Bob Lederer RFL Communications, Inc.

Facial coding for qualitative; MIT profs: we’ve improved banner ad clickthroughs (RBDR–5/19/2014)

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Today: 1) What we recognize as traditional qualitative research gains an ability to read emotions through supplemental facial coding capabilities from Affectiva. 2) Banner ads are nowhere as exciting or effective today as they were in the Internet’s infancy. But two MIT professors have developed an algorithm that they say increases banner advertising clickthroughs by 83%.

Bob Lederer RFL Communications, Inc.

Free NP trial essential; Survey argument at Apple-Samsung trial (RBDR–4/23/2014)

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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.