From AI to a more stable economy, contributors to Research Live's preview series for 2025 give their reasons for optimism for the year ahead.

Christopher Barnes, president, Escalent The consumer’s wariness about inflation. People are struggling, and they can’t afford to pay more for goods and services. If costs increase, it’ll be a breaking ...

What has been the biggest disappointment or anti-climax of the year? Insight professionals talk uncertainty, the US election, polling and the decline of customer experience scores.

UK – Insights and strategy consulting firm MARC Research has appointed Nicole Robertson as vice-president of business development and account management. Robertson (pictured) will work in the ...

CANADA – Market research and public opinion polling business Angus Reid Group has appointed LP Porter as vice-president of qualitative services and Ben Hudson as vice-president of marketing. Porter ...

UK – Customer experience and insight business Beehive Research has promoted Charles Ray to associate director. Ray (pictured) was previously a research manager at the company and has experience in ...

INDIA – India’s market research industry grew 12.6% to a total of $3.2bn in the 2024 financial year, according to figures from the Market Research Society of India (MRSI). MRSI also projected that the ...

SINGAPORE – Research company OnDemandIQ has completed the first wave of its Streamer Sentiment Index (SSI) study in southeast Asia, Japan and Taiwan. The study, which had 12,000 respondents across the ...

US – Behavioural data company Behavix has made three appointments to its advisory board and partnered with Datality, a decentralised marketplace for market research data. The three appointments are ...

There are two letters on everyone’s lips: AI. Sticking with the artificial theme, synthetic data played a role, but these are not the only developments to resonate for our industry contributors. For ...