Media Can Help Creative Do Its Job

The more I study the mind, the more convinced I become that the ad industry has subtly over time marginalized creative.  Great creative is always based on a deep psychological insight that is leveraged to cause the audience to undergo a specific psychological shift of supreme importance to brand sales.  Yet as an industry we don't pay enough attention to the nature of that shift, for if we did, we would realize that the shift we are trying to induce is a fragile thing that might or might not occur depending on how well the audience is set up for it.  In other words, the context of the program or content the audience has been immersed in before the ad comes on.