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'Power of laughter'

In 2012, Comedy Central undertook a major international study called ‘Comedy Across Borders’. This aimed to identify and explore how laughter shapes the lives of audiences and how this knowledge can be used for broadcasters and advertisers...

Catalogue: Congress 2014: What Inspires?

Authors: Christian Kurz, Jo McIlvenna, Julia Lamaison, James Guerrier

Company: GfK

September 10, 2014

Does facial coding generalize across cultures?

High growth Asian markets present huge opportunities for advertising and marketing industries. Self-report tools that have been validated over thousands of ads in western markets are useful, but less reliable, in Asian cultures due to the prevalence...

Catalogue: Asia Pacific 2014: Celebrating Asian Creativity

Authors: Namita Mediratta, Evan Kodra, Rana El Kaliouby, Pankaj Jha

Company: KANTAR TNS Malaysia

May 13, 2014

Happy shoppers

In 2013, DEKA Marketing Research, in collaboration with Gordon & McCallum undertook a series of research studies designed to better understand the growth in use of this channel, and provide in-depth insight into the way customer engage with such...

Catalogue: Asia Pacific 2014: Celebrating Asian Creativity

Authors: Alastair Gordon, Farquhar Stirling, Dwinarizki Setyorini, Mamik Leonardo

Company: Deka Marketing Research

May 13, 2014

Do emotions in advertising drive sales?

Ads that evoke emotions keep us entertained and are more memorable, but do they really drive product sales? To answer this question, we use facial coding to quantitatively measure people’s tacit emotional responses to ads, and then model the...

Catalogue: Congress 2013: Think Big

Authors: Evan Kodra, Rana El Kaliouby, Laurent Larguinat, Daniel McDuff

September 26, 2013

Tuning into TV Ads

It is increasingly recognised that emotional reactions drive advertising effectiveness. Yet, in Asia, use of scientific measurement techniques to assess such reactions has been limited. We report on a study of TV ads across 5 Asian markets utilising...

Catalogue: Asia Pacific 2013: Asia On The Move

Authors: Joe Wheller, Winnie Yeung, Vuong Manh Giang, Alastair Gordon

Company: Cimigo

April 7, 2013

Babyface: Reading nonverbal cues to measure infants' acceptance of food products

Since infants cannot use scales to indicate how much they like something, mothers must use non-verbal cues to infer product acceptance or rejection. As an alternative to an expensive central location test with mother-infant dyads, we used mothers'...

Catalogue: Congress 2012: Accelerating Excellence

Authors: Lauren Yourshaw, Payal Kondisetty, Ashley Gabel, Amy Elkes, Kelly Sheahan

Company: Blueberry

September 13, 2012

Preparing for the new era

To adapt and thrive in an ever-evolving world, businesses in Latin America must be willing to look at alternative research methodologies to make sense of dynamic and complicated consumer segments. Of the new research techniques circulating and...

Catalogue: Latin America 2012: Uncovering Opportunities

Author: Dan Hill

Company: Sensory Logic

May 3, 2012

Facing the future

Facial expressions are a strong visual method to convey emotions. 3D Facial Imaging directly records human emotions from facial expressions to better measure consumer response to marketing stimuli (e.g. advertising, packaging, retail displays). This...

Catalogue: Asia Pacific 2012: Asia Kaleidoscope

Authors: Tim Llewellyn, Eric Gu, Alastair Gordon

April 17, 2012