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A podcast series focusing on audience engagement through visual storytelling. A 360 view on connecting with the audience that matters to you, whether that’s consumers, clients, stakeholders, or employees. Through entertaining and practical conversations with experts from various industries and disciplines, listeners will gain valuable insights and tips on how to engage with the audiences that matter to them.
What Happens When You Can Finally Measure Emotive Storytelling — with Dr. Paul J Zak
Audience Connection
1 hour 1 minute 28 seconds
3 months ago
What Happens When You Can Finally Measure Emotive Storytelling — with Dr. Paul J Zak
Oliver Atkinson sits down with Dr Paul J Zak, Professor of Economic Sciences, Psychology & Management at Claremont Graduate University and Founder/Chief Immersion Officer at Immersion Neuroscience, to explore how measuring emotion rewrites the rules of brand storytelling. Discover why he calls immersion “the give-a-shit metric,” and dive into the science showing you need just six peak moments a day to thrive.
The discussion ranges from a Diet Coke Super Bowl spot that won neurologic attention despite lukewarm “likes,” to a free smartwatch app that lets anyone track real-time audience resonance. Along the way, Zak unpacks the ethics of persuasion, reveals why AR often outperforms VR, and explains how emotional fitness could become the next health-insurance benchmark.
With 30-second Super Bowl ads now topping $7 million, learn how actionable brain data turns creative risk into competitive edge, and why slight “messiness” keeps stories human in an AI age.
For marketers, creatives and business leaders, this episode delivers actionable insights on crafting tension-rich narrative arcs, stress-testing content with second-by-second immersion scores, and designing experiences that amplify (rather than dull) genuine empathy.
Explore more from Dr. Paul J Zak:
SIX emotional-fitness app – Google Play Apple
The Little Book of Happiness by Dr Paul J Zak – available on Amazon and other major retailers
More of Dr. Zak’s work – pauljzak.com
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Audience Connection
A podcast series focusing on audience engagement through visual storytelling. A 360 view on connecting with the audience that matters to you, whether that’s consumers, clients, stakeholders, or employees. Through entertaining and practical conversations with experts from various industries and disciplines, listeners will gain valuable insights and tips on how to engage with the audiences that matter to them.
