Creative testing results
UBS
UBS The Craft Mindset
December 16, 2025
With 13.34 seconds of Active Attention, Snapchat commercial delivers the strongest potential for a category leader to drive brand-building goals. More than 16% of the ad is actively viewed, ensuring the message is absorbed before users scroll, skip, or disengage.
A well-suited supporting platform to extend engagement and reach is Tiktok in-feed. With 3.1 seconds of active attention and 0.03 seconds of passive attention, it reinforces awareness effectively.
With just 1.34 seconds of Active Attention, this format is ineffective for brand awareness, regardless of brand size. Reconsider formats offering less than 2.5 seconds of Active Attention, as they fail to sustain audience engagement before viewer drop-off.
Branding in the first 1–2 seconds of a video can be highly effective in reinforcing brand recognition and building mental availability. However, this benefit is strongest when the distinctive brand assets (DBAs) used are genuinely distinctive, well-established, and already strongly associated with the brand in the minds of the target audience. If early-frame branding relies on assets that are not yet widely recognised or uniquely owned by the brand, there is a risk that these cues do not register as intended - or are misattributed.
The ad length is not suited to scroll-based platforms, where audience attention tends to be brief and drop off quickly. You lose roughly 50% of your audience by second 2 and by second 15 none of your audience remains and 80% of your ad remains unseen. Aim to run content 10-15sec in length to ensure message is delivered more efficiently, you maintain stronger retention and reduced wastage, while still achieving the same communication objectives.