MEDIA ANALYTICS · STUDY TYPE · IMOTIONS ONLINE
Video Ad Testing & Benchmarking
Know if your content works. Before you spend.
Measure real-time audience attention, and engagement, through facial expression data, and survey insights from real people — benchmarked against the world’s largest emotional database. Built on Affectiva technology used on 100 million faces.






HOW IT WORKS
From upload to insight in days, not weeks—scale your video testing without the bottleneck.
Get actionable insights in 3 easy steps:
01 Upload your video
Upload your ad, trailer, or video content directly into the platform. Supports multiple videos for comparative testing.
02 Share with respondents
Embed into your existing survey platform — Qualtrics, SurveyMonkey, or any tool you use. Respondents watch via webcam, no download needed.
03 Get benchmarked results
Pre-aggregated results ready the moment fieldwork ends, benchmarked against 100k+ tested ads.
POWERED BY AFFECTIVA
The emotional database no competitor can replicate.
Integrated Media Analytics is powered by Affectiva — the pioneer of emotional AI analysis, now part of iMotions. Affectiva’s technology was trained on the world’s largest emotional dataset, built over more than a decade of real human data collection across cultures, geographies, and contexts. When you benchmark with Affectiva, you’re comparing against reality — not modelled assumptions.
100k+
Video Ads tested
100M+
Faces analysed to train the AI
90+
Countries represented in the dataset
Global
Benchmarks by market, category & geography
WHAT YOU GET
Everything you need to evaluate creative performance.
Purpose-built for video ad testing — no study design experience required.
FACIAL EXPRESSION ANALYSIS
Moment-by-moment emotional curves — joy, confusion, surprise, engagement — plus 45+ granular Action Units captured via standard webcam.
CALIBRATIONLESS EYE TRACKING
Map visual attention across your video. See exactly what captures interest, what gets ignored, and when attention drops.
RESPIRATION ANALYSIS
Measure physiological arousal and stress levels remotely using computer vision — no chest belt, no hardware, no friction for respondents.
SURVEY INTEGRATION
Combine biometric data with self-reported responses. Slice and dice results by your own survey questions — capture what respondents feel and what they say, all in one study.
NORMS AND BENCHMARKING
Compare your results against 100k+ tested ads filtered by market, category, and geography. Know if your ad is above or below norm.
NO HARDWARE NEEDED
Runs entirely in the browser. Respondents join from anywhere using their own webcam — no downloads, no lab setup, no friction.
USE CASES
Built for the questions marketers actually ask.
Whether you’re optimizing a TV spot or evaluating a trailer before release, Media Analytics gives you the emotional data to make confident creative decisions.
AD TESTING
Will this ad move people?
Measure real emotional responses to your ad — from animatic to finished film. Understand moment-by-moment what works, what confuses, and what lands — before you commit to media spend.
- Real-time facial expression & eye tracking data
- Moment-by-moment emotional curves across the full ad
- Benchmarked against 100k+ tested ads by market & category
ENTERTAINMENT & TRAILER TESTING
Does this trailer make people want more?
Go beyond what audiences say they felt. Measure actual emotional engagement and attention peaks – validated against real-world outcomes including box office performance, sales effectiveness, content memorability and virality. Know what works before you commit.
- Viewer engagement and attention mapped across the full trailer
- Identify high-impact moments and emotional turning points
- Compare multiple cuts or versions in a single study
CUSTOMER SPOTLIGHT
Affectiva Emotion AI is integral to Kantar’s Link suite of creative solutions. We’ve relied on it for over 8 years to help evaluate and diagnose ROI across different types of creative content. Affectiva is unrivaled in its sphere in terms of scale, accuracy, contextual understanding and flexibility in meeting our business needs.
I think the accessibility of the team and the engagement of the team is phenomenal. The willingness of everyone to work with us in creating what we need to create and answering the questions that we need to answer — not a lot of vendors in my experience go to quite the length that the Affectiva team has done, which has been a pleasure to work with.
What was missing was a moment-by-moment system 1 metric that can be integrated with other sources of information. The ability to have robust temporal data is really valuable. For us, it was a natural thing to come to Affectiva for the scalability of the technology and great integration on the platform.
Affectiva’s Emotion AI technology is a fantastic addition to Nature’s ad testing research. We can easily embed it within our surveys and monitor a respondent’s facial expressions and emotional response as they’re watching an ad. This allows us to give very specific recommendations and add optimization advice on a scene by scene basis.
Using Affectiva’s Emotion AI analysis in a recent ad trailer test allowed us to pinpoint the exact moment where viewers emotionally disengaged while watching. Pairing those metrics with viewer commentary provided a deeper understanding of exactly what about the trailer was losing people, and enabled our client to make effective changes prior to launch.
FOR DEVELOPERS & ENTERPRISE
Want to integrate Affectiva facial expression analysis into your own platform?
The Affectiva SDK lets you embed the same AI technology that powers Media Analytics directly into your own products and services.
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