1) Digital marketers are predicting the 2018 elimination of cookie-based marketing, in favor of people-based marketing.
2) iMediaEthics’ sarcastic annual polling award winners take a poke at 10 of the industry’s leading companies.
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1) AOL announces to its employees that a corporate restructuring will make DATA one of the three corporate focuses.
2) Andrew Grenville of MARU/Matchbox makes the case that election pollsters should create an online community that it can return to over an extended period of a campaign. It can shine a light on changes in voter attitudes and behavior, making it far more valuable than one-time survey takers.
3) Recommended viewing: this week’s Fareed Zakaria GPS on CNN for a segment he produced with Steven Johnson concerning the traditional positive impact of “fun,” which points to research’s adoption of gamification as an important initiative.
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1) DePauw Professor Jeffrey McCall blogged his discomfort with polling because it does not serve the public interest and actually has been perverted to form public opinion. Read his post by clicking here.
2) Market researchers search for a solution to a issue they must re-confront: maintaining the separation between personal and respondent data.
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Today on RBDR: What is wrong with polling? There are lots of theories after a plethora of messy polling projections from around the world in recent years. Now, The Hill has published a solution for the U.S. presidential election polling from PollyVote.com’s Andreas Graefe. He says accurate polling comes down to asking and collecting the answers to one question: who does each respondent expect to win?
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