Using Market Research in PR
The public has, I’m glad to say, an apparently insatiable appetite for research based news and articles. Why is this? It is because we evolved as communal apes and…

The public has, I’m glad to say, an apparently insatiable appetite for research based news and articles. Why is this? It is because we evolved as communal apes and…
OnePoll has taken on Mark Hodson, former Head of Market Research at YouGov and founder of Opinium, as Head of Research. Hodson joins from the British Heart Foundation, where…
When Twitter first went mainstream I remember detractors complaining “it’s just people tweeting what they had for breakfast – boring.” OK, there was some of that. Quite a bit,…
Many pundits and football fans alike have marked this summer as one of colossal change in the Premier League. Arsenal, for the first time in 22 years have chosen…
There are over 120 content delivery channels that modern businesses have to manage today spanning across digital and traditional media – and it seems that new ones are emerging…
Creative Shootout – Powered by OnePoll There are over 120 content delivery channels that modern businesses have to manage today spanning…
For those more familiar with quantitative research techniques, the methods used in qualitative research may, at first look, seem ineffective. However, it is important to realise, that qualitative research is not trying to answer the same questions that are asked in quantitative research.
Neglected potholes, late rubbish collection and expensive parking are some of the country’s biggest council complaints, according to new research. A poll of 2,000 adults aimed to find out how satisfied the nation is with its public services, and found that six in 10 are unhappy with the time it takes their local council to repair holes in the roads.
You’ve received your stats and now you’re wondering how to make all these numbers and percentages look interesting…right? The good news is that numbers don’t have to be boring. Here are six things you can do with your research data.
This International Women’s Day, the world is being asked to #BeBoldforChange. But how do we do that? Do we go out into the streets to take the fight on head first? Let’s face it we’ve already seen a lot of that this year. Our streets have hardly been free from marches and plaquards, and frankly with what feminism has been faced with this year it’s no wonder.
So you have a customer or client database and you’d like to find out their thoughts on a number of topics. But where do you start? Read our top tips on how to successfully poll your own customers.
American Anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston once said “Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose”. Which makes a lot of sense because if you don’t have a purpose or know what you’re trying to find out, you won’t find out anything at all.
How often do you complain about work? Our survey for working animal charity, SPANA, revealed that the average employee spends the equivalent of 2 working weeks a year grumbling. One in 20 will start moaning the minute they step foot in the office. Another 15% admitted they ‘whinge all day long’.
More than half of UK adults can’t identify a sparrow according to our survey for pre-school series, Twirlywoos. In fact, the survey found that people’s knowledge of birds is generally quite poor.
How well do you know your seasonal produce? Our quiz for Innocent has revealed that for most people that answer is ‘not very well’. One in ten believe all fruit and veg are available all year round and a third didn’t realise that some produce tasted better in certain months of the year.
