Media flow, adspend trends and value-building media strategies - Media insights from the MRS Advertising Research conference

A report covering three presentations at a 2011 MRS conference. Hamish Pringle of the IPA reveals that consumers are dipping in and out of the "media flow" in their day-to-day lives; a major challenge for today's researchers is to develop media strategies to reflect this "always-on" world.

Media flow, adspend trends and value-building media strategies - Media insights from the MRS Advertising Research conference

Joseph Clift

Click here to read Warc's report on presentations from the MRS Advertising Research conference covering agency/researcher relationships

Accurately measuring the shifts in consumers' media habits is one of the key tasks facing today's market researchers. Accordingly, many of the presenters at Advertising Research - a conference organised by the Market Research Society and held in London in July 2011 - focused on media strategy.

As conference chair Helen Gawor, managing director for Connect Insight, pointed out, agencies and clients promote products in a market...

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