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Friday, February 20 2009

The birth of virtual Test Shoppers

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Once upon a time...

A recurring issue in retail distribution and industry is how to evaluate in-store marketing for large-scale commercial operations and be certain that it will have the desired impact on sales. It is just such a typical, yet crucial question facing marketing and business departments that launched a project called “ActiSKU” 4 years ago. “SKU” is mass distribution jargon for a “product type”. In 2006, a manager with Carlsberg, a brewer present in more than thirty countries, met with ACTIPLAY, a company specialised in the production of 2D and 3D, real-time advergames… that is, video games and advertising sites!

What was the link between these two? Only that the brewer had an idea in mind, and specific needs, and ACTIPLAY mastered 3D technology. Nothing more was needed to launch an effective project between ambitious, visionary partners.

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Wednesday, February 11 2009

Who was ACTISKU, the online, 3D, virtual environment shopper test solution designed for?

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The ActiSKU solution was designed exclusively for research agencies looking to add new high value capabilities to respond to marketing decisions, whatever the product: in-store advertising, planogram, pricing, re-organisation, or complete store re-design.

With ActiSKU, you can view the panelist reactions to a variety of different marketing options, by analysing the data collected from shopper missions in a 3D, online, virtual environments.