Culturally Fluent Ad Testing is Now a Must
The Challenge
Legacy norms and sample bias used in conventional ad testing can exacerbate a cultural disconnect between your brand and the consumers you need to grow.
The Opportunity
Understand the deep cultural and emotional influences that inform how consumers from different cultural backgrounds process ads.
Without Cultural Fluency, Brands Risk Major Backlash
Purchase Consideration Collapsed to 8-Year Low
Negative Sentiment Increased by 48%
1.5 Billion Decline in Market Cap
The cultural transformation of the American consumer poses major creative challenges in advertising. Do your ads have what it takes to connect with diverse America?
1. Improve Marketing Efficiency
Advertisers use AdRate to develop more efficient campaigns and executions. Find the sweet spot in nuance, storyline and representation that links different cultural perspectives while deepening cultural resonance.
Contact your Client Services representative to discuss how AdRate can help you, whether you need to get more from your integrated campaigns or improve the performance of targeted campaigns.
2. Measure Cultural Fluency
The core of AdRate is the Cultural Fluency Quotient, a powerful new metric that better predicts favorability and purchase intent, based on three key experiences felt by survey respondents that reflect their cultural perspective.
Use CFQ to understand how your executions are helping you pivot to be more inclusive of growth consumers while ensuring you maintain your connection to core consumers. Build Culturally Fluent creative that avoid the risks of the Resonance Trap or the Risky Pivot
CFQ shows high correlation with post-view favorability and purchase intent.
3. Quantify Groundswell and Backlash
The insights obtained by the Cultural Fluency Quotient are amplified through the use of two additional metrics innovations which we call Groundswell and Backlash. These upgrade conventional brand favorability metrics by quantifying the degree to which an ad can actually “flip” perception from positive to negative or vice versa.
A startling 20% of consumers experience such a “flip” about a brand after watching just one ad.
4. Understand Why Segments Process Ads Differently
Topline metrics and the norms that can be built with them are useful but insufficient. Why? Because performance norms not only orient advertisers to exceeding merely average performance, but also incorporate sample biases and legacy approaches to advertising that are increasingly suspect in today’s highly polarized and rapidly evolving marketplace.
We use machine learning to reveal why different groups process ads the way they do. Our approach has revealed powerful new insights into the power of authentic stories, the role of representation and which emotions are most beneficial to activate and which are riskiest to elicit.
Break through the conventional wisdom that makes for forgettable creative and provide the creative direction you need to stand out in your category.
To learn more about how our AdRate capability to can help you become more Culturally Fluent, contact one of our representatives today.
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American consumers are experiencing a cultural transformation of unprecedented scope and scale. The pressure is on to rethink marketing with a focus on authentic connections that tap into culture, identity and emotion. This rapidly evolving landscape requires a new approach to assessing and building brands, centered on what we refer to as Cultural Fluency.
Unleashing culture to drive brand growth