It's not market research. It's HBO

This paper describes how the TV network HBO developed an innovative online community, integrating its market research strategy into a single platform, in order to listen to users and generate agile market research insights across Latin- and South America.

Preface

This paper will describe how HBO has developed an innovative market research strategy integrated into a single platform: surveys, online communities, mobile research, gamification, digital ethnography and big data analytics.

We want to share with the global research community our main learnings along the way, as well as a road map that anyone can follow in order to transform their market research studies from boring activities, into ongoing fun and engaging experiences, and how we've used the results to better support our programming and marketing teams on their agile decision-making processes.

The road map

Start point: The HBO Latin...

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