News30 April 2014

Consumer confidence at all-time high, says IRI

IRI’s MarketPulse survey reveals jump in shopper sentiment index during Q1 2014.

News30 April 2014

D&B buys Indicee for cloud-based delivery nous

Modernising delivery of data, analytics and insight is ‘core’ to D&B strategy, says CEO Bob Carrigan.

News30 April 2014

Savi launches cloud-based sensor analytics solution

Savi Insight ‘creates operational intelligence from sensors and machine-generated data’.

News30 April 2014

Location analytics 'worth $11.84bn by 2019', says analyst

MarketsandMarkets expects big things from ‘the next revolution in business intelligence’.

News30 April 2014

Social media doesn't affect TV ratings, says study; Twitter CEO disagrees

TV ratings can help drive social media activity, but not vice versa, says research by media owner NBC Universal.

News30 April 2014

Social platform Sprinklr raises $40m in series D funding round

Investment comes as firm launches paid media component for its social management and measurement platform.

News29 April 2014

MRS president Dianne Thompson to retire as Camelot CEO

Thompson will stand down after 14 years as CEO of the National Lottery operator at the end of October.

News29 April 2014

comScore Q1 revenue up 14% to $76.9m

Growth driven by subscription revenue and existing customers, as firm cuts quarterly losses to $782,000.

News29 April 2014

Virality can be predicted from just 50,000 Twitter users, says study

Study looked at using social media contacts as ‘sensors’ to detect ‘global scale contagious outbreaks’.

News29 April 2014

From mood maps to market research – MetricWire branches out

University-backed mobile data startup looks to expand beyond academia to commercial projects.

Opinion29 April 2014

Big Data and the rise of the CDO

Steve Laws of Unanimis discusses how the rise of the CDO is unlocking the potential of Big Data.

News29 April 2014

Q Research Solutions adds four to New Jersey team

Mario da Cruz, Michele Reisner, Eve Oster and Dawne Watts join consumer product testing firm.

News29 April 2014

Yahoo-run ad campaigns to get comScore vCE integration

Partnership with research firm will integrate validated Campaign Essentials with ad platform.

News28 April 2014

Tonic Insight brings designer on board as creative director

Former Hicksville designer turned freelancer, Daniel Huggett, joins newly-formed research agency.

News28 April 2014

Papa John's looks to pizza boxes to deliver respondents

Pizza chain launches customer experience survey through QR and text codes on pizza boxes.

News28 April 2014

Mashwork launches social TV analytics tool

Canvs offers real-time qualitative insights around audiences reactions to TV and movie content.

Feature28 April 2014

The two sides of behavioural economics

Professor George Loewenstein meets ad man Rory Sutherland to discuss behavioural economics in business and academia.

News28 April 2014

JD Power acquires Korrelate

Acquisition intended to allow matching of online behaviours with vehicle retail sales.

News28 April 2014

Twyman takes key political role at YouGov

Joe Twyman promoted to head of political and social research for Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

News25 April 2014

WPP's Q1 data investment management revenue down 3.8%

Research revenue comes in at £566m, with gross margin at £406m, as growth slows on final quarter of 2013.

News25 April 2014

Space Doctors launches mobile semiotics app

Cymbol app designed to offer insights into developing trends through crowd-sourcing.

News25 April 2014

Sloper takes creative role at ResearchBods

Darren Sloper appointed to newly-formed role of lead creative.

News25 April 2014

New Hampshire lifts research restrictions

New bill signed following sustained pressure from MRA and AAPC to revise ‘push poll’ law.

News25 April 2014

IdeaScale acquires crowdsourcing platform provider

Ideavibes is a Canadian crowdsourcing platform used by cities, brands and organisations.

News25 April 2014

NetBase launches social intelligence dashboard

Brand Live Pulse provides access to real-time social insights.

News25 April 2014

Facebook makes move on fitness app developer

Social media giant’s latest purchase is ProtoGeo Oy, maker of fitness monitoring app, Moves.

News24 April 2014

Arbitron helps Nielsen to 12.9% growth in first-quarter revenue

Ongoing integration of radio audience measurement firm is proving “successful”, says CEO Mitch Barns.

News24 April 2014

Decipher appoints Stacey Sterzel as new head of quant

Sterzel joins from GfK, where she was a research manager.

News24 April 2014

Difficulty in measuring offline WOM a key barrier to uptake, say marketers

According to survey of marketers sponsored by AMA and WOMMA.

News24 April 2014

Ipsos first-quarter revenue down 4.5%, currency fluctuations blamed

Global research group says revenue was up 1.5% on an organic basis – which is in line with its previous two quarters.

News24 April 2014

Roadchef pulls in eDigitalResearch for feedback programme

Motorway service area operator to roll out a nationwide customer experience feedback programme.

News24 April 2014

Growth in marketer confidence mirrors expected mobile spend

Headline figure in Warc’s Global Marketing Index up 1.1 points, driven by increase in marketing budgets.

News23 April 2014

MMR adds Impackt pack test to ZappiStore

Impackt Lite is “a response to particular client situations where budgets are tight and timelines short”, says MD Mat Lintern.

News23 April 2014

Mindshare taps weather data for targeted advertising

Deal with The Weather Channel parent company will help steer media plans and purchases.

Opinion23 April 2014

The data evolution in out-of-home media

Talon Outdoor’s Nick Mawditt highlights some of the smart uses of big data that are helping out-of-home advertisers reach the right audiences.

News23 April 2014

Ipsos Healthcare re-launches Fieldwork International in Japan

Follows on from re-launches in UK, Italy, Spain and Hong Kong.

News23 April 2014

Tumblr is tops for lasting TV conversation, says Pulsar

Social TV conversations peak early on Twitter, but show longevity on Tumblr, according to social data analyst.

News23 April 2014

Gavin Gordon joins Future Foundation

Gordon appointed as vice president of sales, North America.

News23 April 2014

NatCen limbers up to research primary school sport funding

Commissioned by Department of Education to investigate how schools are using government funding.

News22 April 2014

BrightRoll and TubeMogul in for final test of Nielsen's mobile OCR

Digital video ad companies back pre-launch technical trial of new mobile ad measurement service.

News22 April 2014

Kantar Retail buys sales automation software firm XTEL

Italian company makes software to support manufacturers’ sales planning and promotion management activities.

News22 April 2014

ECJ rules Telecom Data Retention Directive 'invalid'

EU-wide law that requires telecoms companies to store user data for up to two years deemed invalid on right-to-privacy grounds by top European court.

News22 April 2014

Wikipedia: a better guide to flu trends than Google

New study finds Wikipedia page traffic to be more accurate in estimating flu-like illnesses than Google Flu Trends.

News22 April 2014

Crimson Hexagon adds Instagram analysis to social listening platform

Text in captions and comments from image sharing site can now be evaluated.

Feature22 April 2014

The story behind the stories

An invisible network of trackers powers the data-driven newsroom, but publishers are largely in the dark about how much tracking takes place. Brian Tarran reports.

News22 April 2014

Ipsos and VSO to research social policy in Zambia

Research to focus on health, community development and social welfare.

News17 April 2014

IPA report shows record increase in marketing budgets

Q1 2014 IPA Bellwether Report revealed greatest marketing budget increase in seven years.

Feature17 April 2014

Inside the data-driven newsroom

Real-time data feeds and analytics technologies are radically transforming the way editorial teams work. Jo Bowman reports.

News17 April 2014

CMI hires Bill Dunn

Dunn will join the Financial Services Business Development team.

News17 April 2014

Acheson given top data science role at RAPP Australia

Lucy Acheson has been appointed as head of data science and insights.

News17 April 2014

Toluna partners with BrainJuicer for emotional measurement

Toluna will use BrainJuicer’s FaceTrace question types to measure consumer emotions.

News17 April 2014

Weinhausen promoted to key US qual role at Radius

Bari Weinhausen has been made director of qualitative research, US.

News17 April 2014

IRI and GuestMetrics join forces for food shopper insights

Partnership integrates on-premise POS data with off-premise POS data.

News16 April 2014

Mystery Researchers hires new VP strategic development

Jeffrey Wright joins the business intelligence provider from Shared Insight.

News16 April 2014

BAE Systems launches Google Glass app

Mobile app enables ‘hands-free geospatial intelligence data collection and photo reporting’.

News16 April 2014

BBC to re-tender its MR roster

Deadline for agency applications to new four year roster set for 20th May.

News16 April 2014

AQA appoints two new directors

Alex Scharaschkin and Anton Béguin join the qualifications provider’s Centre for Education Research and Practice.

News16 April 2014

UK SBS announces gov't MR framework supplier list

Market research is the first of the portfolio of Crown Commercial Service frameworks to go live.

News16 April 2014

Twitter acquires social data provider Gnip

Acquisition will see more of Twitter’s data offered to Gnip’s customer base.

News15 April 2014

Yoder joins Ebiquity as CEO

Alex Yoder, formerly of Webtrends, appointed to newly-created role.

News15 April 2014

BritainThinks partners with Leonard Cheshire Disability

BritainThinks appointed to carry out a programme of qualitative research.

News15 April 2014

Verve targets innovation with new role

Emel Mohammadally joins company in new role of innovation director.

Feature15 April 2014

Plenty more fish in the sea?

Is the research industry doing enough to ensure it stays in a long-term relationship with its respondents? James Sallows of Schlesinger Interactive discusses.

News15 April 2014

Promotions across the board for ICM

Company announces two board promotions, five promotions and three new hires.

News15 April 2014

Civis and Rentrak team up

Partnership will provide insights into corporate and political advertising campaigns.

News15 April 2014

Cunill joins Lumi as European sales manager

Daniel Cunill has joined the insight technology company from Cint.

News14 April 2014

Research Now hires new CTO

Former senior director at Yahoo, Michael Bigby, appointed to top technology role.

News14 April 2014

IPA launches ROMI calculator

Calculator designed to help users determine profit generated from marketing activity.

News14 April 2014

One Kings Lane selects EasyInsites for panel

Panel to be used for both online and offline research.

News14 April 2014

Revelation Global makes LA hire

Thyra Rutter joins research technology provider as senior sales executive.

News14 April 2014

Meaty win for DJS Research

Consultancy named as approved supplier for Meat Promotion Wales.

News14 April 2014

Tonic mixes it up with seven new hires

Research agency Tonic announces new joiners in UK and US.

News11 April 2014

eDigital appoints new senior research manager

Clientside researcher Caroline Ashley joins customer feedback specialist.

News11 April 2014

TNS BMRB adds new director to qualitative team

Former OPM, IPPR and Opinion Leader executive Robin Clarke joins social research agency.

News11 April 2014

Viacom taps Mass Relevance for social media measurement

EchoGraph platform to track and analyse social activity for Viacom advertisers.

News11 April 2014

BrainJuicer hires client director in Brazil

Former Ambev research manager Eduardo Chiba joins research agency to look after Latin American clients.

News11 April 2014

Former GfK Turkey execs open up MindStation

Eda Aybaba Çelik and Cüneyt De?er launch new brand marketing research firm.

News11 April 2014

After Ipsos deal, Realeyes bags another win

Emotion measurement firm wins Big Data Venture Challenge at I-COM summit.

News10 April 2014

Added Value appoints Hall to lead new consulting practice

Added Value Cheskin MD Jonathan Hall to head New York-based brand consulting division.

News10 April 2014

Australian ad agency BMF gets data analytics director

Andy Ford “the most normal data analytics person I’ve ever met,” says planning director.

Opinion10 April 2014

Time to practice what we preach?

The research industry needs to get better at listening to its own customers, argues Dan Young of Shed Research Consulting.

News10 April 2014

Watermelon names new director, adds consultant and project manager

Chime’s digital research agency promotes Mark Barrett ( pictured) to senior role, while bringing in new executives.

News10 April 2014

The Pineapple Lounge expands to US

Children’s research specialist appoints Cheryl Gotthelf to lead US expansion.

News10 April 2014

MRSS India partners with Scent Analysis for joint venture

Mumbai-based SA#M to provide sensory research and testing services for brands.

News9 April 2014

DJS promotes McCluckie and Easdown

Alex McCluckie becomes research manager, while Christian Easdown moves up to SRE.

News9 April 2014

Quora raises $80m, takes valuation to a reported $900m

Q&A service closes Series C funding round to bring total investment to date to $140m.

News9 April 2014

Relish adds research manager to qual team

Brian McIntosh, ex-Kantar Media Custom and Ipsos MediaCT, joins Relish’s London office.

News9 April 2014

Ipsos signs Realeyes for facial coding and body gesture metrics

Global agreement with emotion measurement firm to support ad tests and media evaluation work.

News9 April 2014

The Retail Bulletin taps ResearchBods for consumer surveys

Retail news and events company to source exclusive data through research partnership.

News9 April 2014

Hall & Partners appoints new partners for London health division

Jeanette Hodgson ( pictured) and Marie Bennett take up senior roles at brand and comms specialist.

News9 April 2014

BIT to apply behavioural insight to literacy and numeracy challenge

Former Cabinet Office ‘nudge unit’ to set up new joint research centre to boost reading, writing and math skills.

Feature8 April 2014

Famous brands, reinvented

A design competition for university students has seen new twists added to a range of famous household brands.

News8 April 2014

Facebook backer makes investment in data analysis firm Datalogix

Jim Breyer, early-stage investor in Facebook, is now backing the social network’s ad ROI analysis partner.

News8 April 2014

AskingCanadians to start AskingAmericans as well

New online data collection firm promises access to 10 million opted-in survey-takers.

News8 April 2014

Innovate hires sales staff from uSamp

Four former uSamp execs, including George Llorens ( pictured), join Matt Dusig and Gregg Lavin’s new firm.

News8 April 2014

Commetric hires managing director for US business

Sally Hammond joins new CEO Dietmar Walter at media analysis and business intelligence firm.

News8 April 2014

Nectar Business members to earn points through surveys

Partnership with Research Now gives points to Nectar members who complete e-Rewards Opinion Panel studies.

News8 April 2014

Winners named in £225,000 innovation competition

Vidiro, Jellybooks and Temptster win £25,000 each for analytics solutions.

News7 April 2014

Nielsen boasts measurement firsts with CBS and Syncbak

Reports first results from combined local TV and radio measurement, and gets partner for local mobile ratings.

News7 April 2014

Millward Brown launches Link test for branded mobile apps

“An app, in many ways, is a piece or an extension of advertising creative,” says creative development VP Mitzi Lorentzen.

Opinion7 April 2014

Reserve your place?

Should councils ask citizens to book their places at public consultations to avoid disappointments? Ian Nockolds considers the options.

News7 April 2014

AOL co-founder to invest in three data and analytics companies

Steve Case pledges funds for Google Demo Day companies Automated Insights, Docalytics and GoSpotCheck.

News7 April 2014

Ebiquity pays full price for Stratigent after 'strong performance'

Stratigent founders to receive full sale price after ending 2013 with its strongest-ever quarter.

News7 April 2014

Populus hires PSB executive for politics and reputation role

Andrew Gunn takes director position at Populus, brings financial services sector experience.

News4 April 2014

Google adds Kantar reps to Consumer Surveys advisory board

Renee Smith ( pictured) and Frank Kelly to support development of Google’s bite-sized survey product.

News4 April 2014

SPA strengthens Automotive and Shopper teams

Two new hires in Automotive team and three in Shopper team for business intelligence firm.

News4 April 2014

Mike Kelly joins Quantcast board

Kelly has joined the board of directors of the real-time advertising and audience measurement company.

News4 April 2014

InSites Consulting enters Australian partnership

Agency has teamed up with Sydney-based Direction First.

News4 April 2014

Dunnhumby acquires Sociomantic

Tesco subsidiary’s purchase of big data tech firm intended to make marketing more personalised.

News4 April 2014

IMS Health prices initial public offering

Sale to generate $1.3bn. UPDATE: Shares begin trading on NYSE at $22.18.

News3 April 2014

Jay Stocki joins Experian as VP, digital services

Stocki joins from data provider Bering Media, where he was VP of business development.

News3 April 2014

MediaCom puts COO in charge of data and technology

Harvey Goldhersz tasked with keeping media agency “at the leading edge” of insight, analytics and operations.

News3 April 2014

Accuracy varies 'significantly' between viewability measurement companies, says report

Kellogg and BrightRoll partnered to evaluate effectiveness of third party video viewability measurement companies.

News3 April 2014

FTC approves Nielsen's sell-off of Arbitron LinkMeter tech

Federal Trade Commission consents to Nielsen’s sale and licencing deal with rival comScore.

Video3 April 2014

Will Self on brands and storytelling

Novelist Will Self discusses his use of research in his stories and how to deal with ‘everythingitis’ – an interest in absolutely everything. Filmed at Impact 2014, the Market Research Society’s annual conference.

News3 April 2014

BrainJuicer appoints Jeff McDonald as VP, North America

McDonald joins from Nielsen NeuroFocus, where he was a senior partner.

News3 April 2014

Healthcare Research Worldwide to open US office

East coast base to begin trading next month, says group MD Caroline Jameson.

News2 April 2014

Dipsticks promotes Penny Browell to board

Media research specialist also promotes Alex Banks and hires Jon Armstrong.

News2 April 2014

TAM Ireland taps Colourtext for TV tweet analysis

TV measurement firm wants to understand what percentage of Irish tweets are about TV.

News2 April 2014

Populus wins contract to track smart meter opinion

Will gauge public response to smart meter rollout on behalf of the Smart Meter Central Delivery Body.

News2 April 2014

Kantar Media acquires Spanish analytics agency

The Data Republic, a social media analytics agency, is based in Barcelona.

News2 April 2014

Twitter grows TV analytics strategy at Facebook's expense

Twitter’s acquisition of TV analytics firms SecondSync and Mesagraph adds further weight to offering.

News2 April 2014

TNS appoints Conrad as MD for Brazil

James Conrad transfers from his position as EVP, west region lead for TNS US.

News2 April 2014

MRA urges White House to focus on differentiation in big data policy

Comments filed on behalf of research industry as part of Obama’s review of big data and privacy.

News1 April 2014

MarketShare advisory board welcomes three

Ross Levinsohn, Tom Davenport and Pat LaPointe are all additions to the board.

News1 April 2014

comScore announces single, multi-platform metric

The metric measures global audiences across desktop computers, smartphones and tablets.

News1 April 2014

NCS and Nielsen Audio link radio ads to retail sales

Single source measurement tool for radio industry links radio listener information to purchase information.

News1 April 2014

ESI Media hires Nepa for Independent consumer panel

Panel of newspaper readers to provide views and opinions on content and current affairs.

News1 April 2014

Twitter and Kantar extend partnership to 'Data of Now'

Companies will collaborate on new research products for ad effectiveness, consumer insight and more.

News1 April 2014

Media Rating Council lifts ad viewability advisory

Online advertisers and publishers given go-ahead to start trading on viewable impressions.

News1 April 2014

GfK MRI launches new consumer segments

44 segments now accessible through data management platforms BlueKai, eXelate and Lotame.