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Our Brains Like Southwest Airlines, Google, & Dove

Neuromarketing firm Buyology is out with their updated list of most desirable brands in the U.S. The list has some expected names and a few surprises:

Brandwashed by Martin Lindstrom

Book Review: Brandwashed, Tricks Companies Use to Manipulate Our Minds and Persuade Us to Buy by Martin Lindstrom (branding expert and author of Buyology)

Gory Tobacco Warnings Doomed to Fail

The FDA has released the images that will be added to cigarette packages. Instead of the old text boxes, the new labels are graphic reminders of the health consequences of smoking. The FDA calls the new labels, which will debut next year, “the first change in cigarette warnings in more than 25 years” and says [...]

Most Desired Brands: a Neuromarketing Ranking

Buyology Inc. has released its “first annual” list of the most desired brands in the U.S. Of interest to Neuromarketing readers is that the list is based on the firm’s Neurotypes brand profiling technique, which uses a combination of EEG brain monitoring and eye-tracking data. First, here are Buyology’s top brands:

Impossible Branding?

It looks like Australian politicians have taken up reading neuromarketing books. In the ever-escalating war between regulators and tobacco firms, the most aggressive step yet has been proposed Down Under: un-branding cigarette packaging.

Japanese Agency Buys Into Buyology

Japan’s second-biggest ad agency, Hakuhodo, is investing in the growing field of neuromarketing:

Bloggers and the Buyology Neuromarketing Bubble

One effect of the publication of Martin Lindstrom’s Buyology book has been a significant uptick in media coverage of neuromarketing. Lindstrom has scored a few high-visibility TV interviews (e.g., Today Show and Australian TV), and plenty of print and online media coverage. My perception is that neuromarketing news coverage is at an all-time high. Even [...]

Are Tobacco Warnings Really Ads?

One of the startling conclusions from the neuromarketing study described by Martin Lindstrom in Buyology is that not only are the government-mandated warnings on tobacco packages ineffective, but they actually promote smoking behavior by activating the brain’s nucleus accumbens, an area associated with cravings. This counterintuitive finding was a highlight of Lindstrom’s Today Show interview. [...]

Neuromarketing on NBC Today Show

Martin Lindstrom got a great plug for his new book, Buyology, in an interview on NBC’s Today Show. The piece may have been a bit superficial, and the host referred to fMRI when the particular study in question was performed using EEG caps, but overall I think the exposure for the concept of neuromarketing was [...]

Our Brains Like Southwest Airlines, Google, & Dove

Brandwashed by Martin Lindstrom

Gory Tobacco Warnings Doomed to Fail

Most Desired Brands: a Neuromarketing Ranking

Impossible Branding?

Japanese Agency Buys Into Buyology

Bloggers and the Buyology Neuromarketing Bubble

Are Tobacco Warnings Really Ads?

Neuromarketing on NBC Today Show

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