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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.
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WARC Best Practice, May 2019
This article explores the reading around gamification as a research method, the attempt to make surveys and questionnaires more engaging, enhancing both the experience and ideally the quality of data.
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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.
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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.
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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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Kathryn A. LaTour, Journal of Advertising Research, Vol. 59, No. 3, 2019, pp. 263-267
This article examines how better to engage consumer learning synesthetically through managerial communications with hedonic products.
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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.
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04 September 2019
Marketers might spend their time seeking consumers’ undivided and concentrated attention, but new research exposes how to get a brand message across in low attention environments.
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Professor Karen Nelson-Field and Kellen Ewens, Admap, September 2019
Advertisers can achieve consumer behavioural outcomes even when video viewers are not in a state of high attention, a new study has revealed.
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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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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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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.
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Jo Bowman, Event Reports, Nudgestock, June 2019
Five examples of campaigns that succeeded by looking beyond the rational drivers of choice to tap deeper human truths.
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Bradley J. Bond and Justine Rapp Farrell, Journal of Advertising Research, Digital First, July 2019
This study examines the behavioral intentions of heterosexual and lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) consumers following exposure to advertising featuring heterosexual or LGB imagery.
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26 July 2019
Engagement with e-cigarette marketing and user-created communities on social media has a varied impact on users of these products, according to a study in the Journal of Advertising Research (JAR).
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Jo Bowman, Event Reports, Nudgestock, June 2019
In the digital world everything can be measured, with the result that marketers are biased towards the illusion of certainty that figures bring and neglect the crucial observations of behavioural specialists.
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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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19 July 2019
Social norms messaging is an effective tool to change behaviour, but new research in this area suggests that a focus on already changing behaviours can be even more powerful.
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16 July 2019
In recent years, governments and businesses have made effective use of social norms to persuade people to behave in a certain way, but messaging can become even more powerful with a deeper contextual understanding.
