Motivational and Contextual Alignment (MOCA) | MMA / Marketing + Media Alliance
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Motivational and Contextual Alignment (MOCA)

Does aligning media to what motivates your buyers lift sales? A controlled experiment, measured independently.
Advertising optimizes who, what, and when; it has never optimized for why people buy. MOCA tests whether aligning media and audiences to the motivations already in your creative moves the business.

How it works

1. Score

RMT scores your existing creative and media contexts for the motivations they carry.

2. Run

Your campaign runs in two cells on the same budget: motivation-aligned vs. business as usual.

3. Read

MMA delivers an independent read on the business outcome. Charter brands also get a digital-twin read on their trial ads.

Is this lab for you?

  • You run digital media with creative you could vary.
  • You have a KPI you can read: sales, conversions, or visits.
  • You can commit 8 to 12 weeks in a coming quarter.
  • You want an independent answer, not a vendor claim.

What you get

A validated answer

Whether motivation alignment moves your business, measured independently.

A motivational profile

A profile of the motivations in your creative and contexts, which you keep.

A place on the ALTT stage

Share your results with the AI Leadership Think Tank and at MMA events.

The science

  • RMT Labs’ motivational taxonomy is built from 100M+ observed choices and validated against thousands of sales experiments.
  • Wharton’s research finds that measured brain response predicts market outcomes.

Who is behind it

MMA ALTT Independent validation
RMT Labs Bill Harvey, Stefan Maris
Wharton Neuroscience Initiative Dr. Michael Platt
Activation partners Your own DSP, or a managed path

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  • GASP: Gen AI Search Performance
  • AURA: AI audience discovery
  • A3: Agentic AI Advertising
  • ACE: AI creative effectiveness

Interested in learning more about MMA's Motivational and Contextual Alignment (MOCA) Lab?