We Don’t Actually Have the Attention Span of a Goldfish

We’re just really tired of ads.

Deepti Kannapan

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Photo by Gabriel P on Unsplash

Where did this ‘goldfish’ factoid come from? The origin was a study done by Microsoft’s advertising department, which was then popularized by Time magazine. All the links I found to the pdf of the original study were broken. Microsoft has taken it off of their website, based on my search on their site for the word…

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Deepti Kannapan

Painter, occasional cartoonist, aerospace engineer. Writes about sustainable technology, creativity, and journaling.