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The Office for National Statistics (ONS) has announced that the Census 2021 survey has gone live in England and Wales. Letters containing unique access codes have been sent out, and field officers will follow up after Census Day on 21 March if households have not completed their questionnaire.
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Canadian qual software provider itracks has launched a solution called 'Realtime', featuring a virtual backroom where observers can chat with one another and with the moderator through both text and video, without having to worry about interrupting the research.
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In the US, restaurant network Yum! Brands is to buy the artificial intelligence-based consumer insights and marketing performance analytics business of Kvantum. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
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Glasgow-based FMCG marketing platform and customer behaviour data firm Adimo has raised $3.6m in an additional seed round of funding, which it will use to expand its operations in the US, while scaling activity globally.
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Kantar has promoted Deepender Rana to the role of General Manager of its Insights division (formerly Kantar IMRB, TNS and Millward Brown) in the South Asia region. He takes over from Preeti Reddy, who has been named Chairwoman of Kantar South Asia. More
Connected TV data and measurement company Alphonso has been renamed LG Ads, following the acquisition of a controlling stake in the business by multinational company LG Electronics. As part of the rebrand, LG Ads has launched a smart TV ad targeting platform. More
Nielsen is selling its Advanced Video Advertising (AVA) business to TV streaming platform Roku, in a deal which includes Nielsen's video automatic content recognition (ACR) and dynamic ad insertion (DAI) technologies. Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed. More
Charles Foster, CEO of Kantar's Insights division in the Middle East and Africa region, is retiring in April after 35 years in the research industry. He is succeeded by Adeola Tejumola, who has most recently been responsible for Kantar Insights units in West, East and Central Africa. More
US-headquartered mobile ad platform Vungle has acquired Finland-based mobile gaming analytics company GameRefinery for an undisclosed sum. More
Full-service reputation and communication research firm Echo Research has appointed New York-based Craig Rothenberg to its Advisory Board. More
Omnicom Media Group-owned Hearts & Science has appointed Tom Leahey as Head of Digital for Melbourne. More
Programmatic research tech company Lucid has appointed Hui-Ching Tan as Associate Director, Business Development, based in Singapore. More
| 3rd Mar 2021 | Qual360 (Fully Virtual) - Virtual |
| 9th Mar 2021 | The Y Conference - Insights Association - Online |
| 14th Apr 2021 | succeet21 - Insights - Data - Analytics - Virtual |
| 20th Apr 2021 | MRMW North America 2021 (Virtual) - Virtual |
| 3rd May 2021 | Human Insights Conference 2021 - The Research Society - Online and In-person |
| 12th May 2021 | Pharma Market Research Conference, USA - Newark, NJ, USA |
