Breaking the misconceptions and myths about mobile respondents. We identified 4 common myths the average market researcher believes to be true about mobile respondents.
It seems hard to get away from the word ‘Millennial’ these days.
Everywhere you look there are new articles, studies, findings and revelations about how brands can better engage with and tap into this group of consumers. And why wouldn’t they want to? Millennials are on the cusp of having more spending power than any other generation in history: an estimated $200 billion annually by 2017. Understanding this group of consumers is critical for marketers — what motivates them, keeps them up at night, shapes their behavior and attitudes, and so on. To answer these questions, we have to know how to engage them in research.
The national economic assessment average improves one point since last sounding, as four in 10 (41%) global citizens rate their national economies as “good”.
Corporations have a great ability to ‘do good’ in the world – even more so than governments, given the wealth of resources and freedom to innovate outside of bureaucratic structures. Some would argue that beyond an ability to do good, corporations have a responsibility to do good.
This year Ipsos celebrates 20 years of the European Media and Marketing Survey (EMS), or as it is called now, The Ipsos Affluent Survey Europe. 20 years of tracking the Affluent, with their disposable income and whom are disproportionately important to most marketers of products and services.
After gaining two points last sounding, the national economic assessment is down one point this month with four in 10 (41%) global citizens rating their national economies as good. For a third month in a row there is no change in the local economic assessment; and the future local assessment is holding steady for a second straight month.
The continued steady growth of the truck population over the past several years reflects Indonesia's growing economic activity, where trucks are generally being stretched in their usage to obtain maximum value from them.
The Quest for Optimal - Maximising consumer delight has always been a top priority for any product manufacturer, resulting in a critical need for ongoing innovation married with endless product modifications. Yet, while a priority, it continues to be increasingly difficult to steal share or truly differentiate oneself versus competition within an existing and/or niche category. Unfortunately, reactive versus proactive research has become more of the product testing norm, with endless rounds of formula ‘tweaking’ versus the prescriptive pursuit of a farther out, more differentiated optimal product.
3D printing will likely prove to be one of the most disruptive and revolutionary technological developments of the current age. It has the potential to shake to the core every production and retail focused industry, with innovators claiming it will transform the home into a production centre for anything ranging from objet d’art to human organs.
