March 13, 2013
An Appetite for Bite-Sized Chunks
By Frank Kelly, Global Director
With mobile-cellular penetration approaching 90 percent of the world’s population, market researchers must adapt to reach the mobile respondent – quickly. This is both an opportunity and a threat. The door is open for the industry to leverage a broad based, quick and affordable data collection platform with many additional Read More...
Posted on March 13, 2013,
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Category: Future of Online Research, Mobile Surveys, Research on Research, Survey Best Practices
January 2, 2013
Digital, global, local, mobile
By David Day, President and Global CEO
This is an excerpt from an article that appeared on research-live.com on December 28, 2012. There’s no doubt that it is tough out there, but our experience is one of evolution in how clients buy and conduct research so that even in these straitened economic times clients are not Read More...
Posted on January 2, 2013,
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Category: Future of Online Research, Integrated Data, Mobile Surveys, Panel Management, Panel Quality
December 18, 2012
The Answer Lies in the Question
By Jon Puleston, VP, Innovation, Lightspeed Research
Part 5 in our series, So Many Variables, So Little Time: A practical guide to what to worry about when conducting multi-country studies. When it comes to conducting multi-country research studies, our research has shown that the way questions are posed to respondents can greatly influence the results of Read More...
Posted on December 18, 2012,
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Category: Data Quality, Future of Online Research, Panel Management, Panel Quality, Panel Retention, Research on Research, Survey Best Practices
December 11, 2012
Getting Nowhere Fast: The Impact of Speeders in Multi-Country Studies
By Jon Puleston, VP, Innovation, Lightspeed Research
Part 4 in our series, So Many Variables, So Little Time: A practical guide to what to worry about when conducting multi-country studies Almost everybody speeds. Regardless of the country we are fielding the survey in, speeding issues are probably the biggest general problem we face when conducting online research. Read More...
Posted on December 11, 2012,
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Category: Data Quality, Future of Online Research, Panel Management, Panel Quality, Panel Retention, Research on Research, Survey Best Practices
December 3, 2012
So Many Variables, So Little Time: A practical guide to what to worry about when conducting multi-country studies
By Lightspeed Research
Researchers have a lot to think about when conducting multi-country studies. Over the past few years, as clients increasingly have taken advantage of global panels to conduct research across international markets, there has been no shortage of studies on the many factors that influence the accuracy of data gathered internationally. Read More...
Posted on December 3, 2012,
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Category: Data Quality, Future of Online Research, Panel Quality, Panel Retention, Research on Research, Survey Best Practices
September 14, 2012
Where Do Survey Respondents Come From?
By Frank Kelly, Global Director
Recruiting online survey respondents has changed a lot over the past 10 years. Rising demand, along with the growth of social media, large web publishers and advertising networks have transformed what was a local, country-specific endeavor into a global business enterprise. Today there are a number of sources for Read More...
Posted on September 14, 2012,
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Category: Future of Online Research, Panel Management, Panel Quality



