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.

Snowden reveals NSA email, phone call database. Twitter allows user analytics (RBDR 9/2/2014)

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Today on RBDR: 1) Edward Snowden’s latest revelation about U.S. intelligence discloses the existence of an NSA ICReach data base with individual’s communication metadata. 2) Twitter opens the way for any of its English, French, Spanish and Japanese-speaking users to take advantage of its detailed analytic capabilities. 3) Arthur White, one of the founders of the research and polling firm, Yankelovich & Skelly White, died last week.

MRer abuse causing mobile user tracking blocks (RBDR 8/21/14)

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Today on RBR: 1) MarketingWeek Feature Writer Lucy Tesseras comments on market researchers’ growing abuse of mobile users and its short and long-term implications. 2) NetScout Systems is suing Gartner Inc. over its March 2014 analysis of the network management software and appliance market that NetScout’s legal complaint ways was defamatory.

IMAX CMO Eileen Campbell talks MR with Bob Lederer (RBDR 8/20/2014)

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Today on RBR: The Chief Marketing Officer for IMAX, Eileen Campbell (formerly the CEO at Millward Brown) speaks with RBDR’s Bob Lederer about her new life on the client side and the veteran researcher’s changing perceptions of market research and its purveyors.

Social media outshining MR inside cos; Analytic training for college mktg students (RBDR 8/19/2014)

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Today on RBR: 1) Converseon Senior Strategist Mike Moran’s great blog about the collaborating role of social media with marketing research inside corporations makes several important points, including the predominating role that social media plays inside organizations. 2) The research industry shortage of analytically-skilled workers has not been adequately addressed, but Teradata is making its pitch to accelerate the education and training of needed personnel.