Rounding Up 2016’s Final Weeks in Research | RBDR

January 3rd, 2017. Today on RBDR, we feature a handful of news items that broke during the closing week of 2016:

1) The death of Louis Harris, one of the true research legends of the 20th century.

2) Polling questions persist: what percentage of Latinos voted for Clinton, versus Trump? Two studies show wide discrepancies.

3) Nielsen and Foursquare are partnering to learn HOW consumer exposure to online advertising leads to purchases in brick-and-mortar stores.

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Online Brits not impacting brands. IBM Watson unleashed on research (RBDR 9/3/2014)

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Today on RBDR: 1) Kantar Media TGI’s study of British online users shows a very low correlation between their online presence and brand activity. 2) The 7th annual UMass Dartmouth Center for Marketing Research focused on Fortune 500 use of social media shows huge buy-in of new social media platforms. 3) IBM’s Watson is being unleashed in the scientific world to show possibilities between chemical compounds and help scientists sift through tends of thousands of daily releases of papers.