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This issue covers two days' news and is the last DRNO of 2024. It's been a busy year for us, and has finished with a flurry of ad bookings which bode very well for the next one. We'd like to thank you all for your support and interest and wish you a Merry Christmas, a restful break and a wonderful 2025.
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'Challenger' marcoms group Stagwell has agreed to acquire Colgne, Germany-based media monitoring firm UNICEPTA, which will join the 'PRophet' comms tech suite within the Stagwell Marketing Cloud. The buy is Stagwell's tenth of the year.
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Cleveland, Ohio-based survey operations company OpinionRoute has appointed Scott Stein as SVP, Client Development, leading its sales team.
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Nielsen has enhanced its Outcomes measurement suite via a collaboration with attention measurement firm Realeyes. The upgrade aims to 'bridge creative evaluation with brand and sales lift' to help clients produce more effective ads.
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Fast-growing London-based research tech company Walr has added to its team in Asia Pacific: former Lightspeed and Toluna researcher Neil Hayes joins as Commercial Director and Raita Tochinai as Director, Operations. More
Behavioral data specialist Behavix Inc. has added three to its Board and announced a partnership with MR data platform Datality. The new advisors are Ipsos veteran Gareth Deere, former Comscore and Verto Analytics researcher Vinayak Nair, and former SSI / Dynata exec Nicolas Nore. More
Canadian firm Retellio, a provider of B2B customer conversation mining software, has secured $1.3m in funding with which to continue development of its product and expand its business. More
Data management and integration platform Databricks has announced a $10 billion series J funding raise, which it will use to develop new AI products, make acquisitions, expand its international go-to-market operations, provide liquidity for current and former employees, and make tax payments. More
European MR panels and tech solutions company Bilendi & respondi has agreed to acquire Iberia and Latin America specialist Netquest from its current owner NIQ. More
In London, CX and insight agency Beehive Research has promoted Charles Ray to Associate Director. More
Leeds, UK-based full-service research agency Boxclever has promoted Charlotte Andrews and Lucy Hampson to Research Director. More
In Pittsburgh, PA, full service firm Schmidt Market Research has appointed Ash Attarian as Senior Manager, Advanced Analytics. More
| 4th Sep 2024 | UXDG Virtual 2024 - Virtual |
| 25th Sep 2024 | IIEX Latin America - Miami, Florida |
| 10th Oct 2024 | MRMW Europe - Berlin, Germany |
| 6th Nov 2024 | Qual360 - APAC - Singapore |
| 29th Jan 2025 | Qual360 Europe Conference - Berlin |
| 10th Dec 2024 | MRMW MENA - Insight Summit - Dubai |
