Young, connected and Muslim
Muslim consumers are a growing, influential and extremely loyal group, making them a desirable market for mainstream brands.
Superbowl ads and Neuromarketing results
Sands Research - Neuromedia Analysis
Below you’ll find links to each of the Top 5 ranked ads based on Sands Research’s proprietary Neuro-Engagement Factor™ (NEF) scoring system.
Interesting data
A hundred million mistakes: Microsoft’s Bing search engine - Good Experience
A hundred million mistakes: Microsoft’s Bing search engine - Good Experience
Everything Microsoft has tried recently hasn’t worked. They tried the “I’m a PC” ads, a knockoff of the Mac ads - didn’t work. Tried the Zune, a knockoff of the iPod - didn’t work. Tried redoing MSN Search again and again, as a knockoff of Google - didn’t work. What’s the world coming to, when Microsoft can’t build a monopoly around a knockoff?It’s those effing customers. They keep choosing the best experience.
Touching or imagining touch sensations leads to more sales
Want to Save Some Money? Shop Without Touching - TIME
To test this hypothesis, the authors added an extra layer to the experiment. After the students either touched or didn’t touch the Slinky and coffee mug, they asked about half of them to imagine picking up the products and bringing them home. They asked the other half to simply evaluate the products in their minds. Among those who touched the products, imagining ownership did not affect the price they’d be willing to pay for them. However, among those who didn’t touch the items — a group that shares the same hands-free experience as online shoppers — picturing ownership led to significantly higher valuations of the products.
Unveiling the “Sixth Sense,” game-changing wearable tech
Pattie Maes demos the Sixth Sense | Video on TED.com
Talks Pattie Maes & Pranav Mistry: Unveiling the “Sixth Sense,” game-changing wearable tech
The way the brain buys
The science of shopping | The way the brain buys | The Economist
IT MAY have occurred to you, during the course of a dismal trawl round a supermarket indistinguishable from every other supermarket you have ever been into, to wonder why they are all the same. The answer is more sinister than depressing. It is not because the companies that operate them lack imagination. It is because they are all versed in the science of persuading people to buy things—a science that, thanks to technological advances, is beginning to unlock the innermost secrets of the consumer’s mind.
Effective product promotion through infoanimation
STOKKE XPLORY
A textbook definition of bad pricing
If your sales increase 100% when you cut your price, how many more units and market share could you have had should you have come to the market with a better price from the start?
UK Xbox 360 price cut at Christmas - The INQUIRER
Microsoft has said that following the US price cut of the Xbox 360, sales of the console have risen 100 per cent.
TV viewers’ average age hits 50
TV viewers’ average age hits 50 - Entertainment News, TV News, Media - Variety
According to a study released by Magna Global’s Steve Sternberg, the five broadcast nets’ average live median age (in other words, not including delayed DVR viewing) was 50 last season. That’s the oldest ever since Sternberg started analyzing median age more than a decade ago — and the first time the nets’ median age was outside of the vaunted 18-49 demo.
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