Advertising Development Research

Advertising development research supports brands throughout the creative process by providing audience-based evaluation at each stage.
It helps teams choose the right direction, understand how well the creative idea is landing, and make informed decisions before major production or media investment is committed.

What Is Advertising Development Research?

Advertising development research is used to examine creative ideas from initial concepts to completed executions to help you communicate effectively and avoids unintended audience interpretation.
It explores the creative and proposition core, narrative structure, tonal delivery, visual emphasis and brand presence to understand how audiences engage with and interpret developing work.
As part of this process, BrandSpeak applies GrowthTest, a quantitative evaluation framework designed to assess the commercial potential of near-final or finished advertising. GrowthTest also evaluates how well the execution is likely to impact buying behaviour, giving marketers confidence in the advert’s capacity to drive meaningful commercial response.

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Benefits of Advertising Research

Advertising research enables clients and their agencies to evaluate the strength and clarity of an ad concept’s central proposition.

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Clearer Route Selection

Advertising research provides confidence when choosing between creative routes by showing which ideas audiences understand most easily. It removes ambiguity early, helping teams commit to a direction with clarity and ensuring the chosen route expresses the intended proposition cleanly as executional detail develops.

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Stronger Viewer Connection

Advertising research shows how effectively the developing execution holds audience attention. It clarifies which moments help viewers connect with the idea, supporting more engaging creative progression and giving teams confidence that the work will resonate as it becomes more detailed.

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Consistent Brand Impression

Advertising research ensures the brand has cut-through and is represented consistently as creative choices evolve. It shows whether viewers take away the intended brand meaning, supporting coherence between brand and proposition throughout development and preventing misalignment before production investment is committed.

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Commercial Activation with GrowthTest

Using our GrowthTest model we focus on the potential commercial impact of an advert – whether it will retain loyalist buyers and win over new ones. Buyer Behaviour Dynamics are a key measure alongside normal ad diagnostics, giving marketers confidence in the advert’s capacity to drive a meaningful commercial response.

Our Research Methods

We bring together qualitative and quantitative expertise to help you create insights that move the business forward.

Advertising Development Research Services

Our advertising development services encompass structured evaluation of early ideas, evolving executional materials and in-market assets, ensuring each stage receives tailored focus and that teams maintain clarity as creative complexity increases.

How to Get Your Insights

We support qualitative research in 40+ global markets, working with native-speaking moderators and trusted in-market partners to ensure cultural accuracy and insight quality. Wherever your audience is, we can reach them and deliver insight that drives better decisions.

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Our team will contact you within 24 hours.

Step Three

We learn about your needs and goals and how to achieve them.

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We worked with Brandspeak on a brand awareness project and we were extremely pleased with the quality of service and the process. They understood the complexity of the briefs and asked plenty of questions to make sure they fully understand the objectives. They interacted with all levels of people in our business and understood the differences within the market and suggested ways to tie the research together so it was still comparable. The results were delivered with easy to digest summaries that could be used across the business. We would highly recommend using them. 

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Very informative, easy to work with and a really friendly team. I would recommend Brandspeak to help any business grow. They are great quality for money, help niche sectors and present their findings in an understanding manner. They have provided a brand review, market review post-covid to ensure we are still up to date, along with two very valuable website reviews. Working with them for qualitative and quantities research has a been fantastic for us. Thank you for all your help!

Sarah Twist – Marketing Manager

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It’s been an absolute pleasure to work with Brandspeak on our qualitative assessment of different ads across 5 EU markets. Throughout this project, Brandspeak have been expert, professional and so flexible with our requirements and timings. The research analysis that they provided us with was extremely valuable and insightful. I look forward to working with them again – highly recommend! 

Zanya Fahy

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Great service from Brandspeak – highly recommend for thoughtful and detailed brand measurement and tracking.

Georgie Burks, Brand Marketing Lead

Brandspeak recently conducted a complex and sensitive piece of research for us across the US, China, India and Europe. The work was carried out with the utmost professionalism (particular thanks to Jen!) and has provided us with invaluable insights that exceeded our expectations. A great team to work with and thoroughly recommended!

Tom Green

We wanted to understand how elements of our brand were perceived by consumers and identify opportunities where we could make improvements. Brandspeak clearly understood the brief and worked closely with us to develop a research approach that would answer our questions. The insight has been used to inform the development of our creative and also applied to other areas of our marketing communications. It was a pleasure to work with Brandspeak.

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Brandspeak helped us with getting invaluable market insights! They showed great flexibility and professionalism throughout the entire process and provided us exactly with the results we needed. I would recommend working with Brandspeak to anyone and anytime.

Tom Suberg

From the moment I contacted Brandspeak I can’t thank Jeremy and his team enough. Offering a professional approach they took the time and effort to make the whole process easy and effortless. I highly recommend Brandspeak and look forward to working with them again in the future.

Verity Kimber

From their initial proposal they displayed an understanding of financial services and a clarity of thinking that made them stand out. Since then they have consistently delivered to demanding timescales. But what really sets them apart are their actionable and business focused recommendations which give them the credibility to influence senior internal stakeholders. I have really enjoyed working with them and look forward to doing so again.

Leading life and pensions provider

It is always a pleasure – and a relief! – to work with researchers who get the whole thing – effortlessly… a heartfelt thanks.

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