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About two years ago, I proposed that the ARF start a Shopper Insights council.  While some were asking what the ARF was doing with shopper stuff, I felt that path to purchase could be the new way of determining media strategy that would make more sense for advertisers.
We started the council and saw great attendance [...]

I’ve always had a love-hate relationship with measuring brand awareness, especially aided awareness. What a CPG marketer really wants to know is how to get their brand noticed at retail.

It’s about being an agent of change for the whole organization. Inspiring better business futures is what we do. Research and insights is just our fastball. As Donna Goldfarb from Unilever said when asked what her job is, “I sell soap”.

Led by some of the biggest global marketers, consultants, and research agencies, the ARF Research Transformation Super-Council is committed to developing the roadmap for how organizations can transform to this new model and culture.

Meet the CIMMs; “Coalition for Innovative Media Measurement”. While Sims try to get through their daily virtual lives, CIMMs are 15 of the largest media and advertising companies trying to kickstart innovation of long-form video measurement across 3 screens; TV, internet, and smaller mobile devices.

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