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No Dismissal of “Inflated Video Metrics” Suit | RBDR

July 24, 2017. Today on RBDR:

1) Sizmek, Inc. enters a $145 million acquisition agreement with Rocket Fuel, which maintains the right to seek another buyer with a better offer in the next 30 days.

2) Facebook request for dismissal of a lawsuit alleging inflated video engagement/metrics for its advertising is denied by California federal court.

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“Sentiment Analytics” replacing Employee Surveys | RBDR

July 20, 2017. Today on RBDR:

1) Employee engagement surveys are popular but extremely lacking in comprehending people’s emotion, leading to use of other tools such as sentiment analytics.

2) Advice for college students interested in a marketing career: focus more attention on behavioral economics and behavioral sciences as an important way of successfully dealing with data and artificial intelligence.

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Clustering Twitter Users into Demo-definable Groups | RBDR

July 19, 2017. Today on RBDR:

1) Penn State researchers are studying how to make demographic sense of Twitter users in groups so that these can be sliced and iced demographically.

2) MarketResearchCareer’s annual supplier study is out and we zero in on the choices of 3,200 respondents in Thought Leadership, Unique Methodologies, and Quality Deliverables among full-service agencies, qualitative agencies, syndicated providers, online sample and online survey software.

This week’s RBDR is sponsored by the industry expertise of Socratic Technologies. You can take advantage of Socratic’s work that has led to developed insights in varied areas of research. Chairman Bill MacElroy has recently prepared papers for the Market Research Institute International on topics, including “engagement gamification” at no cost.

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“Honesty Detector,” Yes a Research “Honesty Detector” | RBDR

July 18, 2017. Today on RBDR:

Lightspeed Research earns a patent for its “Honesty Detector,” which one of the co-patent holders, Mitch Eggers, explains in great detail It could revolutionize panel research – and more!

This week’s RBDR is sponsored by the industry expert, Socratic Technologies. You can take advantage of Socratic’s expertise in varied areas of research. Chairman Bill MacElroy has recently prepared papers for the Market Research Institute International on topics, including “engagement gamification” at no cost.

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Surprising #1 on new RFL Global Top 50 list | RBDR

July 17, 2017. Today on RBDR:

Presentation and explanation of some of the aspects of the just released RFL Global Top 50 Research Organizations. It features a new, shocking number one company, as well as a handful of companies not seen on other research industry lists of the largest research organizations.

Here is where you can download this year’s report.

This week’s RBDR is sponsored by the industry expert, Socratic Technologies. You can take advantage of Socratic’s expertise in varied areas of research. Chairman Bill MacElroy has recently prepared papers for the Market Research Institute International on topics, including “engagement gamification” at no cost.

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