Category Archives: Cool

Cool stuff in the research world

What the World Cup left us…

The FIFA World Cup is (without doubt) the largest sporting event worldwide. The fact that it’s only done once every four years makes it even more exciting. As in most of Europe, Latin Americans are crazy about the sport.
The day the cup was over we launched a (rather large) survey where we interviewed around 9,000 [...]

Livra’s Ad in the October issue of Research World Magazine

In case you missed it…

Using Market Research in a Recession

The research industry has a very good answer to those that question its validity in these times of crisis. When times are bad you need to make better, faster and more informed decisions. That is where market research comes in, especially online research which allows you to get faster results.
Nevertheless, big consumer marketers are seeking [...]

A billion Internet users worldwide, Brazil in the top 10.

According to this eMarketer article (which quotes the latest comScore measurment) the Internet surpassed the 1 billion user mark. In fact, eMarketer puts the number at 1.172 billion when a broader sense of the definition is applied (counting access from Internet cafes, mobile phones or PDAs).
“Surpassing 1 billion global users is a significant landmark in [...]

Latin America’s professionals are world’s most connected

According to this Knowledge@Wharton article workers and professionals in Latin America are finally overcoming the connectivity gap that had always kept them behind.
The article cites an IDC study showing that 64% of entrepreneurs and independent professionals who use computers in the region are either “hyper-connected” or “more and more connected to the Internet” when they [...]

Livra joins Ipsos: So what now?

As you now probably heard, Livra Panels has been acquired by Ipsos. Ipsos is the leading market research agency in Latin America and we are very flattered to have been chosen by them.
We have worked for 8 years to build (what we believe is) a fantastic company. We managed to recruit exceptional people, disrupt a [...]

Latin Americans are World’s Most-Engaged Social Networkers

We came across an interesting press release from Hi Media Group this morning:
• Latin Americans spend  375 minutes per user per month on social networking sites (as opposed to 249 minutes in USA)
• Visitors to social networks grew by 16% from November 2006-June 2007.
• With 75% of all unique visitors going to social networks, Brazilians [...]

Interesting take on online research and “self selected samples”

John Tierney, from the New York Times’ Tierney Lab blog, posts an interesting article on the reliability of a survey done by volunteers.
Here are a couple of interesting excerpts:
“Respondents and non-respondents, no doubt, differ on a variety of dimensions, such as how much free time they have, their ability or motivation to introspect, and their [...]

Google knows better, plans big investments in Latin America

According to the Mercury Times, Google’s Eric Schmidt has indicated that he plans to invest significantly (via acquisitions and growing their own offices) in Latin America.
The article mentions that Google expects Latin American sales to more than double this year. That’s awesome (he didn’t mention anything about this though…).
We are very optimistic about the region [...]

The New Livra.com BETA is now out…

Yes, after many many many (many) months of work, we are releasing a closed BETA of the new Livra (Code name Cereza).
The new Livra is the first social networking website of its kind, totally focused on product reviews and surveys.
We think it’s awesome, yes we are kind of biased but first report from testers is [...]