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Building holistic relationship communication programs in an interactive marketplace

This paper provides a comprehensive framework for a new communication process model where company and consumer perspectives are considered as co-equivalent parts of a relationship communication system. It is based on the notion that in 21st century...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 2002: Consolidation Or Renewal?

Authors: Don E. Schultz, Kirsti Lindberg-Repo

September 22, 2002

The impact of consolidation on the research industry

This paper examines changes in ownership concentration in the research industry, using market share as a metric. It first examines changes in the aggregate share held by the largest companies, both globally and in major markets. It then identifies...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 2002: Consolidation Or Renewal?

Author: Michael Mitrano

Company: Transition Strategies Corporation

September 22, 2002

The operation was successful but the patient died

Most new products fail. Failure is attributed to the proposition (weak advertising, parity product, high price, etc.) or to the marketing plan (inadequate media, low distribution, etc.). This interpretation does not explain why failures continue in...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 2002: Consolidation Or Renewal?

Author: Omar Mahmoud

Company: Procter & Gamble

September 22, 2002

Renewing market segmentation

The intent of this paper is to present researchers with an innovative use of state-of-the-art tools to solve problems that are too often glossed-over. The usual and standard tools and methods of benefit segmentation as practiced by most researchers...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 2002: Consolidation Or Renewal?

Authors: Steve Cohen, Paul Markowitz

September 22, 2002

The future is now

The portable people meter (PPM) is a promising new media research tool that makes it possible to automatically track consumers? exposure to the electronic media. An inaudible code is inserted into the audio signal of radio, broadcast and cable...

Catalogue: ESOMAR/ARF WAM Conference 2002: Radio

Authors: Robert H. Patchen, Beth Webb

Company: Nielsen

June 14, 2002

Building a radio panel using fusion and recall surveys

The use of the 'recall' methodology for radio audience measurement is widely adopted for good quality results and positive cost-benefit relationship. Nevertheless, although very effective for the evaluation of the station's performance, it presents...

Catalogue: ESOMAR/ARF WAM Conference 2002: Radio

Authors: Alexandre Crivellaro, Antonio Ricardo Alves Ferreira

Company: IBOPE Inteligencia

June 14, 2002

Media under threat?

One difficulty in accurately predicting the media future through research is that most studies are conducted on the general population. It is well known that older generations are less willing to accept change and are least affected by it. We can...

Catalogue: ESOMAR/ARF WAM Conference 2002: Radio

Author: Sheila Byfield

Company: MindShare

June 14, 2002

Brand-to-media consonance assessments

This paper describes the work conducted by Kohler Co. and Brand Keys, Inc. in support of a Brand-to-Media Consonance Model as a way of optimizing traditional media planning tools. Media planning has become increasingly difficult: the lines are...

Catalogue: ESOMAR/ARF WAM Conference 2002: Print

Authors: Robert Passikoff, Manuel Gutierriez

Company: Brand Keys, Inc.

June 13, 2002

Magazines

A media plan that uses magazines for advertising and targets opinion leaders can make use of two levers which involve interpersonal communication: the first is quantitative because opinion leaders are over-exposed to magazines and have more contacts...

Catalogue: ESOMAR/ARF WAM Conference 2002: Print

Authors: Bruno Schumutz, Eric Vernette

June 13, 2002