Decipher President Kristin Luck on TMRE technologies (RBDR 10.23.2014)

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Today on RBDR: Decipher Inc. President Kristin Luck discusses the technologies on display at The Market Research Event in Boca Raton, FL that have impressed her and, in some cases, surprised her.

Nielsen’s 7-month TV data glitches. Ethnography spawns “Authographies.” (RBDR 10.13.2014)

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Today on RBDR: 1) Nielsen’s television measurement admits seven months of viewing reporting data errors explained by a software glitch.

2) Ethnography has evolved into a new tool, authography, in which time lapse camera records thousands of pictures of a research participant during the course of a day. (http://www.marketingweek.co.uk/radius-global-uncovering-the-truth-with-autography/4011779.article)

3) A Big Data farming implementation is explained in a Reuters story.

Proof mobile MR is catching on; 25%+ of Web traffic is non-human (RBDR 8/12/2014)

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Today: 1) Mobile market research is really catching on? We know because of the very focused questions being asked about validating its current modes and comparisons with other MR methods. 2) How bad is the problem of Non-Human Traffic for advertisers? They may be completely wasting 30-50% of their ad investments. 3) Read “This Man worked at Google, Microsoft and Facebook – Here’s what it’s like to work at those companies” for a terrific basic understanding of how those powerful organizations work and are structured.

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.

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Today: 1) The Tribe marketing agency finds consumers’ growing interest in “try-it-before-you-buy-it.” 2) Apple’s second trial alleging Samsung patent infringement was dominated late last week by arguments over the meaning of an Apple expert witness’ survey. 3) This summer will mark an important milestone for mobile viewership measurement as comScore and Nielsen compete with the first options.