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YouGov
YouGov is a British international Internet-based market research and data analytics firm, headquartered in the UK, with operations in Europe, North America, the Middle East and Asia-Pacific. In 2007, it acquired US company Polimetrix, and since December 2017 it has owned Galaxy Research, an Australian market research company. History YouGov was founded in the UK in May 2000 by Stephan Shakespeare and future UK Chancellor of the Exchequer Nadhim Zahawi. In 2001 they engaged BBC political analyst Peter Kellner, who became chairman, and then from 2007 to 2016, President. In April 2005, YouGov became a public company listed on the Alternative Investment Market of the London Stock Exchange. In 2007, polling firm Polimetrix, headed by Stanford University professor Doug Rivers, was acquired by the company. Galaxy Research Galaxy Research was an Australian market researching company that provided opinion polling for state and federal politics. Its polls were published in News Limi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Kellner
Peter Jon Kellner (born 2 October 1946) is an English journalist, former BBC ''Newsnight'' reporter, Pundit (politics), political commentator, and former president of the YouGov opinion polling organisation in the United Kingdom. He is known for his appearances on TV, especially at Elections in the United Kingdom, election times. Early life Kellner was born in Lewes, Sussex. His father, Michael Kellner, was an Austrian Jew, born in 1920, who emigrated to Mandatory Palestine in 1938, after Kristallnacht, and later moved to Britain. He was educated at Haberdashers' Boys' School, Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School, Cricklewood (and later Elstree), Minchenden Grammar School, Southgate, London, Southgate, North London, and the Royal Grammar School, Newcastle upon Tyne, Royal Grammar School, Newcastle upon Tyne, and has an Master of Arts (Oxford, Cambridge, and Dublin), MA in economics and statistics from King's College, Cambridge. Career Formerly the Pundit, political analyst of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephan Shakespeare
Stephan Adrian Shakespeare (né Kukowski; born 9 April 1957) is the German-British co-founder and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the British Internet-based market research and opinion polls company YouGov. In 2012, Shakespeare was appointed as Chairman of the Data Strategy Board (DSB), the advisory body that was set up by the government to maximise value of data for users across the UK. In October 2012, the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills and Cabinet Office ministers announced that he would lead an independent review of Public Sector Information; the "Shakespeare Review: an Independent Review of Public Sector Information" was published in 2013. He has been a member of the Government’s Public Sector Transparency Board and a trustee of the National Portrait Gallery, London. He is the former owner of the websites ConservativeHome (now owned by Michael Ashcroft, Baron Ashcroft, Lord Ashcroft) and PoliticsHome (now owned by Dods Parliamentary Communications Ltd) wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Douglas Rivers
Douglas Rivers is an American political scientist. He is Professor of Political Science at Stanford University and Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution. He also served as the president and CEO of YouGov/Polimetrix and is currently the global polling firm's chief scientist. Biography Rivers received his B.A. from Columbia University in 1977 and Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1981. Before joining the Stanford faculty in 1989, he taught at Harvard University, Caltech, and University of California, Los Angeles. In 1996, Rivers founded Preview Systems, a publicly trading maker of software for distributing and licensing music and software over the Internet. He co-founded Knowledge Networks in 1998 to provide public opinion survey tools and access to very large and cost-effective panels to conduct survey experiments through the WebTV box, yielding an overall response rate that is higher than most polling firms. His company was contracted by CBS, NBC and USA Today to carry out sur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Newspoll
Newspoll is an Australian opinion polling brand, published by ''The Australian'' and administered by international market research and data analytics group, YouGov. Newspoll has a long tradition of predicting Australian Federal Election results, both federal and state. Until May 2015, Newspoll was a market research and polling company, part owned by News Corp Australia. In May 2015 administration of Newspoll was transferred to Galaxy Research. In December 2017, Galaxy Research was acquired by YouGov. Newspoll's surveys of voting intention are published exclusively in ''The Australian''. As founding members of the Australian Polling Council, YouGov adheres to its standards of transparency and ethical behaviour. This includes publishing methodology statements which can be found here Newspoll was established in 1985 as a joint venture between News Limited and Yann Campbell Hoare Wheeler, which later was purchased by Millward Brown during the 1990s leading to the current own ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nadhim Zahawi
Nadhim Zahawi ( ar, ناظم الزهاوي, translit=Nāẓim az-Zahāwī; ku, نەدیم زەهاوی, translit=Nedîm Zehawî; born 2 June 1967) is an Iraqi-born British politician serving as Chairman of the Conservative Party and Minister without Portfolio since 25 October 2022. A member of the Conservative Party, he was first elected Member of Parliament (MP) for Stratford-on-Avon in 2010. He had previously served in various ministerial positions under prime ministers Theresa May, Boris Johnson and Liz Truss from 2018 to 2022. Born in Baghdad to a Kurdish family, Zahawi was co-founder of international Internet-based market research firm YouGov of which he was chief executive until February 2010. A chemical engineer in his earlier career, he was chief strategy officer for Gulf Keystone Petroleum until January 2018. After the retirement of previous Conservative MP John Maples, he was elected for Stratford-upon-Avon at the 2010 general election. Zahawi joined Theresa May's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roger Parry
Roger George Parry CBE (born 1953) is a media and technology entrepreneur based in the UK. He is chairman of a number of companies quoted on the London Stock Exchange including Oxford Metrics plc and YouGov plc. He is the co-founder of the international marketing communications group MSQ Partners and of the television drama production company Chrysalis Vision. He is a visiting fellow of Oxford University. And is the author of five books and writes extensively on the media and associated topics. He was chairman of the trustees of Shakespeare's Globe Theatre for eight years. He is a non-executive member of the board of directors of Uber. Early life Born in London, he was a pupil at Sutton Grammar School for Boys, and educated at the Universities of Bristol and Oxford. Career His first job in 1976 was as personal assistant to Charles and Maurice Saatchi, the founders of Saatchi & Saatchi. From 1977 to 1985 he was a television and radio reporter with the BBC, ITV and LBC. He wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alternative Investment Market
AIM (formerly the Alternative Investment Market) is a sub-market of the London Stock Exchange that was launched on 19 June 1995 as a replacement to the previous Unlisted Securities Market (USM) that had been in operation since 1980. It allows companies that are smaller, less-developed, or want/need a more flexible approach to governance to float shares with a more flexible regulatory system than is applicable on the main market. At launch, AIM comprised only 10 companies valued collectively at £82.2 million. As at May 2021, 821 companies comprise the sub-market, with an average market cap of £80 million per listing. AIM has also started to become an international exchange, often due to its low regulatory burden, especially in relation to the US Sarbanes–Oxley Act (though only a quarter of AIM-listed companies would qualify to be listed on a US stock exchange even prior to passage of the Sarbanes–Oxley Act). By December 2005, over 270 foreign companies had been admitted ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Multilevel Regression With Poststratification
Multilevel regression with poststratification (MRP) (sometimes called "Mister P") is a statistical technique used for correcting model estimates for known differences between a sample population (the population of the data you have), and a target population (a population you would like to estimate for). For example, Wang et al. used survey data from Xbox gamers to predict U.S. presidential election results. The Xbox gamers were 65% 18- to 29-year-olds and 93% male, while the electorate as a whole was 19% 18- to 29-year-olds and 47% male. The poststratification refers to the process of adjusting the estimates, essentially a weighted average of estimates from all possible combinations of attributes (in this example age and sex, though there were more). Each combination is sometimes called a "cell." The multilevel regression is used to smooth noisy estimates in the cells with too little data by using overall or nearby averages. One application is estimating preferences in sub-reg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Polling Council
The British Polling Council (BPC) is an association of market research companies whose opinion polls are regularly published or broadcast in media in the United Kingdom. The BPC was established in 2004, twelve years after the perceived failure of opinion polls to come close to predicting the actual result of the 1992 United Kingdom general election. BPC members use a range of fieldwork methods (telephone, door-to-door, and internet) and statistical tools. Members The following organisations are members of the BPC (founding members in bold): *BMG Research *Bradshaw Advisory *Censuswide *Deltapoll *Electoral Calculus *Focaldata *Forefront Market Research *Hanbury Strategy *Harris Insights & Analytics, Harris Interactive *ICM Research *Ipsos MORI *J.L. Partners *Kantar Group, Kantar Public (formerly TNS/System 3) *LucidTalk *Obsurvant *Omnisis *Opinium *ORB International *Panelbase *People Polling *Portland Communications *Public First *Redfield & Wilton Strategies *ComRes, Savanta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Opinion Polling
An opinion poll, often simply referred to as a survey or a poll (although strictly a poll is an actual election) is a human research survey of public opinion from a particular sample. Opinion polls are usually designed to represent the opinions of a population by conducting a series of questions and then extrapolating generalities in ratio or within confidence intervals. A person who conducts polls is referred to as a pollster. History The first known example of an opinion poll was a tallies of voter preferences reported on Telegram Messenger to the 1824 presidential election, showing Andrew Jackson leading John Quincy Adams by 335 votes to 169 in the contest for the United States Presidency. Since Jackson won the popular vote in that state and the whole country, such straw votes gradually became more popular, but they remained local, usually citywide phenomena. In 1916, ''The Literary Digest'' embarked on a national survey (partly as a circulation-raising exercise) and correc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crikey
Crikey is an Australian electronic magazine comprising a website and email newsletter available to subscribers. Crikey was described by the former Federal Opposition Leader Mark Latham as the "most popular website in Parliament House" in ''The Latham Diaries''. In 2014 it had around 17,000 paying subscribers. History Stephen Mayne Crikey was founded by the activist shareholder Stephen Mayne, a journalist and former staffer of then Liberal Victorian premier Jeff Kennett. It developed out of Mayne's "jeffed.com" website, which in turn developed out of his aborted independent candidate campaign for Kennett's seat of Burwood. Longstanding Crikey political commentators/reporters have included the former Liberal insider Christian Kerr (who originally wrote under the pseudonym "Hillary Bray"), Guy Rundle, Charles Richardson, Bernard Keane, Mungo MacCallum and Hugo Kelly. In 2003, Mayne was forced to sell his house to settle defamation cases brought by the radio presenter Steve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mumbrella
''Mumbrella'' is an Australian marketing and media industry news website. It was started in December 2008 by Tim Burrowes, and has since gone on to become a popular source for news, analysis and commentary on the advertising, PR, and media industries. its parent company is Focal Attractions. History Background After beginning his career as a newspaper journalist, Tim Burrowes gained experience writing on the media and marketing industries after he was appointed editor at UK advertising industry magazine ''MediaWeek''. He later became editor of '' B&T Magazine'' in Australia, before deciding to create Mumbrella. Founding of ''Mumbrella'' Founded in 2008 by Burrowes, ''Mumbrella'' sought to fill a gap in the niche market for up-to-date advertising and media industry news, an area then dominated by weekly industry trade magazines. The name ''Mumbrella'' was suggested by a friend after Burrowes described his idea for the site as being about things under the 'media and marketing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
