This graph highlights how media formats vary in terms of how much attention they achieve on average.

For example, a 30" TV ad is only viewed by 43% of people who are in the room when the ad is playing but if they do see it, they watch it on average for about 14". A Facebook infeed ad, on the other hand, is typically seen by 81% of people but they only look at it for an average of 1.6".

This has major implications for how marketers should use these channels. For example, TV is ideal for telling stories that go into long-term memory and make people more predisposed towards a brand whereas Facebook is better suited to triggering existing brand memories amongst people who are currently in the 'purchase window' for the category.

See this page to learn how 'Attentive seconds per 100o Impressions' are calculated.

See 'The Challenge of Attention' for more details. See also this update from Lumen indicating that radio advertising is better than all of these channels at gaining people's attention.

​What to learn more? Try asking Virtual Dan White.