Ray Poynter gave a lecture on the future of market research. He discussed technologies and methods that are currently popular ("still hot" and "hot"), emerging ("bubbling"), and declining ("not so hot"). Popular approaches now include online communities, DIY research, mobile surveys, and micro surveys. Emerging areas involve text analytics, research bots, and messaging apps. Less emphasized now are facial coding and webcam qualitative research. Poynter predicted that by 2030, traditional surveys may no longer be used in commercial market research, replaced by approaches like social listening, online discussions, and passive data collection.
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