Week6.pptx

Account Planning & Research

Nikki McClaran

Week 6: Other Methods & The Future

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Our REAL last face-to-face

Schedule:

Report 3 (Creative Brief) due before ”class” on Monday, the 12th

Final presentation due via discussion post on Tuesday, the 13th

Ask one question on a fellow student’s post by Thursday, the 15th

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Today

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We’re talking about the future of the field

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But before we do that…

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Let’s go over some methods we did not discuss in class yet.

Ethnography

Content analysis

Experiment

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Ethnography

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Form of human observational research – where you observe the behavior of your client in the real world.

Roots in anthropology and sociology

Note: there is also automated or machine observational research

EX: tracking cookies, loyalty cards, etc.

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Why use ethnographies?

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1. Can be more insightful than description

watching a person shopping vs. having them tell you how they shop

they may not be able to remember/realize they are doing certain things

2. People may not be able to verbalize their attitudes

EX: studying children toys

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Why use ethnographies?

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3. Self-report may not accurately reflect their true behaviors

Overestimate technology use

Overestimate exercise

Overestimate your ability (sorry)

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Why use ethnographies?

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““deep insight into the contradictory nature of much of human behavior: the focus is on what people really do versus what they say they do”

- Ipsos MOR

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Types of ethnographies

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Ethnographies can be

Natural vs. Artificial

Open vs. Disguised

Active vs. Passive

Structured vs. Unstructured

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Characteristics of ethnographies

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Four main characteristics:

Researcher goes to the data

Studies the topic from the populations perspective

Considerable amount of time in the field

Variety of data collection techniques

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Example in ADPR

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Procter & Gamble wanted to better understand consumer perceptions of Secret deodorant

Research objective:

In what way can Secret

deodorant be better

positioned to women

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Example in ADPR

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Method: Had women go shadow other women and observe their daily habits - “walk in her shoes”

Insights: noticed deodorant was not just in bathroom, but in car, gym bag, desk, etc. but stick is too bulky

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Example in ADPR

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Results:

7 million users engage on social media

217 million media impressions

7 beauty award wins

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Content Analysis

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Technique to analyzing communication artifacts, such as

Text

Pictures

Audio

Video

This can be done either qualitatively or quantitatively

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Content Analysis

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Why conduct a content analysis?

To understand what messages are currently out there

To see what people are talking about

To understand the culture/time/context

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Content Analysis

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What might be worth studying in ADPR?

Previous advertisements

User comments

Social media posts

Etc.

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Content Analysis

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Important terms:

Coders

Inter-coder reliability

Unit of analysis

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Example Content Analysis

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Example Content Analysis

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Findings:

Used much less than people assume

Contrary to beliefs, credibility is not most important

Product category

Authenticity

Similarity

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Experiments

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Determine cause-and-effect relationships

Important terms:

Independent variable (cause)

Dependent variable (cause)

Control

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Types of experiments

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Controlled (lab)

Field (quasi)

Natural

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Why conduct experiments?

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Demonstrate cause-and-effect

Help compare products

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Example Experiment

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The Future/Emerging Methods

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Digital Analytics

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The collection, measurements, analysis, visualization, and interpretation of digital data illustrating user behavior on websites, mobile sites, and mobile applications

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Psychophysiological

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This includes studies that measure things such as:

Eye-tracking

Cardiac activity

Skin conductance

Facial electromyography

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Neuromarketing

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