The document discusses several UK Christmas advertising campaigns from 2016. It provides details on:
1) An analysis of several campaigns using a tool called BrainJuicer which measures audience emotional responses and predicts potential for sharing and business growth. Highly emotional campaigns that resolve negative feelings tended to perform best.
2) Summaries of individual campaigns for brands like Sainsbury's, Aldi, and Waitrose. These summaries include the emotional journeys the ads took viewers on and whether negatives were resolved by the end.
3) Overall, ads that elicited negative feelings like fear or sadness but then provided resolution through a happy ending tended to score highest on BrainJuicer's system and have the best predicted performance
29. Be sure to watch the top 10 UK XMAS Ads on FeelMore50™
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Good afternoon everybody. Welcome to December and welcome to BrainJuicer’s latest webinar looking at the performance of 27 of the UK Christmas ads of 2016.
My name is David Whitelam and I'm head of new client development at BJ. I will be presenting this webinar with my colleague Charlotte Kiddle, Deputy MD of BrainJuicer UK.
For those of you who’ve joined us before you’ll know our webinars have the facility for you to ask questions by typing into the little box on the right hand side. So please feel free to tap away and we'll have a look at any questions you might have and address them in a short Q&A session in about 30 minutes’ time.
I should also let you know that a recording of this session is being taken as I speak and the link will be made available to all attendees afterwards.
AtBJ We have constructed a model to predict share growth based on the emotional response that people have to to campaigns. And this is the basis on which we are judging the Christmas ads you’ll see in a minute.
We do it by asking a key question.
How does this advert make you feel? To answer, consumers Use the pictorial scale showing 8 faces.
Developed on the back of the work of the psychologist and anthropologist Paul Ekman who has shown that emotions are innate to humankind,rather than being learned. His work has deduced that there are 7 basic emotions that, no matter where we are from and what your background, upbringing, creed or colour we all express them in the same way facially. These emotions are Contempt…..We also feature neutrality (important if there is no “feeling”)
We take the profile of the proportion of those feeling each emotion and the intensity which theyare felt and we translate into a one number score that helps us to predict share growth.
We do this by giving appropriate weights to each emotion depending how useful they are in eliciting action.
Surpriuse and happines are particularly useful at predicting advertising success and are given positive weights. Negative weights are assigned to the other emotions, not least neutrality.
The one number score translates to a star score, from 1star (a low level of emotional response) up to a very rare 5 star ad which is extremely engaging.
Here is the star chart. It shows that for every ten points of Excess Share of Voice what your share growth is likely to be
ESOV is effectively how much you are advertising compared to the competition based on your market share. If share of market (imagine 20%) your share of voice is 30% then ESOV is 10%. So our chart assumes for a 10% ESOV what will your market share growth figure be.
This varies from no growth for1 star ads, up.
Binet and Field have shown average of campaigns is 0.5% growth for 10% points of Excess Share of voice which equates to a 2 star in terms of emotional engagement
Before we review 2016 results, just a quick case study using the Binet andFIeld findings from the IPA database.
People talk a lot about the JL campaign and while JL might no longer alone in their style of ad, the good news is that there’s been lots of work done over the past few years on how effective the ads have been.
It may seem purely emotional advertising, but underpinned by critical insight, albeit not a persuasion-based message.
Creative Strategy: Thoughtful Gifting
Over a period of time, emotional campaigns generate share growth. Share growth better than ROI as long term encouraging. Use common assets to build on each other (similar treatments in colour hues, music signalling JL).
Emotional ads take 6 months to see the benefit of, but use model to show how to spend,
Four campaigns tested over the years relative to IPA paper share growth reported. COmparison with actual v modelled is strong. The model based on emotional engagement explains the reality of market share growth really well.
R squared .72 (good explanatory power)
The star of the campaign to date has been Monty the penguin: and we can see the emotional journey from our research by looking at how happiness (in light green) soars in first few seconds until the realisation in the viewer that penguin is lonely.
THis sadness resolved. Rare shape. But common in effective adverts- tension and successful resolution. how did it do- 5* in our testing.
2015 saw a different tone as the Manonthe Moon advert Age UK
Commentators suggested “emotional” advertising was too samey and pulling on heartstrings can’t last.
But emotional advertising is not necessarily related to heartstrings, or the tear ducts it could be related to the chucklemuscle. It is simply advertising that moves the viewer. It can be sad, but it can be funny, uplifting, make you angry, make you fearful.
So without further ado, I’m going to handover to Charlotte who will reveal how the ads from 2016 have performed
We’ve historically seen a strong link between Emotional dynamism and actual sharing rates – based on work done on the Superbowl campaigns of the last few years (also viewable in our Feelmore site).
Looking at the sharing prediction for the two leading 2016 ads, there’s not much to choose between them, though the length of the M&S adverts could allow it to be more dynamic. Nevertheless John Lewis have overdelivered in the YouTube views and Facebook Shares data, as well as from other statistics relating to social media mentions.
The difference is more to do with the juggernaut of expectation that accompanies the release of the JL offering, as much as the continued appeal of the storytelling and execution and data points towards people wanting to show they are one of the first to have seen the new ad. Bravo to John Lewis for creating this momentum and delivering on it for the fifth year in a row.
So, to wrap up, emotion is proven to deliver longterm business effects and is here to stay. It doesn’t have to be melancholy or sentimentality that touches people and we’ve seen more joy and humour this year (which, given how 2016 seems to be panning out, is probably no coincidence and a blessed relief).
2 We’ve seen epic productions, increasing use of Big Budget Directors, special filmscores, and, inevitably some engaging stories – Waitrose being the most dynamic.
3 We’ve also seen 3 minute adverts, but longer isn’t better and needs engagement and dynamism to maintain interest.
4 M&S’ execution is a true blockbuster and scores comparably to JL – it will be interesting to see how they follow it up next year; we know that JL’s longterm strategy helps snowball interest
5 How do they do this? They use the same hues, musical style (though no piano this year) and insight to maintain the story and this has helped them dominate sharing and social media metrics