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Reservations about FRY as a method for general readership studies

In this contribution I should like to summarise what for me are currently the main issues of concern about the use of the First-Read-Yesterday (FRY) method in general readership studies. When we talk today about this method, we think mainly about two...

Catalogue: Seminar 1990: The Quality Of Media Information

Author: Erhard Meier

June 15, 1990

Introduction

In the complex world of advertising today, in the face of dramatic changes in media, consumer lifestyles and corporate structures, there is a tendency on the part of advertising professionals, both agency and client, to feel that they must reinvent...

Catalogue: ARF Guidelines Handbook

Author: Malcolm A. McNiven

June 15, 1990

Phony or misleading polls

This report is directed toward the business community, since these phony or misleading polls often occur under the auspices of persons without training in the standards that frame survey research. It is intended to reaffirm the ARFs commitment to...

Catalogue: ARF Guidelines Handbook

Author: ARF (Advertising Research Foundation) B.V.

January 1, 1990

Black options to apartheid

A socio-political study was conducted in the KwaZulu-Natal province of the Republic of South Africa in the second half of 1988 for the Indaba, a pressure group for constitutional change. It was conducted in an unstable environment on a topic related...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1989

Authors: Caroline M. A. Harben, Peter J. Badcock-Walters

September 1, 1989

Can research agencies meet the requirements of their clients with regard to "Europe 1992"?

During the last year, the "Common Market of Europe 1992" had been the topic which has concerned politicians, managers and many other circles. For those who were meant to be very much interested in this subject, numerous talks, seminars and similar...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1989

Author: Rudolf Leibiger

Company: GfK

September 1, 1989

Home shopping in the United States

Shopping in the past 150 years has moved from the town square to main street to the mall and, now, to television and computers. Unlike earlier forms of shopping at home (catalogs, direct mail)j today the process is interactive and almost...

Catalogue: Seminar 1989: Adding Value To Retail Offerings

Author: Helen Katz

June 15, 1989

Managing a research company towards standard services and consultancy

In the most recent years demand for services to business enterprises has significantly grown because of various factors. Market research and management consultancy have both profited by this growth but the link between these two services still...

Catalogue: Seminar 1988: Business To Business Research

Author: Carlo Erminero

Company: Demoskopea

June 15, 1988

Standard research products in industrial and professional markets

In recent years in the specialized sectors of B.V.A., I have been confronted with a complex problem common to diverse specific economic sectors. The major aim of the solutions sought was to provide advertisers responsible for advertising budgets very...

Catalogue: Seminar 1988: Business To Business Research

Author: Jean Pierre Ville

Company: BVA Group

June 15, 1988

Researchers’ abilities and limitations to become consultants

This paper would address this audience to try to better define with you the role of a breed called "Management Consultants". I will share some ideas with you which I hope will be helpful background to your working group discussions

Catalogue: Seminar 1988: Business To Business Research

Author: Marc de Fraiteur

June 15, 1988