“The Circle”: A Social Media / MRX Dystopia

Way back in 1947, John Campbell, Jr., the editor of Astounding Science Fiction, articulated a central premise of the genre he was shaping: “To be science fiction, not fantasy, an honest effort at prophetic extrapolation from the known must be made.” Dave Eggers – best...

Satisfaction with Market Research Providers

For the 20th edition of the GreenBook Research Industry Trends Report, we followed up our research into panel satisfaction by looking at provider satisfaction. The GRIT study was an online survey fielded in Q3 and Q4 of 2016 and collecting 1,583 responses from...

The Forecast for Market Research Automation

The GreenBook team and assorted volunteers are now hard at work on designing the next wave of this twice-annual study state of the research industry. Which reminded me that, for the 19th edition of the GreenBook Research Industry Trends Report, I had documented the...