Super Bowl 48 ads: experts rate the good & bad, swings and misses (RBDR–2/4/2014)

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RBDR’s Bob Lederer gets the lowdown from advertising research experts David Paull of Dialsmith and Paul Shellenberg of Socratic Technologies about Sunday’s Super Bowl 48 commercials.

Which ads seemed to hit the mark for effectiveness, which fell short and which couldn’t be explained?

Microsoft’s Reed Cundiff reveals and explains the merger of Big Data & internal attitude/behavior data (RBDR–1/27/2014)

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Everyone in the MR industry is talking about Big Data, but where are the successful implementations occurring? At ESOMAR’s 2013 Annual Congress, Microsoft GM Reed Cundiff and InfoTools’ Patricio Pagani shared Microsoft’s step-by-step Big Data implementation. Cundiff spoke with RBDR about the process.

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RFL’s annual awards for 2013 Exec of Year, Speech of Year, Client MRer of Year, Vaughn Mordecai’s inspiring message (RBDR–12/19/2013)

Today: The last RBDR for 2013 has RFL Communications annual MR industry awards:
• Research Business Report’s ” 2013 Market Research Executive of the Year”
• Research Conference Report’s “2013 MR Conference Speech of the Year”
• Research Department Report’s “Client Market Research Executive of the Year.”

We close our coverage with Discovery Research Group President Vaughn Mordecai’s inspiring “2 Minutes With” commentary.

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Social media better than focus groups? Report about Microsoft cookie plan alternative. IBM researcher can personality profile from Tweets (RBDR–10/17/13)

Today: 1) A Crimson Hexagon survey of digital marketing and advertising professionals finds 72% of them consider social media sentiment research to be better than focus groups. 2) Microsoft’s plan to supplant cookies. 3) An IBM researcher says she can do a personality profile using 200 tweets.

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No MR for Xbox One; Twitter’s millions from data sales; Facebook’s new ad measure (RBDR–10/10/13)

Today: 1) Two days after word broke that a Microsoft VP Marketing & Sales indicated Xbox One might collect data for market research purposes, the company issued a statement denying that was in their plans. 2) Twitter made $47.5 million selling its data last year and it’s taking in even more this year. 3) Facebook has revised its advertising and ad measurement processes, making them much more client-friendly and attentive to their needs.

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