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Brands that make me smile

Researchers are increasingly collecting user-generated content as part of the research process. This presentation highlights the problems encountered when using selfie photographs (selfies) to measure in-the-moment responses towards brands, focusing...

Catalogue: Global Qualitative 2014: Research Renaissance

Author: Pete Comley

Company: Join the Dots InSites Consulting

November 18, 2014

Brands that make me smile

Researchers are increasingly collecting user-generated content as part of the research process. This presentation highlights the problems encountered when using selfie photographs (selfies) to measure in-the-moment responses towards brands, focusing...

Catalogue: Global Qualitative 2014: Research Renaissance

Author: Pete Comley

Company: Join the Dots InSites Consulting

June 15, 2014

Online panels are unsustainable: Online communities are the future

The paper discusses why the current model of online panels is unsustainable in the current Web 2.0, participatory world.It contends that the era of peak panel (like peak oil) may soon be upon us and radical solutions are required. It argues that we...

Catalogue: Panel Research 2007

Authors: Pete Comley, Matilda Andersson

Company: British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)

October 28, 2007

The games we play

Using a key theory of psychoanalysis (Transactional Analysis), this paper analyses the way we run our online panels. It points out that a lot of the problems we are experiencing (declining response rates, professional respondents, etc.) are...

Catalogue: Panel Research 2006

Author: Pete Comley

October 8, 2006

Understanding the online panellist

This paper analyses the motivation of why people belong to online panels and provides an understanding of the dynamics of the relationship and the implications this may have for our industry. A survey of a UK panel has shown four distinct motivation...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Panel Research Conference 2005

Author: Pete Comley

April 17, 2005

Beyond online panels

The authors strongly believe that while online research is about to make marked inroads into conventional research in Europe, online panels can only provide part of the answer.The paper therefore looks at the need, in most markets outside of the...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Technovate Conference 2003

Authors: Ray Poynter, Pete Comley

January 26, 2003

Pop-up surveys

The pop-up survey has been one of the most positive contributions to web site research in the brief history of Internet research. The technique became widely used after the pioneering work of Micael Dahlen (1998) on the Swedish web site Passagen. So...

Catalogue: New Monograph Series Vol.10: Marketing Research in a .com Environment

Author: Pete Comley

June 15, 2000

How information technology is changing research around Europe

This paper summarises the changes that have and are taking place in research agencies around Europe. It describes how agencies have progressed from a pre-technology era through a basic technology era and are now about to go into a technology...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1998: The Power Of Knowledge

Author: Pete Comley

September 1, 1998

The use of the Internet as a data collection method

The purpose of this paper is to show how the Internet can and has been used commercially to conduct research. It also aims to provide guidelines for future studies.

Catalogue: New Monograph Series Vol.6: Market Research And Information Technology

Author: Pete Comley

August 1, 1998