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1.	Natural	Language	Processing	
analyEcs
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2.	Natural	Language	Processing	
interfaces
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3.	Natural	Language	Processing	
generaEon
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4.	Computer	Vision
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5.	EmoNonAI
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5	ways	AI	will	impact	
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1.	Improved		
Business	as	Usual
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AI in Market Research28CLIENT CONFIDENTIAL
AI	improves	data	collecNon,	processing,	
analysis	and	reporNng	for	surveys	and	qual	
research	
• Reduced
fraud on
panels
• Better
predictive
models
Guided
insights
Automated
visualisation
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2.	Embedded	Insight
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Research	
tools	
Customer	
Experience	
Digital	
AnalyEcs	
Brand	
Management	
Product	
Management
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3.	Expert	Enablement
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Growth	in	specialised	plaUorm	
management	and	analyNcs	roles	
• Social
listening
• Digital
analytics
Customer
experience
management
Customer /
audience
panels
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4.	Customer	Strategy
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More	need	for	experts	in	customer-
centric	strategy	and	planning	
• Source-
agnostic
analytics
• Domain
expertise
Commercial /
financial
strategy
Cross-
functional
leadership
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5.	Human	Empathy
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AI	will	drive	an	increase	in	demand	for	
deep	qualitaNve	human	understanding	
• Ethnograph
y
• Customer
closeness
Human
factors
User
experience
research
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Final
thought
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AI	will	be	transformaEve	
for	market	research
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Reduced	unit	costs	
=	
Increased	volumes
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Price per million
lumen-hours £GBP
Look	at	what	happened	to	arNficial	light	…		
UK consumption of lighting
(bn lumen-hours)
Source: Seven Centuries of Energy Services: The Price and Use of Light in the United Kingdom (1300-2000),
Fouquet & Pearson, Jan 2006
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Unit cost of
research activities
Total volume of
research
This	is	a	great	Nme	to	be	working	in	research	
volume
unitcost
time
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but
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More	research	will	be	done	outside	of	research	
teams	and	agencies	than	within	them
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