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Research Reports

Through our proprietary econometric modeling system, PQ Media's venerable research analyst team develops primary research reports that have influenced strategies, investments and tactics for leading media, entertainment and communications stakeholders worldwide.

PQ Media publishes the Alternative Media Research Series. This ground-breaking library of in-depth, global emerging media forecasts includes the authoritative sources for data, insights and predictive econometrics on new media such as digital out-of-home advertising, product placement in media, event marketing, mobile advertising, word-of-mouth marketing and social media advertising, among others. See full report library below.

PQ Media also collaborates with private equity firm Veronis Suhler Stevenson on the VSS Communications Industry Forecast, the U.S. media industry's benchmark for 25 years, providing forecast data and analytics driving media, entertainment and communications. A VSS Forecast Unlimited License includes unmatched perspective for your research, strategic or investment team, including special features such as the VSS Forecast Mid-Term Update (see VSS Forecast).

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U.S. Mobile & Social Media Forecast 2012-2016

For executives looking to get mobile enabled in 2012, this latest report in the PQ Media Alternative Media Series represents the most far-reaching examination of two of the fastest-growing and fastest-changing mediums in U.S. history – mobile and social. For the first time the rapidly expanding, highly interconnected and increasingly complex U.S. mobile & social advertising and marketing ecosystem is defined, sized and structured.

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Global Digital Out-of-Home Media Forecast 2011-2015

If your organization needs actionable insights to make better business decisions in the digital out-of-home media sector, consider revisiting your 2011 strategic development plan after reading the PQ Media Global Digital Out-of-Home Media Forecast 2011-2015.

According to a new global forecast from PQ Media, the leading provider of media econometrics, digital out-of-home media (DOOH) remains among the fastest growing media in the world. The U.S. remained the largest global market, while China was the fastest growing.

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PQ Media Political Campaign Media Spending 2010

The political candidate's campaign objective never changes: Just win. After contributions, the most important word in a political campaign is strategy. The 4th edition of the PQ Media Campaign Media Spending series is a must-read and trusted resource for political and media consultants looking to develop winning campaign media strategies for candidates at the federal, state and local level.

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Global Branded Entertainment Marketing Forecast 2010-2014

Amid a rapidly changing global media and communications landscape, branded entertainment marketing, including consumer event sponsorships, consumer event marketing, and product placement in media has emerged over the last decade as a leading alternative marketing strategy according to a new global forecast from PQ Media, the leading provider of global media econometrics.

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Social Media Sponsorships Forecast 2010-2014

PQ Media's release of Social Media Sponsorships Forecast 2010-2014 is the first-ever report to size, structure, forecast and validate the growth of this burgeoning category within Word-of-Mouth Marketing (WoMM). This primary research puts a spotlight on a clear consumer brand marketer trend toward...

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Global Digital Out-of-Home Media Forecast 2009-2014

Amid a sharp downturn in global advertising spending and a decline in traditional out-of-home advertising in 2009, digital out-of-home media is among the fastest growing media in the world and will continue on an upward track in 2010, according to a new forecast from PQ Media, the leading provider of media econometrics.

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Word-of-Mouth Marketing
Forecast 2009-2013

In the midst of the worst economic and media recession in more than a quarter-century, spending on Word-of-Mouth Marketing increased 14.2% to $1.54 Billion in 2008, as WoM activities played a bigger strategic marketing role according to exclusive PQ Media Word-of-Mouth Marketing Forecast 2009-2013.

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Global Digital Out-of-Home Media Forecast 2008-2012

As the global economy continues to weaken, traditional media advertising dollars continue their migration to alternative media, and specifically digital out-of-home (OOH), in the US and abroad, as the seminal transition taking place across the media landscape continues to accelerate.

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Alternative Media Forecast 2008-2012

Alternative media spending grew at a compound annual rate of 21.7% from 2002 to 2007, as brand marketers increasingly turned to alternative advertising and marketing strategies to offset challenges posed by new technology, changing consumer behaviors, media fragmentation and multitasking, and growing demand for improved return-on-investment metrics, according to the PQ Media Alternative Media Forecast: 2008-2012.

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Branded Entertainment Marketing Forecast 2008-2012

Continued migration of advertising dollars to fast-growing Marketing Services segments like branded entertainment, public relations and trade shows have had a profound effect on Advertising spend. In the 1970s Advertising accounted for 40% of total media spend. By the end of 2007, Advertising spend was only 23% of overall media spend.

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Political Media Buying 2008

The PQ Media Political Media Buying series remains the first and only source to analyze the entire campaign media spending landscape, not just television. This third installment in the series projects spending in the 2008 election cycle on advertising media and marketing services to rocket to an all-time high of $4.50 billion. The 2008 campaign is like no other in recent memory due to four primary factors.

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Word-of-Mouth Marketing
Forecast 2007-2011

Major advertisers are reallocating budgets to alternative media with the potential to meet the challenges of a rapidly changing media landscape. And one of the fastest-growing segments of the New Media Order is word-of-mouth (WoM) marketing, which has demonstrated the ability to engage consumers in multiple venues online and offline while providing critical ROI metrics.

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Alternative Out-of-Home Media
Forecast 2007-2011

Alternative out-of home media is staying in tune with fast-paced and elusive American consumers, who are spending more time than ever outside their homes. Ad spending on these media soared 27% in 2006 to $1.69 billion, with accelerated 28% growth expected in 2007. Growth was driven by accelerating expansion in video advertising networks, digital billboards and ambient advertising, which are enabling advertisers to engage more mobile consumers in captive locations.

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Political Media Buying 2006

The 2006 election campaign will generate the highest political media spending ever, despite the absence of a presidential election, according to exclusive research by PQ Media, the world's leading custom media research firm. Driven by record spending in gubernatorial, Senate and House races, major public media companies are expected to realize significant increases in advertising and marketing spending, particularly in those markets featuring hotly contested elections, states the PQ Media Political Media Buying 2006 report.

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Global Product Placement Forecast 2006-2010

Product placement is rapidly becoming a serious marketing discipline worldwide, and the PQ Media Global Product Placement Forecast 2006-2010 sets the standard for product placement coverage, measurement and ROI. It is the global brand marketer's essential "planning guide" to customer engagement, revealing for the first time total worldwide spending, business building insights and in-depth analysis; medium-by-medium, country-by-country and culture-by-culture.

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Country by Country Product Placement Forecast Through 2010

Speed your product placement business growth with rich country-country data, insights and perspective available no place else.

Australia Brazil Canada China
France Germany India Italy
Japan Mexico Poland South Korea
Spain United Kingdom United States


AMRS II: Alternative Advertising & Marketing Outlook 2006

The first source to define, size and forecast alternative media spending in one place, this report covers all 23 alternative media subsegments as defined by PQ Media. This exclusive data was gleaned from PQ Media's Alternative Media Network, which is comprised of opinion leader panels, internal spendtrack databases and proprietary econometric models.

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AMRS I: Blog, Podcast and RSS Advertising Outlook

The first source to define, size and forecast the market for user-generated online media, PQ Media found that blog, podcast and RSS advertising are the fastest growing segments of the alternative media industry. Includes analysis by medium, advertising insertion method, and marketing category.

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The Impact of Katrina and Other 2005 Storms on Media Spending

The first report to analyze spending losses across all media using a proprietary methodology to determine the impact of catastrophic events on media nationwide.

"The calculations represent a far more significant impact than has been noted in previous media spending reports released recently, including an update of ZenithOptimedia's quarterly tracking study, as well as syndicated reports from Nielsen Monitor-Plus and TNS Media Intelligence/CMR, which barely even footnoted the effects of Katrina or the other hurricanes".
— Joe Mandese in MediaPost article

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Product Placement Spending in Media 2005
History, Analysis & Forecast, 1974 to 2009

The benchmark of the industry, this is the first source to define, size, structure and forecast the growing U.S. product placement market, covering television, films, magazines, newspapers, Internet, recorded music, books, videogames, and radio.

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Political Media Buying 2004

While similar studies in 2004 were confined to political advertising on broadcast television, this report is the first to examine spending in all nine categories of advertising and marketing communications.

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