The world is going mobile and the rules of media consumption are changing. As market researchers, we must understand how consumers are using mobile platforms and how to adapt our research programs to these changes in modality.
To unravel the complexities of integrating mobile platforms into a comprehensive research portfolio, four leading companies (Illuminas, Federated Sample, Kinesis Survey Technologies, MyPoints) combined their research and technology expertise to engage in an innovative, large-scale multi-mode study of media and communication.
The study's results were originally presented at the Advertising Researcj Foundation Re:Think Conference in March 2013, and offer practical insight into several challenging questions facing today's advertising researchers, including:
-- How does marketing research need to adjust to a diversifying technology landscape?
-- Who is the mobile audience, and how does their behavior differ by device and media type?
-- Is the move to mobile an extension of, or a fundamental shift away from, traditional screens?
-- How is mobility changing the way people want to consume media, and how do we measure it?