Expert tips on hiring top analytic talent; Surprising Super Bowl #1 commercial winner; PHEME: a system to identify & dispel social media rumors (RBDR–3/5/2014)

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Today: 1) Three MR industry experts blog about how to find and hire needed analytic talent. 2) Socratic Technologies releases results of its 2014 Super Bowl commercial study, which surprisingly found WeatherTech as the top performer. 3) Microsoft elevated Mark Penn to Chief Strategy Officer, but without specific public responsibilities. The Alliance for Audited Media hired its new CEO, President and Managing Director, Tom Drouillard. 4) Five European universities are cooperating to attempt to develop a system, funded by the EU, that can identify the source of a rumor in social media comes and whether it can be verified.

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?