The Media Supermarket

This movie, which popularizes a concept in Chaos Theory clearly shows how making a small change in a key event in a person’s life makes a huge tangible difference in the lives of other around them. It makes me think about how fragile the perception of communications by consumers can be, and how delicate changes can get you huge results (good or bad) in your advertising.
David Ogilvy,in Ogilvy on Advertising reports how a simple change as changing the background from black to whit tripled the amount of funds raised by a certain ad!
Google allows you to use several ads and they can automatically optimize them for you. That is, their system will show the better performing ads more often. This way you don’t have to worry about months of research to finding the best copy. You put the different copies you have, and people tell you which ones they find appealing.
Now with their Website Optimizer, you can do the same for your website! If you have a page that is designed to convince visitors to take certain actions, this landing page has several elements in it usually. You definitely have a header, probably a picture, and text to explain what the product / service is.
If you are not sure, which header is the most attractive and persuasive for your visitors, you can put several headers, and they will rotate, until you feel confident that there is a certain pattern that attracts people to one particular text. The same can be done for the other elements of the page. Moreover, the Optimizer also tells you which combination of text, header and picture is the best. Grokdotcom has some useful resources about this product.
The movie seemed too good to be true, especially with the new features, and many people would love to have the access to change the destiny in different ways. In the advertising world, this is not a dream, but a real wish that can now be achieved through Website Optimizer.

they should be asked the golden question, “Would you like to PLAY or to WATCH sports today?”