At the ESOMAR Asia Pacific conference in Macao this week, Ray Poynter shared ten conclusions from two ESOMAR reports, Global Market Research 2018 and Global Prices Study 2018. Both reports are free to ESOMAR members. He also debunked four common myths. The facts: The research industry is growing and changing. Traditional qual and quant work […]
At the ESOMAR Asia-Pacific 2019 conference in Macao, Anne-Marie Moir described her proof of concept using voice assistants to conduct interviews. Anne-Marie owns the firm Consumer Behaviour in Melbourne and has been a qualitative researcher for 25 years. Her hypothesis is that “an AI powered voice tool is capable of eliciting a richer response than […]
At the ESOMAR Asia Pacific 2019 event in Macao, Finn Raben discussed the ESOMAR Foundation’s Making a Difference competition and introduced the winner of last year’s competition to share her case study. As background, the ESOMAR Foundation partners with NGOs to help them with research. This year, at the ESOMAR Annual Congress in Edinburgh, the […]
At IIeX North America in Austin last week, Holly Carter of Confirmit shared her tips for adapting surveys to the needs of Generation Z [which Pew Research defines as those born 1997 and later]. Some of Holly’s observations about Gen Z: “They’re all about their mobile phones… They’re on their phones constantly.” Over 95% of […]
At IIEX North American in Austin last week, Marian Anderson, research director at Microsoft, and Zontziry Johnson, MR manager at Microsoft (and member of the MRII Board of Directors), presented an update on how Microsoft is transforming its insights function. “Microsoft’s Market Research team is undergoing a 3- to 5-year journey to change how we […]
At IIeX North America in Austin, Stephen Thompson of Recollective, Tiffany Ng of Experian, and Holly O’Neill of Talking Business LLC shared five key success factors for Experian’s online community, voicesHUB, now going on its tenth year. Holly O’Neill was instrumental in convincing Experian to start the community in 2010, in order to “to hold […]
At the 10th Annual MSMR Insights Conference at the University of Texas at Arlington last week, three speakers shared case studies about real and virtual intercepts. Jill Matthews of Bright Cactus needed to do new product testing with bodybuilders, and found the best way to reach them was to interview them at bodybuilding competitions. Some […]
At the 10th Annual MSMR Insights Conference at the University of Texas at Arlington last week, Jodie McInerney and Sandip Narang of Burke discussed how they applied agile techniques to in-person research. Their client, a cat litter brand team, needed a new strategic innovation to drive brand share – and gave Burke five weeks to […]
At the 10th Annual MSMR Insights Conference in Arlington, Texas, Casey Bernard of Nimble MR presented on using the power of podcasts for research. Half of US homes are podcast fans. Approximately 30 companies in the S&P 500 are using podcast for internal communications. “In a sense, I’m painting something but I’m not holding the […]
At the Quirks Event in Chicago, Andrew Grenville of Maru / Matchbox shared research on research from his book The Insights Revolution: Questioning Everything. How we interact with each other keeps evolving. Andrew started in the industry doing face-to-face interviews with paper questionnaires, before adapting the questionnaires to phone research, then to the web, and […]