Early in June, Ipsos presented at a seminar in Paris looking ahead to the forthcoming elections in the United States and France. The event, hosted by the US Embassy, saw Brice Teinturier (Ipsos Public Affairs, France) and Clifford Young (Ipsos Public Affairs, USA) describe the prevailing mood in their respective countries and what this means for the political scene.
A week after the Democratic National Convention – with a good amount of drama in the interim days – finds Clinton leading Trump by four points among Likely Voters, a one-point drop from last week. We’re likely to see Clinton’s “convention bump” recede a bit in the coming days, although the internal wrangling going on within the Republican Party could mean her bump sustains longer than normal.
The UK’s vote to leave the EU was a shock across the continent and beyond, and this survey shows it’s still something that many are coming to terms with. But there is not wholesale panic – in fact fears of a “domino effect” seem to be receding.
The Perils and Possibilities: Growing Up Online poll took place among 18 year olds with internet access in 25 countries around the world. This UNICEF / Ipsos study shares insights on teenagers’ behaviour and expectations from the online world they grew up with.
Ipsos in South Africa again delivered a very close forecast on the final local election results. At its latest release of its poll findings (released Monday 1 August), Ipsos suggested that the ANC would garner 54% of the votes, the DA 26% and the EFF 8%.
It’s the latest craze that has swept the nation since its launch last Thursday 14th July. Reports from SimilarWeb in the US already suggest that it’s overtaken Twitter in terms of daily active users, with the number engaged on the app reaching 5.92% of the US Android population. So what does this mean for the UK? And how can one phone app benefit retailers in the wake of Brexit?
What motivates people to go on holiday? When to go, and where? Focusing on people from mainland Europe, the US and Brazil, a number of trends emerge in the 2016 Ipsos/Europ Assistance Barometer.
Speed can be a mixed blessing. The cheetah is the fastest animal on land, yet 90% die within 3 months of birth. Chickens grow four times more quickly than they did fifty years ago and more than sixty times faster than they might grow naturally - but 80% of them are thought to be infected with Salmonella, Campylobacter or E coli.*
