Category Archives: Market Research
The link between accessibility and growing your brand
8% of Americans have difficulty lifting or grasping. 8% of Americans have a vision impairment. 15% of Americans have a cognitive, mental, or emotional impairment. In total, about 19% of Americans and 22% of Canadians have a disability. These staggering … Continue reading
Download Our New eBook: Your Plain Language Guide to In-Home Product and Package Tests
Do you know whether frozen turkeys, beer, or fresh salads can take advantage of the In-Home Usage Test methodology? (Yes, they all can!) Or when to use an IHUT vs Cental Location Testing? Or how many extra products to request … Continue reading
Spark New Connections: WIRe’s Third Event In Toronto!
Once again, the team at Canadian Viewpoint is delighted to help support Canada’s only WIRe chapter, based in Toronto. On Thursday, November 14th, at 7pm, anyone who works in marketing research, or in an industry that supports marketing research, is … Continue reading
Five Consumer Brands Leading With Sustainability
Sustainability is finally a hot topic for most global companies that want to show consumers they deserve a spot in their consideration set. With a focus on sustainability, companies give back to the people, and the environment for that matter, … Continue reading
Design Thinking for Market Researchers
The term Design Thinking can be intimidating. You’ve probably heard it used in lofty, high level terms times by highly creative people. But Design Thinking isn’t just for creative people building innovative new products. It’s an extremely relatable way of … Continue reading
Network with other research, analytics and insights professionals and get inspired at TEDxToronto
The Canadian Research Insights Council (CRIC) is excited to be partnering with TEDxToronto to provide research, analytics and insights professionals with exclusive access to the 11th annual TEDxToronto, a day-long showcase of inspiring ideas from innovators and change-makers including Danielle … Continue reading
How to write open-ended questions that lead to actionable insights
Whether you conduct interviews, discussion boards, focus groups, shop-alongs, questionnaires, or something else, open-ended questions are the most powerful questions that researchers have in their toolbox. The value they generate is undeniable. Let’s work through some of the pros and … Continue reading
Focus Groups Are Better Than Biometrics for Marketing Research
Yes, that’s a clickbait title. It’s also a very common and genuine sentiment. If you run a quick search on Twitter for “better than focus groups,” you can see that they take a lot of heat for not being the … Continue reading
CRIC Issues New Public Opinion Research Standards to Enhance Quality of Polls and Promote Transparency / Le CRIC publie de nouvelles normes de recherche sur l’opinion publique pour améliorer la qualité des sondages électoraux et promouvoir la transparence
September 19, 2019: Polls strengthen democracy by giving voice and influence to Canadians. In advance of the federal elections, the Canadian Research Insights Council (CRIC) issued today Canadian-specific standards on the conduct and release of public opinion research. The new … Continue reading
A practical explanation of transparency for market and social researchers
The ICC/ESOMAR International Code on Market, Opinion, and Social Research and data Analytics identifies three fundamental principles for researchers. The first one focuses on transparency: When collecting personal data from data subjects for the purpose of research, researchers must be … Continue reading