Feature2 January 2014

2014 Preview: New Year's resolutions

What are market researchers’ New Year’s resolutions? In the spirit of social marketing, we asked for them in 140 characters or less.

News2 January 2014

Majestic MRSS makes three senior appointments

Bhawana Sinha, Majid Dasurkar and Ashutosh Jathar have all joined the organisation.

Feature31 December 2013

2014 Preview: What will success look like?

Researchers share their key performance indicators for the year to come.

Feature30 December 2013

2014 Preview: The biggest buzzwords

Big data and mobile topped the charts for 2013’s biggest buzzwords according to Research contributors. But will they continue to take top billing in 2014?

Feature27 December 2013

2014 Preview: Most likely to succeed

Prediction-making is a precarious business, but who can resist a bit of crystal ball gazing at the turn of the year? Certainly not our 2014 Preview panellists.

Feature24 December 2013

2013 Review: Best campaigns

YouTube has made watching ads, sharing them and discussing them a valid pastime. So, we asked our review panel, ‘What were the best campaigns of 2013?’. Read on for the highlights.

Feature23 December 2013

2013 Review: The biggest success stories

The reviews of 2013 so far have had some common themes, with big data and mobile featuring heavily. These topics also cropped up in contributors’ views on the biggest success stories of the year, but there was plenty of variation besides.

News20 December 2013

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all our readers

The Research team is packing up for the holidays, but we couldn’t go without saying goodbye, Merry Christmas, and a big thank you for your continued support in 2013.

Feature20 December 2013

Top tens of 2013: #MRX tweets of the year

Researchscape’s Jeffrey Henning has crunched the numbers and of the c.20,000 links shared in the past year by the #MRX community on Twitter, here are the 10 most popular.

News20 December 2013

Google fined €900k by Spanish Data Protection Agency

AEPD says Google “does not give users enough information” about what data it collects and why.

News20 December 2013

Mustard announces a new hire and a promotion

Elizabeth Brierley joins as research executive as Bethan Turner is promoted to senior research executive.

Feature20 December 2013

2013 Review: The biggest disappointments

It’s an unavoidable fact of life: the more you hype something, the more likely it is to disappoint. And so it goes with big data, which was the single most frequently mentioned disappointment among our 2013 Review panel.

News20 December 2013

Illitch Real joins FieldGlobal as London office opens

Real joins as associate vice president - business development.

News20 December 2013

Goodwill adjustments to impact on GfK's earnings

€112.5m adjustment to goodwill follows reassessment of the medium-term growth prospects for the agency’s consumer experience business line.

News20 December 2013

Decrypt's Beacon platform licensed by Spotlight

Spotlight has used the platform’s heat maps and recommendation scaling.

Feature19 December 2013

Top tens of 2013: Opinion pieces

Who says that researchers like to keep their opinions to themselves? These 10 were more than happy to share what was on their mind, and readers lapped it up.

News19 December 2013

Bloxham and Ruth to head Frank N Magid TV practice

Media research industry veterans will jointly lead new national television and video research department.

News19 December 2013

Marketing optimism continues to rise in December, finds Warc

Global Marketing Index inches up to 58.6 – but will it hold in the first few months of 2014?

News19 December 2013

KPMG to acquire Link Analytics

Acquisition of analytical solutions company Link Analytics will expand KPMGs data and analytics capabilities.

News19 December 2013

Datameer secures $19m in expansion funding round

Funding round for self-service big data analytics provider led by Next World Capital.

Feature19 December 2013

2013 Review: The biggest buzzwords

Research contributors discuss the biggest buzzwords of 2013 in the second of five review articles.

News19 December 2013

Watermelon selects Confirmit as online research solution provider

Agency will use Confirmit’s interactive voice response and online research solutions with its clients.

News19 December 2013

Sale of AAP media monitoring service to iSentia leads to monopoly fears

Australian Competition and Consumer Commission says sale would likely result in a “substantial lessening of competition in the national market”.

News18 December 2013

BDRC Group buys field and studio business Viewpoint Services

Viewpoint CEO Gale Blears ( pictured) says deal “will enable us to re-affirm our position as a leading specialist qualitative field agency”.

Feature18 December 2013

Top tens of 2013: Feature articles

From infographics to millennials, to meaningfully different brands, here’s the 10 most read feature articles published by Research-live.com in the past year.

News18 December 2013

eDigital names Burt as customer experience ops manager

Helen Burt to manage and develop agency’s eCustomerConnect solution.

News18 December 2013

Kantar Retail and TNS Retailer & Shopper set for New Year merger

Combined business will trade as Kantar Retail, offering custom and syndicated research and consultancy.

News18 December 2013

Crimson Hexagon partners with Tenthwave

Digital marketing agency Tenthwave will use social media analytics provider Crimson Hexagon’s ForSight platform.

Feature18 December 2013

2013 Review: The biggest developments

In the first of five review articles, Research contributors tell us what they believe have been the biggest industry developments of the past 12 months.

News18 December 2013

Pat Pellegrini joins GfK

Pellegrini has been made executive vice president of two key teams in North America.

News18 December 2013

Indian police make further arrests in 'pay to take surveys' case

Alleged masterminds of multi-million rupee Speak Asia ‘fraud’ arrested in past few weeks.

News18 December 2013

Russian MR firm ARMI-Marketing joins Millward Brown

Millward Brown has acquired a 70% stake in the Moscow-based firm.

Feature17 December 2013

Top tens of 2013: News stories

Our roundup of the most read news stories of 2013 marks the start of an 11-day run of features, reviewing the year just gone and previewing the year to come.

News17 December 2013

GfK finalises $100m Brazilian TV ratings deal

Band TV, Record, RedeTV! and SBT sign-off on five-year TV audience measurement contract.

Opinion17 December 2013

Let's talk about sex

Asking strangers about their sex lives isn’t easy – especially when you’re wanting truthful answers. Penny Young explains how NatCen’s interviewers broached the subject for the third Natsal survey.

News17 December 2013

Neil Berg joins MarketVision

Berg has been hired as a research manager in the firm’s marketing sciences group.

News17 December 2013

Effective Measure adds data service for ecommerce sites

SHOP platform to report demographic and competitive profiles for online retailers.

News17 December 2013

Flurry raises $12.5m in new funding

The mobile analytics firm raised around $25m in funding a year ago.

News17 December 2013

Ipsos names Passingham as global chief of IIS

Former TNS regional CEO Judith Passingham to become global head of Ipsos Interactive Services.

News17 December 2013

Zoe Lawrence appointed to new Asia Pacific role at TNS

Lawrence has been made regional director, marketing & communications for Asia Pacific.

News16 December 2013

Media monitoring firm Fisheye sold to Kantar

WPP’s insight business swoops on Singapore-based social and traditional media analyst.

Feature16 December 2013

What are you looking at?

From Winky Dink crayons to iPad companion apps, Tim Phillips traces the evolution of multi-screening, and how advertisers and content creators are adapting to a world of increasingly divided attentions.

News16 December 2013

CRE adds members from Gannett, MoffettNathanson and Warner Bros. TV

Judy Vogel, Michael Nathanson and Bryon Schafer have been re-admitted as Council for Research Excellence members.

News16 December 2013

FT extends content matching service to global advertising clients

FT Smart Match uses semantic profiling to match advertising content to relevant news content.

News16 December 2013

Pixalate raises $4.6m in series A funding

Ad analytics firm’s funding led by Javelin Venture Partners.

News16 December 2013

TNS appoint Chhavi Bhargava as new MD for India and Sri Lanka

Bhargava joined TNS in 2008 and has been MD for North India for the past 18 months.

News16 December 2013

Medialogic to use Kantar TV audience measurement technology in Pakistan

Kantar Media’s Rapid Meter has been developed for emerging markets.

News16 December 2013

Keith Bates steps down as head of Creston Insight

After 24 years with Marketing Sciences, and 12 years with the Creston Group, Bates prepares for ‘next phase of career’.

News13 December 2013

Analytics firm Kontagent to merge with mobile games specialist

Merger between Kontagent and PlayHaven to ‘bridge the gap between insight and action’.

News13 December 2013

BrightRoll adds Nielsen OCR to ad management console

US — Programmatic online video ad platform BrightRoll has reached an agreement to integrate Nielsen’s Online Campaign Ratings ( OCR) into its campaign management and reporting console.

News13 December 2013

Barb strikes deal with Experian for Mosaic-based analysis

Media planners to examine how television advertising campaigns perform among lifestyle groups.

News13 December 2013

DataSift releases 'next-gen' social data processing engine

New VEDO engine boasts ‘programmable machine learning and automated classification capabilities’

News13 December 2013

Opinium makes Norfolk a partner

Client relations manager Kate Norfolk is second staff member to earn partnership through agency’s management incentive scheme.

Feature12 December 2013

Private behaviour

Achieving the right balance between privacy protection and exploiting data opportunities is critical, but regulating technology is not the way to go, argues data protection expert Eduardo Ustaran.

News12 December 2013

Joseph Eapen joins Repucom as SVP South Asia

Eapen is based in Mumbai.

News12 December 2013

Cloudmeter acquired by Splunk

Cloudmeter is a provider of network data capture technologies.

News12 December 2013

Rubicon Project strengthens senior leadership team

Four new hires come from Microsoft, Google, comScore and Maxifier.

News12 December 2013

Bain Capital makes offer to acquire Macromill

The private investment firm has offered to buy all shares in the online research company for 51.4 billion yen ( $501m).

News12 December 2013

Kristen Tripphahn joins Schlesinger from uSamp

Tripphahn has been made vice president of global panels at Schlesinger Associates.

News12 December 2013

Daniele Pizzocchero joins Kinesis

Pizzocchero will lead the European customer support team.

News11 December 2013

Simulmedia adds $25m to investment pot

New funding for TV ad targeting and measurement firm.

News11 December 2013

IMS Health buys advisory and analytics firm Pygargus

Swedish firm boasts proprietary technology for extracting and integrating patient-anonymous information.

Feature11 December 2013

Predicting the future, part two

From AI respondents to biometric interview chairs: Future Foundation experts conclude their evaluation of our predictions for the future of market research.

News11 December 2013

Tobii rolls out beta for new cloud-based eye-tracking data service

Customers offered preview of Tobii Track ahead of full launch next year.

News11 December 2013

BPRI founder appointed chair of Penn Schoen Berland EMEA

Jonathan Shingleton to lead PSB’s European business, as well as global marketing efforts.

News11 December 2013

uSamp names Leet as European managing director

London-based sales director Ben Leet moves up to MD role at online sample and technology provider.

News11 December 2013

Clark moves up to head of insight at Nepa UK

Former Standard Life insight manager earns promotion at research and analytics firm.

Opinion10 December 2013

Jack Honomichl – a research life remembered

Jack Honomichl, a widely respected commentator on the market research industry and founder of the Inside Research newsletter, passed away on 8 December. He was 85.

News10 December 2013

BSkyB, TNS and Incite win big at MRS Awards 2013

BSkyB bags three prizes, while Best Agency gongs go to TNS ( pictured) and Incite Marketing Planning.

News10 December 2013

Millward Brown's Sam Almutair appointed head of client services, Australia

Almutair has been promoted from client service director in an expansion of Millward Brown’s senior team.

News10 December 2013

Progressive Digital Media acquires Pyramid Research

The acquisition should strengthen Progressive’s presence in the global ICT market.

News10 December 2013

Jon Cohen joins SurveyMonkey

Cohen will be the company’s vice president of survey research.

Feature9 December 2013

Predicting the future, part one

10 years ago, we tried to predict the future of market research. How well did we do? Experts from Future Foundation deliver their verdicts in the first of a two-part feature.

News9 December 2013

Offerwise adds Latin American panellists to sample offering

Firm recruiting Spanish and Portuguese-speakers in Central and South America, and the Caribbean.

News9 December 2013

Target Research purchases A&G Research

Target Research recently purchased by its employees, now acquires full-service MR company.

News9 December 2013

Newsworks taps Brennan for 2014 insight programme

Former Thinkbox director David Brennan to serve as consultant to national newspaper marketing body.

News9 December 2013

Lightspeed Research strengthens global leadership team

David Shanker appointed as The Americas CEO and Daniel S. Fitzgerald promoted to chief client and marketing officer.

News9 December 2013

2CV appoints director for North Asia

Josie Yau is a former ACNielsen director and founder of The Solution Research & Consultancy.

News9 December 2013

Toluna mobile survey app gains geo-fencing capability

TolunaMobile Diary can now use geo-fencing to target survey respondents based on their location.

News6 December 2013

Unanimis offers Nielsen OCR on campaigns

Digital sales house signs a deal to offer Nielsen’s Online Campaigns Ratings ( OCR) audience verification tool on all campaigns with a value of over £5k.

News6 December 2013

M3 Global Research makes key leadership changes

Alan Mavretish joins healthcare panel company as vice president of MR; Brooke Allen-Watson promoted to US qualitative manager.

Feature6 December 2013

How to improve social's standing

Many businesses have social media strategies, but those strategies aren’t delivering real business value. It’s time they proved their worth, says Brian Solis. Interview by Brian Tarran.

News6 December 2013

NPD Group launches ReceiptPal app

ReceiptPal rewards consumers for sharing shopping habits by sending receipts from their iPhones.

News6 December 2013

RealityMine acquires USA TouchPoints

UK-based RealityMine announces its acquisition of the US cross-platform media measurement survey.

News6 December 2013

SurveyMonkey to open its first UK office

Creation of London office represents company’s biggest investment outside the US to date.

News5 December 2013

uSamp founders Dusig and Lavin depart

Matt Dusig and Gregg Lavin remain shareholders in the online data collection business.

Opinion5 December 2013

The other side of the story

Storytelling is an effective means of conveying information – but the most effective stories aren’t always the most accurate ones. This is something researchers and brand owners need to bear in mind, says Colin Strong.

News5 December 2013

Nearbuy Systems acquired by RetailNext

In-store analytics company acquires provider of location-based Wi-Fi analytics.

News5 December 2013

Marketing Sciences names Grout and Ablett as board directors

Andy Grout joins from The Leading Edge, while Laura Ablett earns promotion.

News5 December 2013

TRA sees Kantar trade secrets and patent claims dismissed a second time

District Court judge holds to original decision in ongoing court battle between competing media analytics providers.

News5 December 2013

Systems in Motion acquires Claritics

Big data user intelligence platform acquired by provider of enterprise technology consulting and solutions.

News5 December 2013

Hall & Partners Health promotes David Spears to partner

Spears is based in the New York office.

News5 December 2013

Razor promotes Yasmin Scott to senior research exec

Scott earns promotion after 16 months with the London-based agency.

Opinion4 December 2013

OMG! SMS turns 21

As text messaging enters its third decade, Ipsos Mori’s Daniel Welch wonders how much life there is left in this old technology, now that phone users – and researchers – have email, apps and more to play with.

News4 December 2013

Financial Conduct Authority invites tenders for research framework

Framework divided into four lots and expected to be established for a term of four years.

News4 December 2013

Research council commits to two-year ethnographic study of viewing habits

Council for Research Excellence hires GfK to observe and analyse viewing practices in 150 US homes.

News4 December 2013

20|20 names Angela Williams as VP of sales & bus dev for Technology

Williams will be in charge of developing the company’s sales and product enhancement strategies.

News4 December 2013

The Sound Research announces four global hires

New additions will be based in Vancouver, London and New York.

News4 December 2013

On Device names Tomlinson as Singapore MD

Former Research Now client development director Martin Tomlinson joins mobile research specialist.

News4 December 2013

Spotify introduces free analytics to win over musicians

New Spotify Artists website explains how business model works and gives musicians access to data on streams of their music.

News4 December 2013

DataSift lands $42m series C investment

Social data analyst DataSift has raised $42m in series C financing – bringing the company’s total investment to date to more than $70m.

Feature3 December 2013

Upselling and cross-selling deliver growth, but CEOs don’t rank it a priority

Stuart Butler-Smith reckons rival market research companies can learn a thing or two from the sales strategies of ComScore and Gartner.

News3 December 2013

Tom Nolte joins Ipsos Healthcare

Nolte has been made global head of innovation.

News3 December 2013

Spectral acquires control of financial analysis company Monitr

Monitr ‘integrates semantic processing, data analytics and real-time search and machine learning onto one platform’.

News3 December 2013

IAB launches mobile audience panel measurement pilot

The pilot has been jointly funded and will be delivered by Nielsen.

News3 December 2013

FTC to examine data privacy issues of mobile device tracking

Part of a series of discussion sessions to examine privacy in relation to new technology.

News3 December 2013

Apple buys Twitter analytics firm Topsy

Apple’s purchase of Topsy should give it the ability to spot trends as they emerge on Twitter.

News3 December 2013

Comcast and Nielsen announce trials of new 'on demand' ratings product

Product designed to allow networks opportunity to better monetise the window of on demand commercial viewing.

News2 December 2013

Laurie Kaman joins Rentrak

TV marketing veteran Kaman has joined the media measurement company as SVP of Branded Entertainment.

News2 December 2013

Blue Yonder announces European Data Science Academy

Academy aims to provide participants with “the tools to identify big data opportunities within their own companies”.

Opinion2 December 2013

What we learned at the MRS Kids and Youth Summit

From overcoming disconnects to discovering the meaning of thaasophobia. Camino Insight’s Deborah Simmons presents highlights from last week’s MRS Intelligence Summit.

News2 December 2013

UK marketers increasingly confident but lacking ROI evidence, says study

Marketing planning process primarily driven by budgets, not insight, says Marketing Confidence Monitor.

News2 December 2013

MRS annual league table shows early signs of industry recovery

The latest league table published by the Market Research Society indicates a growth of 0.12% over the year.

News2 December 2013

Added Value names Kenneth Lee as new MD for China

Lee will be responsible for overseeing the operations of three offices in China.

News2 December 2013

Google's privacy policy violates law, Dutch officials claim

An investigation by the Dutch data protection authority concludes that Google’s combining of personal data without consent is in breach of the Dutch data protection act.

News2 December 2013

Richard Waring joins Catalyst

Former CEO of Millward Brown Ireland and deputy MD of Lansdowne has joined the firm as a partner.