Back in 2012, QR codes had the time of their life. They certainly became accepted methods of gathering information, sharing videos and brochures, or launching websites.
Who hasn't read this sentence before? It doesn't matter where you go, nowadays you are asked for an opinion everywhere on the web. For some it is a way to express their opinion, for most it is a sheer annoyance.
Name something that virtually everyone you know has with them just about all the time, just about every day.
If your first instinct was to mention “mobile phone”, the numbers definitely back up your observations: Of the approximately 7 billion people currently living here on Earth, there are currently between 4 and 4.5 BILLION unique mobile users globally; that translates to about three in four adults on the planet who own a mobile phone. The number of global mobile phone users is forecast to exceed a staggering 5 billion by 2017.
It’s humbling for us market researchers to realize that our “modern, cutting-edge” art and science of market research actually dates back thousands of years – with ample evidence of detailed census data collected within the Roman Empire. However, data collection for the earliest public surveys looked very different than it does today. In addition to the obvious differences in communications technology, the common citizen of that era was not considered to be smart enough or trustworthy enough to respond on his own behalf. Instead, information was collected as rulers polled clergy and nobles about various aspects of their parishioners’ or serfs’ lives.
