So, apart from note-taking, why use video for market research?
Using video in market research has many advantages including:
- Diaries – Market research study participants can use video to create diaries about their experiences or opinions of a certain research topic. These diary entries can be accumulated and then aggregated as evidence for the research study.
- TDIs – Video can be incredibly useful for TDIs (telephone depth interviews) which can utilize computer applications such as Skype to conduct a simulated face-to-face interview. This can help in targeting hard to reach segments of the population or make a TDI more interpersonal by introducing the face-to-face video aspect.
- Showing videos to groups – Using video within market research groups can result in more engagement from those group’s members. It allows focus groups participants with low levels of literacy to be actively engaged in the study. This opens up whole new groups that might’ve been difficult before to include in market research.
- Ethnographies – In ethnographies, or the study of certain specific cultural phenomena, video is also especially useful. Showing rather than talking about certain cultural trends is an easier way to engage market research study participants.
InsightShare pointed out that participatory video in market research particularly has an advantage since “showing a video rather than giving a speech puts [people] on a more equal footing with [researchers] and so on, who may have more experience of conferences and public speaking.” These types of videos can engage a focus group and provide a wider range of results and findings. The members of your particular focus group are more likely to give a response than if they had just read something on a piece of paper.
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