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The Attention Economy and How Media Works

Simple Truths for Marketers

Palgrave Macmillan
  • Guides decision-making for marketers in the noisy, data-rich, fast-paced world of advertising

  • Highlights the elements of an effective advertising campaign for long-term brand growth in any digital media

  • Talks about buying the best advertising impression, creating the best impression and who you should impress

  • Offers an evidence-based deep dive into how attention works for advertising, and its relationship with sales

  • Reminds all marketers that the AdTech industry is on the precipice of change and what they can control to survive that change

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
  2. State of Play

    • Karen Nelson-Field
    Pages 1-19
  3. Recipe for Good Media Research

    • Karen Nelson-Field
    Pages 21-43
  4. How Advertising Works (so far)

    • Karen Nelson-Field
    Pages 45-53
  5. The Evolution of Media Buying

    • Karen Nelson-Field
    Pages 55-70
  6. The Attention Economy Is Coming (Fast)

    • Karen Nelson-Field
    Pages 71-87
  7. Buying the Best Impression

    • Karen Nelson-Field
    Pages 89-105
  8. Creating the Best Impression

    • Karen Nelson-Field
    Pages 107-122
  9. Who Should You Impress (and Where Are They Hiding)?

    • Karen Nelson-Field
    Pages 123-138
  10. The Magic 8 Ball

    • Karen Nelson-Field
    Pages 139-147
  11. Back Matter

    Pages 149-152

About this book

This book offers a considered voice on the advertising chaos that colours our rapidly changing media environment in a world of fake news, fast facts and seriously depleted attention stamina. Rather than simply herald disruption, Karen Nelson-Field starts an intelligent conversation on what it will take for businesses to win in an attention economy, the advertising myths we need to leave behind and the scientific evidence we can use to navigate a complex advertising and media ecosystem. This book makes sense of viewability standards, coverage and clutter; it talks about the real quality behind a qCPM and takes a deep dive into the relationship between attention and sales. It explains the stark reality of human attention processing in advertising. Readers will learn how to maximise a viewer’s divided attention by leveraging specific media attributes and using attention-grabbing creative triggers. Nelson-Field asks you to pay attention to a disrupted advertising future without panic, but rather with a keen eye on the things that brand owners can learn to control.

Reviews

“In a world where misinformation often spreads fastest and loudest, Karen’s voice is an important one.” (Laurent Larguinat, Mars Inc)

“Consumers are constantly exposed to new technologies that change the way we consume media and with it, advertising. This book sheds light on the marketing business in an era of ever-changing media consumption, while effectively looking into the future of the industry and raising the specter of what may be yet to come.” (Christian Kurz, Thought Leader and Media Industry Expert)


“A voice of logic, neutrality and sanity in a market loaded with bluster.” (Geoff Seeley, Airbnb)


“Karen Nelson-Field’s recent research into ad viewability marks a major advance in the quest for greater clarity in media metrics.” (Unruly)

Authors and Affiliations

  • Amplified Intelligence Pty Ltd, Adelaide, Australia

    Karen Nelson-Field

About the author

Karen Nelson-Field is the Founder and Executive Director of Amplified Intelligence and Professor of Media Innovation at The University of Adelaide, Australia. Karen is a globally acclaimed researcher in media science, is a regular speaker on the major circuits, and has secured research funding from some of the world’s largest advertisers.  Her first book, Viral Marketing: The Science of Sharing (2013), set the record straight on hunting for ‘viral success’. Her work has been noted in The New York Times, Bloomberg Business, CNBC, Forbes, Wall Street Journal, Huffington Post, Contagious and The Drum, and she is a regular media writer for the Australian Financial Review. Karen’s commercial work combines tech and innovative methodological design to look closely at attention metrics in a disrupting digital economy.

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