Bob Lederer RFL Communications, Inc.

Google’s Smartwatch; Impact of young people on MR (RBDR–3/20/2014)

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Today: 1) Google is readying its smart watch, which requires the attention of app developers to provide popular and practical tools, including some enabling market research with its wearers. 2) WPP Chief Executive Sir Martin Sorrell told the MRS Annual Conference that young people will be a boon for market research. 3) TVB Chief Research & Analytics Officer Stacey Lynn Schulman speaks about some problems that research functions are having meeting the demands and expectations of entry-level researchers.

Bob Lederer RFL Communications, Inc.

CEOs & CMOs share onus of making Big Data work (RBDR–3/19/2014)

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Today: 1) Bob Lederer reviews IBM’s new Big Data study has several positive and some other negative aspects. He also analyzes the underlying ramifications of the study results, noting why CEOs and CMOs share the onus of finding the Big Data solution for their enterprise. 2) What’s the financial impact of significant use of online customer data? A UK study reveals that number. 3) Bill Harvey discusses how far neuroscience can take a researcher with unconscious decision making, and how traditional tools can help fill the remaining information void.

Bob Lederer RFL Communications, Inc.

Twitter “Call-to-Click”; Twitter for customized marketing not working (RBDR–3/18/2014)

Sponsored by Nuance, offering multi-language verbatim coding services to help companies quantify the meaning of open-ended answers. Nuance, a Decision Analyst Company.

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Today: 1) Twitter innovates and is testing “Call-to-Click,” a way for mobile Twitter users to directly phone an advertiser. 2) Twitter marketers reveal many good things and some frustrations about using Twitter to market its brands in a study from Social Media Marketing University. 3) A pair of Chinese researchers conduct a 6-million tweet, 6-month-long study of opinion formation on Twitter. They say opinions form rapidly, solidify quickly and are hard to change once in place.

Bob Lederer RFL Communications, Inc.

Using MR to sway PepsiCo Board of Directors; GM data swirling (RBDR–3/17/2014)

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Today: 1) Trian Fund Management is flexing its $1.3 billion worth of PepsiCo shareholder muscles using market research data to try and convince the PepsiCo board to make corporate and brand changes. 2) General Motors’ ignition switch scandal opens a look at available market data that can assess consumers interest in GM products. 3) Glenn Weissman, who served the MR industry for over 30 years, died last week.

Bob Lederer RFL Communications, Inc.

New Intel processor faster, more robust, boosting MR capabilities; India TV ratings go dark–may stay so for foreseeable future; Canada makes $4m investment in poultry research; Confirmit MyMobile cops Customer of Year Award; Yahoo & Carnegie Mellon collaborate on smartphone development (RBDR–2/20/2014)

Today: 1) Intel introduces its newest, fastest, most robust data processor, which will expand research’s data handling–including volumes–capabilities and speed. 2) India’s TV and readership ratings go dark as the current TAM group (Kantar and Nielsen) seek to reverse new media research ownership guidelines. 3) Canada’s Agricultural Minister invests $4 million with Canadian Poultry Research Council to firm up the agribusiness sector. 4) Confirmit’s MYMobile app wins the TMC Customer 2014 of the Year Award. 5) Yahoo! Labs and Carnegie Mellon University researchers will collaborate in the next five years on smartphone app development and algorithms that can predict human behavior.