The case for creativity in advertising

Adver­tis­ers have long believed that more cre­ative work is more effec­tive but this has been hard to prove because of the num­ber of fac­tors that go into cre­at­ing the best cam­paign. How­ev­er, there is now grow­ing proof of the link between cre­ativ­i­ty and adver­tis­ing effec­tive­ness, and its impact on busi­ness per­for­mance. Yet adver­tis­ers are increas­ing­ly focused on short-term goals that don’t dri­ve long-term busi­ness suc­cess and fail­ing to mea­sure cre­ativ­i­ty.