Brand purpose has been one of the most hotly debated marketing topics of the last ten years, celebrated as a business model for growth and debunked as cod strategy in equal measure.
Welcome to the December edition of Ipsos Update – our monthly selection of research and thinking from Ipsos teams around the world. To mark the end of the year, this month’s edition also includes a special section showcasing some of our highlights from 2017.
Millennials can be challenging to communicate with, but corporate comunicators often do not think in terms of age, but rather attitudes and behaviours. The most worrying phenomenon concerns ‘echo-chambers’. Millennials trust companies and engage with those that are transparent, responsible and have something to say. however, true loyalty is hard to achieve.
The country is still heading in the wrong direction to 95% of Brazilians, repeating the result of previous months. This confidence decline in Brazil was trigged in January 2015 and stabilized at very high levels since then.
We are seeing disruptions that are shaking up categories today like never before. These disruptions will have a fundamental impact on the way consumers relate to your brand.
Ipsos in Australia has developed and launched its own Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP). A RAP is a commitment that organisations make – publicly – through the governing body Reconciliation Australia, to make a concerted effort towards reconciliation with Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander people.
Ipsos has combined the findings from existing and new research to explore the link between customer satisfaction at a particular service interaction and the customer’s relationship with that brand.
In this Ipsos Views white paper, updated and expanded for 2017, Tim Denison, Director of Retail Intelligence, takes us on a tour of the history of this prominent date in the retail calendar, identifies some successes (and failures) along the way, and offers some thoughts as to what the next few years might bring.
The seemingly harmless Danish 'hygge' trend is now damaging our health, such is the way in which the British have interpreted it. It has been mistranslated as the 'easy life' and is often used as a justification for being a bit lazy.
For many Brazilians, it’s the “Time for Truth”. Years of political scandals, government corruption and the omnipresent “false news” have become too numerous - people now trust only themselves to discover reality. Brands, advertising, companies are not spared by this new age of suspicion.
