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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, 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.
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.
Article
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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.
Article
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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.
Case Study
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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.
Case Study
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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.
News
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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 ...
Article
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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.
Article
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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.
Research Paper
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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.
Research Paper
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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.
Case Study
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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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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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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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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.
Article
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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.
News
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23 August 2019
Ads seeking to discourage driving under the influence (DUI) of alcohol may benefit from placing greater emphasis on the positive implications that can result from avoiding this activity, a study in the Journal of Advertising Research (JAR) has ...
Opinion
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David Penn, August 2019
Behavioural economics is seeing something of a vogue, but how useful is the discipline in the long term? David Penn questions the effectiveness of the decision-shapers.
Article
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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.
News
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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 ...
Article
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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.
