We can learn from peoples search (engine) behavior patterns. Indeed, by analyzing what Internet users look for in search engines, it is possible to understand the way they verbalize their needs, fears or emotions towards specific products or brands. By manipulating very large databases of search queries, it is possible to discover major trends but also weak signals (projective aspect). This approach can be conducted internationally in a very short timeframe and with few material constraints. One key advantage to this methodology is that it brings objective, scientific, data-based answers to a very large spectrum of market research questions that classical methodologies fail to cover. It will make it possible to identify and predict consumer trends.
The Social Media World Tour will be a dizzying journey across the worlds digital communications landscape, showcasing regional trends that shape the way consumers and businesses on the ground utilise social media networks. From the USA's fleeing Facebook generation, to China's social commerce craze and Russia's pirate-friendly market, regional economies offer diverse challenges and opportunities to pursuing a social media strategy. We will make sense of this crowded viral marketplace and untangle the facts from fiction.
Hijab adoption was on the rise in Indonesia with several women (across age groups) dawning the veil. With this change in dynamics, it was important understand if there was a need for PT L'Oreal to alter the brand portfolio or communicate differently. This paper explores how the hijab has moved from a symbol of 'oppression' in the past to a strong medium of expression. It explores the opportunity that the hijab and halal provide to brands in the space of beauty, as the hijab has become a social currency in terms of a fashion accessory and halal will cerainly become one too. In this scenario, brands need to be prepared in order to meet both these changes as they might present an important inflection for the beauty category.
We can learn from people's search (engine) behavior patterns. Indeed, by analyzing what Internet users look for in search engines, it is possible to understand the way they verbalize their needs, fears or emotions towards specific products or brands. By manipulating very large databases of search queries, it is possible to discover major trends but also weak signals (projective aspect). This approach can be conducted internationally in a very short timeframe and with few material constraints. One key advantage to this methodology is that it brings objective, scientific, data-based answers to a very large spectrum of market research questions that classical methodologies fail to cover. It will make it possible to identify and predict consumer trends.
Instead of innovating for the sake of technology, PSA Peugot Citroen creates actively for local people so that they can feel great and live well indeed. Rather than an imperial or adaptive approach of innovation, this presentation will expolore how PSA innovates by making best use of a series of "expectation vectors" coming from synergic global and local innovation genes: global macro-trends; profound socio-cultural trends in local markets; generational dynamics (digital natives vs. other generations); understanding of "feeling great" by local digital natives; and local automotive expectation dynamics based on a worldwide customer segmentation.
Hijab adoption was on the rise in Indonesia with several women (across age groups) dawning the veil. With this change in dynamics, it was important understand if there was a need for PT L'Oreal to alter the brand portfolio or communicate differently. This paper explores how the hijab has moved from a symbol of 'oppression' in the past to a strong medium of expression. It explores the opportunity that the hijab and halal provide to brands in the space of beauty, as the hijab has become a social currency in terms of a fashion accessory and halal will cerainly become one too. In this scenario, brands need to be prepared in order to meet both these changes as they might present an important inflection for the beauty category.
Big Data is a hot, but ill-defined, topic in the business world. This presentation examines some characteristics and trends in the solutions that are now available in a relatively data rich environment. Additionally, trends in the availability of data and analytic solutions suggest the potential for a 'value of information' paradigm in the future.
The latest, hot off the press, new BrandZ ranking of the Top 10 Automotive Most Valuable Brands (2013) will be announced. This fire-starter presentation will also provide an analysis of who is up and who is down, why, and trends since 2006, with particular focus on the effects of the global recession, recalls, social media effects and the new 'value-conscious' era.
For youth marketers like Pepsi, social media is a potent tool to keep abreast of changing youth values, expressions and aspirations. While marketers realize the growing importance of tapping into youth conversations in channels outside of qualitative FGDs, in most of the developing Asian countries face to face research is still the norm; and social media is seen as largely a channel to communicate -not really listen -to youth. The qualitative social media shadowing approach e-mmersion attempts to reveal true nuances of youths multiple personas. This paper explores the feasibility of the e-mmersion methodology in a multi-country study across developing Asia; to evaluate its potential as a mainstream research methodology that could complement existing youth trend spotting research in Asia.
Joeri Van den Bergh, Author of How Cool Brands Stay Hot. Branding to Generation Y (bestselling book on youth marketing together with MTV's global VP Mattias Behrer, translated in Russian, Polish & Czech) and Managing Partner, InSites Consulting, Belgium.
This paper explores the development of a new breed of market research companies that are global from the start, powered by the internet and able to respond quickly to research requests. The evolution of some of the micro-multinationals are traced, while providing business tips on how to make your business more efficient using the micro-multinational business model.
This presentation demonstrates how a cultural model was constructed and applied to gain a textured understanding of the new age Indian rural consumers whose lives are significantly different from traditional rural consumers. At the core of this model is Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA), a popular social research method that was successfully adapted to understand the affluent rural consumers. This was flanked by ethnography, material anthropology and trend spotting each complementing the other to generate actionable insights for the client.