Book Review: About Face - The Secrets of Emotionally Effective Advertising by Dan Hill At a time when neuromarketing discussions are dominated by brain scans - EEG on the commercial side, and fMRI for academic research - Dan Hill and his firm, Sensory Logic, are the main proponents of using facial coding as a way to determine what consumers…

Just about everyone has an opinion on the new Gap logo (now hastily withdrawn by the firm), and NeuroFocus has jumped on the bandwagon by conducting EEG and…

Here's a thought that would terrify many marketers... what if consumers prone to impulsive behavior decided to take a pill to quiet those impulses? While…

In The Million Dollar Pickle (retitled after a reader suggested the original title When Stories Don't Sell wasn't that good), I retold a story about how a…

Direct mail is so last millenium, right? Ultra-efficient digital marketing seems all but certain to supplant actual paper marketing delivered by humans. It…

Days after the Advertising Research Foundation and a consortium of firms joined to conduct neuromarketing tests and establish standards (see Neuromarketing…

Most marketers don't count religious affiliation or degree of religiosity as key demographics, but a new study suggests perhaps they should. Makers of…

Recently, Newsweek ran a big article titled The Case Against College Athletic Recruiting, with the sensational subtitle claiming that U.S. universities are…

Advertisers strive to maximize attention and engagement. They want people to remember seeing their ads. They want maximum brand recall. But it's possible…

Just in case you didn't have enough goofy ad jingles stuck in your head, ad agency DDB has added an earworm expert to their staff. The Omnicom unit has…