Sep. 23, 2019. AdAge by I-Hsien Sherwood.- Marketers looking to improve the inclusivity of their campaigns have a new tool—and new reasons to use it. On Monday, the Association of National Advertisers released the Cultural Insights Impact Measure, a metric that gauges the cultural relevance of an ad and the extent to which it reflects genuine insights that speak to consumers of all backgrounds.
An accompanying survey from the ANA’s Alliance for Inclusive and Multicultural Marketing also shows that ads that score well on the CIIM ranked 2.6 times higher on brand relevance, and viewers who saw them were twice as likely to recommend the brand, 2.7 times more likely to try the brand for the first time and 50 percent more likely to repurchase.
“What truly defined ‘culture’ was the perception of the respondents. It’s in the eyes of the beholder, not what the client or the advertisers necessarily want it to be,” says study lead Carlos Santiago, co-founder of AIMM and president of Santiago Solutions Group. (Advertisers don’t get much credit for trying to be relevant and failing. Looking at you, Pepsi.)
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