News6 May 2014

Kantar Media appoints Anna Reeves as global commercial director

Reeves joins Kantar from Exterion Media, where she was chief marketing officer.

News28 February 2014

RDA Group reports 9% rise in annual revenue

2013 sales top $20m through client diversification and launch of automotive research platform.

News28 February 2014

Quadrangle promotes Nick Baker to group CEO

Baker takes on new role after three years as managing director of Quadrangle’s research business.

News28 February 2014

'State' your opinion in new online network

Opinion network State aims to connect people based on what they think, rather than who they know.

News28 February 2014

CASRO creates director of government and public affairs role

Abby Willman will take up the new position.

News28 February 2014

Leger Metrics and RED C announce partnership

North American Leger Metrics extends reach into UK and Europe through partnership with Dublin-based RED C.

News28 February 2014

Collis takes senior role at RTC

Sara Collis has been promoted to vice president/ director of Insights & Innovations.

News28 February 2014

NatCen to investigate use of educational research in schools

Commissioned by Education Endowment Foundation in collaboration with Economic and Social Research Council.

News27 February 2014

Ipsos revenue down 4.3% in 2013

Organic growth of 0.8% undone by exchange rate differences and reduced “scope of activity”.

News27 February 2014

WPP posts 3.6% increase in data investment revenue

Consumer insight arm grows revenue to £2.55bn, while headline operating profit climbs 10.3%.

News27 February 2014

Kantar Japan appoints new CEO

Former COO Hidehiko Otake replaces Masanori Miyajima in senior role.

News27 February 2014

Lumi Mobile and IML rebrand as Lumi

Follows Lumi Mobile’s acquisition of IML Worldwide last year.

News27 February 2014

HarperCollins' Boyle heads to BBC Worldwide

David Boyle set to join Brands team as executive vice-president of insight.

News27 February 2014

Nielsen goes shopping, acquires Nexium

Madrid-based retail analytics firm added to Nielsen’s portfolio of shopper marketing solutions.

News27 February 2014

Bird flies in to Hall & Partners managing partner position

Grant Bird has replaced Caroline Frankum as managing partner, London following her promotion to European CEO.

News26 February 2014

ANA doubles marketing analytics prize money to $100k

Winner and two runners-up will get to donate cash to their favourite charities.

News26 February 2014

Vook buys Booklr for reader, retail sales data

Publishing services firm plans to integrate analytics and reporting into its platform to create “powerful market intelligence offer”.

News26 February 2014

FreshMinds bags Interbrand exec for operations role

Andy Maher joins insight consultancy as chief operating officer, after nine years with Omnicom group.

News26 February 2014

Hall & Partners promotes Frankum to CEO, Europe

London managing partner Caroline Frankum takes on new regional role.

News26 February 2014

Tesco selects IRI for super market insights

Retail giant appoints Information Resources, Inc. as the market tracking provider for its UK business.

News26 February 2014

GlobalWebIndex turns to uSamp

uSamp wins two year contract to power GlobalWebIndex’s syndicated tracking service.

News26 February 2014

India's BARC goes digital with Mediametrie and Civolution

The two companies will build the technology framework for the first fully digital TV audience measurement solution in India.

News26 February 2014

Crimson Hexagon expands with Turkish partnership

Social analytics firm has formed partnership with digital marketing firm Adba International, in Istanbul.

News25 February 2014

Dennis Publishing teams with Cint for reader panel launch

Publisher look to sign-up 20,000 Auto Express readers for research projects.

News25 February 2014

Millward Brown in ZappiStore deal for eStatic copy test

Automated version of print and outdoor copy testing service made available on research ‘app’ platform.

News25 February 2014

TNS UK names Sunando Das as head of marketing science

Former Ipsos exec joins TNS to replace Ian Brace, who retires at the end of April.

News25 February 2014

41% do not trust market research companies with their data

Survey on behalf of Global Research Business Network finds US and UK consumers concerned about data use.

News25 February 2014

HasOffers adds chief revenue officer to line up

Former Glam Media and DoubleClick exec Ralf Hirt joins attribution analytics firm.

News25 February 2014

Krea rolls out Indian oncology panel

ONCO+ focusing on lung, oral and stomach cancers for men; breast, cervical and stomach cancer for women.

News25 February 2014

Leo Burnett's Steve Watkins moves to Join the Dots

Watkins joins as research director, following appointment of Emma Kirk and Mo Mahar.

News24 February 2014

Progressive Digital posts 6.3% rise in annual revenue

Business intelligence and research firm reports revenue of £57.3m for year ended 31 December.

News24 February 2014

Nielsen reshuffles senior ranks

Finance chief Brian West ( pictured) becomes COO; Jamere Jackson becomes CFO.

News24 February 2014

Former Krea, Toluna exec launches ResearchSuite Technologies

Arindam Bhattacharya’s new firm offers survey programming and data analytics to online research industry.

News24 February 2014

Apple buys app testing platform owner Burstly

Burstly’s TestFlight allows developers to run beta tests outside of Apple’s App Store.

News24 February 2014

Vision One opens third UK office

Agency looks to new Birmingham base to help grow market share in Midlands.

News24 February 2014

Unilever taps Brandtone's 'Bloomberg terminal'

New mobile platform for marketing and insight-gathering launches today at Mobile World Congress.

News21 February 2014

Google aims to clean web with Spider.io

The search engine has acquired online ad fraud detector Spider.io.

News21 February 2014

Social media researchers 'should gain consent'

New research by NatCen Social Research reveals social media users’ concerns about use of online data.

News21 February 2014

ComScore adds demographic assets with Epsilon partnership

New partnership claims to allow comScore customers to measure demographic elements of campaigns in greater detail.

News21 February 2014

Joe Davis named as latest Webtrends CEO

Davis was previously CEO of e-commerce technology firm Tocata.

News21 February 2014

New Iberian sales director for OnePoint Global

Mobile research tech firm’s expansion continues with second sales appointment of 2014.

News21 February 2014

SurveyMonkey goes mobile

Online survey platform launches its first mobile app and announces upcoming software development kit ( SDK).

Opinion20 February 2014

Is Britain in a post-traumatic state?

How have the hardships of recession impacted on British consumers, and what are the implications for marketers? Acacia Avenue’s Caroline Whitehill Hayter shares her point of view.

News20 February 2014

Sprinklr splashes out on Dachis Group

Social media management firm’s purchase of the brand analytics company creates end-to-end social relationship platform.

News20 February 2014

Kantar Media appoints Poustie as CEO, TGI & Custom

Richard Poustie replaces Andy Brown following Brown’s promotion to CEO.

News20 February 2014

WWE creates new role to wrestle with data

Tandy O’Donoghue to provide leadership for the use of data analytics to support decision making.

News20 February 2014

Indian Readership Survey results suspended

Readership Studies Council of India temporarily suspends findings following complaints of “shocking anomalies”.

News20 February 2014

Spending on social media 'has outpaced measurement'

Duke University professor predicts more firms will design research “to give them insights into what is and is not working”.

News20 February 2014

GfK extends CEO's contract to 2019

Matthias Hartmann gets backing from Supervisory Board to “continue his successful work”.

News19 February 2014

Socialbakers lands $26m investment in Series C round

Founding round billed as “one of the largest for a social analytics company outside North America”.

News19 February 2014

TNS Australia names new executive director

Alistair Leathwood replaces Jonathan Sinton as head of TNS’s Sydney team.

News19 February 2014

Unilever signs shopper marketing, insights deal

WPP forms Team Unilever Shopper, featuring Kantar Retail and TNS Global.

News19 February 2014

Blueocean Market Intelligence acquires Cognicient

Research and analytics firm’s acquisition of data integration specialist intended to enable integration and aggregation of numerous data sources.

News18 February 2014

Survey completion rates decline with screen size, says research

But “surveys designed with mobile users in mind can nearly eliminate these differences,” according to research firm Decipher.

News18 February 2014

Website to let shoppers opt out of location tracking

11 analytics companies agree to honour opt-out requests made via Smart Store Privacy site.

Feature18 February 2014

Plastic fantastic

iMakr’s Sylvain Preumont tells Brian Tarran how 3D printing will transform our consumerist society into a creative collective.

News18 February 2014

SIS International opens Manila office

New opening marks expansion of SIS’s market intelligence unit.

News18 February 2014

Estonian TV association names 2015–2023 TV measurement supplier

Joint bid from Mediaresearch and Turu-uuringute wins EMOL contract; will use SimEar metering technology.

News18 February 2014

Peanut Labs expands into Europe

Will Carroll and Lewis Reeves are first London-based employees for tech and sample solutions provider.

News18 February 2014

Cido promotes Hong Kong project director to MD

HONG KONG — Cido has promoted Hong Kong director of projects Ayaz Akhtar to managing director.

News17 February 2014

Spring Research and Tuned In merge to form Tonic Insight

CEO Steve Phillips says new business will focus on delivering “agile research”.

News17 February 2014

Brandwatch introduces new demographic feature

New feature allows clients to access demographic data on those individuals discussing their brand.

News17 February 2014

IRI and Technomic link restaurants to retail

Restaurant to Retail Insights is a new joint service combining POS data with information on consumer behaviour at major chain restaurants.

Opinion17 February 2014

Predicting success: Twitter vs TV ratings

Breaking Bad’s final episode was among the most tweeted ever, but its ratings placed it outside the Nielsen Top 10. Colourtext’s Jason Brownlee asks: What are the most reliable indications for TV franchise success?

News17 February 2014

NORC wins three-year Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey brief

20-year-old survey will play “an essential role in monitoring and evaluating key provisions of the Affordable Care Act”.

News17 February 2014

Agent 3 buys IT and telecoms specialist Continuous Insight

Acquisition follows investment by Next 15 Communications in start-up digital marketing consultancy.

News17 February 2014

Delhi High Court hits pause on TV ratings restrictions

Stays sections of guidelines that would have stopped TAM India from publishing audience data.

News14 February 2014

Euclid staffs up with CFO, CMO and sales SVP

“We’re focused on significantly expanding our go-to-market efforts,” says CEO Will Smith ( pictured).

News14 February 2014

Lumi Mobile names director of business development

Former MarketSight director Kimberly White to oversee new and existing client accounts.

News14 February 2014

Sightcorp, Affectiva launch mobile-based facial analysis

Software kits to allow mobile app developers to use smartphone cameras to detect emotions.

Opinion14 February 2014

Revitalising Nepal's media industry

A lack of research is directly contributing to the decline of the media industry in Nepal, says Gavin Anderson. But a UK-funded development programme is hoping to turn the situation around.

News14 February 2014

Can gaming machine data identify problem gambling?

Research consortium to examine whether industry data can spot harmful patterns of play.

News14 February 2014

Salience Insight hires Pat Molloy as consulting CIO

Former Confirmit strategy chief to “streamline and integrate” media measurement firm’s tech assets.

News13 February 2014

Forrester Research sees 'encouraging signs' for improved performamce

Q4 revenue up 3%, and full-year revenue up 1.5% - but net income falls.

News13 February 2014

Nielsen revenue up 11.8% in Q4, 5.5% for 2013

Media measurement drives growth as full-year revenue hits $5.7bn.

News13 February 2014

Facebook removes two analytics firms from mobile measurement programme

Kontagent and HasOffers withdrawn from programme for violating terms of agreement.

News13 February 2014

Report: Klout to be acquired by Lithium Technologies

Deal for social influence firm worth at least $100m, says Re/code.

News13 February 2014

Arbitron's Manish Bhatia to join comScore as chief revenue officer

Bhatia will oversee all commercial teams globally for digital media research firm.

News13 February 2014

Yahoo, Carnegie Mellon agree $10m mobile research partnership

Project InMind to explore new approaches for using machine learning algorithms to predict user needs and intentions.

News13 February 2014

PAMRO names SAARF CEO as first executive director

Paul Haupt to take up new part-time executive post for Pan African Media Research Organisation.

News13 February 2014

Data intelligence firm Veda invests in Datalicious

Takes controlling stake in data and analytics agency to boost marketing services activities.

News12 February 2014

The Marketing Workshop adds Catherine Nodar to line-up

Former Central Garden & Pet executive takes up client services role.

News12 February 2014

Abraham moves to chairman, Matta made CEO at comScore

Senior leadership changes at digital measurement company to take effect from 1 March.

Feature12 February 2014

Still full of beanz

How does a 150-year-old company stay relevant? Lucy Fisher asks Colin Haddley, director of strategy, insight and capability at Heinz.

News12 February 2014

Fort Hill launches company crowdsourcing tool

Waggl platform allows managers to source ideas from employee pool.

News12 February 2014

Research Now Healthcare adds arthritis panel in UK

Follows North American launch of arthritis panel, and rollout of diabetes panels.

News12 February 2014

Kantar Worldpanel expands to Nigeria, Kenya and Ghana

New consumer purchase panels are ‘first stage’ of a planned push into African markets.

News12 February 2014

Hobbycraft picks SMG for customer feedback task

‘Crafting Your Opinion’ programme runs across 75 UK arts and craft stores.

News11 February 2014

LinguaSys looks to crowd-source $1.5m investment

Equity offering on EarlyShares aims to accelerate growth of text analytics business.

Opinion11 February 2014

Laying claim to the CIO crown

Why insights professionals, not IT people, are the real ‘chief information officers’. By KAE’s Keith Jopling.

News11 February 2014

Google to add comScore vCE metric to DoubleClick

Validated Campaign Essentials to be built directly into the DoubleClick ad server.

News11 February 2014

MSW•ARS hires McGee for qual insights

Tom McGee joins MSW•ARS following stints at McCollum Spielman, Doyle Research and Hall & Partners USA.

News11 February 2014

Mindshare picks international MD, opens 'excellence' centre

Gary Topiol ( pictured) takes new senior post, while Nan Russell is appointed head of centre of excellence.

News11 February 2014

Coggan joins Boxclever as research director

Former JRA managing partner Matt Coggan reunited with ex-Nunwood colleagues.

News11 February 2014

Diageo Australia names marketing and innovation director

Former strategy and research agency boss Adam Ballesty takes new role at drinks firm.

News10 February 2014

IAB answers the question: what is ad engagement?

“A spectrum of consumer advertising activities and experiences that will have a positive impact on a brand.”

News10 February 2014

Rentrak AMI revenue grows 35% in fiscal Q3

Advanced Media and Information sales hit $18.5m for three months ended 31 December.

Feature10 February 2014

Time to pursue a different route?

Route, the UK’s outdoor media measurement system, has proved itself as a media planning tool. But it falls short in fully capturing the dynamics of consumer behaviour, says Talon Outdoor’s Nick Mawditt.

News10 February 2014

FieldGlobal hires research and consulting VP

Former Nielsen, Added Value and TNS exec Gaurav Ambekar takes up new role.

News10 February 2014

Logarithmic scale risks 'false impression' of gov't figures

UK Statistics Authority chairman criticises presentation of HM Treasury data on infrastructure investment.

News10 February 2014

Effective Measure names new global measurement scientist

Taylan Akay to replace John Davis, who relocates from Australia to the US as consultant-at-large.

News10 February 2014

TNS promotes Anjali Puri to head of qual centre of excellence

Asia Pacific regional head takes new global role within qualitative practice.

News7 February 2014

New Oslo office for nugg.ad

Jørn Korbi, appointed country manager for Norway, will lead the team.

News7 February 2014

GetFeedback launches new integrated feedback service

GetFeedback for Salesforce allows survey data to be associated with existing customer data.

News7 February 2014

Barry Parshall joins Anametrix

Parshall has been made the analytics company’s senior vice president of product management.

News7 February 2014

Playnomics launches User Segmentation Service

Allows developers and advertisers to use segmentation engine as an on-demand service.

News7 February 2014

Dubit opens first US outpost

New LA office will be led by Brad Schultz, former head of Moshi TV.

News7 February 2014

Ogilvy PR launches Insight & Strategy group in US

Team led by EVP and director of Insight & Strategy, Michael Briggs.

News6 February 2014

Gartner posts 10% increase in 2013 revenue and profits

Net income of $182.8m on sales of $1.78bn for IT market analyst.

News6 February 2014

Groupe Acticall exits Future Thinking France

SPA Future Thinking buys out French joint venture partner to take full ownership.

News6 February 2014

BrainJuicer names Johnson MD, Continental Europe

Mark Johnson was previously MD of Alpine region.

News6 February 2014

NRS to add mobile and tablet readership data to PADD

New platform data to provide measure of “total reach” for print brands, says CEO Mike Ironside.

News6 February 2014

TNS appoints new ED in India

Hemant Dham has rejoined the company from Ipsos as executive director, operations.

News6 February 2014

Localytics raises $16m, targets expansion

Closed-loop marketing platform provider brings total capital raised to $25m with series C funding round.

News6 February 2014

Telecoms body stares privacy in the face

Code of conduct on facial recognition privacy to be discussed at National Telecommunications and Information Administration meeting.

News6 February 2014

Cabinet Office 'nudge unit' spun-off as 'social purpose company'

The Behavioural Insight Team gets investment from Nesta, and will sell services to public and private sector clients.

Feature5 February 2014

'Big bang' disruption – and five keys to survival

Like it or not, market research is being disrupted. To survive, research companies need to stop talking about value and start delivering it, argues Ipsos’s JD Deitch.

News5 February 2014

Ipsos UU makes Censydiam president head of qual insight

Sue Phillips to spearhead activation strategies for clients, while Jerry Forristal takes over Censydiam.

News5 February 2014

DJS targets local authorities with new segmentation tool

‘Localise’ pitched as decision support tool for asset management.

News5 February 2014

Ipsos Healthcare names senior director for UK

Former Kantar Health director Susanne West takes up new role.

News5 February 2014

Decipher adds to quantitative research team

Adrian Czerwick to focus on ad evaluation and media consumption studies.

News5 February 2014

Light Reading founder buys back business

UBM sells comms market analysis firm to former leader Stephen Saunders.

Feature4 February 2014

Creative treatment

Carly Wilson of Macmillan Cancer Support tells Jane Bainbridge how research helped find the right tone for the charity’s ‘Not Alone’ ad campaign.

News4 February 2014

Marketers 'unprepared' for opportunities of big data

According to a WFA survey, big data is “vital” but most are struggling to use it effectively.

News4 February 2014

Thomson Reuters Eikon adds Twitter sentiment data

Addition provides financial professionals with “quick and intuitive way of identifying trends and potential signals.”

News4 February 2014

Visage launches new mobile spend analysis product

DaaS product VisagePulse delivers free monthly mobile spend analytics.

News4 February 2014

Big data makes music

Twitter has announced a partnership with 300 Entertainment to exchange its music data for help with data software development.

News4 February 2014

Hall & Partners and The Modellers join forces

Marketing science-focussed research firm will become a specialist division of Hall & Partners.

News4 February 2014

Facts International gets Carter

Sarah Carter has joined the company as a research director.

News3 February 2014

Nielsen completes $119m purchase of Harris Interactive

Harris to become part of Nielsen’s Buy division, but Harris Poll brand will continue.

News3 February 2014

Hall & Partners promotes Shames to managing partner

Josh Shames will lead the Chicago office of the DAS research agency.

Opinion3 February 2014

Daydream believers and the art of mindfulness

Daydreaming is not traditionally encouraged in the workplace. But, says Helen Donald, “positive constructive daydreaming” could actually improve work performance.

News3 February 2014

ComScore ramps up Blueprint with CIMM's backing

Coalition members invited to participate in cross-platform measurement service.

News3 February 2014

Creston reports revenue, pre-tax profits up

Although like-for-like revenue declines 1% year-on-year for the three months ended 31 December.

News3 February 2014

Four fieldwork firms become FIVE

Fieldwork Network, i-view London, Viewpoint Europe and Estudio Silvia Roca forge strategic alliance.

News3 February 2014

Commetric picks former GMI VP for CEO role

Dietmar Walter tasked with accelerating the expansion of the media analysis and business intelligence firm.

News1 February 2014

SPA thinking outside the Box with new tool

SPA Future Thinking’s new tracking solution BrandBox designed to measure “brand desire”.