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From the Yakkyo R&D team

Every ad is made to make people feel something. Neurocast predicts what they’ll actually feel, second by second. So you know before it airs.

A synthetic brain, built from real ones.

Neurocast is built on an AI model trained on more than 1,000 hours of real brain scans (fMRI) from over 720 people, responding to video, sound, images and text. It learned how the human brain reacts, so it responds to your ad the way a brain does.

Built on TRIBE v2, the brain-encoding model published by Meta’s AI research lab (FAIR). Read the paper

  1. It watches and listens like a viewer.

    Every frame and every sound, exactly as your audience would see and hear it.

  2. Its synthetic brain reacts, second by second.

    It predicts how a human brain responds to each moment of your ad.

  3. It turns that into answers.

    Seven signals (attention, sound, language, emotion, memory, reward and social connection), read against the moments that matter in an ad: the opening, the story and the brand.

Any creative.

One ad. Every country feels it differently.

What moves people in Italy may not move people in Germany at all. Neurocast calibrates its reading to each market with local results, so you can see how audiences in each country react, before it airs there.

  • A man in Italy laughing on his sofa while the ad plays on his TV
    Italy Delighted.
  • A woman in France curled up in an armchair, scrolling her phone and ignoring the ad on her TV
    France Not moved.
  • An older woman in Germany watching the ad on her TV, moved, her hand over her mouth
    Germany Deeply moved.

Watch where they lean in.

Every ad comes back re-rendered with live attention, emotion and memory traces over the footage, so each peak and drop is tied to the moment that caused it.

Score by channel and market
ItalyFranceGermanyUSA
TV 81 68 74 77
Social 58 49 52 61
  1. Opening Pulls a distracted viewer back.
  2. Story Holds the story.
  3. Brand Makes the brand stick.
  1. 0.8 s Weak hook · Social
  2. 4.0 s Attention up
  3. 7.0 s Travels across markets
  4. 10.8 s Emotional peak
  5. 12.2 s Brand arrives late

Social scores weigh the first seconds more, because that’s where scrollers decide.

Example on a demo ad. An example re-render: three lines for attention, emotion and memory run across the bottom of the ad’s footage. Below it, the ad is split into its opening (the first 3 seconds), story (3 to 10 seconds) and brand (the last 4 seconds). Five moments are flagged along the way: a weak hook for social at 0.8 seconds, attention rising at 4 seconds, a moment that travels across markets at 7 seconds, the emotional peak at 10.8 seconds, and the brand arriving late, at 12.2 seconds, after the peak. From 12 seconds an end card shows the advertiser’s logo and tagline. A table then scores the ad out of 100 by channel and market: on TV, Italy 81, France 68, Germany 74 and the USA 77; on social, Italy 58, France 49, Germany 52 and the USA 61. It works best on TV in Italy.

From insight to edit.

Every result comes with concrete suggestions: what the audience’s reaction shows, and what you could change in the edit. Your creative team always makes the final call.

  • A silent opening loses them.

    Add a sound cue in the first two seconds.

  • The emotional peak lands, but the eyes drift.

    Hold the logo on the final frame.

  • Fast cuts tire the eye.

    Slow the edit in the middle.

Work with us
your way.

The more campaigns we run together, the sharper Neurocast gets for your audience.

  • Full service

    Send us the creative. We run the study and bring you the findings.

  • Assisted

    Your team runs the tests. We tune the model with you.

  • Self-serve

    Your team uses Neurocast directly, whenever it needs to.

See it on your own creative.

Send us one of your ads. In minutes, we’ll show you how your audience feels, before you spend a euro on media.

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