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Industry Support
“It’s about time! Finally after all these years of focusing on the effect of media, comScore’s initiative re-focuses
attention on the impact of great creative. Better creative may be the single most important driver of exponential
growth in online display advertising. The industry thanks you.”
BOB BAROCCI President & CEO, Advertising Research Foundation
“As consumers spend more and more time online, it’s critical for marketers to reach our consumers at the right time,
with the right message, communicated in the right way. Tools that help drive those insights help us stay on the
cutting edge.”
GAYLE FUGUITT Vice President, Consumer Insights, General Mills
“Every good marketer knows that attitude precedes action: You can't get consumers to buy your product unless they
like, admire, respect and trust your brand. As vital as interactive media are in reshaping consumer attitudes, this
comScore whitepaper underscores the channel is meaningless without great creative strategy and execution. This
study will contribute to the IAB's call for a creative revolution in interactive advertising."
RANDALL ROTHENBERG President & CEO, Interactive Advertising Bureau
“All advertising is a combination of art and science, logic and emotion, conviction and motivation. Until recently digital
advertising focused on the left brain area of science, logic and conviction. While these are important, it is clear that
the next frontier is art, emotion and motivation, which come from that elusive butterfly creativity. Creativity online
should be even more possible now because not only can we test and measure but because we have an entire palette
of colors to paint and sculpt from. I have always believed that the Internet will usher in the next generation of
creativity. Creativity that not only can we see, hear and feel, but also measure its impact.”
RISHAD TOBACCOWALA Chief Strategy & Innovation Officer, VivaKi
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Introduction
For decades, Madison Avenue advertising executives, embodied by the fictional characters in the award-
winning AMC television series Mad Men, have built some of the most memorable and impactful
advertising campaigns by focusing on the creative strategy and execution of an ad. Though Mad Men’s
central character, Creative Director Don Draper, is viewed by his peers as an incomparable mastermind
who effortlessly ordains ideas out of thin air, he is actually, first and foremost, a brilliant creative strategist.
By understanding the inherent value a product offers to its customers, Draper is able to develop
consistently superior ideas for executions that are nearly always on the money for his clients.
Beyond the examples brought to life in Mad Men, years of sophisticated advertising research have proven
that great creative is critical to the success of campaigns. It has been – and it continues to be – essential
in TV advertising where countless brands would not consider launching a campaign without first testing a
variety of creative strategies and executions. In contrast, however, digital advertising has historically
centered on the media plan, while the underlying strategy and creative execution have taken a backseat.
Today, as more advertising dollars shift to digital and the costs associated with advertising on this
channel rise, the role of creative needs to be elevated to the forefront of the conversation. But there are
still many more questions than answers in understanding the true role of creative in the digital medium,
leaving many to wonder:
This paper, a first in a series of comScore ARS reports on the role of creative in digital and
traditional television advertising, serves as a starting point for an industry-wide dialogue about the
importance of creative in advertising. This first paper helps us to begin to answer some critical questions
specific to digital advertising, such as,
Knowing what we do about creative’s important role in advertising, why is there still so little focus
on creative in digital?
What role should it play in today’s new advertising ecosystem, and why are so few advertisers
and their agencies testing it?
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Digital Advertising’s Path to Success
To begin to answer the above questions, we must first take a look back at the history of the digital
advertising market. In the mid-1990s, as the Internet became a mainstream medium and the notion of
online advertising came to be, there were perhaps good reasons why brands didn‟t get caught up in the
creative. At that time, digital was a whole new world, and there was not that much risk. Compared to
television advertising, creating a banner ad was easy and inexpensive, and when it came to gauging the
effectiveness of advertising, click-through rates (CTRs) emerged as a popular metric because they were
inexpensive and easy to measure. After all, the Internet was coined „the most measurable medium,‟
largely a result of the industry‟s reliance on the click.
However, as Albert Einstein once said, „Not everything that can be measured matters and not everything
that matters can be measured.‟ Over the past several years, and through a variety of industry research,
we‟ve learned that this statement rings true when it comes to CTRs. While clicks can be measured, they
do not necessarily matter, at least not to the extent that many might have believed.
There are several reasons why CTRs are not the appropriate measure of display advertising‟s
effectiveness. Perhaps most notably is the fact that the majority of Internet users do not click on display
ads, and the percentage of users who do is continuing to decrease over time. In March 2009, for
example, only 16% of U.S. Internet users clicked on an ad, down 50% from July 2007 (See Figure 1).
Figure 1: Percent Clickers and Non-Clickers in July 2007 vs. March 2009
Source: comScore Natural Born Clickers Study, Part I & II
Total U.S. Online Population, July 2007 and March 2009
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Additional industry findings further confirm a lack of clicks on individual display ad campaigns:
 Low CTRs are observed across industries. DoubleClick DART for Advertisers data show that
low CTRs, ranging from an average 0.06% to 0.15%, occur in nearly every industry, including
retail, telecommunications, CPG, auto and financial services (See Chart 1 in Appendix).
 The majority of clicks come from a small percentage of the total population. A comScore
study found that heavy and moderate clickers only represent a combined 8% of the U.S. Internet
population, yet they account for about 85% of all click-throughs (See Chart 2 in Appendix).
 Low CTRs are a global phenomenon. DoubleClick DART for Advertisers data show that low
CTRs are not only observed in the U.S. In fact, this is a phenomenon seen across the globe. (See
Chart 3 in Appendix).
With such a strong focus on CTRs, it‟s not surprising to see that digital advertising has captured a much
higher share of direct response media dollars than branding dollars (See Figure 2). However, as
advertisers continue to realize the value of the Internet beyond direct response, more and more branding
advertising dollars should move to digital, and the full potential of the Internet will be realized. In fact,
eMarketer forecasts that online advertising spending in the U.S. will be $25.1 billion in 2010, an increase
of 10.8% versus year ago. It is estimated to reach $36.3 billion by 2014.
Figure 2: Internet is Lagging in Capturing Branding Dollars
Source: Barclays, ThinkEquity Partners, Brand.net, 2009
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In the absence of a click, the industry has begun to evaluate the branding impact of digital advertising,
and there is clear and mounting evidence in support of the Internet‟s ability to build brands. As addressed
in the comScore report, How Online Advertising Works: Whither the Click? (Published in the Journal of
Advertising Research, June 2009), even with dismal CTRs, display advertising has been shown to lift site
visitation for the advertised brand, to lift trademark search queries and to build both online and offline
sales.
In addition, a comScore analysis from dozens of studies in the AdEffx™ Offline Sales Lift normative
database clearly demonstrates the offline impact of online advertising on retail sales of CPG brands. On
average, 82% of all campaigns evaluated showed a positive sales lift and, among Internet users exposed
to the ad campaigns, offline sales for the brands being advertised increased by 22% (See Figure 3).
Figure 3: Digital Advertising’s Impact on In-Store Sales* for CPG Brands
Source: comScore AdEffx Offline Sales Lift Studies (conducted with dunnhumby)
*comScore measures advertising‟s impact on offline sales by linking the comScore panel of 1 million U.S. Internet
users to dunnhumby‟s retailer loyalty card data, which provides a measure of the panelists‟ in-store brand buying
activity.
As an increasing percentage of brands‟ budgets moves to digital, it‟s critical for marketers to be able to
not only measure the total impact of their digital advertising campaigns but to also develop strategies and
execute approaches that will result in the greatest return-on-investment (ROI). This is especially important
in today‟s rapidly-evolving digital advertising market, where the stakes are higher than ever before. The
cost of homepage takeovers on a major Internet property, for example, can start at $250,000 and run as
high as $1 million or more per day. And as online advertising makes greater use of rich media and video,
production costs associated with ads have gotten much higher. Put another way: the cost of making
mistakes has grown.
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From the digital planning side, media buyers and publishers increasingly rely on sophisticated tools to
execute efficient, targeted and optimal media-placement strategies. Another simple and effective way to
mitigate the increasing risk associated with today‟s digital advertising environment is to test the quality of
an ad‟s creative strategy and execution before launching a campaign.
Teaching New Media Old Tricks
In an effort to help digital advertisers maximize their use of creative to garner a stronger ROI, we turn to
lessons learned from decades of TV ad copy-testing which can be applied to digital. After all, regardless
of the medium, the goal of advertising is largely the same: to inform consumers, influence thoughts and
elicit an emotional feeling about a brand that ultimately results in positive brand perceptions and
increased sales.
A Case for Ad Copy-Testing in Digital
More than 40 years ago, the ARSgroup (now comScore ARS as a result of a 2010 acquisition) pioneered
the science of TV ad copy-testing, and today many of the world‟s largest brands won‟t launch an ad
campaign without first testing the effectiveness of their creative.
There are countless pieces of anecdotal evidence about the importance of creative, and intuitively few
would disagree that the creative execution of an ad impacts its overall effectiveness. comScore ARS has
validated this intuition thousands of times using the ARS Persuasion Score, a measure of creative quality
that has been proven to be highly predictive of sales. Said very simply, the higher a campaign‟s ARS
Persuasion Score, the higher the impact the campaign is likely to have on sales (See ARS Persuasion
Score and Correlation with Sales section of Appendix).
By combining data from hundreds of campaigns it has tested, comScore ARS has quantified the relative
impact of various campaign attributes – such as creative quality, advertising spend, elements of the
media plan and other characteristics – on sales. The research confirmed the expected positive
relationship between creative quality and sales. Specifically, the analysis shows that 52% of shifts in
brand sales (or market share) are attributable to the quality of creative, making creative the number one
driver of sales changes. These findings demonstrate the importance of focusing on the quality of creative
as part of the ad-planning process, and not just relying on media planning elements, which account for a
combined 13% of the changes in a brand‟s sales (See Figure 4). The results indicate that creative is four
times more impactful in influencing sales than key media planning variables (i.e. 52% for ad quality vs.
13% for media plan).
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Figure 4: Percent Influence on Shifts in Brand Sales*
Source: comScore ARS Global Validation Summary (n=396)
*Numbers represent the percent of changes in brand sales or market share explained by the corresponding factors.
The implications of this finding are very significant. Consider for example, a $1 million investment on a
homepage takeover on Cyber Monday or a campaign that utilizes several media-placement strategies
over time. Knowing that the quality of the ad‟s creative has a four times greater impact on sales than the
media plan itself, it‟s difficult to envision a scenario in which a marketer would not want to do the right
homework up front to ensure the creative is as persuasive as possible prior to launching the campaign.
The key takeaway is that creative matters and in a big way. Assuming you have it right as opposed to
confirming it through measurement is an inefficient, sub-optimal approach to advertising.
Getting Creative Strategy Right from the Start
As we begin to shift our focus in digital to include the important role of creative, it makes sense to start in
the same place that TV advertisers have for years – with the upfront creative strategy. Getting the
creative strategy right from the start greatly improves the likelihood of an ad‟s success. This sounds like
an obvious point, and it‟s one that‟s been widely accepted in traditional advertising for years. However,
the notion of testing a strategy before developing and launching a campaign has yet to take hold in the
digital advertising community.
Let‟s compare TV to digital for a moment. This year a 30 second spot in the World Series will reportedly
cost an advertiser $450,000. As is nearly always the case with large TV investments, a vast majority of
these ads will go through rigorous pre-testing before they see the light of day. In fact, advertisers will pre-
test multiple strategies (i.e. basic value proposition, positioning and messaging) to determine what
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resonates best with consumers and what will likely have the greatest impact on sales. To juxtapose that,
in the digital space, a homepage takeover on a major portal can now cost upward of $1 million on a key
date (and routinely above and beyond the $450,000 World Series investment). Sure enough, most of
these ads are developed without any kind of pre-testing at all.
comScore ARS research demonstrates just how important it is to get the creative strategy right from the
start. In this particular analysis, comScore ARS scored creative strategy, using the ARS Persuasion
Score, for more than 200 campaigns, and it categorized the results of each campaign into below-average,
average and above-average relative to the comScore ARS Fair Share Benchmark (See Appendix for a
detailed explanation of the comScore ARS Fair Share Benchmark). comScore ARS then scored the
actual campaign execution, using its standard copy-testing methodology, again categorizing each
execution into below-average, average and above-average relative rankings (See Figure 5).
Figure 5: Impact of Creative Strategy’s Effectiveness on the Effectiveness of Resulting Creative
Execution
Source: comScore ARS Summary of Factors Affecting ARS Persuasion Scores
Study findings showed that among campaigns with an above-average creative strategy, 70% resulted in
an above-average execution. Similarly, among campaigns with a below-average creative strategy, 65%
also ended up with a below-average creative execution. Bottom line, getting the creative strategy right
from the start is critical. Doing so will improve the likelihood of achieving a successful campaign
execution, which will ultimately result in increased sales.
This evaluation of the impact of the strength of the creative strategy on the resulting execution helps to
shed light on the value of a strong, upfront creative strategy. The case example that follows further
illustrates the importance of strategy pre-testing.
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A Case Study: How Strategy Pre-Testing Improves Impact
Study Objective: Use comScore ARS‟ strategy testing methodology to identify the strongest strategic
approach for an ad campaign for a CPG product.
Approach: Five initial strategies were tested based on five unique value propositions associated with
the product (See Figure 6). Strategy A emerged as a clear winner with an ARS Persuasion Score of 9.
This score was almost double the ARS Fair Share Benchmark and a full 2 points higher than Strategy B,
the next best strategy. As a point of reference, this ARS Persuasion Score would suggest a high
probability of a short-term market share gain (first 8 weeks) of around 2 or more share points.
Figure 6: ARS Persuasion Scores for the Tested Strategies
Based on the results from the strategy test, the brand developed an ad campaign centered on the value
proposition from Strategy A. The ad campaign was also scored as part of the analysis, and it garnered an
ARS Persuasion Score of 12.8, nearly 4 points higher than the strategy and more than double the ARS
Fair Share Benchmark (See Figure 7). These results indicated a high likelihood for strong in-market sales
performance. Specifically, this ARS Persuasion Score would suggest a high probability of a short-term
market share gain (first 8 weeks) in excess of 2 share points.
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Figure 7: Final Ad Score Resulting from Strategy A
Results: Ad-induced sales were measured relative to a base period to calculate market share shifts. The
brand increased its competitive share two points versus the base period in key markets (See Figure 8). In
addition to being able to gain share from its competitors, the ad campaign also resulted in overall growth
in the product category. The category saw a 3% increase in sales volume versus the base period.
Figure 8: Increase in Market Share Resulting from Advertising
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Conclusion
Creative plays a vital role in advertising, and it can have a profound impact on the success of a campaign.
These are truths that have been accepted, agreed upon and leveraged for decades in TV advertising.
Likewise, strong creative is just as relevant in digital, where the goal of advertising is largely the same –
to generate positive brand perceptions and increased sales.
As the digital advertising ecosystem continues to evolve and the industry broadens its view beyond the
media plan, the importance of creative is coming into focus. And, as advertising on digital becomes more
sophisticated and costs associated with rich media and video campaigns rise, now is the time for the
industry to take note of creative‟s important role and to realize the value of pre-testing. Although the
process of creating a persuasive ad is – and will always be – an art, the practice of measuring how well it
accomplishes its objective can be scientific.
If Don Draper were doing business in today‟s digital world, he would probably view the Internet as exactly
what it is – a new way to do what advertising on any platform has always done – win the minds and
hearts of consumers. His focus would likely still be on the creative. And Don Draper would be right.
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Appendix
About ARS Persuasion Score
comScore ARS is a world leader in advertising copy-testing. Having pioneered the discipline more than
40 years ago, comScore ARS has conducted over 40,000 television advertising studies, and more
recently, hundreds of digital advertising analyses, on behalf of some of the world‟s largest and best-
known brands.
comScore ARS has developed a metric called the ARS Persuasion Score, which is the most well-
documented and independently-validated measure of advertising effectiveness in the world. As the name
implies, it quantifies the ability of an ad to influence brand preference, and it has been shown to be
predictive of advertising-induced sales with a +0.90 correlation.
How It Works
The ARS Persuasion Score measures changes in consumer brand preference through a simulated
purchase exercise. Respondents participate in prize drawings (sweepstakes) across several categories.
In each category they choose the product they would like to win from a balanced competitive set. Bias is
eliminated and preference is collected from those who viewed the ad (exposed group) and those who did
not view the ad (control group). The difference in share of preference between the two groups, called the
ARS Persuasion Score, is then calculated.
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About ARS Fair Share Benchmark
comScore ARS has developed the comScore ARS Fair Share Benchmark to aid in assessing whether the
ARS Persuasion Score for a specific ad meets or exceeds the level expected for an average ad for the
brand. This benchmark takes into account product category and brand loyalty, the number of brands
competing in the category and the advertised brand‟s share of preference to determine the score
expected, on average, given the current category and brand‟s environment. The ad‟s strategy and/or
execution are determined to be “below average,” “average,” or “above-average” based on their
relationship to the Fair Share degree-of-difficulty norm.
Correlation with Actual Sales
Since its inception, comScore ARS has systematically collected information to determine the validity of its
measurement systems, relating comScore ARS metrics (i.e. ARS Persuasion Score) to the prevalent
measures of sales employed at the time. Early validation efforts used metrics related to sales results
from store audits and ATU trial rates, progressing later to split-cable test market outcomes. Ongoing
validation efforts include the relating of test scores to market share change from Marketing Mix Modeling
(MMM) and in-store scanner data. This systematic commitment to validation has resulted in more than
2,000 validation cases spanning four decades. Consistently, the ARS Persuasion Score has
demonstrated the strongest relationship to real-world sales and share change results. This result holds
across countries, cultures and multiple verticals, including CPG, auto, pharmaceutical, retail and QSRs.
Marketing Mix Model Validation (Controlled Environment)
comScore ARS‟ ongoing Marketing Mix Model validation data set represents the most precise validation
study to date. The MMM result isolates the effect of the test ad from other marketing variables, largely
removing the issue of uncontrolled variables from the analysis. Using the MMM result as the measure of
sales attributable to a specific advertisement, the ARS Persuasion Score has been proven to be
predictive of advertising-induced sales with a +0.90 correlation (See below chart).
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Source: Marketing Mix Model Validation Data Set
*Days of incremental brand sales volume; calculated by dividing incremental volume from TV
advertising by average category volume per day.
Additional Charts
Chart 1: Click-Through Rate on Individual Ad Campaigns by Industry Vertical for DoubleClick
Rich-Media Format
Source: DoubleClick DART for Advertisers, U.S. Advertisers
DoubleClick Rich Media Formats Only, a cross-section of major U.S. verticals, January – December 2009.
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Chart 2: Heavy/Moderate/Light Segmentation of Total Internet User, Clickers and Non-Clickers
Source: comScore Natural Born Clickers Study, Part II
Total U.S Online Population, March 2009
Chart 3: Worldwide Click-through Rates* across Static Image, Flash and Rich Media Formats
Source: DoubleClick for Advertisers, a cross section of regions, January – December 2009
* Figures include click-through rates across static image, flash & rich media formats.
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About comScore
comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR) is a global leader in measuring the digital world and preferred source
of digital marketing intelligence. comScore helps its clients better understand, leverage and profit from the
rapidly evolving digital marketing landscape by providing solutions in the measurement and evaluation of
online audiences, advertising effectiveness, social media, search, video, mobile, e-commerce, and a
broad variety of other emerging forms of digital behavior. comScore's capabilities are based on a global
panel of approximately 2 million Internet users who have given comScore explicit permission to
confidentially capture their browsing and purchase behavior. These data can also be combined with
census-level Web site or telecom carrier data to provide the most comprehensive and unified
measurement of digital activity. comScore‟s recent acquisition of ARSgroup adds one of the industry‟s
most validated measurement of the persuasive power of advertising in TV and multi-media campaigns.
comScore services are used by more than 1,300 clients around the world, including global leaders such
as AOL, Baidu, BBC, Best Buy, Carat, Deutsche Bank, ESPN, Facebook, France Telecom, Financial
Times, Fox, Microsoft, MediaCorp, Nestle, Starcom, Terra Networks, Universal McCann, Verizon
Services Group, ViaMichelin and Yahoo!. For more information, please visit www.comScore.com.
For more information, please visit www.comscore.com, call 866.276.6972 or email
learnmore@comscore.com.
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ndall Rothenberg, President and CEO of the Interactive Advertising Bureau
All advertising is a combination of art and science, logic and emotion, conviction and
motivation. Until recently digital advertising focused on the left brain area of science, logic
and conviction. While these are important it is clear that the next frontier is art, emotion
and motivation which comes from that elusive butterfly creativity. Creativity online should
be even more possible now because not only can we test and measure but because we have
an entire palette of colors to paint and sculpt from. I have always believed that the Internet
will usher in the next generation of creativity.Creativity that not only can we see, hear and
feel , but also measure its impact.

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What Would Don Draper Do ?

  • 2. PAGE 2 Industry Support “It’s about time! Finally after all these years of focusing on the effect of media, comScore’s initiative re-focuses attention on the impact of great creative. Better creative may be the single most important driver of exponential growth in online display advertising. The industry thanks you.” BOB BAROCCI President & CEO, Advertising Research Foundation “As consumers spend more and more time online, it’s critical for marketers to reach our consumers at the right time, with the right message, communicated in the right way. Tools that help drive those insights help us stay on the cutting edge.” GAYLE FUGUITT Vice President, Consumer Insights, General Mills “Every good marketer knows that attitude precedes action: You can't get consumers to buy your product unless they like, admire, respect and trust your brand. As vital as interactive media are in reshaping consumer attitudes, this comScore whitepaper underscores the channel is meaningless without great creative strategy and execution. This study will contribute to the IAB's call for a creative revolution in interactive advertising." RANDALL ROTHENBERG President & CEO, Interactive Advertising Bureau “All advertising is a combination of art and science, logic and emotion, conviction and motivation. Until recently digital advertising focused on the left brain area of science, logic and conviction. While these are important, it is clear that the next frontier is art, emotion and motivation, which come from that elusive butterfly creativity. Creativity online should be even more possible now because not only can we test and measure but because we have an entire palette of colors to paint and sculpt from. I have always believed that the Internet will usher in the next generation of creativity. Creativity that not only can we see, hear and feel, but also measure its impact.” RISHAD TOBACCOWALA Chief Strategy & Innovation Officer, VivaKi
  • 3. PAGE 3 Introduction For decades, Madison Avenue advertising executives, embodied by the fictional characters in the award- winning AMC television series Mad Men, have built some of the most memorable and impactful advertising campaigns by focusing on the creative strategy and execution of an ad. Though Mad Men’s central character, Creative Director Don Draper, is viewed by his peers as an incomparable mastermind who effortlessly ordains ideas out of thin air, he is actually, first and foremost, a brilliant creative strategist. By understanding the inherent value a product offers to its customers, Draper is able to develop consistently superior ideas for executions that are nearly always on the money for his clients. Beyond the examples brought to life in Mad Men, years of sophisticated advertising research have proven that great creative is critical to the success of campaigns. It has been – and it continues to be – essential in TV advertising where countless brands would not consider launching a campaign without first testing a variety of creative strategies and executions. In contrast, however, digital advertising has historically centered on the media plan, while the underlying strategy and creative execution have taken a backseat. Today, as more advertising dollars shift to digital and the costs associated with advertising on this channel rise, the role of creative needs to be elevated to the forefront of the conversation. But there are still many more questions than answers in understanding the true role of creative in the digital medium, leaving many to wonder: This paper, a first in a series of comScore ARS reports on the role of creative in digital and traditional television advertising, serves as a starting point for an industry-wide dialogue about the importance of creative in advertising. This first paper helps us to begin to answer some critical questions specific to digital advertising, such as, Knowing what we do about creative’s important role in advertising, why is there still so little focus on creative in digital? What role should it play in today’s new advertising ecosystem, and why are so few advertisers and their agencies testing it?
  • 4. PAGE 4 Digital Advertising’s Path to Success To begin to answer the above questions, we must first take a look back at the history of the digital advertising market. In the mid-1990s, as the Internet became a mainstream medium and the notion of online advertising came to be, there were perhaps good reasons why brands didn‟t get caught up in the creative. At that time, digital was a whole new world, and there was not that much risk. Compared to television advertising, creating a banner ad was easy and inexpensive, and when it came to gauging the effectiveness of advertising, click-through rates (CTRs) emerged as a popular metric because they were inexpensive and easy to measure. After all, the Internet was coined „the most measurable medium,‟ largely a result of the industry‟s reliance on the click. However, as Albert Einstein once said, „Not everything that can be measured matters and not everything that matters can be measured.‟ Over the past several years, and through a variety of industry research, we‟ve learned that this statement rings true when it comes to CTRs. While clicks can be measured, they do not necessarily matter, at least not to the extent that many might have believed. There are several reasons why CTRs are not the appropriate measure of display advertising‟s effectiveness. Perhaps most notably is the fact that the majority of Internet users do not click on display ads, and the percentage of users who do is continuing to decrease over time. In March 2009, for example, only 16% of U.S. Internet users clicked on an ad, down 50% from July 2007 (See Figure 1). Figure 1: Percent Clickers and Non-Clickers in July 2007 vs. March 2009 Source: comScore Natural Born Clickers Study, Part I & II Total U.S. Online Population, July 2007 and March 2009
  • 5. PAGE 5 Additional industry findings further confirm a lack of clicks on individual display ad campaigns:  Low CTRs are observed across industries. DoubleClick DART for Advertisers data show that low CTRs, ranging from an average 0.06% to 0.15%, occur in nearly every industry, including retail, telecommunications, CPG, auto and financial services (See Chart 1 in Appendix).  The majority of clicks come from a small percentage of the total population. A comScore study found that heavy and moderate clickers only represent a combined 8% of the U.S. Internet population, yet they account for about 85% of all click-throughs (See Chart 2 in Appendix).  Low CTRs are a global phenomenon. DoubleClick DART for Advertisers data show that low CTRs are not only observed in the U.S. In fact, this is a phenomenon seen across the globe. (See Chart 3 in Appendix). With such a strong focus on CTRs, it‟s not surprising to see that digital advertising has captured a much higher share of direct response media dollars than branding dollars (See Figure 2). However, as advertisers continue to realize the value of the Internet beyond direct response, more and more branding advertising dollars should move to digital, and the full potential of the Internet will be realized. In fact, eMarketer forecasts that online advertising spending in the U.S. will be $25.1 billion in 2010, an increase of 10.8% versus year ago. It is estimated to reach $36.3 billion by 2014. Figure 2: Internet is Lagging in Capturing Branding Dollars Source: Barclays, ThinkEquity Partners, Brand.net, 2009
  • 6. PAGE 6 In the absence of a click, the industry has begun to evaluate the branding impact of digital advertising, and there is clear and mounting evidence in support of the Internet‟s ability to build brands. As addressed in the comScore report, How Online Advertising Works: Whither the Click? (Published in the Journal of Advertising Research, June 2009), even with dismal CTRs, display advertising has been shown to lift site visitation for the advertised brand, to lift trademark search queries and to build both online and offline sales. In addition, a comScore analysis from dozens of studies in the AdEffx™ Offline Sales Lift normative database clearly demonstrates the offline impact of online advertising on retail sales of CPG brands. On average, 82% of all campaigns evaluated showed a positive sales lift and, among Internet users exposed to the ad campaigns, offline sales for the brands being advertised increased by 22% (See Figure 3). Figure 3: Digital Advertising’s Impact on In-Store Sales* for CPG Brands Source: comScore AdEffx Offline Sales Lift Studies (conducted with dunnhumby) *comScore measures advertising‟s impact on offline sales by linking the comScore panel of 1 million U.S. Internet users to dunnhumby‟s retailer loyalty card data, which provides a measure of the panelists‟ in-store brand buying activity. As an increasing percentage of brands‟ budgets moves to digital, it‟s critical for marketers to be able to not only measure the total impact of their digital advertising campaigns but to also develop strategies and execute approaches that will result in the greatest return-on-investment (ROI). This is especially important in today‟s rapidly-evolving digital advertising market, where the stakes are higher than ever before. The cost of homepage takeovers on a major Internet property, for example, can start at $250,000 and run as high as $1 million or more per day. And as online advertising makes greater use of rich media and video, production costs associated with ads have gotten much higher. Put another way: the cost of making mistakes has grown.
  • 7. PAGE 7 From the digital planning side, media buyers and publishers increasingly rely on sophisticated tools to execute efficient, targeted and optimal media-placement strategies. Another simple and effective way to mitigate the increasing risk associated with today‟s digital advertising environment is to test the quality of an ad‟s creative strategy and execution before launching a campaign. Teaching New Media Old Tricks In an effort to help digital advertisers maximize their use of creative to garner a stronger ROI, we turn to lessons learned from decades of TV ad copy-testing which can be applied to digital. After all, regardless of the medium, the goal of advertising is largely the same: to inform consumers, influence thoughts and elicit an emotional feeling about a brand that ultimately results in positive brand perceptions and increased sales. A Case for Ad Copy-Testing in Digital More than 40 years ago, the ARSgroup (now comScore ARS as a result of a 2010 acquisition) pioneered the science of TV ad copy-testing, and today many of the world‟s largest brands won‟t launch an ad campaign without first testing the effectiveness of their creative. There are countless pieces of anecdotal evidence about the importance of creative, and intuitively few would disagree that the creative execution of an ad impacts its overall effectiveness. comScore ARS has validated this intuition thousands of times using the ARS Persuasion Score, a measure of creative quality that has been proven to be highly predictive of sales. Said very simply, the higher a campaign‟s ARS Persuasion Score, the higher the impact the campaign is likely to have on sales (See ARS Persuasion Score and Correlation with Sales section of Appendix). By combining data from hundreds of campaigns it has tested, comScore ARS has quantified the relative impact of various campaign attributes – such as creative quality, advertising spend, elements of the media plan and other characteristics – on sales. The research confirmed the expected positive relationship between creative quality and sales. Specifically, the analysis shows that 52% of shifts in brand sales (or market share) are attributable to the quality of creative, making creative the number one driver of sales changes. These findings demonstrate the importance of focusing on the quality of creative as part of the ad-planning process, and not just relying on media planning elements, which account for a combined 13% of the changes in a brand‟s sales (See Figure 4). The results indicate that creative is four times more impactful in influencing sales than key media planning variables (i.e. 52% for ad quality vs. 13% for media plan).
  • 8. PAGE 8 Figure 4: Percent Influence on Shifts in Brand Sales* Source: comScore ARS Global Validation Summary (n=396) *Numbers represent the percent of changes in brand sales or market share explained by the corresponding factors. The implications of this finding are very significant. Consider for example, a $1 million investment on a homepage takeover on Cyber Monday or a campaign that utilizes several media-placement strategies over time. Knowing that the quality of the ad‟s creative has a four times greater impact on sales than the media plan itself, it‟s difficult to envision a scenario in which a marketer would not want to do the right homework up front to ensure the creative is as persuasive as possible prior to launching the campaign. The key takeaway is that creative matters and in a big way. Assuming you have it right as opposed to confirming it through measurement is an inefficient, sub-optimal approach to advertising. Getting Creative Strategy Right from the Start As we begin to shift our focus in digital to include the important role of creative, it makes sense to start in the same place that TV advertisers have for years – with the upfront creative strategy. Getting the creative strategy right from the start greatly improves the likelihood of an ad‟s success. This sounds like an obvious point, and it‟s one that‟s been widely accepted in traditional advertising for years. However, the notion of testing a strategy before developing and launching a campaign has yet to take hold in the digital advertising community. Let‟s compare TV to digital for a moment. This year a 30 second spot in the World Series will reportedly cost an advertiser $450,000. As is nearly always the case with large TV investments, a vast majority of these ads will go through rigorous pre-testing before they see the light of day. In fact, advertisers will pre- test multiple strategies (i.e. basic value proposition, positioning and messaging) to determine what
  • 9. PAGE 9 resonates best with consumers and what will likely have the greatest impact on sales. To juxtapose that, in the digital space, a homepage takeover on a major portal can now cost upward of $1 million on a key date (and routinely above and beyond the $450,000 World Series investment). Sure enough, most of these ads are developed without any kind of pre-testing at all. comScore ARS research demonstrates just how important it is to get the creative strategy right from the start. In this particular analysis, comScore ARS scored creative strategy, using the ARS Persuasion Score, for more than 200 campaigns, and it categorized the results of each campaign into below-average, average and above-average relative to the comScore ARS Fair Share Benchmark (See Appendix for a detailed explanation of the comScore ARS Fair Share Benchmark). comScore ARS then scored the actual campaign execution, using its standard copy-testing methodology, again categorizing each execution into below-average, average and above-average relative rankings (See Figure 5). Figure 5: Impact of Creative Strategy’s Effectiveness on the Effectiveness of Resulting Creative Execution Source: comScore ARS Summary of Factors Affecting ARS Persuasion Scores Study findings showed that among campaigns with an above-average creative strategy, 70% resulted in an above-average execution. Similarly, among campaigns with a below-average creative strategy, 65% also ended up with a below-average creative execution. Bottom line, getting the creative strategy right from the start is critical. Doing so will improve the likelihood of achieving a successful campaign execution, which will ultimately result in increased sales. This evaluation of the impact of the strength of the creative strategy on the resulting execution helps to shed light on the value of a strong, upfront creative strategy. The case example that follows further illustrates the importance of strategy pre-testing.
  • 10. PAGE 10 A Case Study: How Strategy Pre-Testing Improves Impact Study Objective: Use comScore ARS‟ strategy testing methodology to identify the strongest strategic approach for an ad campaign for a CPG product. Approach: Five initial strategies were tested based on five unique value propositions associated with the product (See Figure 6). Strategy A emerged as a clear winner with an ARS Persuasion Score of 9. This score was almost double the ARS Fair Share Benchmark and a full 2 points higher than Strategy B, the next best strategy. As a point of reference, this ARS Persuasion Score would suggest a high probability of a short-term market share gain (first 8 weeks) of around 2 or more share points. Figure 6: ARS Persuasion Scores for the Tested Strategies Based on the results from the strategy test, the brand developed an ad campaign centered on the value proposition from Strategy A. The ad campaign was also scored as part of the analysis, and it garnered an ARS Persuasion Score of 12.8, nearly 4 points higher than the strategy and more than double the ARS Fair Share Benchmark (See Figure 7). These results indicated a high likelihood for strong in-market sales performance. Specifically, this ARS Persuasion Score would suggest a high probability of a short-term market share gain (first 8 weeks) in excess of 2 share points.
  • 11. PAGE 11 Figure 7: Final Ad Score Resulting from Strategy A Results: Ad-induced sales were measured relative to a base period to calculate market share shifts. The brand increased its competitive share two points versus the base period in key markets (See Figure 8). In addition to being able to gain share from its competitors, the ad campaign also resulted in overall growth in the product category. The category saw a 3% increase in sales volume versus the base period. Figure 8: Increase in Market Share Resulting from Advertising
  • 12. PAGE 12 Conclusion Creative plays a vital role in advertising, and it can have a profound impact on the success of a campaign. These are truths that have been accepted, agreed upon and leveraged for decades in TV advertising. Likewise, strong creative is just as relevant in digital, where the goal of advertising is largely the same – to generate positive brand perceptions and increased sales. As the digital advertising ecosystem continues to evolve and the industry broadens its view beyond the media plan, the importance of creative is coming into focus. And, as advertising on digital becomes more sophisticated and costs associated with rich media and video campaigns rise, now is the time for the industry to take note of creative‟s important role and to realize the value of pre-testing. Although the process of creating a persuasive ad is – and will always be – an art, the practice of measuring how well it accomplishes its objective can be scientific. If Don Draper were doing business in today‟s digital world, he would probably view the Internet as exactly what it is – a new way to do what advertising on any platform has always done – win the minds and hearts of consumers. His focus would likely still be on the creative. And Don Draper would be right.
  • 13. PAGE 13 Appendix About ARS Persuasion Score comScore ARS is a world leader in advertising copy-testing. Having pioneered the discipline more than 40 years ago, comScore ARS has conducted over 40,000 television advertising studies, and more recently, hundreds of digital advertising analyses, on behalf of some of the world‟s largest and best- known brands. comScore ARS has developed a metric called the ARS Persuasion Score, which is the most well- documented and independently-validated measure of advertising effectiveness in the world. As the name implies, it quantifies the ability of an ad to influence brand preference, and it has been shown to be predictive of advertising-induced sales with a +0.90 correlation. How It Works The ARS Persuasion Score measures changes in consumer brand preference through a simulated purchase exercise. Respondents participate in prize drawings (sweepstakes) across several categories. In each category they choose the product they would like to win from a balanced competitive set. Bias is eliminated and preference is collected from those who viewed the ad (exposed group) and those who did not view the ad (control group). The difference in share of preference between the two groups, called the ARS Persuasion Score, is then calculated.
  • 14. PAGE 14 About ARS Fair Share Benchmark comScore ARS has developed the comScore ARS Fair Share Benchmark to aid in assessing whether the ARS Persuasion Score for a specific ad meets or exceeds the level expected for an average ad for the brand. This benchmark takes into account product category and brand loyalty, the number of brands competing in the category and the advertised brand‟s share of preference to determine the score expected, on average, given the current category and brand‟s environment. The ad‟s strategy and/or execution are determined to be “below average,” “average,” or “above-average” based on their relationship to the Fair Share degree-of-difficulty norm. Correlation with Actual Sales Since its inception, comScore ARS has systematically collected information to determine the validity of its measurement systems, relating comScore ARS metrics (i.e. ARS Persuasion Score) to the prevalent measures of sales employed at the time. Early validation efforts used metrics related to sales results from store audits and ATU trial rates, progressing later to split-cable test market outcomes. Ongoing validation efforts include the relating of test scores to market share change from Marketing Mix Modeling (MMM) and in-store scanner data. This systematic commitment to validation has resulted in more than 2,000 validation cases spanning four decades. Consistently, the ARS Persuasion Score has demonstrated the strongest relationship to real-world sales and share change results. This result holds across countries, cultures and multiple verticals, including CPG, auto, pharmaceutical, retail and QSRs. Marketing Mix Model Validation (Controlled Environment) comScore ARS‟ ongoing Marketing Mix Model validation data set represents the most precise validation study to date. The MMM result isolates the effect of the test ad from other marketing variables, largely removing the issue of uncontrolled variables from the analysis. Using the MMM result as the measure of sales attributable to a specific advertisement, the ARS Persuasion Score has been proven to be predictive of advertising-induced sales with a +0.90 correlation (See below chart).
  • 15. PAGE 15 Source: Marketing Mix Model Validation Data Set *Days of incremental brand sales volume; calculated by dividing incremental volume from TV advertising by average category volume per day. Additional Charts Chart 1: Click-Through Rate on Individual Ad Campaigns by Industry Vertical for DoubleClick Rich-Media Format Source: DoubleClick DART for Advertisers, U.S. Advertisers DoubleClick Rich Media Formats Only, a cross-section of major U.S. verticals, January – December 2009.
  • 16. PAGE 16 Chart 2: Heavy/Moderate/Light Segmentation of Total Internet User, Clickers and Non-Clickers Source: comScore Natural Born Clickers Study, Part II Total U.S Online Population, March 2009 Chart 3: Worldwide Click-through Rates* across Static Image, Flash and Rich Media Formats Source: DoubleClick for Advertisers, a cross section of regions, January – December 2009 * Figures include click-through rates across static image, flash & rich media formats.
  • 17. PAGE 17 About comScore comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR) is a global leader in measuring the digital world and preferred source of digital marketing intelligence. comScore helps its clients better understand, leverage and profit from the rapidly evolving digital marketing landscape by providing solutions in the measurement and evaluation of online audiences, advertising effectiveness, social media, search, video, mobile, e-commerce, and a broad variety of other emerging forms of digital behavior. comScore's capabilities are based on a global panel of approximately 2 million Internet users who have given comScore explicit permission to confidentially capture their browsing and purchase behavior. These data can also be combined with census-level Web site or telecom carrier data to provide the most comprehensive and unified measurement of digital activity. comScore‟s recent acquisition of ARSgroup adds one of the industry‟s most validated measurement of the persuasive power of advertising in TV and multi-media campaigns. comScore services are used by more than 1,300 clients around the world, including global leaders such as AOL, Baidu, BBC, Best Buy, Carat, Deutsche Bank, ESPN, Facebook, France Telecom, Financial Times, Fox, Microsoft, MediaCorp, Nestle, Starcom, Terra Networks, Universal McCann, Verizon Services Group, ViaMichelin and Yahoo!. For more information, please visit www.comScore.com. For more information, please visit www.comscore.com, call 866.276.6972 or email learnmore@comscore.com.
  • 18. PAGE 18 ndall Rothenberg, President and CEO of the Interactive Advertising Bureau All advertising is a combination of art and science, logic and emotion, conviction and motivation. Until recently digital advertising focused on the left brain area of science, logic and conviction. While these are important it is clear that the next frontier is art, emotion and motivation which comes from that elusive butterfly creativity. Creativity online should be even more possible now because not only can we test and measure but because we have an entire palette of colors to paint and sculpt from. I have always believed that the Internet will usher in the next generation of creativity.Creativity that not only can we see, hear and feel , but also measure its impact.