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Neuroscience in IndustryNeuroscience in Industry
Professor Gemma CalvertProfessor Gemma Calvert
What is “Neuromarketing”
• Term broadly used to describe the application of tools tasks/tests derived from the fields of cognitive psychology and neuroscience to measure biological (as opposed to psychological) reactions to (marketing) stimuli
Roughly speaking – basic consumer research
using modern tools
What is “Neuromarketing”
• Measure brain/neural responses
• Implicit or direct responses (vs explicit/spoken)
• Where those “stimuli” are:
• Marketing strategies
• Communications
• Advertising
• New products
• Existing products
Why does industry need
neuroscience?
“The trouble with market research
is that consumers
don’t think how they feel,
they don’t say what they think,
and they don’t do what they say”
Estimated 80%+ new products fail in Year 1….
“In 2002, an estimated US$ 6.8 billion was spent on conventional marketing research tools in the US alone. This is an enormous amount of money considering that there is little scientific evidence to support the widespread use of focus groups.” (Mast & Zaltmann, Brain Research Bulletin, 2005)
“There is evidence that as much as 80% of all market research is confirmatory” (Barabba et al, 1991)
Traditional Market Research
Focus Groups• Group dynamics• Moderator bias
Observation• Behavioural change• Little control• Subjective interpretation
of behaviour
Surveys• Leading questions• Sensitivity• Inaccurate answers• Selective responses
Confounding Effects
What can Neuroscience offer?
Rigorously Controlled
Environment
Taps Implicit Processes
(as opposed to explicit)
Objective
What type of companies are using
these tools?
• Global packaged goods
• Flavour and fragrance houses
• Media owners and planners
• Advertising agencies
• Pharmaceuticals
• Digital gaming and services
• Brains are more direct predictors of behaviour
• Brains absorb much more than what we are “conscious” of (spotlight of attention)
• Emotions are key drivers of behaviour – easy to image in the brain, hard to articulate
• Brains are less noisy than human speech (behave more similarly)
• Better business decisions from better understanding
What’s the interest in
neuroscience?
Current Applications
• Measuring effectiveness of communications (public messages)
• Neuroergonomics (human-machine interface)
• De-risking marketing decisions
• Evaluation of traditional market research tools
• Validation of focus group output
• Patents (back-up product claims)
• PR opportunities (profile, talking point entry)
Case study: evaluation of planned brand extensions
BRIEF
• Use fMRI to predict the likely success of two possible brand extensions
• Existing brand: successful personal care product
• Planned extension categories: homecare & babycare
• Subjects: Mothers 18-45 with children under 3 yrs
• Compare with post-scanning questionnaire
• Client: Unilever
Existing Brand Competitor Brands in the Planned Extension Markets
Mock-up versions of the existing Brand into the planned new markets
Mock-ups of the planned brand extensions were generated by an illustrator prior to scanning
Planned extension A Babycare sector
Planned extension B Babycare sector
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1: Existing brand
2: Brand Ext 1
3. Brand Ext 2
(failed in USA)
FMRI indicates response to planned brand extension 1 is very similar to successful brand. Brand extension 2 shows the opposite pattern.
There are no differences in visual attention areas to all 3 conditions so the differences seen in preference areas not due to superficial differences in mock-up design. Post-scan explicit questionnaires revealed no sig diffs between all 3 conditions.
Neuroscience & Public CampaignsNeuroscience & Public Campaigns
MaterialsPacks Packs with
warnings
SponsorshipBillboard ads
Promotional items
The same conditions were included for Marlboro Cigarettes
© Neurosense Limited, UK 2008
• Are Government Health Warnings on cigarette packets effective, or do they in fact do more harm than good?
• Following the ban on cigarette advertising on TV etc, tobacco companies are using more insidious methods of advertising
• Have they tapped into a more effective but insidious method of advertising?
Ad formatAd formatAd formatAd format
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ADVISING GOVERNMENT PUBLIC HEALTH CAMPAIGNS
In contrast to the government’s aim to reduce cigarette smoking, warning
labels FAIL to reduce the response of the brain’s nicotine craving area. Our
data show that warning labels actually induce further craving, particularly in
those people who say they are most affected by warning labels…
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compared to packs without warnings
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The correlation between rating and activity in the ventral striatum/nucleus accumbens in this graph is .44, and significant at p < .05. In other words, in those people who are most aware of warning labels (ratings 4-7), these labels induce craving to a greater degree than those who ignore them.
Public health advice from
industry sources
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Evaluation of marketing activity
• Evaluation of the relative effectiveness of different media formats (TV, print, radio)
• Measurement of advertisement effectiveness in:
– different dayparts (GMTV)
– different sectors in ad break (Viacom)
– different programming contexts (Viacom)
• Pre-testing of concept boards
Simultaneous Eye Tracking and FMRISimultaneous Simultaneous eyetrackingeyetracking and FMRIand FMRI
How is neuroscience adding
value?• De-risk marketing decisions
• Bolster/validate/improve traditional research tools
• Pre-testing of animatics/storyboards/prototypes
• Evidence to back product claims (patents)
• PR opportunities, profile raising
• Contribution to knowledge (brand equity, loyalty, value)
Are there ethical issues to answer?
• Technique is descriptive – still interrogating consumers as traditional methods
• All FMRI studies subject to scrutiny by public research ethics committees
• Group data maintains anonymity
• Brain imaging may help uncover existing drives or needs, but difficult to conceive that it would be able to invent ones
• The economic advantages are clear – refine and define new products with lower risk of failure
• Boost UK economy by harnessing the best science available
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