Beauty & Personal CareAnonymized case

A body-care brand · elevator TVC diagnosis

An elevator ad gets one chance to be seen. What did this film make people remember — and what did it lose?

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Challenge

Elevator media is brief and cannot be replayed. The brand had four TVCs, but could not decide from a simple like/dislike score. It needed to know whether consumers could remember the brand, product and benefit after one real exposure; which film best balanced recall, purchase intent and brand appeal; and exactly what each creative should change.

Approach · Evidence chain

Every step reproducible

  1. 01

    Recreate single exposure

    Each TVC played once only, with no storyboard prompts during the survey, approximating the memory state after a brief elevator exposure.

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  2. 02

    Start with unaided recall

    With no brand or visual cues, the study captured recall of brand, product, benefit and story, plus the most memorable and least-liked creative elements.

  3. 03

    Compare fairly within the same audience

    The same respondents completed forced comparison across every creative, avoiding audience-profile bias and comparing appeal, memorability, purchase intent and brand appeal together.

  4. 04

    Turn scores into creative actions

    The work went beyond naming a winner, diagnosing message pace, product presentation, benefit credibility and visual monotony to guide the next edit and information choices.

Measurable results
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