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

Digital media offers oceans of 'real data' but cannot of itself identify the human meanings. Semiotics enables us to identify the structures which define meaning but is entirely qualitative. We combined both to create 21st-century Qual & Quant.

Catalogue: Congress 2019: The Global Data & Insights Summit

Authors: Preriit Souda, John 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

Bitter sweet symphony

Suze is a traditional French aperitif, born in 1889. The iconic logo and the yellow brand colors are well known from posters, brasserie carafes, and wall murals in French towns. But the brand itself had become quite dated. We applied semiotics to...

Catalogue: Fusion 2018 (Big Data World + Global Qualitative)

Authors: Juliette Margerand, Sven Arn

Company: Happy Thinking People

November 11, 2018

Bitter sweet symphony

Suze is a traditional French aperitif, born in 1889. The iconic logo and the yellow brand colors are well known from posters, brasserie carafes, and wall murals in French towns. But the brand itself had become quite dated. We applied semiotics to...

Catalogue: Fusion 2018 (Big Data World + Global Qualitative)

Authors: Juliette Margerand, Sven Arn

Company: Happy Thinking People

November 11, 2018

Research World (November 2009)

Qualitative research is actually innovating ahead of quantitative - and leading that innovation into the quantitative arena itself. Think of what is being done in biometrics, neuroscience and ethnography. It all starts in the qualitative arena and...

Catalogue: Research World 2009

Author: ESOMAR B.V.

November 1, 2009

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

Revue Française du Marketing 2001 (N. 181)

La diversité des articles présentés dans ce premier numéro de l'année 2001,révèle une profonde unité caractérisée par deux thèmes:1) La contribution de la sémiotique aux sciences sociales etau marketing; les...

Catalogue: ADETEM: Revue Française du Marketing

Author: ADETEM

Company: ADETEM

January 1, 2001

Marketing and research today (May 1995)

In the previous issue of this Journal, the authors introduced the theoreticalside to semiotics. The major objective of this issue is to illustrate the separate items involved in semiotic applications. With a selection of concepts including the...

Catalogue: Marketing and Research Today

Author: ESOMAR B.V.

May 1, 1995

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