After interviewing over 350 market research professionals among both brands and agencies, I’ve learnt that the number one issue they all face is storytelling. Mitchell Atchison, an insights professional at one of the world’s largest pharmaceutical firms, talked about the importance of reducing the research into a repeatable story. Mitchell Atchison: I think the biggest […]
At Quirks Brooklyn yesterday, Lori Bitter of AARP and Alison Bryant and Lisa Cooper of RTi Research discussed their research into life shifts among U.S. adults aged 45 years old and up. “Why study life shifts? Too often researchers fall back on age or generation to talk about consumers. We understand people are living longer, […]
At the Quirks Event in London today, Jon Puleston of Kantar discussed the challenges with using traditional personality tests in commercial market research. Ogilvy now emphasizes cognitive segmentation rather than demographic segmentation, as advertising has shifted from demographic targeting to microtargeting. At the behest of Ogilvy, Kantar profiled 30,000 panelists around the world using the […]