Resources Library by ANA

Looking inside the Digi-Qual Toolbox

As a result, new digital qualitative methodologies have emerged to begin to address these and other challenges. Based on the ESOMAR Global Market Research 2018 industry report, 43% of qualitative research is conducted using online methodologies (i.e....

Catalogue: Latin America 2019

Authors: Garnette Weber, Cláudia Mota, Dalila Antonacachi

Companies: Fine, Itracks

April 7, 2019

Show me the money!

This paper examines the reasons why finding a robust and continuous measure of the value of marketing investment within a business remains an elusive topic. Terms such as return on marketing investment, brand value and intellectual assets are...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 2003: Management, Accountability and Research

Authors: Kristin Hickey, Simon Le Couteur

Company: The Leading Edge

September 14, 2003

The expanding universe of market research

Market research is a relatively small part of the professional and business services sector. Commercially available revenues in 1998 were roughly $1bn (£7bn) worldwide, representing only about 0.1% of overall sales value. However, its economic and...

Catalogue: New Monograph Series Vol.8: International Marketing Research

Author: Philip D. Barnard

September 1, 1999

The changing context for research

The first point is that the industry has continued, impressively, its worldwide growth. The most recent published estimate, by ESOMAR for the year 1997, puts the current value of research by market research institutes at 10.4 billion EURO, equivalent...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Handbook Of Market And Opinion Research

Authors: Colin McDonald, Phyllis Vangelder

September 1, 1998

The cost comparison of market research in Western Europe

One of the things which has consistently puzzled international researchers over the years has been the relationship between the costing of the same job in different countries. This paper represents an attempt to collate a number of job cost...

Catalogue: ICC/ESOMAR Symposium 1984: International Marketing Research

Author: Peter J. Hayes

June 15, 1984

Budgeting to determine the profit contribution

This paper is a discussion in broad terms of the first two of these areas and in particular, the interaction between the two. Research data is one of the key inputs of the marketing planning process. However as with advertising or below-the-line...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1981: Research For Profitability

Author: Bill Blyth

August 23, 1981

Where are we starting from

I want to base on a review of market research expenditure worldwide. It is a notorious truism that the market research industry is among the least well researched of any. Estimates of expenditure are hard to come by and even when found are...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1980: Taking Stock

Author: Eileen Cole

September 1, 1980

There are big bucks in issues public issues, corporate management and survey research

This paper is concerned with the rapid growth of survey research on public policy issues commissioned for the private use of companies and corporate management during the 1970's. It discusses the reasons for this growth (which has taken place mainly,...

Catalogue: ESOMAR/WAPOR Seminar 1980: Opinion Polls

Author: Humphrey Taylor

Company: Harris Interactive (Europe)

June 15, 1980

Energy saving in private households

The programme of research described here is ambitious. Not many products have the benefit of so high an expenditure on research. What emerges is the complexity of the consumer’s choice. Admittedly the decision involved is a conscious and...

Catalogue: Market Researchers Look At Advertising: A Collection of ESOMAR papers 1949-1979

Authors: Nicholas Phillips, Elizabeth H. Nelson

June 15, 1980