Nielsen shares fell 27 percent after they announced that CEO Mitch Barnes will be retiring and they reduced their projections for 2018.

The DMA published research revealing that consumers prefered emails as the marketing channel. Their full report is linked in the show notes.

IPSOS reported revenue is down 5.7% compared to this time last year. Their report of the first half year is linked in the show notes.

Market Strategies and Morpace Inc. receive a $60 million credit from LBC credit partners to support the merging of the two companies. They will remain headquartered in Michigan.

Market Measures hires Tobin Sparrow as research director.

Alex Hunt resigns from his position as global president of System 1. At the same time System 1 has appointed Jane Wakelyas as non-executive director.

Richard Cornelius retires from ORC international.

NAILBITER co-founder, Amishi Takalkar, will be taking over as CEO

Big Sofa hires Dorothy White, formerly of CPG, as Client Services Director.

Ameritest promotes Abigail Hollister to company president

Tune hires Bhavana Mathur as Vice President of Product Management.

Key Quest appoints Suzie Curtis as Project Director of London.