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Solving the problems of observational research

As a contribution to the growing discussion of ethnographic and observational approaches in market research, this paper takes up the issue of tactical decision making in implementing these projects. Clients tend to ask tactical questions first, when...

Catalogue: ESOMAR/ARF/JMA Conference 1997: Fit for the global future?

Author: Hy Mariampolski

Company: QualiData Research Inc.

June 15, 1997

Theorizing interactivity

There have been a large number of conflicting working models and assumptions proposed for interactive media, suggesting that there are problems in the way we conceptualize interactivity in general. Work in interactive media, including research,...

Catalogue: ESOMAR/ARF/JMA Conference 1997: Fit for the global future?

Author: Peter Harris

June 15, 1997

Qualitative research

This paper shows how ‘scientific’ thinking has wrongly influenced the way qualitative research is sometimes conducted. It argues that qualitative market research is almost entirely an ‘art’. It enumerates a number of techniques...

Catalogue: Latin America 1997: The Dynamics Of Change In Latin America

Author: Roger Boyce

June 15, 1997

Diagnostic evaluation

As media markets across Europe become more complex with new and different media channels available, there is an increasing onus on research to assess the performance of an advertisement in a particular medium as well as providing an understanding of...

Catalogue: Seminar 1997: New Challenges And Opportunities For The Publishing Industry

Authors: Hilary Gaines, Wendy Rolls

Company: KANTAR TNS Malaysia

June 15, 1997

Viewing and coverage of the billboard medium (Spanish)

This work is a contribution to an issue that has been the subject of numerous attempts - none of them successful - in the last years: the assessment of the audience and the coverage of the outdoors. The methodology proposed here should equip the...

Catalogue: Latin America 1997: The Dynamics Of Change In Latin America

Authors: Karla Mendes, Eneida Nogueira, Jose Reinaldo Riscal

June 15, 1997

Needed

Today, the process by which advertisers select the programs within which to present their messages is a one-dimensional process based upon a quantitative estimate of the size of the audience, defined by age and sex, delivered by each program. This...

Catalogue: ESOMAR/ARF/JMA Conference 1997: Fit for the global future?

Author: David F. Poltrack

June 15, 1997

Making audience surveys more relevant to programmers

With increasing numbers of radio stations in all Australian markets resulting in greater levels of competition and more audience volatility, the need to track programme performance with greater accuracy and confidence has become essential. In the...

Catalogue: 2nd Radio Research Symposium

Authors: Bob Cornish, Mark Neely

June 15, 1997

Measuring rebroadcast audiences in Central and Eastern Europe

This paper examines the practice of measuring rebroadcast audiences to international radio stations in central and eastern Europe. Finite resources mean that it is important that the effectiveness of this method of delivery can be properly assessed...

Catalogue: 2nd Radio Research Symposium

Author: Hugh Hope-Stone

June 15, 1997

Radio audience measurement in the future

This paper first reviews the overall nature of audience measurement of radio into which context the potential for a meter based solution can be set. It considers the nature of task that radio research faces, identifies the different sources of...

Catalogue: 2nd Radio Research Symposium

Author: Roger Gane

June 15, 1997