Resources Library by ANA

The German example

The number of programme providers and of consumers’ access to programmes increased truly dynamic over recent years. Particularly in a European key market such as Germany, this also has major consequences for TV audience research since a high...

Catalogue: ARF/ESOMAR Worldwide Electronic And Broadcast Audience Research Symposium 1996

Author: Robert Nicklas

Company: GfK

June 15, 1996

Marketing myopia revisited

The paper represents some of the core concepts first put forward by Theodore Levitt in his epochal paper titled Marketing Myopia linking failure of leadership and decline of industry. Using those concepts, this paper tries to profile the response of...

Catalogue: MENAP Forum 1996: Pressure On Profit

Author: Dhananjayan Kashyap

Company: Unilever

March 1, 1996

The agricultural market in Italy

The following report analyses some particularly important aspects of the Italian agricultural structure. The total market is very fragmented, consisting of a large number of very small farms that set against a few others of considerable importance,...

Catalogue: Seminar 1996: European Agri-Business Under Pressure

Author: Giovanni Monaco

February 1, 1996

The future of qualitative research

This paper sets forward proposals for enhancing the International standing and reputation of Qualitative Research by establishing an International Body specifically to serve the needs and interests of Qualitative Researchers worldwide. Our argument,...

Catalogue: Seminar 1995: Looking Through The Kaleidoscope

Authors: Peter Cooper, Simon Patterson

Company: QRi Consulting Ltd.

December 1, 1995

Is the tail of market research wagging the dog?

In the 1980/90s, with the development of evermore sophisticated computers and software packages, Market Research has moved itself into an industry that is more concerned with the accuracy of predicting the value of Events than with, what Market...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1994: Success Through Adaptation

Author: Martin C. van Herk

September 1, 1994

The dynamics of change in client/agency relationship

The objectives of this paper are to define the changes which have occurred in the client/agency relationship and the dynamics of these changes. After tracing the path of Industrial Research to Business-to-Business Research, the paper describes: the...

Catalogue: B2B Marketing Seminar 1994: Reengineering Of Traditional Market Research

Authors: Jean Bigant, Christine J. Freeman

Company: GfK

June 15, 1994

Advertiser feedback

Not only must we evaluate the national mass appeal channels, but local market channels and potentially the hundreds of special appeal channels. We also, I suggest, need to change our perspective from evaluation of the transmission carrier to the...

Catalogue: ESORMAR/ARF Worldwide Electronic And Broadcast Audience Research 1994

Author: Roger E. Godbeer

Company: Colgate-Palmolive

May 1, 1994

What peoplemeters can measure

Peoplemeters are conventionally described as measuring minute by minute audiences viewing television transmissions. This raises issues of the meaning of “viewing”, the definition of a minute audience and what kind of audiences are to be...

Catalogue: ESORMAR/ARF Worldwide Electronic And Broadcast Audience Research 1994

Author: Tony Twyman

May 1, 1994

More media, more data, more confusion?

In the 90’s, the tendency to more media choice will continue. The paper develops the challenges for media research in the 1990s. A key development will be the move to European data, i.e. audience data fully comparable between European countries....

Catalogue: Seminar 1992: Media Research Meets The Future

Author: Thomas Neumann

Company: Procter & Gamble

June 15, 1992