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The Benchmark Series

While some advertising platforms may seem more cost-effective, are they actually delivering on the metrics that matter? The Benchmark Series shows you how to make the most of your media spend to drive business growth.

About The Benchmark Series

One of ThinkTV’s goals it to look for ways to improve outcomes from your media plans. With five tranches of The Benchmark Series conducted over the last seven years, we have now added a sixth edition that deep dives on Cross Channel Impact.

1. Viewability
2. Emotions and Advertising
3. Video Advertising on Mobile
4. Memory Decay
5. Cross Screen Effects
6. Cross Channel Impact

In association with Macquarie University and Kantar Research, the latest findings from the series investigate how media work together and how certain media are crucial for others to be effective.

Get a copy of the latest research on Cross Channel Impact

Previous research was conducted with leading academic Professor Karen Nelson-Field, a Professor of Media Innovation at The University of Adelaide, and included an independent, large-scale in-home study that explores how Australians really engage with advertising across different platforms and devices.

Utilising bespoke technology that employs artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning, more than 5,000 Australians were observed viewing in excess of 25,000 advertisements for 60,000 different brands.

Using eye tracking software on people’s own devices – be that a TV, PC or mobile phone – the study was able to determine which ads people were looking at. After they saw the ads, survey participants were funnelled through a discrete choice modelling exercise that replicated the experience of being in a store. The research used the well-established metric of short-term advertising strength or STAS.

To learn more about the research methodology watch the introductory video.

The Benchmark Series: Cross Channel Impact

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The Benchmark Series: Cross Channel Impact

In its seventh year, The Benchmark Series investigates the impact of different media channels and their interactions to drive the best media mix.

The Brand Engine: Optimise your media spend & power better brand outcomes

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The Brand Engine: Optimise your media spend & power better brand outcomes

Marketers are always looking to increase effectiveness and efficiency of media investment, but without consistent access to econometric modelling it can be challenging to design campaigns for the best possible […]

Cross Channel Impact: A Focus on Retail & Services

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Cross Channel Impact: A Focus on Retail & Services

Not all reach is equal: TV commands more attention than social video

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Not all reach is equal: TV commands more attention than social video

The Benchmark Series: Cross Screen Effects

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The Benchmark Series: Cross Screen Effects

The results from The Benchmark Series have consistently demonstrated that the superior screen coverage and viewability of TV drives greater attention and delivers higher sales impact than social video, irrespective […]

The Benchmark Series: Overview

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The Benchmark Series: Overview

Five tranches of the Benchmark research have now been conducted and before you sit down to nut out your media spend, here’s what you need to know.

The Benchmark Series: Viewability

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The Benchmark Series: Viewability

As part of The Benchmark Series, ThinkTV commissioned Dr Karen Nelson-Field, a Professor of Media Innovation at The University of Adelaide, to conduct an independent, large-scale in-home study into how Australians really engage with […]

The Benchmark Series: Emotions and Advertising

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The Benchmark Series: Emotions and Advertising

Does emotional advertising boost advertising effectiveness?

The Benchmark Series: Video advertising on mobile

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The Benchmark Series: Video advertising on mobile

The mobile tranche of The Benchmark Series from Professor Karen Nelson-Field compares the awareness, coverage and, most importantly, the sales impact of TV, Facebook and YouTube video advertising delivered via […]

The Benchmark Series: Memory Decay

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The Benchmark Series: Memory Decay

In “Advertising Effectiveness: The Long and the Short of it”, Les Binet and Peter Field showed that advertising works in two ways; in the short term to drive sales amongst […]