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Research Paper • Wilson Ndasi, Elvira Bolat, and Gelareh Roushan, Journal of Advertising Research, Vol. 61, No. 3, 2021, pp. 289-302

Advertisers and marketing professionals target nonprofit web and social media visitors with digital cause-related marketing display advertisements.

Why the metaphor makes the sale

Opinion • Faris Yakob, June 2021

Language and thought are ridden with metaphors of various kinds, operating at various levels, writes Faris Yakob – but in advertising, a metaphor is often the tightest form of an insight.

How anthropomorphized brand spokescharacters affect consumer perceptions and judgments: Is being cute helpful or harmful to brands?

Research Paper • Chun-Tuan Chang, Xing-Yu (Marcos) Chu, and Shih-Ting Kao, Journal of Advertising Research, Vol. 61, No. 2, 2021, pp. 225-244

This study focuses on anthropomorphized spokescharacters, classifying them into cute or mature looks.

Superimposed text size and contrast effects in DTC TV advertising: Bigger is better, high contrast not so much

Research Paper • Ryan S. Paquin, Amie C. O’Donoghue, Bridget J. Kelly, Kevin R. Betts, Mihaela Johnson, Christine N. Davis, Alyssa Jordan, and Peyton Williams, Journal of Advertising Research, Vol. 61, No. 2, 2021, pp. 178-191

Direct-to-consumer prescription-drug television advertisements often contain superimposed text (supers) to convey information about the advertised product.

Creativity through volatility

Article • WARC Exclusive, April 2021

This report looks at the strategies and approaches of some of the world’s most awarded campaigns for creativity in 2020.

Maximise distinctive assets

Opinion • Peilin Phua and Nicole Hartnett, February 2021

2020's IPA Effectiveness winners show how to make distinctive assets work harder, write Peilin Phua and Nicole Hartnett from The Ehrenberg-Bass Institute.

Brands need to define and align their Principal Narrative in a new China

Article • Holger E. Metzger , WARC Exclusive, Spotlight China, December 2020

TMRC Impact’s Holger E. Metzger outlines why foreign brands need to invest time and energy into understanding the new narratives within China.

In the beginning were the words – how consumers read packaging: Four principles

Opinion • Martin Lee, October 2020

Martin Lee, co-founder and managing director, Acacia Avenue says brands must remember that reading is also a behaviour governed by cognitive biases and mental short cuts (heuristics). Consumers subconsciously judge brand copy according to four principles and this reading influences their purchase decisions.

The WARC Guide to effective packaging

Article • WARC Best Practice, November 2020

A summary of new thinking and best practice on effective packaging, from the WARC Guide.

10 techniques for effective packaging

Opinion • Roger Horberry, October 2020

FMCG packaging represents prime marketing real estate, one of the most effective weapons in the marketing arsenal. It can literally make the difference between a consumer adding a particular item to their shopping basket or moving on to choose a competitor’s product. No other point in the real world purchase journey has such a stark stop/go aspect to it. In this article we’ll be looking specifically at packaging copy, and share techniques that will enable you create copy that reduces stop and increases go.

Re-evaluating iconic brand assets in a post-pandemic world

Article • Dr Gemma Calvert, Win Ee Chun and Dr Eamon Fulcher, WARC Exclusive, June 2020

Distinctive brand assets have a powerful role to play in ensuring top-of-mind recall with consumers – but in a world changed by COVID-19, a strategic reassessment of assets is needed.

Stay Alert: How the UK Government accidentally launched a meme

Article • Sam Peña-Taylor, WARC Exclusive, May 2020

Explores how the UK Government’s messaging change from ‘Stay Home’ to ‘Stay Alert’ created the conditions for its own mocking and remixing.

Will AI dehumanise advertising’s creativity?

Opinion • Irene Joshy, March 2020

Artificial intelligence occupies a contradictory place in the advertising imagination: at once a potential creative catalyst while also threatening sameness – Kantar’s Irene Joshy explores this evolving landscape and what it means for creativity.

Cosmetics ads should avoid scientific jargon

News • 24 January 2020

Cosmetics brands may benefit from steering clear of claims around artificial ingredients and avoiding scientific jargon to make a greater impact with print ads, according to a study in the Journal of Advertising Research (JAR).

Assessing scientific claims in print ads that promote cosmetics: How consumers perceive cosmeceutical claims

Research Paper • Jie G. Fowler, Les Carlson, and Himadri Roy Chaudhuri, Journal of Advertising Research, Vol. 59, No. 4, 2019, pp. 466-482

The area of scientific-related claims in advertising is ripe for additional investigative endeavor. This article aims to access the nature and potential deceptiveness of scientific-related claims that appear in cosmetics advertising.

Department for Education: Fire It Up – Effecting a seismic reframe of apprenticeships

Research Paper • MRS Awards Papers, Finalist, Jeremy Bullmore Award for Creative Development Research, 2019

The Department for Education, a UK government department, promoted apprenticeships across the UK by launching a mixed methodology research study that facilitated its campaign.

JP Morgan Chase taps AI copywriting tech

News • 01 August 2019

In a move that may unnerve copywriters across the advertising industry, JP Morgan Chase has announced that it has struck a five-year deal with a tech firm whose AI-generated marketing copy is said to be more effective than that written by humans.

Powerful patterns in punctuation – what it could mean for the future of marketing

Opinion • Alex Darmon, June 2019

Marketing efforts tend to be focused around images, videos, stories, and few people give a thought to the role of the humble full stop or comma. Alex Darmon explains why there’s more to punctuation than you might think.

Footnotes to Aristotle: Modern Modes of Persuasion

Opinion • Faris Yakob, June 2019

Certain ideas, though ancient, have retained their power. Faris Yakob explores the ways in which Aristotle's Ars Rhetorica has influenced this industry.

Four lessons to help brands sing in other languages

Opinion • Catherine Barr, January 2019

Catherine Barr shares the four golden rules of transcreation she’s learnt setting up creative translation agency franklyfluent.

How to craft memorability in multi-platform advertising

Article • Orlando Wood, Admap, September 2018, pp. 10-14

With campaigns with short-term aims on the rise and an ever growing amount of platforms to run them on, this article offers marketers guidance on the best way to create effective multi-platform work.

What creative experts can learn from classical rhetoric

News • 31 May 2018

NEW YORK: A deeper appreciation of classical rhetoric could help advertising practitioners and scholars improve their understanding of what makes for strong creative, according a paper in the Journal of Advertising Research (JAR).

How iconic brands use design for maximum consumer recognition

Article • Low Lai Chow , WARC Exclusive, April 2018

Well-known brands including McDonalds, Samsung and Oppo are using colour, logo and multichannel branding to boost their brand recognition and saliency with consumers.

The pratfall effect: How flaws make advertising more appealing

Article • Richard Shotton, Market Leader, Quarter 2, 2018, pp. 36-39

Examines how marketers can make use of the pratfall effect, where flaws make a thing more likeable, to improve brand image.

Back to the future

Opinion • Malcolm White, March 2018

In the creative communications industry, it feels vital to find exactly the right words but, Malcolm White asks, why not use malapropisms as a resource to define a brand’s essence and values?

The WARC Guide to effective packaging

Article • WARC Best Practice, November 2020

A summary of new thinking and best practice on effective packaging, from the WARC Guide.
Creativity through volatility

Article • WARC Exclusive, April 2021

This report looks at the strategies and approaches of some of the world’s most awarded campaigns for creativity in 2020.
Re-evaluating iconic brand assets in a post-pandemic world

Article • Dr Gemma Calvert, Win Ee Chun and Dr Eamon Fulcher, WARC Exclusive, June 2020

Distinctive brand assets have a powerful role to play in ensuring top-of-mind recall with consumers – but in a world changed by COVID-19, a strategic reassessment of assets is needed.
How to craft memorability in multi-platform advertising

Article • Orlando Wood, Admap Magazine, September 2018, pp. 10-14

With campaigns with short-term aims on the rise and an ever growing amount of platforms to run them on, this article offers marketers guidance on the best way to create effective multi-platform work.
How anthropomorphized brand spokescharacters affect consumer perceptions and judgments: Is being cute helpful or harmful to brands?

Research Paper • Chun-Tuan Chang, Xing-Yu (Marcos) Chu, and Shih-Ting Kao, Journal of Advertising Research, Vol. 61, No. 2, 2021, pp. 225-244

This study focuses on anthropomorphized spokescharacters, classifying them into cute or mature looks.
How iconic brands use design for maximum consumer recognition

Article • Low Lai Chow , WARC Exclusive, April 2018

Well-known brands including McDonalds, Samsung and Oppo are using colour, logo and multichannel branding to boost their brand recognition and saliency with consumers.