Media research solutions
Media consumer panels
Advantages of specific panel formation
Consumer panels can help you monitor your media users as well as those
of competitors.
1WR proposes to recruit specific exclusive panellists for your needs so they are fresh and verified. Specific consumer panels allow interactiveness through a combination of techniques:
- internet with immediate responses
- postal means with product samples dispatching
- telephone relationships with more qualitative feedback
Alternatively, other "from the shelf" internet consumer panels may also be used.
Internet, postal or telephone modes
Internet advantages include:- rapidity
- audio and picture files integration
- good interview administration control
- economical, especially for successive waves
Postal advantages offer:
- longer questionnaires administration (panellists complete questionnaire at their own pace)
- product samples and materials can be sent
- economical, especially for multiple waves
Telephone advantages include:
- relative rapidity
- human to human open ended probing capability
- good interview administration control
- relatively economical, especially for multiple waves
From many different countries of origin, interviewers conduct interviews in their local mother tongue in same controlled condition across countries. Using specific telephone interviewing software, teams can function 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Analysis and reporting
1WR experts perform simple tables and eventually sophisticated analysis
or time
series analysis for successive waves:- tables and difference tests: produced with market research software (QPSMR) that integrates entries from: postal pen & paper, computer assisted telephone interviewing (CATI) and other open standard internet sources
- multidimensional or time series analysis: mapping/graphical methods summarize large amounts of data into a simple, easy to assimilate visual representations
A typical panel project comprises:
- presentations and reports of analytical findings with summary and recommendations, discussed and prepared with you
- summary tables produced either as Excel spreadsheet tables or in Word files which include result differences though significance tests, as well as various splits: specific targets, "early adopters", segment groups and other socio-demographics
- listing of the open-ended question verbatim
answers and their translation in English
- produces simple tables manages multiple projects
- facilitates norms and comparisons
- enables to define new filters, formats, statistics, weights
- various exports
Example
Magazine covers have a direct impact on reading choices. For an editor,
to decide what features to highlight is crucial. This example details
how an online consumer panel can help editors
select an improve cover illustrations for both potentially new and
captive readers.
Sampling and methodology
To reach statistical validity, a sample of 200 panellists would be
drawn, composed of 100 non readers but targeted audience and 100
regular readers of
the magazine.Every week, readers would online:
- select their preferred covers among 3 choices for the next to be released edition
- indicate their interests in various articles/subjects to help
prepare future editions
Reporting
For instance, every Wednesday, the survey could take place, enabling
results to be
communicated Thursday on time before going to the press.As a continuous operation, results for each week could also be maintained on a client research project management software (Reflect©) so editorial teams could benefit from specific analysis when required.
Quality
Each panellist is verified and would be called to be recruited.Renewal of panellists would be planned progressively to ensure that "age of panellists" would not bias results in the long run.
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updated last Sept. 2004
updated last Sept. 2004