TCPA, the Pink Elephant research can not ignore (RBDR 8.5.2015)

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Clarifai “sees” video activity, objects. Horizon Media adds “mood” to radio MR (RBDR 3.2.2015)

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Today on RBDR: 1) New Clarifai software is said to break new media ground by recognizing what it happening in a video so that particular brands can be inserted at given points. 2) Horizon Media says it will inject “moods” into radio research. 3) Gallup announced it will gradually move away from reliance on its Lincoln, NE telephone call center and a shift to online research for its polling.

New Biz Models are better than NPs. Social Media rules for brands (RBDR 10.7.2014)

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On today’s RBDR: 1) University of St. Gallen Professor Oliver Gassmann, writing from Switzerland for The Financial Times, critiques many companies that have missed new business opportunities by failing to alter their business models. Here’s the link to the original story: http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/b2ef363c-31c4-11e4-b377-00144feabdc0.html

2) How brands need to take advantage of social media comes down to engaging with consumers on their terms, not the companies.

Gallup survey savaged; 9th annual best MR vendors report from MRCareer.com (RBDR–6/26/2014)

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Today: 1) Gallup’s survey of influence of social media on American consumer purchases draws fire for age of the information and how evaluation was conducted. 2) MarketResearchCareer.com’s 9th Annual Survey of MR Professionals throws kudos at many different companies. 3) Pages views, unique visitors and clicks have been widely discredited as digital metrics, so two organizations have their own metric theories. Both are built on the premise of “time spent,” but that isn’t gathering full buy-in either.