By Terence McCarron Not sure if you’ve heard, but there’s this thing called Generative AI and it’s going to change everything! (My sarcasm is thick, as usual.) By now, our news and LinkedIn feeds are full of stories on AI advances and the potential it presents to the world. One of my favorite podcasts had […]
By Terence McCarron Can Survey Fraud Detection be enhanced by Facial Recognition? OpinionRoute breaks down headlines from industry news that relate to online surveys, online sample, data quality and relevant topics through our lens into the ecosystem. Headline: KANTAR AND REALEYES PARTNER ON ANTI-SURVEY FRAUD TOOL Kantar recently announced a new partnership to “Fix survey […]
By Terence McCarron I am pretty sentimental this week. My daughter Elizabeth completed her 8th-grade basketball season last Sunday. As the final buzzer sounded, my 9-year career as her coach ended. I’ll miss those hours just being with her on the court. But I am eternally grateful for the relationship we forged all those winter […]
By Terence McCarron Have you recently read the websites of some of the biggest sample firms? I’m a 25-year veteran of the sample space. I know the ins and outs of the business at a very deep level. Yet, sometimes even I struggle to understand what they’re saying. It seems to have affected most sample […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE OpinionRoute Expands Leadership Team, Names COO, CTrO and SVP, Growth Cleveland, OH, USA, January 31, 2024– OpinionRoute LLC, a leading Market Research Operations company, announces a series of changes to its Executive Team. Kayla Cousineau has been promoted to Chief Operating Officer. The company also announces the hiring of Mary Herzak as Senior Vice […]
by Terence McCarron 2023 has been a disjointed year for our industry, to put it kindly. Many of us will be glad to see it go and welcome a clean slate that any new year provides. Many MRX firms will begin 2024 with leaner operations and a keen focus on executing growth plans to help […]
by Terence McCarron 2023 has been a disjointed year for our industry, to put it kindly. Many of us will be glad to see it go and welcome a clean slate that any new year provides. Many MRX firms will begin 2024 with leaner operations and a keen focus on executing growth plans to help […]
by Terence McCarron To keep online survey data trustworthy, the core task on our collective plate is to separate genuine human answers from fake or fraudulent ones as efficiently and accurately as possible. CleanID™, our proprietary fraud and duplication mitigation system, helps us do that by using clear rules and details, then showing our customers […]
OpinionRoute shares trends and tips from its successful data quality technologies for market researchers who run online surveys, buy online sample, and are invested in data quality. Measure What Matters Data Acceptance Rate (DAR) is a key metric everyone should accumulate. Number of Good, Clean Completes divided by Number of pre-cleaned total completes. Final n/ […]
If my LinkedIn feed is any indicator, it seems there’s an industry-wide reckoning on data quality right now. There is anger. Major brands are jumping into the fray. Researchers are on their heels. Committees are forming. I can almost feel the fear. Fortunately, I believe this moment is simply a lagging indicator of the data […]
by Kayla Cousineau, SVP Operations Kayla Joined the MRX industry and OpinionRoute in June 2022. Since then, she has written periodic reflections on her transition into our space, and the parallels with her past industry, Healthcare. Market research is not immune to the labor disruption that we have faced since 2020. Significant amounts of knowledge […]
OpinionRoute shares trends and tips from its successful data quality technologies for market researchers who run online surveys, buy online sample, and are invested in data quality. Fraudsters have more tools to use on desktop Fraud Stats: 70% of traffic & only 34% of the fraud. By analyzing a block of 100 million transactions this […]