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Podcast: That's What I Call Marketing
Episode: S5 Ep4: The Eye-Watering Cost of Dull Media & Creative with Karen Nelson-Field & Adam Morgan
Description: Most advertising doesn’t fail because it’s wrong. It fails because it’s dull and dull is expensive.In this episode of That’s What I Call Marketing, Conor Byrne sits down with Adam Morgan and Karen Nelson-Field to unpack the real cost of dull creative and dull media using hard evidence from IPA effectiveness data, System1 testing, and large-scale attention measurement.The conversation moves beyond taste or opinion and into economics: why rational, low-emotion advertising can still “work” but only by wasting millions; why some media environments structurally suppress attention; and why optimisa...