Opinion4 June 2014

Feeling agile?

Steve Phillips presents a manifesto to keep research at the cutting edge of business.

News3 June 2014

House vote threatens to undermine Census and ACS, warns MRA

House-approved Census Bureau budget “likely insufficient” to conduct 2015’s American Community Survey, as well as “requisite testing” for 2020 Census.

News3 June 2014

FocusVision buys Revelation to merge qual technology

Revelation founder Steve August becomes chief innovation officer at video streaming technology firm.

News3 June 2014

New UK copyright laws give researchers right to 'data mine'

Copying content from online sources no longer an infringement of laws, providing certain conditions are met.

News3 June 2014

Ed Russo joins Research Now as SVP Marketing, Americas

Russo joins from uSamp, where he was SVP of Global Marketing.

News3 June 2014

Nielsen ceases political polling in Australia

The company has announced the end of its Fairfax Nielsen Poll after 19 years.

News2 June 2014

Somo and Medialets enter partnership

Marketing agency Somo will use Medialets’ platform to serve and track mobile ads.

News2 June 2014

Vision One adds UK benchmarks to employee satisfaction survey offer

New benchmarks will allow clients to compare their results to national norms.

Feature2 June 2014

Crime story

Brian Tarran meets David Canter, a founding father of investigative psychology, who went from studying biscuit purchases to helping police catch murderers and rapists.

News2 June 2014

80% of consumers believe data privacy no longer exists, says study

A new study from Accenture shows the vast majority of UK & US consumers aged 20-40 believe total digital privacy is a thing of the past.

News2 June 2014

Lamar joins EMI as director of insights

Brian Lamar has previous experience at Ipsos, TNS and Harris Interactive.

News2 June 2014

Populus targets future MPs with new panel

Future Parliament Panel is an addition to existing MP Polling service.

News2 June 2014

George Terhanian named group president and CRO at NPD

Terhanian joins from Toluna, where he was chief strategy & products officer and president, North America.

News30 May 2014

Former Sesame Street researcher returns to Hall & Partners

Joanna Fanuele named global strategic partner for the research agency’s US arm.

News30 May 2014

An Other Lines of Enquiry researcher joins d.fferento/ogy

James Dickie becomes head of research, reuniting him with former Other Lines colleague Mark James.

News30 May 2014

Google offers link removal form to comply with EU 'right to be forgotten'

Firm starts compiling requests to remove “inadequate, irrelevant or no longer relevant” links from search results.

News30 May 2014

Two new mobile research solutions for uSamp

uSamp Mobile In-Home and uSamp Mobile In-Store unveiled at Mobile World conference.

News30 May 2014

WIN reelects Jean-Marc Leger as president

Worldwide Independent Network of market research annual conference took place in Montreal this week.

News30 May 2014

DIY surveys, data privacy and mobile key challenges to research in last decade

According to findings from the annual Confirmit Market Research Technology and Innovation Survey.

News29 May 2014

Phil Bowman joins PetSmart as EVP, Customer Experience

Bowman joins the pet retailer from TD Ameritrade, where he was chief marketing officer.

News29 May 2014

Targeted Victory and Rentrak team up to target voters

Rentrak TV voter viewing information will be layered into Targeted Victory’s voter data segments.

News29 May 2014

Nielsen commits to sample size boost in LPM, set-meter markets

15 LPM markets, and 31 set-meter markets to get extra homes to improve ratings stability.

News29 May 2014

uSamp adds panel ops vice-president to line-up

Former Networked Insights and Troy Research executive Joe Jordan joins research tech and sample supplier.

News29 May 2014

Simulmedia hires Forrester's Cooperstein as CMO

David Cooperstein was previously VP, practice leader serving CMOs at Forrester Research.

News29 May 2014

App Annie buys European mobile analytics rival Distimo

Deal part-funded by a $17m investment from App Annie’s backers, bringing total funding to date to $39m.

News28 May 2014

Twitter partners with Billboard for music charts

Trending 140 and Emerging Artists charts to track most shared songs on the social network.

News28 May 2014

GfK takes majority stake in Genius Digital

Research group follows up on last year’s strategic investment to forge deeper ties with TV data firm.

News28 May 2014

Northstar creates internship programme, names first candidate

The Advanced Internship Programme ( AIP) allows PhD students to gain business experience.

News28 May 2014

HCD partners with PlayCollective for family insights

Partnership aims to meet needs of clients with consumer products aimed at children and parents.

News28 May 2014

FTC calls for legislation to make data broker practices transparent

“It’s time to bring transparency and accountability to bear on this industry,” says FTC chairwoman Edith Ramirez.

News28 May 2014

Landfried joins Schlesinger as CTO

Jade Landfried joins the company from Nielsen, where he was global panel leader.

News27 May 2014

RPA launches surveyon Partners platform

Platform intended to allow research clients to leverage preexisting networks of users.

News27 May 2014

Nicola Blythe joins BritainThinks

Blythe, formerly of Opinion Leader, joins as a senior research executive.

News27 May 2014

Chicago media shop taps Rentrak for local market TV ratings

Kelly Scott Madison signs on for StationView Essentials data to inform media buys.

Feature27 May 2014

Join the dots

Watch Dogs, a game released today about a digital vigilante wreaking havoc in a hyper-connected city, is set in a virtual world that’s closer to reality than you might think.

News27 May 2014

Silver surfers just as tech savvy as younger generations, says research

New research from iProspect reveals confidence in technology and internet usage is just as high among the 50+ generations.

News27 May 2014

Research Now names client development director in France

Stéphanie Marty to lead development efforts in the corporate, strategy and media sectors.

News27 May 2014

AMD hires for Passenger partnership

Genie Yip joins research firm as digital strategy manager, to support online community collaboration.

News23 May 2014

Bonamy Finch launches significance testing app

Free app available for both Apple and Android devices.

News23 May 2014

Brandwatch raises $22m, targets further global growth

Funding round led by Highland Capital Partners Europe will also fund development of social intelligence platforms.

News23 May 2014

Strauss joins SPA Future Thinking

Claudia Strauss has been appointed client development director.

News23 May 2014

Crimson Hexagon nests with HootSuite

Crimson Hexagon’s ForSight platform can now stream information directly into HootSuite.

News23 May 2014

78% of UK advertisers admit bot traffic blindness

Lack of insight into fraudulent ad impressions costing advertisers up to £15,000 a year, according to new research.

News23 May 2014

GfK's North American health team gains two

Paul Barnes and Cheryl Mulherin both hired as senior vice presidents.

News22 May 2014

Affectiva in distribution deal for Affdex with 20|20 Research

Research technology and services firm 20|20 to support rollout of new qual facial coding technology.

News22 May 2014

CSquared Networks acquires media industry benchmarking survey

The International Media Image Survey ( I-MIS) provides analysis on perceptions of media agencies and brands.

Opinion22 May 2014

Upwardly mobile

As mobile devices continue to transform how we engage with the online ( and offline) world, Richard Thornton of Cint asks whether the market research industry is ready to adapt.

News22 May 2014

SurveyMonkey opens first Asia Pacific office in Australia

New Sydney outpost to employ 25 staff over the next few years, says DIY survey software maker.

News22 May 2014

Online advertisers call for industry-wide metrics

Results from IAB Europe’s Metrics and KPIs survey show most online advertisers think an established measurement currency would help drive investment.

News22 May 2014

Attensity boosts C-suite with new hires

Appointments include new CFO, CRO and vice president of development.

News22 May 2014

Warc sees improving trading conditions in May GMI scores

Global Marketing Index points to less volatile conditions for the marketing industry, compared to last year.

News21 May 2014

eDigital reports 20% rise in annual revenue

Customer feedback specialist reports 14th consecutive year of growth, as revenues hit £7.5m.

News21 May 2014

McCready joins Critical Mix

Brett McCready has been appointed vice president, account development.

News21 May 2014

Responses to tablet ads up to 40 times higher than online, says research

Study by marketing body for national newspapers looked into time spent and interactions with ads.

News21 May 2014

Facebook in deal with Publicis for ads and audience data

Deal worth “hundreds of millions of dollars” covers Facebook and Instagram.

Opinion21 May 2014

Why the consumer isn’t always king

Insight is ‘in sight’, says Anna Eggleton of The Value Engineers. But you might have to look in more than one place.

News21 May 2014

Millward Brown to acquire Romanian agency Daedalus

Millward Brown now has a direct presence in all major Central and Eastern European markets.

News21 May 2014

World Economic Forum retains Fisheye media analytics for a further three years

Renewed deal follows Fisheye’s December 2013 acquisition by Kantar Media.

News20 May 2014

Ipsos MediaCT launches data science unit

New unit is headed by chief data science officer Neil Farrer.

News20 May 2014

41% of European online ads not reaching intended audience, says Nielsen

Online ad impressions in UK, Germany, France and Italy reportedly not reaching intended audience.

News20 May 2014

Millward Brown names Affinnova's Euro head to client role

Jérome Simulin appointed senior vice-president of strategic client growth, based in Paris.

News20 May 2014

Schlesinger adds Affdex facial coding to qual offer

Collaboration with Affectiva sees Affdex Discovery added to portfolio of services.

News20 May 2014

Twitter TV Ratings service gets demographic data add-on

Nielsen to report the age and gender profiles of people tweet and see tweets about TV shows.

News20 May 2014

Spend a penny to share your thoughts at Brisbane Airport

Brisbane Airport has installed interactive customer feedback terminals in its toilets. Make sure to wash your hands before use.

News19 May 2014

Tech firm looks to deliver real-time audience data for digital outdoor ads

Italian firm Taggalo is scheduled to launch its range of sensors for measuring digital displays in July.

News19 May 2014

AdGooroo opens UK office

The Kantar Media-owned search marketing intelligence company’s new office will be based in London.

News19 May 2014

Nielsen error leads to nine months of over-reporting

Nielsen has announced that it ‘regrets’ the error that saw Ninemsn and Microsoft video views doubled.

Feature19 May 2014

Data basics

Fancy a career in data science? Former Google engineer Sean Owen reveals what you need to succeed in this century’s most desirable vocation. Interview by Brian Tarran.

News19 May 2014

Two consultants join The Futures Company in Singapore

Radha Patel relocates from London, while Tara Hirebet joins from trendwatching.com.

News19 May 2014

Tobii launches eye-tracking glasses with 'live view'

System allows researchers to watch a live video stream of what respondents are looking at.

News19 May 2014

Location data used to show Facebook ad impact

Mobile data from EE used by Vizeum and iProspect to measure increase in visitors to IKEA store in Cardiff.

News16 May 2014

Photo analytics firm lands $2.2m funding

Ditto Labs gets backing to help brands spot products and logos in photos shared over social media.

News16 May 2014

IPG Mediabrands names comScore's vCE as 'preferred' measurement tool

US — IPG Mediabrands, the media agency network within the Interpublic Group of Companies, has picked comScore to be its strategic partner for digital campaign measurement.

News16 May 2014

Route adds retail data to outdoor audience measurement system

New data release adds audience estimates for 6,000 retail sites, including supermarkets and motorway service stations.

News16 May 2014

Euclid launches Reseller Programme

Programme will allow third party partners to sell and distribute Euclid’s mobile location analytics solution.

News16 May 2014

TVB adopts IBM cloud-based Social Media Analytics

Broadcaster is the first Hong Kong-based company to use the technology.

News16 May 2014

TV advertising consistently strongest, says Thinkbox analysis

Report by TV marketing body says TV ads create most profit for businesses, despite growth of digital media.

News15 May 2014

Acxiom to acquire LiveRamp

Private deal is reportedly worth around $310m.

News15 May 2014

The Children's Society looks to build supporter panel

Charity taps ResearchBods to create and manage its new supporter-research resource.

News15 May 2014

First quarter was 'satisfactory', says GfK CEO Matthias Hartmann

Research group reports revenue down 3.7% because of “strategic realignment”, but profitability is improving.

News15 May 2014

Millennials the most privacy-conscious generation, says study

Research by Contagious Communications and Flamingo suggests the millennial generation is ‘redefining privacy’.

Opinion15 May 2014

Is big data going soft?

Market researchers have long been confident that there are some questions big data can’t answer. But new work in the field suggests that confidence might be misplaced, says Colin Strong.

News15 May 2014

Schlesinger names Matt Campion to lead healthcare client development

Former WorldOne president joins Schlesinger Associates as executive vice-president.

News15 May 2014

Why UPS trucks don't turn left

And why pie charts are the Aquaman of data visualisation. Highlights from the morning sessions of the Big Data Innovation Summit in London.

News14 May 2014

Marketing Sciences buys Walnut to crack the neuroscience market

Walnut founder Cristina de Balanzó to work with Marketing Sciences’ Andy Myers to build neuro offering.

News14 May 2014

Attensity raises $90m for text analytics 'innovation'

“We are extending… into brand reputation as well as the early detection of trends, business opportunities and threats,” says CEO Howard Lau.

News14 May 2014

TNS creates Mekong regional role for political and social work

Chaitanya Reddy to lead political and social research throughout Vietnam, Thailand, Cambodia and Myanmar.

News14 May 2014

Bremner and Millar join IFF Research in director-level roles

Pamela Bremner ( pictured) comes from Quadrangle, while Danny Bremner joins the team from TNS.

News14 May 2014

Europe's Court of Justice backs 'right to be forgotten'

Ruling in case of Spanish national says individuals can request the deletion of search engine results.

Feature14 May 2014

Entertaining indulgence

‘Binge viewing’ of TV shows via online streaming services has taken off massively. But is that the right term to describe this behaviour? Netflix hired Grant McCracken to find out.

News13 May 2014

Record growth for DJS Research in 2013

Annual revenues rise to £2.9m; a 32% increase on 2012 performance.

News13 May 2014

Rothwell replaces Stevens as Research Now Americas MD

Craig Stevens has resigned from the role and will leave the company at the end of June.

News13 May 2014

Kantar and IMRB's Indian panel rebrands as Kantar Worldpanel

Rebranding of strategic partnership MarketPulse, announced in 2013, connects Indian panel to other Worldpanel markets.

News13 May 2014

Metrix Consulting welcomes new business director

Carol Abrahams joins the Australian company from UK-based White Space.

News13 May 2014

Five new hires at Pineapple Lounge

The children’s research and consulting firm has appointed three researchers and two field managers.

News13 May 2014

ConsumerDNA launches new MR firm with Kassab as CEO

Michael Kassab is the former president of Savitz Research, whose assets were acquired by ConsumerDNA.

News12 May 2014

John Pullinger named as UK National Statistician

Pullinger, the current House of Commons librarian, will take up his new role in July, following the retirement of Jil Matheson.

News12 May 2014

Cello Health Insight targets 'in the moment' data with new mobile apps

Two new apps designed to help healthcare companies obtain qual and quant data.

News12 May 2014

MRS appoints new editor of Research-live.com

Jane Bainbridge will join the Market Research Society in June as editor of Research-live.com and Impact Magazine.

News12 May 2014

Face makes senior appointments in UK and Asia

James Hirst and Sofia Mavros both join the research agency from Clear.

News12 May 2014

Radius Global adds Beijing office, names Cindy Han as MD

Former Blue Rock Consulting partner Han to lead Chinese expansion for US-based business.

Opinion12 May 2014

How to handle the great qual quandary

Early-stage qualitative work is an integral part of creative development, but it’s not without its pitfalls. Incite’s Dan Cooper explains what they are and how to avoid them.

News12 May 2014

Krea founder invests in former employee's new firm

Pravin Shekar makes angel investment in Arindam Bhattacharya’s ResearchSuite Technologies.

News9 May 2014

IMS Health buys business intelligence apps and analytics player

Healthcare data specialist follows April IPO with acquisition of Belgian company Forcea.

News9 May 2014

Publicis and Omnicom split, 'merger of equals' called off

“The slow pace of progress created a level of uncertainty detrimental to the interests of both groups.”

News9 May 2014

TNS UK appoints new digital development director

Simon Oastler has joined the company from IG, where he was head of digital insight.

News9 May 2014

Facebook unveils audience insights service

Service analyses trends across the site in order to expand ability to target users.

News9 May 2014

VoxPopMe looks to follow growth with new funding

User-generated feedback platform is targeting a Series A financing round this year, says CEO Dave Carruthers.

News9 May 2014

Channel 4 tunes in to its viewers

Channel 4 working alongside eDigitalResearch on audience insight panel.

News8 May 2014

Google buys marketing analytics firm Adometry

Cross-channel campaign attribution specialists to work with Google Analytics Premium team.

News8 May 2014

ComScore close to settling class action tracking suit

Digital measurement firm reaches agreement in principle to end four-year legal fight.

News8 May 2014

Ebiquity acquires minority interests in US subsidiary

Market intelligence specialist has acquired the minority 15% membership interests in Billetts America.

Feature8 May 2014

YO! daddy

Simon Woodroffe, founder of YO! Sushi, has little truck with formal market research. He’s an ideas man with a target market of one – himself. Interview by Jane Simms.

News8 May 2014

Andy Barre joins Mystery Researchers

Barre has been appointed vice president of Operations.

News8 May 2014

Kantar sells call centre business to BPO specialist

Mexico’s Qualfon takes over Center Partners and its six US call centres.

News8 May 2014

TNS quantifies 'irresistibility'

New study from TNS claims to identify the collective components of the world’s most irresistible brands.

News7 May 2014

Unified makes awe.sm buy for marketing platform

Marketing technology firm will integrate awe.sm’s social measurement with its own technology.

News7 May 2014

MRS warns political parties over pre-election 'surveys'

CEO Jane Frost issues guidance to help “maintain the reputation of essential research activities”.

News7 May 2014

Flamingo builds nest in Brazil

Flamingo announces new São Paulo office set to open in September.

News7 May 2014

Industry veteran issues 'rallying cry' to qual researchers

Lawrence Bailey believes “explanatory research” represents the future of excellence in qualitative research.

Feature7 May 2014

International trade mission

As Alibaba readies for its IPO, Jo Bowman meets its head of Europe, James Hardy, to discover how the Chinese e-commerce company is looking to grease the wheels of global business using a data-first approach.

News7 May 2014

Facebook app Moves the privacy goalposts

Fitness app Moves, recently acquired by Facebook, changes its privacy policy to allow wider sharing of user data.

News6 May 2014

Ask Afrika appoints ex-Nielsen MD as executive chairman

Ken McArthur to work with agency founder Andrea Rademeyer in growing the South African business.

News6 May 2014

Workflows launches Smart In-Store research service

Launched this week, the service involves respondents sending texts and picture messages throughout their in-store journey.

News6 May 2014

Experian names Eric Haller to lead global DataLabs

Haller will oversee the expansion of the advanced data analytics unit as it moves into the UK and Brazil.

News6 May 2014

Ford names former market research analyst as CEO

Mark Fields has risen through the ranks over 25 years, and will take on the top job as of 1 July.

News6 May 2014

White House big data report renews call for privacy legislation

Report looks into open data initiative, public sector data management and private sector data use.

News2 May 2014

Gartner posts 10% increase in first-quarter revenue

IT analyst sees double-digit growth in both research and consulting services.

News2 May 2014

TrueSample adds chief revenue, technology officers

Dyna Boen ( pictured) and David St. Pierre join data quality firm following SurveyMonkey sale.

News2 May 2014

Randy Stone joins IRI's analytics practice

Founder of Passion Rock Partners appointed executive, analytics practice leader.

News2 May 2014

AURA shortlists firms for MR impact

Six companies – including Research-live.com Award winner BSkyB – to compete for Rockefeller prize.

News2 May 2014

ICO issues data protection warning to politicians

In a letter to the main UK political parties, the ICO warns of the need to follow the rules ahead of this month’s European and local elections.

News1 May 2014

IMS gives strong showing in first quarterly report since IPO

Revenue up 5.2% to $645m, driven by increase in technology services demand.

News1 May 2014

Ex-BSkyB director Harry Mirpuri joins FreshMinds

Mirpuri takes director-level role at research agency after a career spent clientside.

News1 May 2014

Forrester Research revenues up 2% in first quarter

Research revenues grow by 1% while advisory services grows 6%.

News1 May 2014

Facebook launches mobile ad network

Facebook Audience Network allows advertisers to extend campaigns beyond Facebook while maintaining targeting and measurement tools.

Opinion1 May 2014

Why 'obliquity' leads to more impactful market research

Rhiannon Price channels the economist John Kay to argue that the indirect route to insight is often the best.

News1 May 2014

IoT tech firm EVRYTHNG raises $7m in series A investment

Atomico, BHLP, Cisco and Dawn Capital lead funding.

News1 May 2014

GMI opens Frankfurt office

Company already has a presence in Munich and Hamburg.