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In the UK, the IPA (Institute of Practitioners in Advertising) has called for a moratorium on micro-targeted political online ads, in the wake of the allegations surrounding Cambridge Analytica.
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US research and MR training company Burke Inc. has commenced work on a new 22,000 square foot building at its seven-acre Cincinnati campus, which will house its growth acceleration business Seed Strategy. The building is due for completion in the autumn.
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Consumer and media research specialist GfK MRI is adding data on medical and recreational use of cannabis to its Survey of the American Consumer.
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US-based consumer data giant IRI has signed a deal with Omnicom Media Group (OMG), to become the preferred supplier for the latter's data-driven marketing business Annalect, which supports all Omnicom agencies including Hearts & Science, PHD and OMD.
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In Australia, digital retail out-of-home (OOH) business Shopper Media Group has hired long-time Pacific Magazines exec Emily Sak for a newly created role, Head of Data and Insights. More
In the US FiveThirtyEight.com, the data-led news site founded by statistician Nate Silver, is to be sold to ABC News by its previous owner, cable and satellite sports television channel ESPN. Both seller and buyer are divisions of The Walt Disney Company. More
App Data Firm mParticle has hired former Adobe exec John Sedlak as Chief Revenue Officer, overseeing global sales, solutions engineering, partnerships and 'customer success'. More
Bulgarian firm GemSeek has launched a self-service advanced analytics tool called MRlytics, which allows users to make their own simulations, investigate different scenarios and save their work to the cloud. More
In the US, Lieberman Research Worldwide (LRW) has continued its acquisition spree with the purchase of consumer insights specialist Kelton Global. Terms of the deal have not been disclosed. More
In the US, mobile research specialist MFour has appointed long-time GfK exec Jim Timony as Senior Solutions Executive; Joan Martinez as Senior Research Consultant in its Operations team; and Sarah Chung as Solutions Executive. More
In the US, specialist youth and family research and consulting firm Smarty Pants has hired long-time Millward Brown exec Ken Clark for its newly created position of 'Insights Mastermind'. More
In London, Michaela Rhode has re-joined opinion and behaviour research specialist BritainThinks as an Associate Director. More
| 13th Mar | MRS Annual Conference Party - London |
| 13th-14th Mar | Impact 2018 - MRS Annual Conference - London |
| 17th April | EphMRA Germany Meeting - Berlin |
| 27th Feb | EphMRA one day meeting in UK - London |
| 29th May | MSPA Europe - 19th Annual Conference - Algarve, Portugal |
| 24th Oct | Research & Results 2018 - Munich, Germany |
