Creative Testing and Optimisation

Build campaigns that connect from idea to activation 

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You need to develop ads that capture attention, drive predisposition and deliver ROI across markets, media formats, and channels. LINK creative development, testing and optimisation solutions provide a unified approach to content development, supported by industry-leading IP, technology, and brand measurement, so you can act with total confidence. 

Unrivalled depth and breadth

Kantar’s creative expertise is underpinned by the world’s largest ad testing database of 260K ads, allowing you to benchmark across countries and your category. 

Proven commercial impact

Research carried out in partnership with WARC shows that the best ads, as measured by Kantar’s LINK testing, can achieve 4X long-term return on your marketing investment. 

Agility to match your business demands

Act with speed and confidence, with AI performance predictions in as few as 15 minutes and survey-based insights in as few as 6 hours. 

Our Solutions

The most powerful way to make creative work

LINK+ on Kantar Marketplace is the most powerful, flexible survey-based solution for evaluating and optimizing ads. It brings together the speed of automation with the ability to tailor your project, so you get insights in as few as 6 hours. 

Key Features

Cutting edge tech-enabled insights

LINK+ uses neuroscience approaches alongside survey and digital behavioural measures for a complete view of true system 1 reactions to your content.

Support at every stage

Assess anything from storyboard to finished ads across digital, TV, audio, print and outdoor and configure your test to measure only the KPIs that matter to you.


Proven impact on your business

LINK+ is validated to short- and long-term sales so you can predispose more people to your brand and grow faster.

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Take the guesswork out of advertising ROI

LINK AI on Kantar Marketplace is a powerful, artificial intelligence-based tool for testing your digital, TV, print and outdoor advertising. It’s designed for speed and scale and backed by the extensive LINK norms database, so you get decision-quality insights you can trust.  

Key Features

Confident decision making

LINK AI delivers decision quality ad effectiveness predictions to an intuitive dashboard in a few as 15 minutes so you can act quickly and confidently.

Comprehensive metrics

It is the only AI solution on the market to predict brand lift along with creative and behavioural effectiveness.


Actionable insight

Results benchmarked to channel-specific norms, so, you have a complete picture of ad effectiveness and know where to put your media investment.

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The most powerful way to nurture creative ideas 

LINK qualitative approaches provide early-stage creative development.  
They help you inspire, develop and finetune, culturally relevant creative experiences which connect to your brand and audience expectations. 

Key Features

Immersive tools  

Use the tried and tested ethnographic approaches including immersive unmoderated self-filmed video approaches to capture consumers interaction with your brand 

Co-creation tools 

Bring together your potential customers, employees and your agency partners in a collaborative moderated group conversation to observe reactions and build upon your advertising concepts. 


Diagnostics and optimisation tools

Online and face-to-face focus groups to gauge the potential of executional ideas against the LINK creative effectiveness framework

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Perspectives

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Deep understanding of how consumers react to your ads across different contexts is the key to unlock your most impactful advertising work
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The ability to swiftly and accurately gauge the potential of creative ideas can magnify your long-term advertising impact
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Marketers are rightly demanding comprehensive validation before adopting AI-based creative effectiveness measurement at scale. So what does best-in-class validation look like, and what are the pitfalls to avoid?
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Ad testing on Kantar Marketplace

Evaluate TV, storyboard, digital, print and outdoor advertising with agile ad testing solutions. Make confident, data-driven decisions about what works, how much to spend and how to optimise your creative. 
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