Ponderings From The Perch

The incentive at every layer of market research is to pass as many respondents through as possible, which means the behavior follows exactly as you'd expect. Priscilla McKinney, host of Ponderings from the Perch and CEO of Little Bird Marketing, welcomes Joey Maddox and Henry Legard, Chief Strategy Officer and CEO respectively at Verisoul, for a conversation about where fraud prevention in market research keeps missing the mark. A LinkedIn video, equal parts nerdy and genuine, sparked the connection that led to this episode about structural problems most people in the industry would rather not acknowledge and what they are doing about it!. It can be said that market researchers today inherited a volume problem disguised as a quality solution:Sample providers get paid per respondent. Aggregators get paid per completed survey. Every middleman in the chain benefits from passing bodies through, not from stopping to verify who those bodies actually are. The result is predictable. Data quality tools chase yesterd