In Australia, magazine publishers Bauer Media and NewsLifeMedia are withdrawing from the circulation audits provided by industry body AMAA, leaving only one major consumer magazine group subscribed. More
Australian researcher Roy Morgan has launched a suite of new features for its digital audience measurement platform, including measurement of cross-device uniques and new segments. More
Australia's Roy Morgan Research has introduced an integrated electorate database, which allows analysis of attitude and opinion profiles across the country's 150 federal electorates. More
Australian media research and data specialist Roy Morgan Research has launched a tool called 'Audience Search', through which media agencies and buyers can pinpoint the exact data segment they are looking for. More
Australian market and opinion specialist Roy Morgan Research was locked out of its offices in Collins Street, Melbourne yesterday, following a dispute with its landlord over a lift. However, at an emergency hearing this morning, the court granted the firm the right to re-enter the building. More
Data and marketing services firm Acxiom has announced a partnership with independent Australian research company Roy Morgan, helping marketers to find and target their most valuable audiences on Facebook. More
Roy Morgan has announced an exclusive partnership with location technology provider AdNear, allowing the research firm's Helix Personas segments to be targeted on over 11 million mobile devices across Australia and New Zealand. More
Roy Morgan Research has partnered with big data insights specialist Qrious to offer clients an in-depth understanding of the trends, needs and wants of New Zealanders, and the communities in which they live. More
Australian market and opinion specialist Roy Morgan Research is moving to new offices in Kent Street, Sydney on December 8th, after 27 years at its previous location. More
Roy Morgan Research has appointed former Ipsos Australia Chief Exec and AMSRO President Hugh Amoyal as its new Deputy CEO. The firm has also given Head of Client Services Howard Seccombe the new role of Chief Digital Officer. More
In Australia, Roy Morgan Research has introduced a new metric to calculate the 'audience dollar value' (ADV) of newspapers, magazines, TV shows, radio stations and web sites across a range of consumer and business expenditure categories. More
In Australia, the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) has shortlisted three agencies to challenge incumbent Nielsen for its three-year online audience measurement contract. More
In Australia, Roy Morgan Research has partnered with property and lifestyle publisher REA Media, to combine the latter's online property search data with information from its own Single Source face-to-face survey of over 50,000 consumers. More
In Australia, audience measurement firm Roy Morgan Research has hit out at industry body The Newspaper Works' plans to offer its new emma newspaper and magazine readership survey free for the next 12 months, describing the move as 'predatory pricing'. More
In Australia, MR and public opinion polling firm Roy Morgan Research has appointed industry specialist Tim Martin for the newly created role of Digital Director, Client Services. More
emma, Australia's new industry-backed newspaper and magazine readership survey, has published its first figures, which show substantially larger audiences - for most publications - than the metrics produced by Roy Morgan. More
Australian market and opinion researcher Roy Morgan has added a suite of research products to its Single Source survey, which it claims will change the way media, ad agencies and marketers view and analyse media performance and potential. More
Australian market and opinion researcher Roy Morgan has acquired the ABIX business news service from intelligence provider Lexis Nexis, and will offer clients financial information services. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. More
Australian agency Roy Morgan Research has enhanced its machine-based web audience data measurement system with the integration of Effective Measure's analytics and research platform 'Insight'. More
Omnibus and syndicated data specialist Roy Morgan Research has launched a new service called the 'Digital Universe', to provide a view of Australians' daily lives, including media consumption, shopping habits, socialisation and expectations. More
In Australia, Roy Morgan Research has announced a partnership with local trade body the Australian Retailers Association (ARA) with an eye to using their complementary experience to provide clients with insight on the retail process. More
South Africa's Digital Media and Marketing Association (DMMA) is set to launch what it claims will be the country's first online audience measurement panel - part of an initiative to ensure accurate traffic reporting for all the country's digital media platforms. More
Australian market research and polling company Roy Morgan Research is to open an operation in India, following the roll out of its Single Source survey across the country. More
According to reports, the MRUC (Media Research Users Council) - which conducts the Indian Readership Survey (IRS) - has terminated its agreement with Australian firm Roy Morgan Research to launch a single source survey in India. More
The MRUC (Media Research Users Council) has partnered with Australian market research firm Roy Morgan Research to launch a single source survey in India. More
Australian MR pioneer Roy Morgan Research and South East Asian online audience specialist Effective Measure International have announced a strategic partnership to develop a 'totally new' Internet measurement methodology and system. More
Australian readership research is in flux as incumbent currency provider Roy Morgan declines to take part in a new-look tender. As of yesterday, magazine publishing giant ACP has quit its national association in support of the Roy Morgan survey. More
Australian market research and polling company Roy Morgan is advertising for a new Chief Information Officer, following the resignation of Douglas Young. More
Australian polling firm Roy Morgan Research has angered the country's unions by sacking fifty-six interviewers in its Melbourne call centre by email and with little or no warning. More
Ross McComish has been appointed head of Roy Morgan's business interests in New Zealand. More
Australia's Roy Morgan Research has launched a new survey to measure what the country's top 1% is reading. Results from these high-earning senior executives and directors show high levels of newspaper readership, even among heavy web users. More
Carat, part of the Aegis Group, has increased its 2005 forecast of world ad spend growth to 5.2% -highest in China (18%) and Central Europe (11.4%) and lowest in Germany (1%). Its predictions for increased online ad spend are echoed by a new report from Roy Morgan in Australia. More
Australian pollster and researcher Gary Morgan plans to use Haoma, a gold mining company majority owned by his family, to get a 'backdoor listing' for the Roy Morgan Research Centre on the country's Stock Exchange, the ASX. The major independent MR player will use the listing to fund expansion worldwide. More
Australian consumers are significantly less confident than they were a year ago, according to the latest survey from polling firm Roy Morgan. The main driver of the decrease is pessimism about personal finances with 30% (up 6%) saying they are now worse off than they were last year. More
Roy Morgan Research is bring to Australia and NZ a US-developed system that claims to revolutionise ad testing by providing 'natural exposure' to adverts, avoiding the more artificial results achieved from normal test viewing conditions. More
Recent findings from Roy Morgan International present an interesting picture of the UK's Premiership football supporters, and underline why so many people were walking around looking worried last week at news of US businessman Malcolm Glazer's takeover of Manchester United Plc. More
With the recent high profile of religious issues in schools in France, the UK and elsewhere, major agency Roy Morgan has found Australians overwhelmingly in favour of teaching religion in Government schools, according to its latest 'Single Source Survey'. However, there is a slight downward trend in support. More
Employees in Australia and New Zealand are optimistic about 2005, with around four in five feeling that their current job is safe and two thirds that they could find another job quickly if they did lose it, according to the latest poll by Roy Morgan. More
Roy Morgan International, the US division of Roy Morgan Research, has recently announced the purchase of US-based advertising and communications researchers Mapes and Ross. Roy Morgan is Australia's largest independent research organisation. More
The Australian Labor Party has held a lead in the opinion polls for a while, but until now more people thought the governing Liberal-National Coalition would actually win an election. This weekend, for the first time, Roy Morgan Research's poll showed more people think the ALP will win. More
Nick North, London-based Marketing Director for Roy Morgan International, is to leave the company on February 14 to pursue other interests. Nick North has played an important role in the introduction of Roy Morgan Single Source to the United Kingdom. More
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