Bob Lederer RFL Communications, Inc.

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

RBDR is sponsored today and this week by 4i, the science of growth.

4i (4iconsult.com) helps companies meet their never ending growth increase goals. Its forward-looking growth and foresight analytics-driven approach helps companies uncover future growth opportunities, size future demand, develop successful growth strategies, and identify new innovations to succeed in tomorrow’s marketplace. 4i’s growth and foresight analytics have been proven over time to deliver more predictable and sustainable results that help clients realize unparalleled growth.

4i’s special webinar focused on how insights and analytics functions can become Rock Stars is this Friday, August 22 at 1PM EDT/12PM CDT.

Register for the webinar at: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/8375545577857226498

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.

Bob Lederer RFL Communications, Inc.

OKCupid also admits user experiments; 2 Critical Emerging MR Trends (RBDR 7/31/2014)

RBDR is sponsored by Curiosity InsightStream, a consumer insights company helping clients derive deep human insights through social media listening.

Find out detail about clients that have benefitted from working with Curiosity Insight Stream at: http://www.curiosityinsightstream.com/case_studies
Today on RBDR: 1) In the wake of Facebook’s revelation that it conducted an emotional contagion study of almost 700,000 of its users, OKCupid confesses to experiments of its own on users of the free matchmaking service. (Here is the link to the Microsoft Research study into the Facebook user experiment: http://www.fastcoexist.com/3033369/why-did-we-care-about-the-facebook-contagion-study-or-did-we-even-care-at-all)

2) Marketresearch.com’s Managing Editor Ashlan Bonnell comments for RBDR on 3 important, emerging market research trends, whose details you may not understand.

Bob Lederer RFL Communications, Inc.

Mktg MUST CHANGE its media ways; U.S. MR recovery continues (RBDR 7/29/2014)

RBDR is sponsored by Curiosity InsightStream, a consumer insights company helping clients derive deep human insights through social media listening.

Find out detail about clients that have benefitted from working with Curiosity Insight Stream at: http://www.curiosityinsightstream.com/case_studies
Today on RBDR: 1) The world’s oldest research agency has changed its name. 2) MRA’s latest Research Industry Index shows continuing progress in the U.S. market research industry’s recovery from the Great Recession. 3) Northwestern Professor Emeritus Don Schultz blogs about how badly marketers need to finally cut the cord from their ways of the past.

Bob Lederer RFL Communications, Inc.

“Brake” vs “Fuel” MR models; Consumer cos must have MR; Buck Weaver Award (RBDR–7/3/14)

RBDR is sponsored by Curiosity InsightStream, a consumer insights company helping clients derive deep human insights through social media listening.

Find out detail about clients that have benefitted from working with Curiosity Insight Stream at: http://www.curiosityinsightstream.com/case_studies
Today on RBDR: 1) Mondelez Director of Brand Strategy for the APAC region discusses the negative impact of “Break Research” and the positive contributions of “Fuel Research.” 2) Vision Critical EVP & MD for Asia Pacific, Peter Harris, emphasizes the role MR must play for companies that want to understand customers and their evolving demands. 3) The 2014 Buck Weaver Award, sponsored by General Motors Corp., was presented to Stanford Professor Emeritus & Optimal Strategix Group CRO Seenu Srinivasan.

Bob Lederer RFL Communications, Inc.

FB’s “emotion contagion” study; P&G mktg reset; AURA supplier honors (RBDR–7/02/2014)

RBDR is sponsored by Curiosity InsightStream, a consumer insights company helping clients derive deep human insights through social media listening.

Find out detail about happy clients and why they are pleased at: http://www.curiosityinsightstream.com/case_studies

Today on RBDR: 1) Facebook has angered a substantial portion of its members after disclosing a 2012 “emotional contagion” experiment or study that manipulated news content in order to assess whether week-long positive or negative news feeds altered the mood of those receiving them. 2) Procter & Gamble changed its internal marketing structure beginning July 1, converting marketing personnel to brand or associate brand directors. 3) AURA honored various supply-side research agency at its annual conference in London last week.