AI Heatmaps: Predict viewing behaviour

AI Eye Tracking Heatmaps show how your target audience see, and visually process your design. They help you understand if a creative is likely to get noticed, and when they do, what people instantly and intuitively see, and how they naturally scan the design.

Below is a short explanation about predictive eye tracking heatmaps and how to effectively use them to understand and optimize visual performance.
Brainsight Heatmap - Gazeplot - Peekthrough - DOOH mockup of Pepsi vs Coca-Cola advertisement

What's Predictive Attention?

Knowing exactly what your audience sees, before they even look.

Challenge: 2 seconds to make an impact.

Research in cognitive psychology and visual perception shows that consumers decide whether to engage with content in 1.7 to 2 seconds. This is part of our subconscious viewing behaviour ('System1'). How can you tell if your key design elements are noticed and anchored within a split second?

Issue: Ad Waste and CRO flaws. Unseen is Unsold.

In digital advertising, more than half of all advertised creatives go unnoticed, wasting billions in marketing spend. CTA's being missed, or visual hierarchy not guiding website visitors naturally through landing pages: when great content does not stand out, it hurts branding and performance.

Solution: Predict viewing behaviour with 94% accuracy.

Brainsight leverages Predictive (AI) Eye Tracking to generate instant Heatmaps with high accuracy. By pretesting your creatives, you'll gain insights into where viewers intuitively look and how they visually process designs. With Attention- and Clarity Benchmarks, and various analysis features, Brainsight adds predictive data to your MarTech or Research Toolkit to increase advertising- and UX performance, optimizing designs with instant feedback loops, before go-live and without live research. For a scientific deep-dive on predictive eye-tracking, check out the Science Page.

AI Heatmap Insights & Features


Predictive eye-tracking heatmaps (and our benchmarks) show you if, where, and how viewers engage with your creatives. Look at your creatives from through the eyes of your tarrget audience and understand how your visuals perform. Ensure that key elements, like CTAs and branding, get the attention they deserve.

Click one of these features to see what this looks like in practice:

Analyzing predictive Attention

Use Cases & insights

AI Heatmaps for Media and Advertising

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Maximize Attention Share & ROI: Perform Pre-flight Creative Evaluations maximizing visual breakthrough potential, ensuring media spend is focused on creatives to be seen at scale.

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Validate Critical Anchor Points: Utilize Areas of Interest (AOI) and predictive data to ensure instant visual processing of high-value elements, anchoring brand lock-up and CTA's.

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Optimize Clarity & Cognitive Load: Assess the ease of visual processing, and fine-tune messaging and design hierarchy to minimize cognitive friction and maximize comprehension.

AI Heatmaps for User Experience & CRO

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Validate First Arrival & Conversion Focus: Use Insights to ensure users' attention is immediately captured by key content. De-risk conversion elements by identifying visual distractors.

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Map User Scan Path for Funnel Flow: Validate intended visual hierarchy and ensure effective information flows, guiding users through efficient conversion funnels with Gazeplots and Scrolling Heatmaps.

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Informed Data-Driven A/B Testing: Eliminate guesswork by generating hypotheses for Conversion Rate Optimization (CRO) with predictive data and testing variants on attention.

Brainsight Scrolling Heatmap of Apple Landing Page

AI Solutions, Data, Integrations

Coca-Cola, Gazeplot in Brainsight, viewing order

AI Audit: Creative Heatmap Analysis in 20 seconds

Download AI Heatmaps & share them by URL

Discuss insights with AI Heatmap Co-Pilot

Instant Branded (Client) Reports

Add AI Heatmaps to your platform (API)

Predictive (AI) Heatmap Plug-in for Figma with Brainsight

AI Heatmaps in
Figma (Plug-in)

Platform Tutorial

This short video-tutorial show how to generate AI (eye tracking) Heatmaps in Brainsight's Predictive Attention Platform, by simply uploading images, videos or web pages.

Interested in a live demo or want to discuss your specific use- or business case? Directly plan a meeting with us.

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AI Heatmaps for all applications

Social ads, Template Brainsight Predictive Attention Benchmark.

Social Media Creatives

Display Ads, Benchmarked Template, Skyscraper

Display Ad Creatives

DOOH Display @ Amsterdam Central Station, benchmarked template, Brainsight Outdoor Media Benchmark

DOOH Creatives

UX & CRO Icon, Laptop + Mobile

UX Designs

Frequently asked questions

How our clients use brainsight

Jon MacDonald, speaker, author, founder & president of The Good.  Event at Google.
"Being able to see exactly where users focus their attention - before a single user test- is a huge advantage. It’s like looking through your user’s eyes. I use it regularly to support design decisions with clients, and to speed up our CRO process."
Jon MacDonald
Founder & President of The Good, bestselling author, public speaker
Melvin at Dentsu Benelux (Amsterdam)
“Brainsight is a strategic partner in our attention approach, delivering predictive intelligence across our creative process and media ecosystem.”
Melvin van Gom
Head of Partnerships, dentsu Benelux

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