Jeff Kaplan and David Shackley, both from AOL’s central marketing team, chat about…

• The online-only Mark Burnett-produced show Gold Rush
• Consumer-generated content
• Performance of AOL properties
• Evolution of video search service Truveo

6mins | Recorded @ Wildfire ‘07 | More podcasts in this series

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Rishad Tobaccowala, CEO Denuo and Chief Innovation Officer, Publicis, chats about…

• The business importance of authenticity
• Why PR agency Edelman’s reputation suffered in the Wal Mart undisclosed blogger fiasco
• Three big media trends he’s seeing including the shift to on-demand, the participatory culture, and the shift from segmentation to reaggregation
• Why he’s ’short’ on Google’s ability to monetize YouTube and ‘long’ on Yahoo’s future

8mins | Recorded @ Wildfire ‘07 | More podcasts in this series

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 PLANNER TALK  Four seasoned ‘planners’ discuss major developments in online and consumer generated media as attention shifts from conventional to PC-based viewing and interaction. The panel represents a diverse range of opinion and expertise from host Fiona Blades, a planner by background and now head of her own research firm, to the omnipresent planner John Griffiths, ad. agency research head Lee McEwan, and senior researcher Beverly Clarke who works for one of the UK’s largest and newest media groups, Virgin Media

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 STARRING 

• Beverly Clarke, Associate Director of Insight, IDS (part of Virgin Media)
• Fiona Blades, Managing Partner, MESH Planning (host)
• John Griffiths, Planning Above and Beyond
• Lee McEwan, Director of Research Services, Leo Burnett (blog)

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The masterful Ze Frank in conversation with the witty Johnny Vulkan of Anomaly

10mins | Recorded @ Wildfire ‘07 | More podcasts in this series

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A few weeks ago we posted a conversation with the lovely Emmi Kuusikko of Habbo, the virtual world for teens. If you don’t know much about Habbo, click here for Wikipedia’s writeup

During our chat, Emmi mentioned a big youth study which has now been published. Emmi was kind enough to send us a review copy, and we thought we’d share a few bits…

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Many clients don’t even realise there’s a problem
(Fred John)

 WIN ‘07  Recorded during a world leader meeting, our panel discusses ways to shift MR from a profession that uses closed, carefully controlled methods of data collection to one that cedes control and spends more time listening to people as they air views naturally, and so become more attuned to the new world of consumer self-expression and empowerment

 STARRING 

• C. Frederic John, Research Leader, MasterCard
• Frits Spangenberg, ESOMAR President and founder, Motivaction
• Larry Brownell, Executive Director, MRA
• Philip De Wulf, co-founder and partner, The Mission House

Recorded at the ESOMAR WIN ‘07 event

ESOMAR was kind enough to reimburse travel and accommodation expenses

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Businesses have a reluctance to use services that are free because it doesn’t fit their mindset
(Ray Poynter)

 BIG Conference  In the first of two podcasts in the run up to the BIG Conference in May 2007, Phyllis Macfarlane and Ray Poynter take a comprehensive look at how web 2.0 tools and techniques can be used to improve B2B research. They also talk about the obvious cultural and organisational issues that such changes invariably bring up

 STARRING 

• Ray Poynter, The Future Place
• Phyllis Macfarlane, Head, Gfk NOP Custom (Host)

Learn more about BIG Conference 2007

AUDIO QUALITY: We apologise in advance for the below-par audio quality and hope that the quality of the content makes up for this

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The assumption is that by-and-large, individuals make decisions on their own. My Herd point-of-view is that people influence each other, often without realising it

Mark Earls’ latest contribution to life, the universe and everything is gaining traction. His new book rethinks how people make decisions and discovers as a result that much of current research practice is fundamentally flawed in its assumptions and interpretation of consumer behaviour. Quite fitting for this self-styled ‘Contrarian’. The book provides psychology underpinning for many recent phenomena such as social networking, engagement, conversations, ethnography, blogging and predictive markets by showing how we act as groups and not individually. Part of our monthly column for ESOMAR’s Research World magazine

 STARRING 

• Mark Earls, author, Herd: How to Change Mass Behaviour by Harnessing Our True Nature, Head Honcho, Herd Consulting

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“Unlike other applications … Second Life has a storyline related to pretty much any press you want to talk about”

 EXCLUSIVE  You could for forgiven for not having heard of Habbo because it is aimed at teens. But with the seemingly blanket coverage it’s received in the mainstream media as well as on blogs and podcasts, you will surely have heard of Second Life. Both are online 3D virtual worlds where people interact with each other via avatars. Both are extremely popular and are experiencing rapid growth. And some of the largest brands in the world are starting to setup virtual life in Second Life. Here we learn more about them from their creators, and find out why they are so popular and what the future holds. For those unfamiliar with either of these social networks we recommend taking a quick look at their websites to get a basic feel

 STARRING 

• Emmi Kuusikko, Director of User and Market Insight, Sulake (Habbo)
• David Fleck, VP Business Development, Linden Lab (Second Life)
• Mario Menti, GMI, blog

The first conversation was recorded live at the Euro MR Event 2006

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