Market Research Falling Sort?

Good considerations when thinking abot market research.

Where are market research and analytics falling short?
by Joel Rubinson  in Retailwire:

Through a special arrangement, presented here for discussion is an excerpt of a current article from the Joel Rubinson on Marketing Research Consulting blog.

For 10 years or more, big research providers have been forced to accept meager organic growth. Yet, growth is out there.

Companies like Marketing Evolution (media optimization, surveys linked to digital and ad serving data), Disqo (first party data access to online “walled garden” shopper, search and ad serving data) and Ace Metrix (automated and syndicated ratings of video commercials) are addressing emerging gaps. While retail moves to omnichannel, advertising is also transforming to people-based ad serving — personalized and selective — driven by data at scale.

The new media challenge is to find the right customer, whatever website or app they happen to be on, at exactly the right moment.  Buying whole audiences is wasteful; that is why (addressable) digital advertising has now passed linear TV for ad revenues.  Yet, walled gardens and GDPR prevent access to what marketers need to know, so serious gaps and challenges exist.

If you are in the research, insights and analytics business, here is your growth checklist. Do you offer:

Studies at large scale for the cost of small-scale studies of yesteryear;
Linkage to digital ad serving and profiling data at scale;
Technology to harvest the exhaust of digital behaviors at little cost;
Services addressing the need for media optimization in a digital age;
Technology that supports omnichannel retailing and integrated marketing;
Technology that provides a disruptive cost model via survey automation and self-serve access. ... "