CEO and President of The Advertising Research Foundation (ARF), Scott McDonald, discusses attention measurement in the real world. The conversation revolved around the evolution of attention measurement in marketing, with a focus on the importance of using science-based approaches. Scott emphasized the need for a combination of art and science, and highlighted the limitations of viewability metrics. He also discussed the challenges of measuring attention, including the need for a consistent methodology and data source, and the importance of differentiating attention from emotion measurement. This episode concludes with Scott stressing the importance of understanding attention as a threshold variable that needs to be met for an ad to be effective. Show Notes
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