Soul & Science: Fast Forward Your Marketing Mind
#32: Neuro-Insight Founder and Global CEO Pranav Yadav | Making the Right Pitch at the Emotional Peak
January 30, 2023 · 26 min
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Learn how brain science reveals what focus groups never will about why people buy.
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In this episode
- What neuromarketing is and how it changes the way brands are built
- Why focus group responses rarely predict real purchase behavior
- How to place your brand message at the peak emotional moment in an ad
- Why staying open to learning is itself a competitive advantage for marketers
About this episode
It can feel impossible to express the human condition, so we look to great artists, writers and even advertising creatives to do the job. Pranav Yadav, Founder and Global CEO of Neuro-Insight, saw how inconsistent people were doing field interviews–one memorable study tried to find out why people gamble in Las Vegas. A more innate truth was to be found in neuromarketing, which measures neural signals by electrodes to track emotional responses. Yadav brilliantly reads the data and helps marketers, including TJ Maxx and Anheuser Busch, make ads that both stir emotions and hit the right pitch.In this episode you’ll learn:
- What neruomarketing is and how it’s innovating the way brands are built.
- What people say in the first hour of a focus group is different from what they say in the second or fourth hour and it really doesn't correlate to actual in-market purchase behavior.
- Creative is an idea that engages people, but an ad has the additional responsibility of associating the brand at the peak emotional moment.
- The beauty of life is that if you are open enough to learning, it teaches you everything you need to know.

About Soul & Science: Fast Forward Your Marketing Mind
Soul & Science is an award-winning podcast where marketing’s brightest minds reveal what it takes to build breakthrough brands. Hosted by Jason Harris, each episode explores the balance between brand building (Soul) and business performance (Science).
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