Articles By: Laura Morris

Online research: is the future brighter and better?

Online research: is the future brighter and better?

The Online Methods Research Conference held last week (#mrxonmeth), promised to be both engaging and educational, and lived up to the bill. Ray Poynter, Executive Vice President at Vision Critical and the conference chair, opened proceedings by encouraging delegates to reflect on both the title of the conference (is online research even a topic in [...]

Time for research to become social and give back

Time for research to become social and give back

Sean Bruich, Head of Measurement Research at Facebook has suggested that for research to prosper, it needs to become social once again. His comments have been echoed by others: “We are on the cusp of a real paradigm shift in the way organisations do research – it’s becoming more social. The whole premise of people [...]

Emotional intelligence: combining rational & emotional research

Emotional intelligence: combining rational & emotional research

Marketing communications practitioners and advertising strategists have long recognised the power of emotional advertising strategies in building brand equity (think the Cadbury gorilla advert which was game-changing for the brand yet on a rational level made little logical sense). Yet the measurement of consumers’ emotional responses to advertising has troubled researchers for years, leading to [...]

Repackaging survey research

Repackaging survey research

In the October 2011 edition of Research magazine, Joan Lewis, Global Consumer and Market Knowledge Officer for Procter & Gamble predicts that survey research will be all but dead by 2016.  This is unless the research industry responds by radically overhauling / rethinking this methodology. Survey research will look very different in five years time; [...]

A new breed of community

A new breed of community

The evolution of online communities was debated fervently at the social media research conference earlier this month. The general consensus was that closed, research-only communities, such as the Royal Mail Opinion Forum run by Brass, are now an established, effective and legitimate research technique. Forward thinking brands have come to recognise the value in having [...]

Brass Agency and Toluna discuss new thinking in digital insights

Brass Agency and Toluna discuss new thinking in digital insights

Debate, discussion and drinks all flowed freely last night at our very first insight-focused event held at Brass London. Hosted in partnership with global online panel and survey technology company Toluna, the theme of the evening centred on the benefits and commercial applications of online communities as well as the intersection of research with social [...]

Retail Research Conference 2011: a roundup

Retail Research Conference 2011: a roundup

This year’s Retail Research Conference was held at the swanky Mint Hotel Tower in London and saw contributions from a dazzling cast of the UK’s leading retailers and FMCG brands.  The theme of the day was how companies such as Halfords, The Co-op, John Lewis, Shell, Akzo Nobel, Quidco and Kellogg’s use a blend of [...]