With only a few weeks to go before the U.S. presidential election, Americans are facing the potential for a long and protracted period of uncertainty about the outcome. Will Donald Trump be elected for four more years or will the American voters make a change and elect Joe Biden? In this webinar, North American and International pollsters will share their views on where the race stands, what seem to be the central issues, and how - and when - it's all likely to end.Voter Priorities, Battleground States, and Other Assorted Things to Keep Your Eye On The 2020 US Presidential Electionby Clifford Young, President, Public Affairs, Ipsos USAPollsters confront new challenges in every election, but perhaps never as many as they do in 2020. This presentation summarizes those challenges, with new data and warnings for analysts.Who gets the ballot box bonus?by Jean-Marc Leger, President, Leger Market Research and AnalyticsIt will all come down to voter enthusiasm. Assessing voter turnout is a key factor in allowing polls to be close to the election's results, especially in battleground states. Jean-Marc Leger will present his innovative techniques to better evaluate voter turnout and improve the accuracy of election polling.Identifying Voters and Reporting the Votes Before, On, and Even After Election DayBy Joe Lenski, Co-founder and Executive Vice President, Edison ResearchThe election isn't over until we know the winner. This year increases in vote by mail, the coronavirus pandemic and campaign attacks on the process may make reporting the results more difficult than ever. What tools- old and new- are being used to know the voting outcome? From The Red Wall To The Rust Belt - How Forgotten Communities In The UK and The US Flexed Their Political MuscleBy Deborah Mattinson, Founding Partner, BritainThinks.A view from across the pond; the lessons Americans can learn from recent British elections.
Why not make use of smartphones during focus groups instead of forbidding them? Within traditional focus groups, verbal communication is leading. We, as moderators, perceive smartphones as devices that distract respondents from the subject and that disturb the focus group. On the other hand we all know that the smartphone is our buddy and we understand that people don't like to switch it off or lay it apart. This made us wonder: why not use these buddies as an extra sensor during focus groups, instead of feeling annoyed about them? Could we use this focus on the smartphone-buddy to increase focus on the discussion? Motivaction and Noterik have developed a technology (VisualFocus) that visualises smartphone activities on a central screen. We use this technology to get individual reactions before discussing things in the group, and to spice up our focus groups. VisualFocus is fun for respondents, for clients and for the moderators.
Steer away from the dominant MR narrative (that focuses on the limits of human memory) and learn how to elicit and decode early memories to reveal precious information about how a person views the world.
Steer away from the dominant MR narrative (that focuses on the limits of human memory) and learn how to elicit and decode early memories to reveal precious information about how a person views the world.
There is a powerful trend toward launching new products in test markets. Some organisations use this as a way to skip the stage-gate process and get to market faster in a competitive landscape, while others aim to mitigate risk. Drinkworks, an AB InBev and Keurig joint venture, adopted a launch-and-learn strategy to bring their new-to-world Home Bar system to market. Realizing that there is only value in a test market strategy if you allow real consumer insights to fuel the fire at every stage, Drinkworks partnered with AMC Global (a leader in new product launch research), to create a best-in-class research plan for the Drinkworks Home Bar launch.
Automation makes it easy to ask more from our respondents without fully considering the impact on engagement. While video and voice techniques offer hope to increase insight, do these just make it more difficult to engage respondents? We examined the value exchange between respondent and researcher as mobile research pushes the boundaries of privacy. What must we give our respondents in order for them to give to us? We will learn the best way to incentivise respondents to stay engaged with a week-long diary, submit photos and answer our questions using video and voice-to-text. Can we engage our respondents with items outside the research process that might induce greater stickiness with the given task?
Can quantitative research simultaneously identify new insights and confirm market opinions? Can video play a role in quantitative research? Yes it can! Through the creative use of video open ends, you will see that quantitative research can uncover deep insights while also providing the market underpinnings we rely on. We will illustrate how to use techniques to identify respondents with unique and important opinions about the study subject and you will learn how to use video input like other data sources.
Switzerland is the first and, as of now, only country in which radio listening is not established by interviews but rather electronically. The Radiocontrol (RC) technique is based on audio comparison and has been delivering official radio data since January 2001. Previously 22,000 people were recruited by random quota sampling. Radiocontrol presents the radio world in a different light. Radio is far more than an accompaniment through the day. Media events such as the election of the Federal Council, for example, are reflected in the newly established data and show how listeners also use that medium selectively.
Over the last few years there have been tremendous advances in the world of conjoint analysis in terms of software, mathematics, topics considered, and approaches. These advances create exciting new opportunities for conjoint analysis over the internet. This paper seeks to set a context for conjoint analysis by reviewing how we got to where we are now and then to explore the new possibilities that are opening up because of the web. Finally, the paper will try to draw the threads together by raising questions about where these techniques will take us next.