Youtube the world’s biggest focus group?
12Jun08
A fascinating article on the LA Times technology blog – YouTube applies science to the art of viral marketing – here and now data – and the perfect target respondent – any researcher’s dream!
And a huge huge lesson here from an old post by webguru Jeremiah – A night at the Twitterbowl
I keep hearing the same question – but can such research ever take the place of conventional research? I say, why should they? Why cannot such new research techniques be used to complement and supplement research data from traditional methods…?
Why should internet replace print? Why should the new give way to the old, where the old has its uses?
Filed under: Internet and blogging, Research methods | 2 Comments
Tags: focus group, online research, qualittaive research, Research methods, twitter research, youtube
tks for great post, keep it up
Great posts, I agree the methods can compliment each other. Same way you can’t replace face to face interactions entirely, you can’t get insights into behavior from solely looking at online activity