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The Goldfish Generation

by Louise Hefer
August 1, 2016
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For some of you this might be new news and others might have heard this before and forgotten it already, but its official – our attention span is now shorter than that of a goldfish.

Whereas a goldfish has an attention span of nine seconds, the human race now averages eight seconds. This is all due to the mobile revolution and multi-screening becoming more… oh look, a butterfly!

So let’s take this learning and apply it here. This blog won’t be structured around text heavy paragraphs but rather optimised to demonstrate that there are still ways to attract and retain a consumer’s attention, for longer than eight seconds… hopefully.

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Louise Hefer is a media strategist at The MediaShop

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Louise Hefer

Louise Hefer has a decade of media industry experience and is currently a Media Strategist, Planner and CCM (Chief Coffee Maker) at The MediaShop. A custodian of knowledge management, laughing, having fun and seeing the glass half full. Trying to change the world one step at the time.

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