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How to Get Noticed Online
(Principle 3)

Emotion (a.k.a. sex) still sells

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Knowing what types of emotional elements appeal to your target audience is vital to making your advertising relevant to them. The GameSpot study demonstrates ads that contain images and themes with sex appeal outperform ads that do not -- especially when targeting young, male gamers.

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