New Research from the Advertising Research Foundation
Press Release by MESH and ARF
Highlights:
- Advertising across multiple platforms delivers incremental ROI, with digital and TV providing a kicker effect of plus 40% over other combinations
- 75% of ad effectiveness derives from the quality of the creative
- Unified creative strategy across platforms enhances ad memorability, with a 57% impact if the content is customised to the platform – yet only 38% of campaigns currently do this
- Customised mobile video ads deliver greater effectiveness than repurposed content across viewability (+53%), UX (+39%) and engagement (+49%).
- Mobile ads need to be shorter, vertical, with subtitles, music, an upfront message and a call to action for amplification
- The contextual correlation between programme engagement and ad recall has never been stronger and the relationship between time of day and ad positivity measured for the first time
On Wednesday 29th March, MESH Experience hosted the Advertising Research Foundation (ARF) and a select group of clients at a proprietary event at The Brand Exchange, showcasing the findings of ground-breaking research examining how advertising works today.
Drawing from the ARF’s US$1 million study, based on primary research, collaboration with 40 industry leaders and proprietary data from some of the world’s leading research solutions providers, Horst Stipp, PhD and Manuel Garcia-Garcia, PhD presented analysis which materially advances the debate on how advertising works.
Focusing on 2 ground truth experiments and referencing the 3rd:
- Cross-platform ROI
- Better creative through neuroscience
- Mobile mastery
The ARF was able to demonstrate how use of multiple platforms increases ROI and which platform combinations are most effective. Stipp and Garcia-Garcia presented evidence that a unified creative strategy delivered through platform-bespoke content delivers material improvements across a range of performance metrics. They also provided the audience with tangible advice for designing winning mobile content, based on ARF proprietary research amongst luminaries of some of the world’s leading creative agencies.
The New York-based institution used MESH Experience data to detail the contextual relationship between ad positivity, media channel and the time of day it was served, demonstrating that people’s receptiveness was deeply rooted to relevance, mental and physical availability.
Commenting, Fiona Blades, Chief Experience Officer and Founder of MESH Experience:
“We are delighted to welcome the ARF to London and are thrilled they are sharing the findings of their ground truth experiments with our partners and clients. The evidence we have heard today has really shifted the needle in our understanding of how communications can be successfully created and served in this rapidly changing media landscape.”
ENDS
For further information please contact:
fionablades@meshexperience.com , +44 (0)7979 808758. +1 (917) 975 6861
horst@thearf.org , +1 (212) 751-5656
manuel.garcia@thearf.org , +1 (212) 751-5656
