Today, advertising has become a medium for marketing a particular brand, product, service, event, business or even movies. Advertising has influenced our day to day lives and has so far provided a great impact upon our lifestyle as well. Whether it is about entertainment, festival, consumer goods, advertising has become the sole medium for promotion. With various forms, tools, techniques and mediums of advertising it has become easier for brands to get instant recognition in the market. Especially for consumer goods market advertising holds the sole responsibility of creating a buzz or reminder message about the brand to its target group.

If you look around and study you will realize how advertising has become an important factor for creating a brand experience in our mind. Every single business, brand or service holder advertises. Various movie makers even take huge help of advertising tools to promote their film in the market. And for political leaders, advertising is one effective tool to promote their political ideas among the masses. To sum up, it is already an open secret about how advertising has created a huge impact upon our lives.

Innovation is the key to success in any field of expertise. Be it any sector or organization, an innovative idea or strategy always takes the business to the forefront thereby creating a boom to the overall revenue of the particular organization or company. In brand advertising business, innovation plays a significant role. In fact, it is an innovative idea which is required to communicate to the target customers, influence their buying behaviours and finally convince them to adopt the product or brand. Besides innovation, there is one more factor which is again a key to successful brand advertising.

Any brand advertiser is aware of the fact that the first and foremost purpose of a brand advertising campaign is to capture the attention of customers by making them feel and think about the product. For this, the advertisers need to frame the brand message in such a way that it probes into the minds of the customers no sooner than they read it. But how is it possible? Creativity is the answer. An insightful creativity is also required to frame the brand communication in order to tickle the attention of the target customers.

Customers always seek to find something new in the brand message for which creativity is the only solution. But as mentioned above it should be insightful creativity, not some ordinary or complex one which will confuse the customers.

An innovative idea and an insightful creativity (in terms of design, message, approach) – these are two keys to successful advertising widely adopted by famous advertisers. Its quite a challenge (especially for existing brands) to convey the brand message to the same customers again and again. However, an innovative idea conveyed through a creative approach makes it easier for the brand advertiser to talk at ease about the brand to his target groups. Like leaves to the trees, like water to the ocean, innovation and creativity are to brand advertising. Cheers!

The projective techniques are used to overcome the barriers of rationality, logicality and politeness, which often play an important role in case of direct questioning. In direct questioning people often tend to give politically correct answers that are considered right by many. Also they try not to hurt the researcher and thus avoid negative answers. In case of projective techniques, an indirect approach is adopted. Instead of asking questions, the respondents are subjected to different test. These include the associations test, sentence completion test and thematic appreciation test.

Association tests attempts to get an immediate response to a stimulus such to get an immediate responses to a stimulus such as a word or picture by asking the respondent to say the first thing that comes to his mind. Sentence completion tests are an extension of the association test. Here the respondents are given incomplete test use pictures, which are shown to respondents. They are asked to tell stories about the pictures. These descriptions and interpretations are analyzed to find out about their attitudes.
In depth interviewing the respondent is first put at ease by the researcher while he tries to build up a rapport with the respondents. Then the respondents are asked leading or probing questions to bring out his underlying subconscious reaction to the brand or organization advertised. The questions are never structures and the interview is always conducted in a free and cordial manner. The flexibility and freeness brings out many facts. Which usually are hidden beneath the conscious mind of the respondent? Depth interviewing needs to be conducted by highly skilled and trained psychologists to be able to fully explore the attitude of respondents.

One often face the problem of artificiality a while conducting pre-testing. This problem is easily overcome during post-testing. Post-tests attempt to measure the actual effect of real advertisements in real situations. This is a more practical approach to measure the effectiveness of car mat advertisements. Different types are conducted as part of post-testing advertisements.
Whatever the purpose of a car mat advertisement, its first task is to be seen, read, or heard. Every advertisement uses some means or other to get attention and hold it. Here comes the first big hurdle recognition. This is simply a matter of identifying an advertisement that one has seen before. Recognition is a necessary condition for effective advertising. If advertisements cannot pass this hurdle, it will probably not be effective. Recognition tests are usually used for print ads.

While many types of recognition have been designed for the car mats advertisements. The starch recognitions test sends newspaper or magazine to respondents and then sends interviews to conduct the tests. Starch tests usually finds out the recognition rates of various elements of the ads like the visual or illustration, headline, logo, body copy, color, size, shape etc.