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Social media analysis vs Consumer brand surveys
Brand marketers have long used surveys to question consumers on their opinions. Now, via fast-growing social media channels, consumers are volunteering these opinions, unedited and in real-time. So can this rich source of content be mined to complement, guide or even...
Influential factors at the ballot box – part 2
Has it come down to Welfare, Healthcare and Education? Or will Immigration and Europe prove influential at the ballot box? The latest data from Ipsos MORI shows that the NHS, Immigration and the Economy continue to be the issues people say are the most important...
UK elections 2015: weekly round-up
UK election week round-up: 9th to 15th April The 2015 UK parliamentary election promises to be an interesting one, considered to be the first time we’ll see a seven party race, there is no stand-out winner predicted yet and chances of a coalition are high. It is also...
Arsenic in food: consumers concerned but brands not implicated… yet
Questions and concerns about the presence of arsenic in food have kept the topic newsworthy for many years. Commetric has a long history of working with the food industry and, as part of its ongoing monitoring of issues, noticed an interesting spike in Twitter...
Influential factors at the ballot box – part 1
Europe continues to be a major topic in mainstream and social media, with debate about whether the UK will remain in the EU being the main issue. Nick Clegg’s view was expressed on the matter as well as that of the major investment banks. Nigel Farage continues to...
Review of Influencer Network Analysis by FreePint
Independent business information resource FreePint, which produces reviews and assessments of tools and methodologies in the information management space, recently did a product review of Commetric's Influencer Network Analysis. Click here (.pdf, 2.05 MB) to read it.
Ring of steel – how the USA protected a key industry
With the USA as one of the few Western economies which is growing apace, domestic U.S. industries have been concerned that their home market has become a dumping ground for foreign imports. None more than one of the fundamentals of industrialised economies, steel. The...
UK elections 2015: weekly round-up
UK election week round-up: 16th to 22nd April Immigration is now the number one issue people say is affecting Britain, according to newly published IPSOS Mori data. Our analysis of mainstream and social media coverage says that the number one topic is Europe, although...
An Analysis of Ebola Coverage in Politicized U.S. Media
It has been over nine months since news of the Ebola outbreak in Western Africa first erupted into Western media. Since 1976, there have been more than 30 outbreaks of Ebola in the world but officials declared this one “history’s deadliest.”[i] Starting in December...
