GlobalWebIndex

GlobalWebIndex
Private
Industry Market Research, Advertising
Founded 2009
Founder Thomas C. Smith
Headquarters London
Area served
 Worldwide
Key people
 Thomas C. Smith
(Founder & CEO)
Sebastian Hedencrona
(Director, Global Revenue)
Alastair Little
(Director, Product & Marketing)
Products GlobalWebIndex
Services Research & Consulting
Website www.globalwebindex.net

GlobalWebIndex is a market research firm founded by Tom Smith in 2009.[1] The company provides consumer data to the advertising industry.[2]

Reported to be the "world's most detailed syndicated research into online consumer behaviors",[3] GlobalWebIndex profiles consumers in 32 countries and represents 89% of the worldwide internet audience.[4]

In October 2012, GlobalWebIndex surprised social media analysts and commentators by claiming that Twitter and Facebook had big followings in China and Vietnam - countries where those social networks are blocked by their respective governments. The story was picked up by various news outlets including Huffington Post, Bloomberg and the Financial Times where the rise of VPN has been attributed as the primary enabler for Chinese internet users circumventing website blocks.[5]

Data Sources

GWI Core Panel

The flagship GlobalWebIndex research study, which interviews over 200,000 internet users across the world each year across 4 waves of research each year.[6] Each respondent is questioned in detail, resulting in 9,000 data points for consumer profiling.[7]

Extended Panel

GlobalWebIndex has access to a panel of over 10 million internet users, which the company uses to profile target audiences for its clients at scale. GlobalWebIndex's Stream™ Intelligence consulting arm runs these custom studies.[8]

GWI Real-Time Panel

GlobalWebIndex research includes a sub-set of its GWI Core Panel which it tracks across the internet in real-time.

GWI Enriched

In addition to its proprietary data sets, GlobalWebIndex also enriches its view of respondents by purchasing research from 3rd party specialists such as social media API providers, loyalty schemes and credit card companies.

Data Coverage

Scale & Frequency

Countries

Americas

Europe, Middle East & Africa

Asia Pacific

Products

PRO Platform™

Analysis and insight platform used by its clients to create custom target audiences and examine their digital behaviors.

GWIQ™

A tag-based web analytics solution offering with four principal use cases.

Audience Validation

GWIQ tags can be included in online advertising campaigns to verify the accuracy of targeting criteria offered by the vendors of advertising.

Web Analytics

Reporting on the profile of visitors to websites and applications.

Lookalike Modelling

Provision of raw data for the practice of 'lookalike modelling'.

In-Flight Advertising Effectiveness Studies

Measuring the effectiveness of advertising campaigns during the campaign's lifecycle, for optimization purposes.

Technology

Data

GlobalWebIndex utilizes a number of techniques to ensure consistency and accuracy of its data,[9] including:

Tracking

GlobalWebIndex's proprietary GWIQ tag collects intelligence on client user bases and GlobalWebIndex respondents.

Noteworthy clients

References

  1. ↑ Financial Times Blog, 4th October 2012
  2. ↑ GlobalWebIndex, www.globalwebindex.net
  3. ↑ IAB UK, Member Directory
  4. ↑ The Telegraph, Teens drift away from 'traditional' social networks
  5. ↑ Huffington Post, China Is Twitter's Most Active Country (Despite It Being Banned There)
  6. ↑ GlobalWebIndex, GlobalWebIndex Tour
  7. ↑ GlobalWebIndex, GlobalWebIndex Research & Methodology
  8. ↑ GlobalWebIndex, GlobalWebIndex Tour
  9. ↑ GlobalWebIndex, Research & Methodology 2014 p.6

External links

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