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Branded Content: Emperor’s New Clothes or the Future of Marketing?
Attempts at interpreting branded content straddle the wire of native advertising and advertorials before falling in to the abyss of general advertising – so what is it exactly and what does it offer that traditional channels do not already deliver?
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Media Convergence, a Tendency to Overestimate Short-Term Change, and Why Big Data Is Still In Its Infancy.
Interview on -among other topics - media convergence, our tendency to overestimate short-term change and why big data is still in its infancy.
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[EVENT] Ad Awards Celebrate 30 Years
The annual Ad Award event organised annually by Ipsos in France this year celebrated the 30th anniversary of its existence. Each year, the event recognises and rewards the best ads across 3 categories: Outdoor, Web and TV, Digital and mutli-channel.
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4 Reasons To Do “In-The-Moment” Research
One of the many strengths of mobile research is that it can happen in-the-moment, or close to the moment of people’s experience. One of the many strengths of mobile research is that it can happen in-the-moment, or close to the moment of people’s experience. However, it is not always exploited to the fullest of its potential because we often fall back into familiar research methods.
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The Most Influential Brands in Canada 2015
Now in its fifth year, the results of our 2015 Most Influential Brands of Canada study show a modest shuffling in the upper echelon and one new entry to the Top Ten list.
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Who’s Killing Creativity Now?
Market research has long been accused of killing creativity. Many in the creative world now look back with nostalgia to the days when market research was the point of contention. With so much more data available now and so many exciting applications for it, data and creative are at loggerheads.
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The Reputation Council report 2015
Established in 2009, the Reputation Council brings together senior communicators from some of the most respected corporations in the world. The Reputation Council’s mission is to increase understanding of the issues and challenges facing communicators in the corporate environment, as well as capturing expert views on key trends, issues and events in the wider world.
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The 5 Truths That Define Millennials
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. -
Moving Past the Tweak to Uncover the Optimal
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.
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Digital Migration - Are We Ready?
The media landscape in Africa is constantly evolving, and one of the most significant changes is the ongoing digital transition from analogue to digital TV.