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Secure your spot on stage at the UK’s largest MRX event – 2018 Insight Show! Posted on August 20, 2017 by Iosetta Santini

We’re thrilled to partner with the 2018 Insight Show for the second year in a row. If you didn’t attend last year’s event you missed out on an incredible transformation into the UK’s largest market research and insight event. And it’s happening again right here in London Olympia West on 8-9 March. The two-days will be packed with more than 100 leading suppliers as well as agencies and clients, and plenty of networking parties – all for free! Better yet?

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Through the looking glass – How does MRX marketing measure up? Posted on July 6, 2017 by Lucy Davison

By Lucy Davison, Managing Director of Keen as Mustard Marketing (originally posted in GreenBook) Late last year, we at Keen as Mustard Marketing joined forces with FocusVision to find out more about what was going on within MRX marketing. We really wanted to find out what issues agencies and suppliers in market research were facing, what they thought the solutions were, and how much they spent on it. The idea was to turn the mirror to face us in MRX

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Are we Black Cabs or are we Ubers? ESOMAR UK meet-up Posted on June 23, 2017 by Iosetta Santini

By Julie Aebersold (published in RWConnect) On the evening of 14th June, data, research and insight professionals gathered to discuss the challenges and opportunities that are leading us into the future of market research. It’s true; there are a lot of scary things on the horizon that will certainly impact our industry. Within this uncertainty, we must ask ourselves, will we grab technology by the horns like Uber or will we fail to innovate like London black cabs? I’d like

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There are no knowns – A day at the Market Research Summit 2017 Posted on June 5, 2017 by Iosetta Santini

By Julie Aebersold (originally posted in RWConnect) The Internet today is 8,977 days old, and it’s no secret we couldn’t live without it. This is how the 5th annual Market Research Summit kicked off in London. Every day market researchers are embracing change in a digital era to survive. These changes have led us into an age of uncertainty; where each decision we make shapes the future of market research. The full day of presentations began with a panel tasked

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Youth are key to changing the perception of market research, but they don’t even know it yet Posted on May 26, 2017 by Iosetta Santini

By Julie Aebersold (originally posted in RWConnect) If you believe the general public considers market research to be the centre of business decisions, mainstream media and politics, then you’ve got another thing coming. Reality check; the world still views market research as clipboards tossed at uninterested folk and cold calls that interrupt family meals. A few months ago ESOMAR and Research Now led a global study to dig deeper into the public perception of market research. What they found is

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Looking back at NEXT 2017 Posted on May 16, 2017 by Lucy Davison

Lucy Davison recaps her experience at NEXT 2017, the Insights Association’s inaugural event (originally posted in Quirk's). The Insights Association’s inaugural conference was a full-on content fest with back-to-back sessions from 7:30 a.m. on Tuesday, May 9 to 5:30 p.m. on Wednesday, May 10. I’ve learned that New Yorkers – and maybe all Americans? – certainly like to conference! I hardly had time to catch my breath let alone gather thoughts. Plus, I’ve still not made it to Katz’s. The main

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