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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

What steps do you take to generate Quality data?

Posted by Chris Stevens on Nov 28, 2019

Today users of research data and insights are regularly – and maybe unwittingly - confronted by a tradeoff between speed, quality and cost whilst juggling the need to move faster with tighter budgets.

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Topics: Research Quality, Innovation, Survey Length, Survey Design, Online Sampling, Market Research, Data Quality, marketing research best practices, Survey Engagement, 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

Using Chatbot Technology to Enhance Audience Understanding

Posted by Wei Guo on Jun 12, 2019

We’re getting creative with research. Classic quantitative and qualitative techniques no longer fit every research project, whether that be due to time, budget or resources. Thankfully, technology is helping bridge the gap between quantitative and qualitative research practices by offering more in-depth ways to connect with consumers.

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Topics: Respondent experience, marketing research technologies, APAC, qualitative research, quant vs. qual, modern surveys, Sourcing

Ask the Expert: Enhancing Profiles and Maximizing Research Investments with Connected Data

Posted by Jacqui Amaral on May 3, 2019

As researchers, we have a wide range of people to please, from internal stakeholders, to external clients, to our consumers. We have budgets to be mindful of, investments to defend and respondents to satisfy (so they continue providing us valuable information!). 

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Topics: Digital Data Collection, Mobile Advertising, marketing research technologies, media buying, marketing research trends, Brand Advertisting, Survey Engagement, modern surveys, Ask the Expert

Ask the Lightspeed Expert: Healthcare Data Collection

Posted by Jacqui Amaral on Mar 27, 2019

Conducting quantitative and qualitative research can be a unique process when targeting healthcare audiences, such as physicians, payers, KOLs and patients. Best practices and techniques we use for consumer research can also be applicable to these audiences.

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Topics: data enrichment, media buying, data append, Healthcare Research, modern surveys, Ask the Expert

Ask the Expert: Data Collection & Consumer Insights

Posted by Caroline Frankum on Feb 26, 2019

The Consumer Insights industry is one that is evolving at an exponential pace. Change of this magnitude is giving us reason to modernize our survey designs, evaluate how we’re sampling and sourcing respondents and pushing us be creative with connecting data sources that maximize research funds and extend the value of the insights we uncover.

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Topics: Digital Data Collection, Panels, Consumer Insights, modern surveys, Ask the Expert

Mobile Survey vs. Modern Survey - What's the Difference?

Posted by May Ling Tham on Nov 7, 2018

We define a “mobile friendly survey” different from a “modern survey.” A modern survey involves more than a device agnostic design; all components of a modern survey are designed specifically with consumer’s time and experience in mind. Here are five tips for going modern: 

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Topics: Mobile, Respondent experience, mobile marketing research, mobile surveys, modern surveys

Still Fielding Long Surveys? Your Data is at Risk

Posted by Dean Abt on Oct 31, 2018

In 2009, the year following the iPhone’s release, eBay conducted $600 million in mobile transactions. Out of the gate eBay’s elegant app minimized friction throughout the acts of buying and selling. Ten years on, market research still struggles to keep pace. Why are links to 30-minute, even one hour plus surveys being emailed to potential respondents? What many refer to as the glacial pace of market research’s migration to mobile is not for lack of trying. Players new and old across the research project service arc have started entire companies, released new products, published parallel test findings and worked diligently to develop tools allowing the process of taking a survey on a smartphone to be as easy as booking a ride on Lyft. Many brand trackers have been redesigned and shortened without any changes to the valuable trend data and normative measures marketers use to make decisions.    

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Topics: Data Quality, modern surveys

Consumers Are Changing, So Are Surveys and Recruitment

Posted by Shaun Hawley on Oct 25, 2018

Today’s consumers already have a voice online; they publish opinions, build their own sites, post videos and share content. Technology is enabling an increase in mobile activity – allowing people to connect everywhere and at any time. Because of this, it stands to reason that that the way we’re interacting with respondents is shifting. Market researchers are now facing the challenge of being on the consumer’s terms and competing for time with them.

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Topics: Mobile, Online Sampling, mobile first, modern surveys

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