Last week, Livra Panels was one of the main sponsors in Mexico’s most important market research congress. AMAI’s “Reinventando AMAI” congress, focussed on new market research technologies and innovation.
Judging by the topics presented, the sponsors and the conversations we had with clients and other companies we can see an encouraging improvement in the adoption of [...]

According to a report released by Cisco, broadband connections in Argentina have increased an amazing 35% during 2008.
The finding comes from the 7th edition of the Cisco Broadband Barometer, which is issued every 6 months by Cisco and IDC.
Mobile Broadband also registered strong growth of 50.4 % during the second half of 2008, demonstrating that [...]

According to a recently released ComScore report, Mexico has the second-largest Internet population in Latin America, with 12.7 million home and work users and total of 24.7 million users in the extended universe.
The report unveils a few previously unknown details:

Mexican Internet users skew dramatically young: 7`% of Mexico’s online population is under the age of [...]

Since the “Swine Flu” outbreak started in Mexico, the world has been paying close attention to how the crisis develops. Last week we conducted a survey among 5,700 people from 8 different countries in Latin America (Argentina, Brasil, Ecuador, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru and Venezuela) to find out how was the swine flu outbreak impacting on peoples lives, what was the level of information and alarm and their understanding of the disease.

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 [...]

A study focused in the usage of social networks in Latin America conducted by comScore found that 85% of Brazilian internet users over 15 years old (that have connected from work or home) have visited social networking websites.
The year to year growth is a significant 9% when compared to September 2007, when  the figure was [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

comScore has released their usual web rankings for the April 2008 period.
Brazil is still at the top with 19.3 Million users, Mexico and Argentina follow.
Here is the full chart:

The report gives a very complete picture of the Internet landscape in the region. Usage per country, top websites and other data.
Check the press release here:
comScore Releases [...]

As part of the upcoming ESOMAR conference in Mexico, we placed an ad on April’s issue of research world which will be given out in the conference. This is a little preview of the ad:

Hope you like it!