Quant for brand tracking is dropping off. Low-key mobile MR benefits (RBDR 10.15.2014)

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Today on RBDR: 1) Decode Marketing and brandgym have a study that says almost half of marketers do not have a quantitative brand tracking mechanism, leaving an unsurprisingly sparse percentage of them making brand decisions based on quantitative information. 2) Research Now’s Luke Sehmer points out several mobile device studies to document its importance in the research tool kit, while also pointing out several misconceptions about mobile’s research use.

SurveyMonkey’s coup w/NBC News. Meaning of Rentrak-Kantar deal. (RBDR 10.14.2014)

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Today on RBDR: 1) NBC News and SurveyMonkey begin a partnership that intends to improve online survey research based on proven polling methods and incorporation of evolving technologies. 2) Rentrak’s acquisition of Kantar Media’s U.S. business could fortify Rentrak’s position and capabilities in the domestic market but it is not seen as a threat to Nielsen’s TV data monopoly.

FDA oversight of med devices questioned. What MDs want from Apple Watch (PMVR 10.13.2014)

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On this PRVR: 1) Two separate studies call the FDA to task for its oversight of new medical devices. (http://articles.philly.com/2014-10-01/news/54479968_1_lower-risk-devices-regulating-medical-devices-the-fda)

2) An MD explains what physicians would like to see from new smart watches that the Apple Watch does not offer. (http://www.forbes.com/sites/robertpearl/2014/10/02/a-doctors-take-on-the-apple-watch/)

3) Psilos Group’s annual healthcare outlook recommends that healthcare insurers ditch their B2B model and focus on patients and providers. (http://www.mhealthnews.com/news/insurers-must-change-and-embrace-mhealth-survive)

4) The pharma profession is noticeably slow in adopting mobile technologies despite the industry’s rabid interest and desire for them. (http://www.mhealthnews.com/news/pharmas-tough-road-mobility)

5) Facebook is rumored to be developing two entries for the pharmaceutical and healthcare markets. (http://www.healthtechzone.com/topics/healthcare/articles/2014/10/06/390696-facebook-eying-healthcare.htm)

Nielsen’s 7-month TV data glitches. Ethnography spawns “Authographies.” (RBDR 10.13.2014)

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Today on RBDR: 1) Nielsen’s television measurement admits seven months of viewing reporting data errors explained by a software glitch.

2) Ethnography has evolved into a new tool, authography, in which time lapse camera records thousands of pictures of a research participant during the course of a day. (http://www.marketingweek.co.uk/radius-global-uncovering-the-truth-with-autography/4011779.article)

3) A Big Data farming implementation is explained in a Reuters story.

CBS releases Live plus 3, Gian Fulgoni explains online panel discrepancies (RBDR 10.10. 2014)

1) CBS’s decision to release “Live plus 3” and “Live plus 7” TV viewing data makes it the fourth major network to do so. Broadcasting & Cable Programming & Digital Media Editor Daniel Holloway points out that it is a significant slag on the timely work of TV reporters, however the bigger issue is what will be done to incorporate mobile, PC and other nontraditional viewing.

2) comScore Chairman Emeritus Gian Fulgoni explains discrepancies to RBDR concerning what can be reliably determined using online panels when it comes to digital.