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Q4 2018 UAE Radio Audience Measurement Topline Report
The total reach of radio in the fourth-quarter of 2018 was 93%. This is an increase of 4% from the previous period, which means that 307,000 more individuals listened to radio than in the previous quarter. The fourth quarter radio audience measurement covers all listening from 1st October to 31st...
Webinar: Future Opportunities in FMCG E-commerce
E-commerce is becoming an important factor in further driving fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) growth across major markets globally. View our webinar to explore the framework of 10 key drivers for e-commerce success and which combination of drivers are importance based on their respective markets.
Webinar: The Quest for Convenience
Join our Nielsen Thought Leadership experts around our regions as they share global insights and regional examples as to why today's businesses need to revisit the definition of 'convenience' as more than a retail format and increasingly a consumer need.
From Great Panels Come Great Insights
At Nielsen, we believe that our panels make our company stand out. We devote a great deal of time and resources to ensuring that our panels produce high-quality data. By combining big data with smaller data sets from carefully chosen and measured households, we believe that we provide a higher...
Consumer Disloyalty is the New Normal
A whopping 46% of consumers tell us they are more likely to try new brands than they were five years ago; a clear signal to a trend we should expect to intensify. Yet we see few signs that adjustments have been made to marketing initiatives or innovation pipelines to match these numbers.
UAE Radio Starts 2019 On A High Note
Nielsen’s UAE Radio Audience Measurement first-quarter 2019 data release shows that radio listening remains high across the country. In Q1 of 2019, 93% of the total UAE population aged 10 and above tuned into radio every week, which is on par from the previous quarter, but is 2% lower than Q1...
Combating the Long Tail with Data Science
You don't have to look far to see rapidly growing or already mature 'disruptors' in retail and manufacturing, but the long tail of market disruption goes way beyond that in today's age of consumer disloyalty.
Women’s Football 2019
Fan interest and commercial investments in women’s football, or soccer, are growing leading into the 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup. According to Nielsen Sports, 40% of the people in countries with a team competing in this year’s tournament are interested in women’s football.
The Science to Make Sense of Big Data
The data generated by our day-to-day activities can help brands and marketers understand consumer needs and drive growth for their businesses. But first, they need to make sense of all the data.
My Relationship with a Biscuit Pack
My experience with the orange pack of biscuits is typical of how shoppers interact with product packs. Packs catch the shopper’s attention at the “Zeroth moment of truth”—when the shopper is in front of a screen. They then catch the shopper’s attention in front of the shelf—that’s the...
How Will the CBD and Cannabis Craze Impact Drugstore Businesses?
While it’s still too early to predict the future impact of legal cannabis on the mainstream U.S. retail market, we do know that demand and consumer interest is present and certainly growing.
Quality Data Equals Truth Sets, and Nothing Less
AI is enabling companies to better understand how consumers are shopping, why they shop and most importantly, predict what consumers will buy in the future. This is fundamentally shifting how companies explore product development cycles, pricing models and understandings of how to change the minds...
Truly Open or Simply Ajar
At Nielsen, we have a clear view of open, one that is not ajar or a “bit more open.” To us, open means exactly that—open. We define open as the ability to use different parties and types of data, models to enrich and applications to consume and take action.