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By our News Team | 2023
Understanding emotional engagement to adverts is becoming a more important metric to advertisers, media house says.
Kagiso Media Radio has partnered with the Bureau of Market Research to launch a neuro-research product that it claims will “change the way local businesses advertise their products”.
NextGen Neuro will help clients formulate more effective radio and audio ads, Kagiso Media Radio says. It is part of SA-based Kagiso Media, which owns several local radio stations, including Jacaranda FM and East Coast Radio.
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NextGen Neuro uses neuromarketing techniques to measure the physiological and neural signals of an audience to gain insights into why customers make certain buying decisions.
Melissa McNally, Research and Analytics Manager at Kagiso, says her team developed NextGen Neuro after realising that there was a gap in the market for a service that allows brands to test their audio.
“While talking to clients and agencies, we found that understanding emotional engagement to adverts is becoming a more important metric to advertisers.
A listener-led approach to insights
“Further to this, looking at how consumers want to have a voice when it comes to their brands, we were inspired at [Kagiso Media Radio] to construct a listener-led approach to insights, where co-creation with audiences is promoted in order to create a deeper understanding,” she says in a media statement.
Five radio advertisements from the automotive industry were used to test how things like jingles, the voices used in the advert, and unintentional stereotyping can affect engagement.
“Unlike traditional copy testing, we’re able to establish how the respondent feels about the advert through a physiological response. By using the NextGen Neuro testing, we can predict purchase intent and the general emotional engagement of copy,” explains McNally.
Some of the pilot study’s key findings:
“Brands that appeal to multiple senses are more successful in triggering the brain’s ‘buy’ button. To truly be successful, a campaign or marketing [strategy] should contain every human sense,” McNally says.
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With an esteemed academic journey, Dr. Kariisa’s accolades include an Honorary PhD in exemplary community service from the United Graduate College inTexas, an MBA from United States International University in Nairobi, Kenya, a Master’s degree in Computer Engineering from Huazong University in China, and a Bachelor’s degree in Statistics from Makerere University.
Dr. Kariisa pursued PhD research in Computer Security and Identity Management at Security of Systems Group, Radboud University in Nijmegen, Netherlands. As a dynamic educator, he has shared his expertise as a lecturer of e-Government and Information Security at both Makerere University and Radboud University.
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