News30 April 2012

eDigital hires panel ops manager

UK— Erika Krolikowski has been appointed panel operations manager at eDigitalResearch, a newly created role at the company.

News30 April 2012

Kellogg's, AmEx sign up for ComScore Validated Campaign Essentials

US— ComScore has won several new clients for its Validated Campaign Essentials ( VCE) tool to measure online ad campaigns in Europe and Asia Pacific.

News30 April 2012

Creston expecting full-year revenue rise

UK— Insights and communications group Creston expects to report revenue of £75m, an 11% increase, for the year ending 31 March 2012, according to a trading statement released today.

News30 April 2012

Metrix appointed as Vision Critical partner in western Australia

AUSTRALIA— Hot on the heels of a recent Swedish deal, Vision Critical has signed up Australia’s Metrix Consulting to be a certified partner for its suite of tools, including the community panel platform Sparq.

News30 April 2012

Op4G taps Kinesis for desktop, mobile and tablet survey tool

US— Opinions for Good ( Op4G), a charity-focused online panel technology company, has tapped Kinesis Survey to be its exclusive online survey software provider.

News30 April 2012

Kantar invests $1.2m in auto data specialist Enprecis

US— WPP-owned Kantar has bought a minority stake in Enprecis, an automotive industry data collection and analysis firm, for $1.2m.

Feature30 April 2012

Tribal gathering

Feature27 April 2012

Ready for take-off

Paul Kehoe, CEO of Birmingham Airport, wants research to lead him in new directions. He tells Robert Bain why he values fresh thinking.

News27 April 2012

Ipsos Understanding Unltd names Asia Pacific boss

THAILAND— Gordon Milne has been appointed head of the Ipsos Understanding Unltd ( UU) qualitative research business in Asia Pacific.

News27 April 2012

FEC says federal candidates not subject to NH push poll law

US— New Hampshire cannot force federal election candidates to identify themselves when conducting research that fits the state’s loose description of “push polling”, says Federal Election Commission.

News27 April 2012

IBM continues analytics acquisition spree with Vivisimo

US— IBM is to acquire data analytics software firm Vivisimo, which builds tools to help companies find and analyse large amounts of data.

News27 April 2012

Forrester Q1 revenue up 7% to $70.3m

US— Technology market research group Forrester has seen a 6.9% increase in first quarter revenue, coming in at $70.3m.

News27 April 2012

Aztec revenues keep rising, says Aegis

UK— Aztec, the retail scan data business owned by Aegis Group, has reported organic revenue growth of 10% in the first three months of 2012.

News27 April 2012

WPP posts 1.3% like-for-like increase in consumer insight revenue

UK— Consumer insight revenue at WPP was up 3% to £569m in the first quarter, with like-for-like sales up 1.3%, the company reported this morning.

News26 April 2012

NRG co-founder sets up new research agency

US— Catherine Paura, one of the co-founders of The National Research Group ( NRG) has teamed up with her sister Angela to launch a new firm aimed at the movie industry, Capstone Global Marketing and Research Group.

News26 April 2012

TNS wins Belgian internet measurement contract

BELGIUM— The Belgian Centre for Information on the Media ( CIM) has awarded TNS the country’s new National Internet Measurement contract, which begins in November.

News26 April 2012

Next UK Touchpoints to use mobile app as diary

UK— The next wave of the Institute of Practitioners in Advertising’s ( IPA) Touchpoints media survey is set to use a smartphone app that will serve as both a diary and a passive measurement device.

Feature26 April 2012

Growth signs

Semiofest organiser Chris Arning feels the time has come for commercial semioticians to pull together, to share their knowledge and take the discipline to the masses.

News26 April 2012

SurveyMonkey survey tool to get self-service sample

US— SurveyMonkey is preparing to make sample from its Audience panel service available on a self-service basis through its flagship survey design and distribution platform.

News26 April 2012

Consensus Point intros prediction market software for research

US— Consensus Point is willing to bet that its new prediction market platform can cut research costs while improving respondent engagement.

News26 April 2012

SWAT launches omnibus in United Arab Emirates

UAE— Fieldwork agency SWAT Research Field Force has launched a new quantitative omnibus survey in the United Arab Emirates.

News26 April 2012

Synovate integration boosts Ipsos Q1 revenue

FRANCE— Ipsos has reported a 46% increase in revenue for the first quarter of 2012, reflecting the consolidation of Synovate into the company.

Opinion25 April 2012

Competition? What competition?

Google, ComScore and Rentrak – none of them pose a real challenge to Nielsen’s position, reckons chief executive David Calhoun.

News25 April 2012

Nielsen Q1 revenues climb 3% to $1.34bn

US— Nielsen has seen revenue rise 3% to $1.34bn in the first quarter of this year, up 4% when calculated on a constant currency basis.

News25 April 2012

Publicis acquires website tester Indigo Consulting

FRANCE— Publicis Groupe has acquired India’s Indigo Consulting, which offers website usability research and testing among its range of services.

News25 April 2012

Kiosk-based research firm launches in UK cinema

UK— Entertainment Works Inc ( Eworks), a US firm that offers kiosk-based consumer research, has launched in the UK through a partnership with Sponsorship Science director Richard Dean and entrepreneur Benjamin Byrne.

News25 April 2012

Vision Critical in Swedish community panel deal

SWEDEN— Vision Critical has partnered with Swedish research agency Sinitor in a deal that will see the firm’s community panels platform made available to research buyers in the Nordic and Baltic countries.

News25 April 2012

BuzzBack partners for webcam eye-tracking

US— Online research specialist BuzzBack has forged an agreement with EyeTrackShop to jointly offer webcam eye-tracking research projects, with a particular focus on evaluating packaging and communications.

News25 April 2012

IMS buys clinical trials support software firm

US— Healthcare research group IMS has acquired DecisionView, a San Francisco-based company that builds software to help with the planning and tracking of patient enrolment for clinical trials.

News24 April 2012

Pollsters bemused by Alberta election result

CANADA— Pollsters in Alberta were left scratching their heads after Tory Alison Redford beat the Wildrose Party’s Danielle Smith in Monday’s provincial election.

News24 April 2012

Thomson Reuters to sell off health analytics arm

US— Business intelligence provider Thomson Reuters has agreed to sell its healthcare data, analytics and performance benchmarking businesses to Veritas Capital in a $1.25bn cash deal.

News24 April 2012

Vision Critical adds survey app to HootSuite

CANADA— Survey technology firm Vision Critical has built an app that allows users to distribute survey links through the HootSuite social media management dashboard.

News24 April 2012

Digital Analytics Association taps iPerceptions for web feedback

US— The Digital Analytics Association ( DAA), formerly the Web Analytics Association, has signed up to use iPerceptions’ WebValidator Continuous Listening service on its website.

Feature24 April 2012

ComScore counts down to UKOM kick off

As ComScore prepares to take over the UKOM online measurement contract, we talk to the firm’s chief operating officer, Cameron Meierhoefer, about plans for the new measurement system.

News24 April 2012

Ex-Ipsos ASI president Hedde to lead Schlesinger Interactive

News24 April 2012

Mobile intelligence firm Validas gets private equity backing

US— Validas, a developer of mobile intelligence technology, has received an undisclosed strategic investment from private equity group Huntsman Gay Global Capital.

News23 April 2012

Microsoft's Uyenco takes international research role at ComScore

US— ComScore has hired Microsoft Advertising’s global research director Beth Uyenco to oversee its research methodologies in international markets.

News23 April 2012

20|20 president becomes marketing consultant

US— 20|20 Research president Steve Henke has left to launch a consulting firm that aims to work with research agencies to create and execute marketing and sales strategies.

News23 April 2012

Ipsos Loyalty adds VP to financial services team

US— Thomas Gallagher has been appointed vice president in the financial services practice at Ipsos Loyalty.

News23 April 2012

Arkovi to provide Facebook info for uni's millenials study

US— The University of Texas at Dallas has selected social media communication monitoring firm Arkovi to provide a technology platform for a long-term study into the digital lives of 200 ‘Millennials’.

News23 April 2012

TNS Aftab promotes COO to chief executive

PAKISTAN— TNS Aftab – TNS’s affiliates in Pakistan and Afghanistan – has promoted chief operating officer and company veteran Quratulain Ibrahim to chief executive officer.

News23 April 2012

Norstat to acquire majority stake in ODC Services

GERMANY— Norstat, a data collection firm working predominantly in Northern Europe, is acquiring a majority stake in German online fieldwork firm ODC Services.

News23 April 2012

Gartner wants to make Ideas its own

AUSTRALIA— The Australian subsidiary of Gartner, an IT market analyst, has made a AUD 20m takeover offer for Sydney-based Ideas International.

Feature20 April 2012

Fishing for ideas

ICM research director Tom Wormald on how Aviva has honed its ads and its product offering with the help of its most influential customers.

News20 April 2012

DJS Research posts revenue increase of 26%

UK— DJS Research has reported a 26% rise in revenue for 2011, up from £1.5m to £1.9m.

News20 April 2012

Acxiom picks Google Analytics's Mui as chief product officer

US— Marketing services firm Acxiom has appointed Phil Mui to fill the newly created role of chief product and engineering officer.

News20 April 2012

W20 Group acquires data analytics firm Ravel

US— The W20 Group, an independent network of marketing, research, communications and development companies has acquired Texas-based data analytics firm Ravel.

News20 April 2012

Post Office invites bids for £12m MR roster

UK— The Post Office has put out a market research tender worth up to £12m over four years. The roster, consisting of up to 20 agencies, will stand for two years, with the option to extend by a further two.

News19 April 2012

Millward Brown opens in Dubai

DUBAI— Millward Brown has opened an office in Dubai through a tie-up with local firm AMRB, which is also owned by WPP and is the existing Millward Brown licensee in the region.

News19 April 2012

Voxco and Inmega strike software distribution deal in Mexico

MEXICO— Survey software firm Voxco has sealed a deal with Mexican research agency Inmega Ivestigacion de Mercados to distribute its Acuity4 social media monitoring product in the country.

News19 April 2012

Arbitron revenue up 5.5% in first quarter

US— Radio ratings firm Arbitron has posted revenue up 5.5% to $106.4m in the first quarter, with operating income rising 4.7% to $75.2m.

News19 April 2012

Obituary: John Cronk, planner and qual researcher

UK— John Cronk, planner and qualitative market researcher, died on 12 April at the Royal Marsden Hospital after a long illness.

News19 April 2012

ScottishPower renews Intersperience deal

UK— ScottishPower has renewed its online customer panel contract with consumer research firm Intersperience.

News19 April 2012

Cumulus to use Nielsen BDS music monitoring data

US— Cumulus Media has signed up its radio stations to use Nielsen’s music monitoring service, Broadcast Data Systems ( BDS).

News19 April 2012

Splunk raises $230m through IPO

US— Data analytics software firm Splunk has raised $229.5m through its initial public offering, which is almost twice as much as originally anticipated.

News19 April 2012

Marketing spend up as business confidence rises

GLOBAL/UK— Measures of marketing expenditure around the world and in the UK show spend rising in line with levels of optimism.

News18 April 2012

ASCI and TAM Research to track misleading ads in India

INDIA— The Advertising Standards Council of India ( ASCI) has partnered with TAM Media Research to launch the National Advertising Monitoring Service ( NAMS), an initiative aimed at reducing the amount of misleading adverts.

News18 April 2012

Populus hires Bell Pottinger's Wilkins as associate director

UK— Populus has appointed Chris Wilkins, formerly of Bell Pottinger Public Advocacy, as an associate director.

News18 April 2012

Web users open to cookie opt-in requests – survey

UK— Web users will be open to considering cookie opt-in requests when new rules come into force next month, according to Econsultancy.

Feature18 April 2012

Not a crumb of comfort

Alex Burmaster finds an industry unsure of how to respond to the website measurement challenges posed by the European Union’s cookie laws.

News18 April 2012

Arbitron to study the mobile consumer

US— Arbitron has launched a syndicated survey to study how consumers in the US are using their smartphones and tablets to consume media and to shop – and how exposed they are to mobile advertising.

News18 April 2012

Penn Schoen Berland buys First Movies International

UK— WPP-owned strategic communications agency Penn Schoen Berland has acquired First Movies International, a research-based strategic consultancy with offices in London and Los Angeles.

News18 April 2012

Burger King's former insights VP joins ad agency

US— Ad agency Crispin Porter + Bogusky has hired former Burger King insights man David Henry as executive director of business insights.

News18 April 2012

Umbel adds funds and Arbitron executive as CEO

US— Umbel, a digital audience measurement firm and one of our picks of the recent SXSW Accelerator contest, has bagged a new CEO and $3.7m in financing ahead of its public launch in the second half of this year.

News17 April 2012

TitleMax to use Rentrak for ad buys

US— Car loan company TitleMax has signed up to use Rentrak’s StationView Essentials as the basis for its TV advertising buys.

News17 April 2012

$9.5m for Chartbeat in series B funding round

US— Web analytics service Chartbeat – used by the likes of ESPN, Fox News and Forbes – has raised $9.5m in a series B round of funding.

News17 April 2012

Twitter buys analytics startup Hotspots.io

US— Analytics startup Hotspots.io has been acquired by Twitter, becoming part of the social network’s revenue engineering team.

News17 April 2012

Universal McCann's Karen Ring joins GfK MRI

US— GfK MRI Starch Advertising Research has appointed Karen Ring to fill the newly created role of vice president of research.

News17 April 2012

Hansa and Ipsos make joint bid for Indian Readership Survey

INDIA— Hansa Research and Ipsos have entered into a memorandum of understanding to jointly bid for the new Indian Readership Survey ( IRS), which kicks off next year.

News17 April 2012

Burger King brings feedback programme to UK

UK— Burger King has launched a customer feedback programme in the UK, following the success of similar projects in the US, Spain and Germany.

News17 April 2012

AOL to use Nielsen online ratings to back advertiser guarantee

US— AOL is to use Nielsen’s Online Campaign Ratings ( OCR) service to offer marketers guaranteed audience delivery for their online video campaigns.

News16 April 2012

People on the move

The latest appointments and promotions in the global market research and consumer insight industry.

News16 April 2012

Research Now promotes Svoboda to ops vice president

US— Research Now has promoted Kate Svoboda to vice president of operations for Canada, the northeast and the western regions of the US.

News16 April 2012

Filz to lead GMI in EMEA region

US— Global Market Insite ( GMI) – part of Lightspeed Research – has appointed Martin Filz as managing director for the Europe, Middle East and Africa region.

News16 April 2012

Kantar Retail takes a stake in UAE's GME

UAE— Kantar Retail has acquired a minority stake in GME, an agency offering retail insight and consultancy services to clients in the United Arab Emirates.

News16 April 2012

Asia Pacific duo join Cint OpinionHUB

SWEDEN— Cint has struck partnerships with two firms in Asia Pacific to integrate their panels into Cint’s OpinionHUB platform for accessing sample.

Feature16 April 2012

Elephant? What elephant?

Context is the elephant in the room for research, say Tom Holliss and John Griffiths of Spring Research. It’s time to open your eyes.

Feature16 April 2012

Elephant? What elephant?

Context is the elephant in the room for research, say Tom Holliss and John Griffiths of Spring Research. It’s time to open your eyes.

News16 April 2012

Social media benchmarker gets $3m funding

US—Social media monitoring firm Unmetric has raised $3m in series A funding from Nexus Venture Partners, which it will use to continue developing its benchmarking platform.

News13 April 2012

$7m funding for web data firm Connotate

US— Web data monitoring and collection firm Connotate has raised $7m in a series B funding led by Castile Ventures with participation from new investor Prism Venture Works and existing backer .406 Ventures.

News13 April 2012

Facebook meets survey data: SocialQ launches

US— SocialQ launched this week, offering a way to marry user data from Facebook with the results of surveys.

News13 April 2012

Trinidad & Tobago ad association commissions MFO for media survey

TRINIDAD & TOBAGO— The Advertising Agencies Association of Trinidad & Tobago ( AAATT) has hired Market Facts and Opinions to carry out its Media Trak survey this year.

News13 April 2012

The Pert Group adds senior executives

US— Research-based consulting agency The Pert Group has added senior executives Patricia Bien and Jim Eschrich to the team.

Feature13 April 2012

In the right place

Mobile apps can be used anywhere, but advertisers want to know where exactly. Placed’s David Shim tells Brian Tarran how he’s trying to help.

News13 April 2012

Police investigate 'suspicious' disappearance of MR director

US— Police in Virginia say that they are treating the disappearance of Altria Group’s director of marketing and consumer research Leyla Namiranian as suspicious, after she vanished on 4 April.

News13 April 2012

Nielsen to give US students access to historic purchase data

US— Nielsen and the University of Chicago Booth School of Business have partnered to offer historical consumer purchase data to academic researchers.

News12 April 2012

Ibope Zogby becomes Ibope Inteligência

US— Ibope Zogby, formerly Zogby International, has been rebranded as Ibope Inteligência following the Ibope Group’s takeover of the firm last month.

News12 April 2012

YouthSight unveils segmentation tool

UK— YouthSight, formerly OpinionPanel, has launched a profiling tool to identify the ‘Bright Young Minds’ within its panel of 115,000 people aged 16 to 28.

News12 April 2012

Wayin launches TwitPolls app for follower surveys

US— Wayin has launched a Twitter-based polling application that allows users to ask questions of their followers and get responses directly through the micro-blogging platform.

Opinion12 April 2012

Turning knowledge into news

Ex-BBC journalist Graham Leach offers tips for researchers looking to build a media profile. Step one: cut to the chase. Step two: ditch the jargon.

News12 April 2012

Webtrends enters Hong Kong through Inetasia deal

HONG KONG— Web analytics firm Webtrends has struck a re-selling deal with digital marketing consultancy Inetasia.

News12 April 2012

Cimigo expands to Indonesia, grows in Singapore

SINGAPORE— Marketing and brand research consultancy Cimigo has opened a new office in Indonesia and bolstered its team in Singapore.

News12 April 2012

Arbitron CFO steps down citing 'personal reasons'

US— Arbitron’s chief financial officer Richard Surratt has resigned, citing personal reasons, after a year in the role. Chief operating officer Sean Creamer will take on his responsibilities on an interim basis.

News12 April 2012

ITV plans expansion of Viewback panel coverage

UK— ITV has renewed a contract with EasyInsites for the management of its Viewback research panel, with plans to extend its membership base to include viewers of a variety of the broadcaster’s daytime programmes.

News11 April 2012

Price cut for uSamp's SurveyBuilder sample

US— uSamp has cut the baseline per-respondent price for sample bought through its DIY SurveyBuilder platform following Google’s launch of its Consumer Surveys tool.

News11 April 2012

Moran moves from StrategyOne to Brunswick

US— Robert Moran has joined PR group Brunswick from StrategyOne, the Edelman-owned strategic research consultancy where he served as president of US operations.

News11 April 2012

Census Bureau director Groves to step down in August

US— Census Bureau director Robert Groves has resigned and plans to leave the organisation in August to take up the role of provost and executive vice president of Georgetown University.

News11 April 2012

Ex-Harris man Phillips joins WorldOne

UK— Healthcare data collection firm WorldOne has appointed Neil Phillips, formerly of Harris Interactive, as vice president of quality at the company’s London office.

News11 April 2012

Effective Measure makes Asian appointments

SINGAPORE— Online audience measurement firm Effective Measure has appointed three senior executives in Asia as it looks to strengthen its position in the region.

News10 April 2012

ICO 'unlikely' to prioritise prosecution of analytics cookies

UK— The Information Commissioner’s Office ( ICO), the body responsible for policing EU cookie rules in the UK, has said it is unlikely to prioritise the prosecution of websites that use first party cookies for analytics purposes.

Opinion10 April 2012

Don't go changing

Theo Downes-Le Guin says it is folly to think that a name change will solve all the market research industry’s image problems – and a quick search of Google Trends bears that out.

News10 April 2012

Accenture completes Neo Metrics takeover

US— Accenture has completed its takeover of Spanish predictive analytics consultancy Neo Metrics Analytics.

News10 April 2012

Radius Global names Sharma as qual director

UK— Radius Global has appointed Anjul Sharma, formerly of The Value Engineers and Synovate, as global director of qualitative research.

News10 April 2012

Visible merges with Cymfony; WPP ups stake

US— WPP-backed social media monitoring firm Visible Technologies has acquired and merged with rival Cymfony, which was previously owned by another part of the WPP empire.

Opinion9 April 2012

New concepts for concept testing

Natalie Reed believes high rates of failure in new products are the result of uninspired concept testing. Here, she outlines ways to changes the testing process and improve the new product hit-rate.

News5 April 2012

ComScore Media Metrix makes Thai launch

THAILAND— ComScore has launched its Media Metrix audience measurement service in Thailand.

News5 April 2012

Fizziology unveils Sports Tracker

US— Social media monitoring firm Fizziology has launched Sports Tracker, a sentiment analysis tool examining what people say about the sports industry on the social web.

News5 April 2012

WIN/GIA expands with nine new members

TURKEY— The Worldwide Independent Network/Gallup International Association has added nine new members, taking its total number of companies to 72.

News5 April 2012

Bitly rolls out 'early warning' social media tool

US— Link-sharing and shortening platform Bitly has launched a new social media monitoring service for businesses which spots “potentially damaging” threats to brands before they “spiral out of control”.

News5 April 2012

GroupM launches digital insights and innovations arm

US— WPP-owned media agency network GroupM has launched a new innovation unit that will provide its four agencies with insights and new thinking from the digital sectors they operate in.

News5 April 2012

Editor's note: Easter holidays

The Research offices will be closed on Friday, 6 April and Monday, 9 April for public holidays in the UK. News coverage will resume on 10 April, but make sure to check back for new feature content tomorrow and Monday.

Opinion5 April 2012

The social media research debate – when 'public' isn't public

MRS’s Barry Ryan reponds to Andy Evans, who asked in a recent comment piece why researchers can’t treat tweets as public domain if that’s how the courts see them.

News5 April 2012

Senator Franken calls for do-not-track in all browsers

US— Senator Al Franken, privacy sub-committee chairman, is pushing for all web browsers to contain a do-not-track option that should be fully respected by “all entities that engage in tracking”.

News4 April 2012

Essential Research has Eye on new media tech

UK— Essential Research has launched a tracking study to follow how and why audiences use new media technologies.

News4 April 2012

Danone innovator Shelly Greenway joins Reach

UK— Visual brand consultancy Reach has appointed former Danone innovation manager Shelley Greenway as a strategist.

Opinion4 April 2012

Data: how do you eat yours?

TNS director Stephen Yap reveals the information ‘eating plans’ of UK consumers. From ‘fast foodies’ to ‘carnivores’, he says it is important for brand owners to understand how people digest data.

News4 April 2012

WPP buys UX agency and stake in shopper insight firm

US— WPP has acquired all the assets of Colorado-based user experience agency EffectiveUI as well as buying a stake in retail marketing company Barrows.

News4 April 2012

Voxco boosts mobile capabilities with Sypiens buy

CANADA— Survey software firm Voxco has acquired French firm Sypiens, which specialises in producing software that allows users to collect consumer information and opinions on mobile devices.

News4 April 2012

ComScore to succeed Nielsen on UKOM contract

UK— The UK Online Measurement Company ( UKOM) has picked ComScore to replace Nielsen as the provider of the industry-backed online audience measurement system.

News4 April 2012

Vision Critical hires former Synovate North America CEO

CANADA— Former Synovate North America CEO Scott Miller has joined Vision Critical in the newly created role of president and COO of international business.

News3 April 2012

Trajectory examines Saturday Night Life

UK— Trends firm Trajectory is launching a new study into how Britons spend time at home on a Saturday night.

News3 April 2012

Institute on Asian Consumer Insight launches

SINGAPORE— The Institute on Asian Consumer Insight has launched with the aim of becoming the ‘go-to’ centre for businesses looking to improve their performance in Asia markets.

News3 April 2012

Sports specialist Repucom taps Crimson Hexagon

US— Sports marketing research and analysis firm Repucom International has agreed a deal to incorporate social media analysis from Crimson Hexagon’s ForSight platform into its client offering.

News3 April 2012

Channel 4 names head of audience research and insight

UK— Channel 4 has appointed Red Bee Media’s Clare Phillips as head of audience research and insight.

Feature3 April 2012

What will Google's survey tool mean for MR?

What does the research industry think of the new Google Consumer Surveys tool? Four ‘rivals’ and a client give their take.

News3 April 2012

McCrindle founder sues AMSRS over investigation

AUSTRALIA— McCrindle Research founder Mark McCrindle is suing the Australian Market and Social Research Society ( AMSRS), which is investigating the company over two complaints made against it.

News2 April 2012

Ipsos opens up in Qatar through Darwish JV

QATAR— Ipsos is to open up in Qatar after forming a joint venture with local firm Darwish Holding.

News2 April 2012

Council for Research Excellence to study mobile TV viewing

US— The Nielsen-funded Council for Research Excellence has put out a request for proposal for an agency to carry out a study into how the use of mobile devices is affecting TV viewing behaviour.

Opinion2 April 2012

Racism and 'bomb hoax' tweets: reigniting the social media research debate

Andy Evans asks: if the courts consider tweets to be public domain, why can’t the research community?

News2 April 2012

Investments eat into YouGov profits, but sales rise 11%

UK— YouGov has reported an 11% rise in half-year revenue to £29.9m, although profits are down 10% on investments in new products, including a new social media analysis tool called SoMA.

News2 April 2012

Nielsen to measure cable and satellite viewing in Thailand

THAILAND— Nielsen is to launch a new audience measurement service for cable and satellite television in Thailand.

News2 April 2012

Pew Research Center president to step down

US— Andrew Kohut is to step down from his position as president of the opinion polling ‘fact tank’ the Pew Research Center at the end of the year.

News2 April 2012

Andrew Dilnot named chair of UK Statistics Authority

UK— Economist and broadcaster Andrew Dilnot has been appointed chairman of the UK Statistics Authority, the watchdog body for official statistics.