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Retail Advertisers

How Retail Brands Measure Up for Viewer Attention

More than nearly any other industry, retail advertising is seasonal, with Holiday advertising driving the bulk of impressions and new creative for this group. But how do brands like Walmart, Target, Lowe’s, Home Depot, and Kohl’s breakthrough to capture attention in a busy season?

Here we take a closer look at how well these advertisers engage their audience.

If you're interested in more context and further analysis of the top creative for these brands, be sure to watch our Retail Industry Spotlight webinar.

BRAND SCORES
Linear Viewability
Linear Attention
CTV Viewability
CTV Attention

When we look at the above data, we see little variance in scores. Most retailers are performing within the average zone. Home Depot stands out with better than average attention for Linear TV ads, and Kohl’s CTV advertising is outperforming the industry and it’s linear campaigns.

How to Interpret TVision's Scores

All results from this report can be found in TVision's Ad Scoreboard. The platform uses a simple scoring system to benchmark ad attention and viewability performance. Advertisers can access their results and uncover competitive performance in this easy-to-use platform.

For example, a score of 7 indicates that the brand is performing better than 70% of all the brands that TVision measures.

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BELOW AVERAGE
ABOVE AVERAGE

These 30-Second Ads Captured Attention Best

CREATIVE SCORES
Ad Name
Feeling Squeezed?

Totally Smooth

Parking Lot: Early Morning

Holidays: Dance

Season of Curiosity
Creative Breakthrough Score
101.1

101.3

101.4

101.1

102.8
Network Where the Ad Captured Attention the Best
55.9%

46.7%

52.9%

45.2%

48.9%
Top Daypart and % Attention Early Morning
38.7%
Morning
40.5%
Overnight
38.5%
Prime Access
42.5%
Morning
45.6%

In the chart above we spotlight an additional metric: The Creative Breakthrough Score. TVision's Creative Breakthrough Score compares an ad's performance against other ads that ran in the same pod. Advertisers can use this information, found in TVision's Creative Scoreboard to identify breakthrough ads and optimize media placements to better engage viewers.

The % Attention metrics track what percentage of viewers maintained eyes-on-screen attention for at least 2 seconds. The average % Attention for Linear ads is 36% and 34.5% for CTV ads.

Retailers see the best ad attention in the morning dayparts, with several of these ads also doing well in Primetime. 

Ad Analysis: Target

Target’s seasonal, Back-to-School ad uses music and Target’s trademark fast paced scene movement to capture attention.
  • Target "Totally Smooth"
  • Music Drove Spikes in Attention

    TVision’s second-by-second data helps advertisers pinpoint the creative elements - spokespeople, jokes, tones and imagery that best capture viewer attention. In this ad, we see consistently high attention, with spikes when the musical notes change.  Watch the full ad and see how viewers paid attention, second by second.

  • The seasonal ad captured attention, before wearing out quickly
  • The ad worked best with its target demos

This level of detail is available across every brand and ad in Ad Scoreboard.

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Because a single percentage point increase in attention translates to a corresponding 1% increase in aided awareness and ad recall, optimizing for attention can translate to a significant increase in the number of people who think of the insurer when it's time to buy auto or home insurance.

Retail Advertisers on CTV

With TVision's CTV Adoption Score in Ad Scoreboard, advertisers are able to understand their investment in CTV compared to their competitors. These five retail advertisers are investing in CTV at relatively standard rates compared to all TV advertisers.

CTV ADOTPION
CTV Adoption Score

Ads that capture attention on linear, don't always perform the same way on CTV, and so advertisers making significant CTV investments need to understand where their campaigns perform best on CTV. In the case of these retail advertisers, MVPD apps like AT&T Now and Spectrum,, which deliver a linear-like viewing experience are also delivering the most ad attention.

CTV APP ATTENTION
CTV App Where the Brand Captured Attention Best
46.6%

43.4%

54.4%

43.5%

51.1%

Retail Brands See Different Levels of Attention Across Linear TV Placements

Linear television delivers 36% ad attention on average, but across networks and dayparts there are significant variances in attention. Savvy retailers use TVision's Ad Scoreboard to pinpoint the networks and dayparts where they - and their competitors -perform best, and re-assign inventory and creative accordingly.

In the table below, we highlight the top performing Linear TV Networks and Dayparts for these retail brands.

ATTENTION VARIS BY NETWORK, DAYPART AND PROGRAM

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Linear TV Network Where the Brand Captured Attention Best
38.6%

38.8%

40.4%

39.5%

41.5%
Linear TV Daypart Where the Brand Captured Attention Best Late Fringe
35.4%
Late Fringe
35.3%
Morning
37.6%
Prime Time
36.3%
Morning
35.5%

These are the Demos Where Retail Advertisers Perform Best

In the battle for brand awareness, retail advertisers are trying to reach key demos at the right time, to ensure their brands are top of mind at critical seasonal buying times.  But many of these brands have a hard time capturing average attention from specific demos. In fact, with the exception of The Home Depot, all of the brands failed to reach average attention across all demos. The Home Depot was able to capture attention better than average from the hard-to-engage 18-29 year old demo across both CTV and Linear. The below average attention could be due to the high volume of ads these retailers run, which target a diverse set of demos.

Within Ad Scoreboard, advertisers can see how well they perform with specific age and gender demographics. Here we highlight the age demos where insurance advertisers out-performed the average by the highest amount. 

OUT PERFORMING DEMOS
Best Performing Linear Demo and Ad Attention Difference From the Norm 50 - 59
-0.10%
50 -59
-3.00%
18 - 29
+1.20%
50 - 59
-1.10%
60+
-0.70%
Best Performing CTV Demo and Ad Attention Difference From the Norm 18 - 29
-0.60%
30-39
-1.10%
18 - 29
+1.20%
30 - 39
+4.30%
50+
+1.50%

Keep Score with Ad Scoreboard

TVision’s Ad Scoreboard provides mid-campaign performance stats so your teams can easily integrate Attention insights into their planning, creative, and measurement processes.

Compare Ad Scoreboard and TVision's Enterprise Platform here.

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Compare Linear & CTV

See how your brand is performing on Linear and CTV to make apples-to-apples comparisons

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Score Performance

See how your brand, creative, and network partners perform against industry averages

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Monitor Competitors

Make comparisons with any competitor to uncover what ads and networks drive success

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Discover Engaging Opportunities

Identify the networks where your target audiences are most engaged

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Track KPIs

Measure results over time and gain early indicators of performance across Linear and CTV

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See What Engages Viewers

Understand which parts of your creative get the most attention, down to the second

TVision Methodology

TVision maintains an opt-in panel of 5,000 TV and CTV viewing households and is able to report second by second attention and viewability for 13,000+ viewers. Data in this report was compiled between October 25, 2021 and October 25, 2022.

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