Benchmarking Emotional Reactions to Concept Tests

Yesterday, Josh Kamowitz and Brent Snider of BrainJuicer presented a webinar, “Love at First Test: Why Feelings Matter When Optimizing Concepts.” Traditionally, concept tests have focused on measuring consumers’ rational reactions to product concepts. First, a concept...

Rapping about Google Consumer Surveys

Terry Heaton, president at Reinvent21, recently interviewed me by email for his article, “Are We Giving Google Too Much Information?”. I thought I would re-run the interview here, since he included my punch line without the set up. 🙂 Interview Q: Are these...

Grid-Cheating Panelists on Trial

As part of the CASRO webinar series, a few weeks ago Pete Cape, global knowledge director of SSI, discussed his research into respondents’ use of grids. It began with a mystery posed by the 2009 paper, “Beyond ‘Trapping’ the Undesirable Panelist: Use of Red Herrings...

#IIeX: Data Philanthropy: Giving and Receiving

Ari Popper led a panel discussion on data philanthropy with Todd Cunningham, Robert Foster, Prasanna Lal Das, Snorri H. Gudmundsson, Kyle Nel and Eric Meerkamper. “Data philanthropy can totally change the world. It is a radical idea, and a controversial idea,” began...

#IIeX: They Showed You What?!

“Please send us a photo of you placing your pad onto your panties.” No, that’s not some sick new fetish, but an honest and important research request from Proctor & Gamble for its Always line of feminine hygiene products. And a clear demonstration of the intimacy...