Getting people to talk in depth about a particular subject or piece of content can be useful, but we should never expect that sixty minutes of talking with a bunch of random individuals will uncover anything significant, and in the majority of cases, focus groups hold the potential to do more harm than good, says The Media Native. So how else should we expect to gain valuable insight?
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Decipher’s Nigel Walley is a massive Twitter fan and counts himself as a ‘super-user’. He is also a massive fan of broadcast TV and likes the story the two are somehow mutually beneficial – but now feels it is a myth that has spun out of control. There is no data, he says, to back up the wild claims flying around and, if anything, the data disproves them…
After highlighting some key trends and challenges for mobile advertising at this year’s Media Playground, GfK’s Oliver Robinson delves into the issues in more detail in this exclusive article. Technology has dictated the pace of change, he says, and we’ve done our best to keep up – but there’s a strong argument that mobile advertising is failing. So what next?
A week after Thinkbox released its ‘POETIC’ research – ‘Paid, Owned, Earned: TV’s Influence Calculated’ – David Brennan asks if we should think of owned and earned media as a means of maximising the effectiveness of paid media, rather than pitching them as viable alternatives.
Jim Marshall argues that newspapers still retain their potency for reporting and commenting on major news stories, despite those who suggest that newspapers are doomed. But this brings with it a responsibility which has greater significance and accountability in today’s ‘multi layered’ world of media – if newspapers are going to continue to be a gateway medium what they say has to be true.