Performance Media: Miracle Drug or Quick Fix?

In today's digital marketing landscape, performance-led marketing is often seen as the holy grail.

Marketers focus heavily on performance metrics like click-through rates and conversions, but is that enough to build a long-term connection with your audience?

At Love Media, we explore whether the reliance on short-term data-driven tactics might be distracting brands from achieving sustainable growth through emotional marketing.
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Is Performance Media Oversimplified?

Brands are spending big on performance media platforms that prioritise the final interaction, A.K.A the "lastclick" attribution.

But is that final click really what's driving the sale, or are we missing a larger, more important picture?
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The Power of Emotions in Marketing

Research shows that 70-95% of our daily decisions are driven by emotions.

In fact, according to Harvard professor Gerald Zaltman, 95% of purchasing decisions occur in the subconscious, fuelled by emotional responses. Moreover, campaigns that focus on emotional engagement outperform rational-based campaigns by 2:1​

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The Issue with Performance Addiction

Many marketing strategies today are overly focused on last-touch performance metrics, but the reality is that over time, this obsession with clicks, conversions, and cost-per-acquisition leads to diminishing returns.

‍Performance media delivers snapshots of success, but it doesn't reflect the emotional connectionsthat build brand loyalty and long-term growth.

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How Love Media Optimises for Emotional Engagement

At Love Media, we focus on building emotional connections to create long-lasting relationships with your audience.

Here’s how we do it:

1. Emotional Engagement: We design campaigns that resonate with audiences on a deeper, emotional level.
2. Holistic Journey Optimisation: Our strategies cover the entire customer journey, ensuring your brand is top of mind across multiple channels.
3. Measuring What Matters: Beyond clicks, we track brand sentiment and emotional engagement to gauge true audience connection.
4. Challenging the Status Quo: We push back against flawed attribution models, helping clients focus on long-term media strategies that foster loyalty.

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The Future of Media is Emotional

In a world where people are bombarded by content every day, standing out is harder than ever. But emotion remains the most powerful tool in your marketing arsenal.

‍Emotional connections are key to building brand loyalty and creating memorable experiences that last.

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