EyeTrackShop's CEO, Mathias Plank, wins the "Innovation Award" at the 2012 Advertising Research Foundation Great Minds Award

New York, NY (March 29, 2012) – EyeTrackShop, the leaders in digital marketing research and developers of the world’s first eye tracking solution for webcams, is honored to annouce the recent achivement of their CEO, Mathias Plank, who was today awarded the ”Innovation Award” for development of the most innovative reserach developments at this year’s Advertising Rearch Foundation (ARF) Great Minds award ceromeny.

Competing against sixty-eight other nominees, the prestigious honor was awarded to the individual (or team) whom, over the past year, has created and proven the greatest impact of innovation towards methods based on inventiveness, analytics, and harnessing technology. Mathias Plank was awarded and recognized for creating the EyeTrackShop platform which tracks the eye movements and behavioral trends of consumers via live webcam.

“The ARF is the gold standard in marketing research industry, and it’s an honor to be included amongst such respectable names within the space,” says Mathias Plank, CEO of EyeTrackShop. ”EyeTrackShop prides itself on achieving quality in research and are pleased to share in celebrating the contributions within advertising research industry and continued excellence and innovation in our research.”

The ARF believes that research must become innovative to respond to the new questions that marketers are asking as the media and marketing landscape undergo fundamental and permanent change. EyeTrackShop’s solution matches this criterion as advertisers, agencies, brands and researchers are provided the tool to garner where people look, for how long, and in what order, and use these actionable insights to optimize their spending on advertising.

About EyeTrackShop
EyeTrackShop is the world’s first online eye tracking solution for large scale online panels. Our vision is to be the leading data collection service for implicit research. The unique EyeTrackShop platform makes eye tracking studies affordable, easy to understand and accessible for everyone. With operations in the US, Europe and Asia, EyeTrackShop offers research agencies the opportunity to increase the value of their surveys by using eye tracking technology as part of the product range. EyeTrackShop also offers media owners, brand owners, agencies and others a number of standardized studies for those who want to measure the effectiveness of their ad campaigns and improve their communication.