- Ameritest
Infobox_Company
company_name = Ameritest
company_type = Private
operating = 18 countries
foundation =1990
location =USA
key_people = Charles E. Young (Founder)
industry = Marketing Research
homepage = [http://www.ameritest.net www.ameritest.net]Ameritest is an international firm, headquartered in
Albuquerque, New Mexico , which provides its clients with on their advertising concepts, and executions.The company was founded in
1990 inChicago, Illinois by Charles E. Young. Ameritest, d.b.a. CY Research, uses highly visual or non-verbal approaches to measuring advertising in a variety of media, including television, print, direct response, packaging, internet and branded entertainment.Heuristic Models
The primary tools used by the company to illustrate how advertising works are heuristic models created by Young. The purpose of these models is to focus attention on learning how and why an ad is, or is not, working with the goal of improving or optimizing ad performance. The models are organized into a hierarchy that attempts to bridge the divide between report card systems and diagnostic systems.
As a , or
copy testing system, Ameritest’s television model is intended to explain how the audience perceives motion media includingtelevision ,online ,film , and other forms of entertainment. The print model is meant to address print media includingnewspaper ,magazines ,direct response ,catalog , andoutdoor advertising .Awards
Ameritest is the winner of six David Ogilvy Research Awards including the Grand Award for it’s work with IBM’s “Blue Letterbox” ad campaign.
References
Articles written about Ameritest
Delivering the Message, (American Chamber of Commerce Journal) ACCJ Jorunal, November 2004, 35 [http://www.accj.or.jp/document_library/Journal2004/07opinionleaderNov04.pdf. PDF]
[http://www.esomar.org/web/publication/publication.php?id=449 ESOMAR Conference] [http://www.ameritest.net/resources/ ESOMAR Conference Presentation One Size Fits All]
Creativity Magazine, October 1, 2003 “Testing on Trial: Is copytesting killing advertising creativity?” [http://adage.com/results.php?search_offset=0&search_order_by=score&search_phrase=testing+on+trial&search_pub%5B%5D=adcritic&search_postdate_from=1992-01-01&search_relevancy=on&search_relevancy=off&searchad-btn.x=19&searchad-btn.y=14]
Articles written by Ameritest
[http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=F0504C&referral=2342 Harvard Business Review article, The Spielberg Variables, April 1, 2005, p 16]
Article "Brain Waves, Picture Sorts and Branding Moments" [http://www.jar.warc.com/Search/WordSearchResults.asp Journal of Advertising Research, July/Aug 2002 issue, Volume 2, No. 4, pp 42-53 and cover. (you must be a member and search for the title)] and WARC, Journal of Advertising Research [http://www.warc.com/LandingPages/Generic/Results.asp?Ref=173 Scroll down to Brain Waves, Picture Sorts and Branding Moments.]
Admap magazine, Emotions in TV Ads, January 2004, Issue 446, pp 34-36, [http://www.ameritest.net/resources Scroll down to Emotion in TV Ads paper]
Admap magazine, Does Day-After Recall Produce Vanilla Ads? June 2004, Issue 451, pp 40-42. [http://www.admapmagazine.com/contents-previous-detail.asp?MagazinesIssueDatesID=26]
Editorials regarding Ameritest
Advertising Age, May 9, 2005, page 32, Viewpoint section, Letters to the Editor, "Agencies should be more involved with research" article, written by Charles E. Young, CEO and founder of Ameritest. [http://adage.com/archive-date?date=2005-05-09 Advertising Age Archives]
Advertising Age, June 9, 2003, page 24, Viewpoint section, “The danger in ad recall tests”, by John Kastenholz and Charles Young. [http://adage.com/archive-date?date=2003-06-09 Advertising Age Archives]
Advertising Age, June 9, 2003, page 6, “Copy tests under fire from new set of critics”, mentions us through a quote by Kastenholz. [http://adage.com/archive-date?date=2003-06-09 Advertising Age Archives] Advertising Age, Viewpoint section, Editorial, July 14, 2003, page 15. “Effective ads work in more than one way”, by Chuck. A rebuttal to the original article “copy tests under fire”
Conferences Ameritest has Participated in
[http://www.esomar.org/web/publication/publication.php?id=449 ESOMAR Conference] [http://www.ameritest.net/resources/ ESOMAR Conference Presentation One Size Fits All]
“ReThink” the 51st annual ARF conference & expo, 2005. Monday, April 18th, Forum 3, 10:15—11:45, Semantic Network Analysis of Brand Ratings: A beverage case study, Charles E. Young. Conference was held at the Embassy Suites Hotel, New York City April 17-19, 2005.
“Consumer Engagement Conference: How to turn on a mind”, September 28-29, 2006 (The ARF) “Measuring the Turn On” a panel discussion with Amy Shea Hall of Ameritest. [http://www.thearf.org/events/past/cec-09.28.06.pdf PDF]
Awards
David Ogilvy Research Award, Grand Ogilvy Award, "IBM Infrastructure Campaign", 2003
David Ogilvy Research Award, Gold Medallion, Best In "Considered Purchase" Category, 2003.
David Ogilvy Research Award, Silver Medallion, E-Business Campaign, 2000, Pre-testing.
David Ogilvy Research Award, Silver Medallion, "Shaping Strategy", Unilever HRC, USA, Helene Curtis Business Unit, Degree/Competitive Research, 1998.
David Ogilvy Research Award, Silver Medallion, 1997, Personal Products: Just My Size/ "Talking Fit" campaign, Pre-testing.
David Ogilvy Research Award, Silver Medallion, 1996, "L'eggs "Smooth Silhouettes" Pre-testing.
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