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Welcome to 2020! A Deeper Understanding of People for the Year ahead

Posted by Caroline Frankum on Feb 5, 2020

2019 was a year of tremendous growth and change for us, where the industry took note and recognised us for our approaches to data quality, innovation, leadership and I&D.

We not only moved to a single brand across Kantar, we also implemented our OnePlatform strategy, launched our API-driven Kantar Profiles Network, and enhanced our offer to provide you with access to insights at the speed of life - all without compromising on quality in an increasingly time-poor and data legislative world.

So, what does this mean for you in 2020?

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Topics: Digital Data Collection, Research Quality, Innovation, Market Research, Digital Consumer, Data Quality, Consumer Insights, Ask the Expert

Five Reasons the Kantar Profiles Network improves your access to actionable data

Posted by Andrew Cayton on Dec 5, 2019

In building the Kantar Profiles Network, we had a clear aim: helping brands and marketers to better understand their audiences. This commitment has been central to the development of our largest single source of respondents to help, simply and securely, connect our clients to trusted data and make informed decisions. But how exactly do we do this?

Here’s just five of the reasons the Kantar Profiles Network helps improve your access to actionable data…

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Topics: Digital Data Collection, Research Quality, Innovation, Online Sampling, Market Research, Digital Consumer, Marketing Research, Data Quality, Panels, Consumer Insights, marketing research best practices, modern surveys, Sourcing

Accessing the Already Connected Consumer

Posted by Jeff Tsui on Nov 7, 2019

Our main goal in research is to better understand the audiences that impact our business decisions. And to do this, it's important to reach a representative group of engaged people. 

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Topics: Mobile, Social Media, Survey Design, Online Sampling, Digital Consumer, Consumer Insights, modern surveys, Sourcing

Brand Buying Loyalty: What Makes consumers Go Back Again and Again?

Posted by Philippe Rondeau on Sep 11, 2019

In a time when choice is rife for consumers and disruption produces new opportunities regularly, understanding the factors that help or hinder your brand to be chosen by customers is vital. I was recently involved in a Kantar study that explored the reasons consumers stay loyal in their reported buying behaviours, as well as the motivations to switch brands. We interviewed 3657 people from the Kantar Profiles Network across 12 countries (US, Brazil, UK, France, Germany, Spain, The Netherlands, India, Singapore, Indonesia, Mainland China and Korea) covering 11 categories of products and services.

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Topics: Market Research Trends, Market Research, Emotional Insights, Digital Consumer, Marketing Research, MRX Trends, Consumer Insights, behavioral data

The who, what and why of Asia-Pacific’s mobile service app users

Posted by May Ling Tham on Aug 19, 2018

Today’s consumers are managing their lives through devices and this is making way for new entrants to the market. But with Uber surprisingly withdrawing from the SEA market earlier this year, we wanted to explore the ride share and food delivery apps more closely. Who is using them, which brands are succeeding, why is this…

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Topics: Digital Consumer, Consumer Insights

'Tis the Season to Know Your Consumer

Posted by Matt Hunt on Dec 12, 2017

With less than two week to go, it’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas. But what does this look like to Australian consumers?

‘Tis the season to be jolly but it is also the season to know your consumer…even better than the rest of year, that is! We asked our Australian mobile and tablet respondents about a few of their plans for the festive period. Here’s what they told us.

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Topics: Market Research Trends, Digital Consumer, Consumer Insights

Is Digital Marketing Restricting Diversity?

Posted by Frank Kelly on Dec 5, 2017

Today, our personal online activities have evolved into a series of seemingly self-directed interactions, unbeknownst to us, that are largely prescribed by digital marketing logic. Our social lives once revolved around where we lived, but now it is more likely the digital space that we occupy defines our lives. According to Statista, global social networking audiences surpassed 2 billion users in 2016. We now spend an average of 135 minutes on social media platforms per day. So, who controls the online narrative? Are brands driving consumer behavior or are consumers in complete control?

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Topics: Digital Consumer

The Digital Consumer in Asia-Pacific: More Opportunities to Capture More Information

Posted by Laura Robbie on Oct 19, 2014

Technology has considerably evolved – breeding a new type of consumer. Smartphones now dominate web browsing and social media enables consumers to openly voice opinions. Lightspeed GMI built its mobile offering on the same state-of-the-art platform used to conduct online surveys, resulting in one integrated solution for various data collection methodologies. With huge growth in the people accessing the Internet via mobile devices, there are more opportunities to capture information about purchasing behaviors and activities in real-time. Here is snapshot of the digital consumer across the Asia-Pacific region.

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Topics: Infographics, Digital Consumer

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