enterprise can use similar experimentation to learn.
Case Study
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Cannes Creative Lions, Gold, Creative Strategy Lion, 2019
Ruavieja, an alcoholic digestive liquor from Pernod Ricard, created a tool that predicted how much time people had left together in an emotional film to encourage brand recognition and awareness in Spain.
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SABRE Awards, South Asia, Integrated Marketing, 2019
Horlicks, a malted milk drink brand, raised awareness of the issue of student suicides across India during exam season by launching PR and films that showed mothers the importance of mental nutrition, as well as physical.
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Cannes Creative Lions, Entrant, Creative Effectiveness Lions, 2019
Tesco, the supermarket chain, incentivised its shoppers in Malaysia to reuse their bags by giving them money off their shop when they did.
