By Grant Bertoli

Wow what a change we have seen in the Asia Pacific region since the turn of the century.

Over this past 15 years, in Asia it was Hyper Growth, followed by Stable Growth

Over this past 15 years, economic performance throughout the Asian region was among the strongest in the world fuelled by substantial population shifts to urban centres where most employment and wealth were generated, a rise in working-age share of the population, declines in the fertility rate, expanding trade openness, high savings rates, a focus on education, and effective macroeconomic policies, not to mention the rise and rise and rise of China as a powerhouse on the world stage. And over the same period you can add two other key global developments which have had the profound impact on the region, one is the explosive wave of digital and the second is globalisation. Both of these developments have contributed to the changes we have seen in the Asia Pacific region and have had a profound impact on our industry, which have revolutionized marketing and offered new ways to reach, inform, find, educate, engage, sell, and provide services to customers.

By Olga Strelkova

Russian Public Opinion & Market Research has grown during the last 25 years from a limited number of private research companies to the well-developed industry that provides business and social insights. The work of hundreds small and big companies, who gather and analyze great amount of information about opinions, intentions, preferences and behaviors of people and organizations is well known to state government, business and institutions of civil society, and is widely discussed in mass media.

By Finn Raben

Over the weekend the New York Times and Observer newspapers reported that data mining and analysis company Cambridge Analytica, a company that had been employed with considerable success by Donald Trump in the 2016 US presidential campaign, had illegally harvested 50 million Facebook profiles in order to build a powerful software program to predict and influence choices at the ballot box. The Observer reports that data was collected via a digital app on the Facebook platform where hundreds of thousands of users were paid to take a personality test and agreed to have their data collected for academic use. However, the app also collected the information of the test-takers’ Facebook friends.

It isn’t just analysis and process that can be automated, curiosity can too. Naira Musallam explains all!

A look at how we, as researchers, can solve the issues that exist with advertising and media measurement.