[Posted by Reineke Reitsma]

Seventy-seven percent of online consumers have Internet, TV, and phone services. Data from our North American Technographics Mobile And Telecom Online Survey, Q3 2009 shows that of this group, about a third receive all three services within a bundle. Consumers who have a triple-play contract have a higher household income and are more likely to have children.

[Posted by Reineke Reitsma]

You are invited to attend a complimentary live Webinar with myself and Jacqueline Anderson on November 10, 11 a.m. EST on “Top 3 Online Consumer Trends to Watch in 2010”

[Posted by Tamara Barber]

As a prelude to our Wave on full service MROC vendors, we recently released results  from a survey on market researchers’ use of communities. The findings highlight the fact that this is still a nascent methodology but one that researchers are no doubt interested in. Based on my view of the current vendor landscape, here is where my head’s at after mulling over the survey results:

[Posted by Tamara Barber]

Last week, I had the pleasure of attending the Association of National Advertisers’ Multicultural Marketing and Diversity Conference. For any multicultural marketers who have not been there, I would highly recommend it to get your finger on the pulse of what top client-side and agency marketers are doing to reach Hispanic, African-American, and Asian-American audiences.

As a panelist on the only session around how to reach Hispanics using digital channels, I was struck by the fact that many marketers still need convincing that Hispanic consumers are, indeed, online. Here are some other top-line themes that came out of the day I was there:

[Posted by Tamara Barber]

Our consumer research at Forrester hinges on using the best research methodologies to reach the audiences we’re capturing in North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific and Latin America. However, the growing number of cord-cutters in Europe and the US means that traditional landline phone surveys reach less of the population. While Europe still has a higher rate of cord-cutting, US consumers' willingness to give up their landlines is growing steadily and is now in the double digits.