Nearly 70 years ago, the first ever modern randomised controlled trial (RCT) was conducted in the UK 1. The 6-month long investigation took place in hospitals in London and Middlesex, and tested the efficacy of treatments for pulmonary tuberculosis – streptomycin versus bed rest 2. By the end of the trial, 7% of patients who […]
‘There’s nothing wrong with A/B testing‘. This statement is both true and not useful; better is, ‘there’s nothing wrong with A/B testing if you’re A/B testing the right bits‘. But how do you know what are ‘the right bits’? Applied psychology is your answer. Often we’ll speak with clients about their attempts to create change […]
We’ve had a great year of improving – and proving – behaviour with our communication at The Hunting Dynasty, where new-breed insight meets sparkling behavioural strategy and refreshing behavioural communication. Our insight & communication in 2018 stretched from capturing mental models, to tweaking single words to entire re-writes and re-designs, and in-field experiments: a. Live […]
In a collection of personal items we found a letter sent to one of our grandfathers by a bank in the middle of wartime Britain. It’s an extraordinary good bunch of nudges – amazingly over 75 years ago, in 1943. We can be sure that The Surety Trust weren’t *explicitly* trying to use nudge techniques […]
We all do it. We look at the star ratings and read the online reviews before we buy. Of course, we do – it’s good. Helpful, even. But do you ever go back online to leave a review after buying and using it? Yeah, not so much. Me neither. For brands, in today’s world, online reputation […]
Email marketing has the highest ROI of any marketing tactic. $44 for every $1 spent, say Campaign Monitor: Email marketing is a tactic that’s hard to ignore. But how do you make sure you get good conversion rates? There’s plenty of blogs, articles, and user-guides you can download – but how do you separate the folk-law […]
An RCT (Randomised Control Trial), an online survey (e.g. a Semantic Pairs survey, or Comprehension-Motivation Test©, or Implicit Attitude Map©), or on-street sampling are insight work ‘at scale’ that require large numbers of people to get solid data. It must be large numbers of people. It must be so. Large. Larger. More is better, right? […]
Wouldn’t you love to have a solid, reliable map of where your brand sits in relation to its competitors in your consumer’s subconscious? Of course, it’s the foundation of any marketing strategy – a strategy designed to get you from A to B. The reality is, if you don’t know ‘A’, you don’t know where […]
Voting is a timely topic. Britain just voted out of the EU, and the US is electing a new president in a few weeks. Next year, there are elections in France and Germany. Perhaps even Scotland will be voting, again, on which union to leave. That’s a great scope for predictions, providing experts and non-experts […]
Amazon Dash launches today in the UK. It’s a physical button pre-programmed to have one function, and one function alone – you push it and it orders a product. But not just any product – the same product every time, and one packet of. The single function is baked into the button. That’s it. Simple. There are […]
Popularised, praised and increasingly applied across a range of sectors, from public policy to consumer goods, behavioural economics is becoming the new It-discipline. Better late than never – after all, it’s been around for well over a hundred years. To borrow a phrase from Lee Ross and Richard Nisbett, authors of ‘The Person and the […]
The UK Department for Transport’s airing it’s THINK! drink drive advert again. It’s good, but is it focusing on the right area?. Ahead of tonight’s TV airing Department for Transport I picked up a promo tweet […]
The French anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss (1908-2009) – the father of modern anthropology – notes that Western societies constructed distal concepts such as geography and astrology before developing the proximal ones […]
Alex Benady witter,ournalisted,oley Porter Bell) interviewed The Hunting Dynasty’s Director of Planning & Strategy and Business
