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Kantar 1st-Half 2017 Sales Under Water | RBDR

August 28, 2017. Today on RBDR:

1) WPP reports that Kantar’s Q2 revenues fell 4.6% – a worrisome, frightening, potential portent of bad things ahead for the whole industry.

2) The U.S. Supreme Court agrees to hear Carpenter V. United States, which could resolve whether cell phone location data is privacy protected.

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The Most Requested Metrics for MR CMO’s, Corporate Marketers | RBDR

January 26th, 2017. Today on RBDR:

1) Revelations about the most requested metrics and KPIs delivered to CMOs and corporate marketers.

2) TiVo loses an important round in federal court in its lawsuit against Kantar.

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Polling doesn’t help discourse? MR’s search to divide personal/respondent data. (RBDR 10.05.2016)

Today on RBDR:

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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WPP: Sorrell to get successor? UBMobile CEO responds to mobile ad weakness report. (RBDR 05.16.2016)

Today on RBDR:

1) Speculation has begun about a successor to WPP founder & CEO Sir Martin Sorrell.

2) UBMobile CEO Craig Stevens has a comment in response to last Tuesday’s RBDR report on the poor performance of mobile advertising and the learning from that for mobile researchers.

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Trump’s electoral support underestimated? Accuracy of Google Consumer Survey. (RBDR 05.09.2016)

Today on RBDR:

1) Every early poll, except one, show Democratic Party frontrunner Hillary Clinton trouncing presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump in this November’s presidential election in the United States. Are these polls underestimating Trump’s electoral support?

2) How accurate and reliable is a Google Consumer Survey? Kantar will conduct validity studies to prove GCS research is solid.

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