Some solid insights and guidance from Vision Critical’s Ray Poynter in this storytelling blog post where he provides useful tips for pulling good stories out of your market research data. One tip that really struck a chord… “Tip # 6 FACILITATE ACTION.” This one resonates with feedback we hear from our research consulting […]
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Have Dials, Will Travel… Q&A with Optimization Group’s Renee Cameron
Renee Cameron been conducting dial testing focus groups for more than two decades and as a founding partner and now Global Account Director of The Optimization Group, Renee continues to use dial testing on behalf of her advertising and market research clients. With so much real world dial testing experience […]
Luntz’s Dial Testing Focus Group Hits High Mark During GOP Debate
Image courtesy of Fox News In case you hadn’t heard, there was another GOP candidate debate last night and that means that Frank Luntz was at it again, running a dial testing focus group using our Perception Analyzer dials. But what was unique about last night’s group was its response […]
Breaking Out of the MRx Box: Getting Non-Researchers Excited About Market Research
How is market research perceived from those outside the market research industry? That’s the question NewMR and GreenBook posed to social media researchers issuing a challenge to report back with both findings and recommendations. The big takeaway finding from the project was this: “The research industry is too busy talking […]
CNN and Fox News Feature Perception Analyzer Dial Groups for Democratic Debate
If you’re wondering what that buzzing sound is that you’ve been hearing lately, well, it’s the national election cycle revving up. Last night kicked it up another notch with the first Democratic debate. CNN and Frank Luntz on Fox News once again featured the Perception Analyzer to “score” the debate and […]
Melvin is the man (no ifs, ands or bots about it)
We’re super excited to announce the newest member of the Dialsmith team. This is Melvin. Melvin has been brought on as Dialsmith’s Robot-in-Chief. What does a Robot-in-Chief do? Your guess is as good as ours, but as a technology developer and services company, Dialsmith is totally psyched to have Melvin aboard. I […]
When Do Viewers Get Hooked? Netflix Study Offers Some Answers, More Questions
Image courtesy of Fast Company When do viewers get hooked on a TV show? Is it the opening moments of the first episode or does it take an episode or two to really get a good obsession going? According to this recently released Netflix study, the magic moment is sometime […]
For fall network pilots, success is measured in minutes
Image courtesy of Pop Culture Playpen Fifteen minutes can go by in a flash or it can feel like a lifetime. When it comes to TV pilots and the networks rolling them out, the first 15 minutes are ALL that matter. That according to this AdWeek article: “People figure out in […]
Luntz and the Perception Analyzer Dialed In for Next Big Political Season
Candidates, start your engines! Last night unofficially marked the kickoff to the next big national political season with the first televised presidential primary debate. As the case has been for the past decade, the Perception Analyzer dials were hard at work as Fox/CBS political polling guru Frank Luntz captured the in-the-moment voter […]
Creating Customer Connections Thru Visual Storytelling
(Image courtesy of the BufferSocial blog) If you’ve been following our blog, you’ve noticed that we’ve been covering different angles on the topic of storytelling recently, including wrapping this interesting Q&A with Market Strategy’s Derrak Richard on data visualization and storytelling. On the heels of that post, we came across this interesting Buffer blog […]
