Unconscious desire, and irrational dreams

Martin Lindstrom’s three-year, seven-million-dollar neuromarketing study in Buyology, with cutting edge experiment that peered inside the brains of over 2,000 volunteers from all around the world as they encountered various adverts, logos, commercials, brands and products.  Lindstrom’s mission to find out why consumers were drawn to a particular brand of clothing, a certain make of car, or a particular type of shaving cream, shampoo or chocolate bar.  He believed that if he could uncover the answer, it would not only help sculpt the future of advertising, but also revolutionise the way all of us think and behave as consumers.  It seems marketers … Continue reading Unconscious desire, and irrational dreams

Embraced by millions, Turbocharged virtual button that changed the world

Early 2000s, Yelp a start-up came up with a novel and friendly feature for the emergent world wide web. Ordinary users could post reviews of restaurants that everyone could read. As there were very few people who were really interested in writing things on the internet. Yelps engineers needed to give them a reason to. The story of how they incentivised this user-generated content is the jumping off point for Like.  Yelp reckoned people might be compelled to post reviews if they received compliments from others. Did you know, over 160 billion times a day, someone taps a like button. How … Continue reading Embraced by millions, Turbocharged virtual button that changed the world