Are Parents Too Busy to Notice Your Ads? Or Actively Solution-Seeking?
Jan15

Are Parents Too Busy to Notice Your Ads? Or Actively Solution-Seeking?

Parents are time-constrained, cash-strapped and trying-to-do-it-all, and are one of the most highly sought after group by a variety of brands. Brands ranging from diapers to food products to cars to financial institutions, target parents with family-filled advertising images and benefit propositions aimed at making their life just a little easier…

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SaatchiNY & LA Score in Top 10 Super Bowl Effectiveness
Jan08

SaatchiNY & LA Score in Top 10 Super Bowl Effectiveness

Leading up to Super Bowl XLIX on Feb. 1, an Ad Age story details how nearly 50 ads fared in terms of consumer effectiveness during last year’s game, with Saatchi & Saatchi claiming two top ten spots for its Toyota Highlander “Joyride” (SaatchiLA) and Cheerios “Gracie” (SaatchiNY) Super Bowl ads. Conducted by Tucson, Arizona-based research firm Communicus, which provides advertisers and agency partners with insights about consumer...

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The Science of Emotions: How Effective Are Super Bowl Ads?
Jan08

The Science of Emotions: How Effective Are Super Bowl Ads?

Every year, around February 3rd, newspapers and websites line up to play the post-Super Bowl favorite reporters pastime: Analyzing Super Bowl commercials. Some scrutinize their humor, others focus on the sexy factor, while many others come up with more or less passable definition for the “best” and “worst” ads of the year. Communicus, a US research based advertising consultancy, conducted a study prior to Super Bowl 2014 that found...

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Does Super Bowl Advertising Really Pay Off?
Jan08

Does Super Bowl Advertising Really Pay Off?

As anticipation for the 2015 Super Bowl begins to build, marketers and sports fans alike are awaiting Sunday, Feb. 1. Advertisers who are investing $4 million or more in a Super Bowl commercial are busy plotting their creative strategies and public relations programs while the rest of us wait to be entertained. But marketers everywhere should take pause and examine past insights that have emerged from previous Super Bowl ad...

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Survey explores how the “pester power” of children drives retail sales
Dec19

Survey explores how the “pester power” of children drives retail sales

Advertising consultancy Communicus says it has found that “child pestering” is one of the top predictors of a parent’s purchase intentions to buy a wireless device for their children. Its study, “The Mobile Device Path to Purchase: Parents & Children” found that for Apple, “child pestering” is the top predictor, being twice as important as social media, while for Samsung, it was the second predictor (first...

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