Resources Library by ANA

Hispanics across the Americas

Knowing your target audience's future needs and behaviours is invaluable in order for a business to grow. Yet often, our view into the future is murky, and it is challenging to identify the most significant shifts in attitudes, values,...

Catalogue: Latin America 2020 - Insights Festival

Authors: Roberto Ruiz, Rachel Bonsignore

Companies: GfK, Univision Communications Inc.

October 19, 2020

Look who's talking?!

Twitter celebrates its 10th anniversary this year and it has rapidly become part of our everyday language; hashtags are everywhere, from the menu at your local restaurant to the evening news. But - exactly how has Twitter impacted our culture and the...

Catalogue: Global Qualitative 2016: The Business Value of Intelligent Stories

Authors: Sara Picazo Lutton, Cecily Long

Companies: Flamingo, Twitter

November 16, 2016

Gen X today

Research shapes our brands, inspires our content and helps us to communicate with our audiences. We know a lot about kids, families and young adults, so this year we embarked on a project to support our Adult-focused brands by exploring Gen X...

Catalogue: Congress 2016: #WOW

Authors: Christian Kurz, Jo McIlvenna, Anna Noel Taylor, Emma Murray, James Guerrier

September 22, 2016

Dancing 'til we drop: global ageing but not as we know it

In 2012, we teamed up to develop, operationalise and successfully test a new de?nition of age, “Perceived Age”. We showed age perception to be more predictive of consumer behaviour (specifically the programmes we chose to watch/listen to)...

Catalogue: Congress 2014: What Inspires?

Authors: David Bunker, Kevin Cowan, Lisa Edgar

September 10, 2014

The way of insight beyond technique

It is inspiring to experience the sudden appearance of a dazzling insight, the feeling of transcendence, and the magic of serendipity even if it's only for a fleeting moment. But this is too often a rare occurrence, and, furthermore, this experience...

Catalogue: Congress 2014: What Inspires?

Authors: Takashi Takenoshita, Vivek Banerji, Melissa Dagless

Companies: Insight Dojo, Shionogi

September 10, 2014

Bollywood drama in the research world

The study demonstrates that the concept of Dramaturgy can be successfully applied in consumer research to explore complex phenomenon such as multiple identities and relate these with needs, aspirations and behaviour. It is an effective substitution...

Catalogue: Asia Pacific 2014: Celebrating Asian Creativity

Authors: Sandeep Dutta, Daisy Tanwani, Kavita Rahman Gulati

Company: KANTAR TNS Malaysia

May 13, 2014

Reality is cheap

It is becoming apparent that human imagination and the fantasies it makes possible are crucial for human happiness. It has been believed that imagination is a subjective and idiosyncratic capacity, however recent research shows this is not the case;...

Catalogue: Congress 2011: Impact

Author: Nick Gadsby

September 18, 2011

'All humanity is one undivided and indivisible family' (Mohandas K. Gandhi)

Unilever is growing its brands in emerging markets, including Asia, Africa, South America and Eastern Europe. It is especially interested in the family market where change and transition can challenge cultural values. Unilever has commissioned a...

Catalogue: Congress 2011: Impact

Authors: Catriona Ferris, Barbie Clarke

Company: Unilever

September 18, 2011

From intuitive to formal cultural knowledge

As global marketing and market research efforts increasingly become centralized, one of the fallouts has been a loss of intuitive cultural knowledge that has traditionally been built into consumer insight and marketing communication by local teams...

Catalogue: Qualitative 2010: Foresight on Moods and Thoughts

Authors: Poonam V. Kumar, Anjali Puri

Company: KANTAR TNS Malaysia

November 18, 2010