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Brainsights · Neuro+Attention Scored OOH

Better billboard buying, with Brainsights SI Maps.

Thousands of billboards scored across Canada for what gets Seen and what drives Impact. Backed by Neuroscience.

The Industry's Challenge

'Opportunity to See' isn't Seen.

OOH in Canada is traded on an Opportunity to See — traffic counts and impressions. But is anything actually Seen? And furthermore if it's seen, does it make an Impact?

Not all Impressions are created Equal.
An Impression Served is not an Impression Seen.
And an Impression Seen is not an Impression Made.

100 moments in view~19% actually in focus

The Journey: Impression → Attention → Impact

So we measured Attention and Impact on the Road.

Eye-tracking glasses and EEG headsets on real drives with real humans.

Eye-tracking glasses

EEG headset

200+ boards

Billions of data points

attention + brain waves, in context

A digital billboard over a Mississauga study-route highway just after sunset, traffic streaking beneath
In the field Understanding the attention & neural impact of billboards times of day · days of week · weather · driving & traffic

Seen Signal · Gaze

Seconds of gaze, board by board.

We clock how long eyes actually stay on each board — and how often they come back.

From impressions served to impressions seen.

35%viewed under 1 second

77%under the 2.5s average

23%held past the average

11%held 5 seconds or more

0.0sgaze held

average board: 2.5stop formats hold 4+ seconds

74/100

Seen Score

Impact Signal · EEG

Impact — did the brain engage?

Second-by-second brain response in the moment of exposure — four readings, one Impact Score.

Peak attention

Emotional connection

Memory encoding

Message immersion

Four readings, one momentevery band spikes on exposure

81/100

Impact Score

From impressions seen to impressions made.

Sign up to view the study white paper for full methodology.

Seven readings. One score.

SeenS1share of focusS2gaze durationS3lookbacksi1attentioni2connectioni3encodingi4immersionImpact

From drives to data

Scored coast to coast.

Neuroscience + eye-tracking of real humans + machine learning. The study is the foundation — built out into a scored universe of thousands of assets across Canada.

SI Maps in dark mode: scored asset clusters across Canada, from Vancouver to St. John's

200+ boards observedthousands of boards scored

SI Maps

See the signal before you book the board.

Better billboard buying by understanding which boards are seen and the impact they make. Filter by format, location and score.

Gaze

Seconds of focused gaze.

Seen

Did eyes find it — and stay?

Impact

Did the brain respond?

Seen Impact

One signal on every pin.

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The SI Maps application in dark mode: a scored asset popup showing its photo with Gaze, SI, Seen and Impact values