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Five Evidence-Based Principles of Effective Advertising

Date: June 17, 2026 | 12 p.m. ET | Free

Speaker: Pam Forbus, Global Chief of Insights & Analytics, Mondelēz International

Duration: 1 hour

Description: Marketing celebrates innovation, bold ideas and unconventional thinking. But effectiveness is not driven by novelty alone.  Insights leaders play a critical role in championing what actually works – ensuring marketing delivers lasting business impact.  In this session, Pam will share five evidence-based principles of effective advertising, drawn from an analysis of over 150 academic studies.

Key Takeaways:

  • The five proven principles that drive advertising effectiveness
  • How to balance creativity with evidence-based discipline
  • The role of insights in shaping marketing that delivers measurable business results

Bio: Pam Forbus is the Senior Vice President, Global Chief of Insights & Analytics at Mondelēz International, where she leads a global team that connects human insight and marketplace analytics to business growth across a portfolio of beloved brands. Prior to Mondelēz, Pam served as Chief Marketing Officer at Pernod Ricard USA and held senior insights leadership roles at The Walt Disney Company and PepsiCo. A visionary leader and passionate advocate for the power of insights, Pam is known for driving business impact by putting the consumer at the heart of decision-making.

Better than Rating Scales: The Remarkable MaxDiff

Date: July 22, 2026 | 12 p.m. ET | Free

Presenter: Bryan Orme, CEO, Sawtooth Software

Duration: 1 hour

Description:

Better than Rating Scales: The Remarkable MaxDiff

Tired of respondents rating most everything as important? Having trouble in cross-cultural research when different countries use rating scales differently? Want a better way to develop needs-based segmentation personas? MaxDiff to the rescue! Join Sawtooth’s Bryan Orme to learn how and why MaxDiff (best-worst scaling) works so well.

You will learn:

  1. How MaxDiff obtains high discrimination, while eliminating scale use bias
  2. How to interpret MaxDiff results and present to others
  3. Extensions of MaxDiff, including needs-based segmentation (for developing personas) and TURF optimization for optimizing sets of multiple items that reach the most people
  4. After the webinar, you can optionally create, field, and analyze your own MaxDiff study using a free version of Sawtooth’s cloud-based survey tool, Discover.

Presenter: Bryan Orme, CEO, Sawtooth Software

Bryan Orme, CEO of Sawtooth Software, has been researching, writing about, and teaching courses about MaxDiff and conjoint analysis for three decades. He brings an intuitive, non-technical approach to the subject so you can clearly understand the hows and whys behind research methods. Aside from work, he enjoys traveling and scuba diving.

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