The former home of Pablo Escobar is now a theme park. This image is the best way to summarise the gap between the stereotypes and the reality. Of course, it is not a bed of roses, but with a good growth since ten years, a new positioning as membership of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, a new hope thanks to the peace with the guerrillas and a investments’ plan of 25 billion US Dollars, lot of things are moving.
An Ipsos survey of citizens in nine European countries finds a majority of respondents (73%) think things across the EU are headed in the wrong direction, and fewer than half agree that EU membership has improved their own standard of living. Attitudes are most negative among French respondents, with only 15% saying the union is on the right track, and of all countries surveyed only Spain responded more positively to this question than in 2014.
For the second month in a row, the national economic assessment average is up one point, as four in ten (42%) global citizens assess the current economic situation in their country as “good”.
Middle-income earners are on the rise across the Association of South-East Asian Nations’ (Asean), a demographic shift that is driving demand for better healthcare and medical devices that facilitate more efficient treatment.
Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension (PAH) is a life-threatening, degenerative disease that severely compromises the function of both the pulmonary (lung) and cardiovascular (heart) systems. Despite current treatment options in PAH offering improvements in symptom control and quality of life factors, there continue to be significant challenges that compromise the effective management of this progressive and debilitating condition.
Breaking the misconceptions and myths about mobile respondents. We identified 4 common myths the average market researcher believes to be true about mobile respondents.
Ipsos today announces the acquisition of RDA Group, a global provider of quality-tracking and customer-satisfaction studies serving the world’s largest auto manufacturers.
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.
