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Owning Inspiration

Enabling inspiration for its users is the core of Pinterest?s mission, and it is always actively exploring new and innovative ways to measure this mandate. In 2021, Pinterest approached Firefish with a unique challenge; to understand inspiration and...

Catalogue: Congress 2023

Authors: Daron Sharps, Martyn Hill

September 27, 2023

Power Up For Change!

Eco-anxiety is ?a chronic fear of environmental doom? (APA, 2017). It comes with ?feelings of loss, helplessness, frustration and guilt, as the sufferers feel they are unable to stop climate change?. Eco-anxiety has been on the rise for the past...

Catalogue: Congress 2023

Authors: Kelly McKnight, Adele James, Kimberley Howard, Emma Webster

September 27, 2023

Human-centric Innovation...On the Edge

To develop "experiential snacking" solutions, Mars Wrigley looked for inspiration at the edge, by teaming upwith leading-edge change-makers, looking for emergent semiotic codes that take us to the edge and gettinginspired by an edgy crowd of global...

Catalogue: Congress 2022: 75th Anniversary

Authors: Nicole Umana, Thomas Troch

Companies: InSites Consulting, Mars Wrigley

September 23, 2022

Creating brand and business transformation

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Catalogue: Congress 2019: The Global Data & Insights Summit

Authors: Sally Smallman, Emiliana Vidali

Company: Diageo

September 8, 2019

Semiotics fused with digital media analytics, why wouldn't you?

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Catalogue: Congress 2019: The Global Data & Insights Summit

Authors: Preriit Souda, William Landell Mills

Company: PSA Consultants

September 8, 2019

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

When is a coconut not a coconut?

This paper calls for a reading of advertising discourse in the context of this overwhelming cultural specificity. It is proposed that, to create semiotically relevant discourses, advertising will have to invoke the cultural backdrop and build it into...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Worldwide Qualitative Conference 2001: The Business Value Of Emotional Intelligence

Author: Seema Khanwalkar

October 28, 2001

Decoding medical advertising

This paper describes the use of semiotics as an aid to monitoring competitive activity. We have taken a collection of typical ads appearing in the British Medical Press, and subjected them to a semiological analysis. On this basis we have drawn...

Catalogue: EPHMRA/ESOMAR Seminar 1985: Pharmaceutical Competitor Analysis

Author: Peter Cooper

Company: QRi Consulting Ltd.

February 27, 1985

Empowering People Within Canada to Engage in Human Rights

The Canadian Museum for Human rights (CMHR) is the world?s first museum dedicated to human rights. As the CMHR celebrates its 10th anniversary, it is partnering with Humanity, a brand transformation agency, to revitalise and refresh their brand. To...

Catalogue: Congress 2024

Authors: Amy Knowles, Ryan Hughes, Riva Harrison

Companies: Canadian Museum for Human Rights, Research Strategy Group, Humanity

January 1, 1970