Meaningful, Different and Salient each need a different amount of attention
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Meaningful, Different and Salient each need a different amount of attention
Brands do not plan against a composite score, so The Brand Reset breaks its findings out for Meaningful, Different and Salient separately, each with its own attention curve. That lets a planner match media and creative to the actual objective - awareness, consideration or differentiation - rather than to an average of all three.
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The Brand Reset: Capturing Sales and Brand Equity from Attention - dentsu, in partnership with Kantar and Lumen (2026)
dentsu with Kantar, Lumen and TVision; methodology and analysis Dan White, advisor Les Binet; foreword Will Swayne
p23, The Brand Reset, dentsu with Kantar and Lumen, April 2026
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