Resources Library by ANA

Aha to Haha? Humour, insight and the films of M Night Shyamalan

Tas will deliver a paean to serendipity, obliquity and incongruity in a world obsessed with prediction, control, KPIs, metrics and 'tick-boxing'.He will cover 3 broad areas:Why so serious? The arithmocracy, the obsessive workshop of data and facts...

Catalogue: Insights Festival 2020

Author: Anthony Tasgal

September 16, 2020

Researching a joke, are you kidding me?

When can a brand benefit from laughter and is it possible to research a joke? Through a combination of consumer investigation and semiotic decoding, we were able to arrive at a framework that we believe will help brands navigate this complex space....

Catalogue: Asia Pacific 2019

Authors: Radhika Venkatarayan, Prasunika Priyadarshini

Company: Karvy Insights Limited

May 22, 2019

Just kidding (Spanish)

Just after food, humor is an important symbol of Mexican pride. We like to think that our humor is unique and unmatched, which has turned it into a given for all Mexicans and, thus, a difficult subject to approach through traditional methodologies....

Catalogue: Latin America 2017: #IN

Authors: Pamela Gutierrez Sanchez, Salvador Mata

June 15, 2017

Measuring jokes

Humour and market research do not really have large, directly overlapping areas. If we do a search on Google on the word 'humour' we find that the content that is relevant to our purposes is mainly focusing on the link between humour and psychology....

Catalogue: Qualitative 2008: Consumer Choice

Author: György Pásztor

Company: KANTAR TNS Malaysia

November 20, 2008