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Ipsos Update - March 2017
Welcome to the March edition of Ipsos Update – our monthly selection of research and thinking from Ipsos teams around the world.
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Emotional Attachment and Profitable Customer Relationships
Getting Sticky - Brand managers want emotionally attached customers!
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Drive Your Results With Target-Setting Analytics
This white paper outlines key tenets of the roadmap for target-setting success. We will address the importance of determining the right overall VOC measures and laying the right foundations. This includes establishing a target time horizon for corporate VOC targets, determining relevant KPIs, cascading targets to operational units – and then tracking performance against targets.
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Confessions of the Admen
In all walks of life and throughout history, people have projected their own worldview onto their surroundings to help better understand it: we also tend to use mental shortcuts (heuristics) to help us make decisions, but these can often be misinformed and ill-judged.
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What to look for when researching a new vehicle
"For those looking for an accurate insight into the ownership experience offered by a certain vehicle – including both product quality and feedback on the sales and after service experience – quality market research can provide the answer, particularly when the surveys are conducted correctly."
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Audi shines with eight gold awards in Ipsos Passenger Car Product Quality Survey
Audi was once again the shining star brand in the annual Ipsos Passenger Car Product Survey with seven Gold awards. Next best in this survey, based on results collected in 2015, was Toyota on five Gold. Then followed Volkswagen, Mercedes Benz and Nissan (two Golds each) and Volvo (one Gold).
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LCV owners getting top value in SA
The owners of light commercial vehicles (LCVs) in South Africa are getting a very good deal in terms of their purchasing and servicing experience according to the results of the 2015 Ipsos customer satisfaction market research of the local automotive industry which were released recently.
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Enterprise Feedback Management (EFM)
Customers across all categories now look for a personalised experienced that is available when they want it, how they want it, where they want it. Regardless of whether the desired experience is delivered, it is now possible through the explosion of mobile coupled with the prominence of social media for consumers to give instant feedback. The consequence is the increasingly significant impact that customer experience has on the overall relationship with a brand.
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Path to Purchase
Understand the dynamics involved along people’s journey, in order to optimise brand’s touchpoints strategy: what media for what function and when.
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Mobile
Over the past few years, we have seen an increased proliferation of mobile across the world. Not only have we seen the number of mobile users grow worldwide, but we’ve witnessed increased engagement of consumers with their mobile devices for a variety of everyday activities, whether it’s watching videos, shopping and making purchases, or simply accessing the internet. We are now past the mobile tipping point, with mobile overtaking fixed internet access in many markets, across developed and developing economies. Consumer interactions with brands are, more than ever before, fragmented and multi-layered. Consumers are leading busy lives, and multi-task routinely in their day. Consequently, many of the planned brand exposures are missed and recall relevancy is eroding faster than expected.