We were commissioned by a US-based research agency, on behalf of the end client, a global technology company which is heavily involved in the distribution of news online. The research objective was to learn about the perspectives of two groups:
This was the third year that FieldworkHub ran this research but this programme was by far the largest to date and the first to incorporate research with key opinion leaders from outside the new industry.
The project consisted of online and in-person focus group discussions in most countries, and individual depth interviews in countries where FieldworkHub felt that the participants would not be open to sharing their views in a group environment (for example, Japan and Taiwan). In total we recruited and individually screened 248 news publishing executives and decision makers and 249 key opinion leaders to take part across the 22 countries over a five-month period.
The research countries covered a wide range of levels of development and news industry maturity and a great deal of ingenuity was required to recruit everyone who took part.
As well as recruitment and scheduling activities, the FieldworkHub team was also responsible for arranging moderators in all markets apart from the UK, USA and Canada (where our client did their own moderation), arranging simultaneous translation of the sessions and translation of the research materials, booking facilities for the face-to-face sessions, and overall management of the fieldwork process with daily client updates and a formal progress meeting with the client each week.
The success of this extensive international research project can be attributed to the detailed plans we put in place and the dedication of our project management teams to coordinate research across ten different time zones.
The team were very quick to support all aspects of the project with excellent communication throughout. It was great that they were able to deliver on our requests fully to a very tight deadline and they took all of the stress of recruitment for us. We are extremely happy with our experience of working with FieldworkHub and would look to use them again in the future.