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ESOMAR Congress Award
There will be one award for papers presented at the ESOMAR Congress 2017:
- Award for Best Paper Overall (The Fernanda Monti Award)
Rewards the best paper in any field presented at Congress.
This award has a prize of EUR 2,500 and will be judged solely on the basis of the written papers and not on the manner of presentation.
2017 winners for the ESOMAR Award for Best Paper Overall
- Can Chairs talk?
Image mining & text analytics for strategic planning
Chiara Davanzo Zamarian, Arper, Italy
Preriit Souda, Kantar TNS, UK
Previous nominees & winners
See the jury of 2017
Congress Awards 2017 Jury
- Niels Schillewaert, President, ESOMAR, Netherlands
- Vanessa Oshima, General Manager Women's Category, PC Chair / Nike, Japan
- Danielle YJ Hoh, Manager, LGDisplay, South Korea
- Phyllis Macfarlane, Global Training Director, GfK, Germany
- Dmitry Gaiduk, CEO, CoolTool, USA
ESOMAR Congress 2016 Awards
Best Paper Overall:
Winner: New Visions
Nominee: The Joy of Research
Nominee: 2x the Impact at 1/2 the Time and 1/2 the Cost?
Nominee: Sound Research
Nominee: The Power of Reflective Content
Nominee: Time Is On Our Side
ESOMAR Congress 2015 Awards
Winner: Turning Shopper Insights into Company-wide Memes
Nominee: Watching the Devices
Nominee: TV Re[defined]
Nominee: Hooked on Shopping
Nominee: Belief, Intent, ACTION!
Nominee: The Theory of the Crime
Nominee: Mirror, Mirror on the Wall
Nominee: A Butterfly's Wings: From Chaos to Opportunity
Best Case History:
Winner: Belief, Intent, ACTION!
Nominee: Reel Happiness
Nominee: The Chance of a Lifetime
Nominee: Watching the Devices
Nominee: TV Re[defined]
Nominee: Hooked on Shopping
Nominee: A Butterfly's Wings: From Chaos to Opportunity
Nominee: Turning Shopper Insights into Company-wide Memes
Nominee: Contextual Actions Speak Louder than Words
Best Methodological Paper:
Winner: The Shape of Conversations
Nominee: Contextual Actions Speak Louder than Words
Nominee: A Butterfly's Wings: From Chaos to Opportunity
Nominee: Turning Shopper Insights into Company-wide Memes
Nominee: Less is More: Being Deprived Often Brings out the Best
ESOMAR Congress 2014 Awards
Best Paper Overall:
Winner: Make Your Stakeholders Smarter
Nominee: Free Space
Nominee: Cultural Anchoring
Nominee: French Government: Nudge Me Tender
Nominee: Our Lips are Sealed
Nominee: Dancing 'Til We Drop: Global Ageing But Not As We Know It
Nominee: Y Market Research
Nominee: Predicting the Future
Best Case History:
Winner: French Government: Nudge Me Tender
Nominee: Cultural Anchoring
Nominee: 'Power of Laughter'
Nominee: Our Lips are Sealed
Nominee: Predicting the Future
Nominee: The Way of Insight Beyond Technique
Nominee: Research That Sparks
Best Methodological Paper:
Winner: 'Power of Laughter'
Nominee: Free Space
Nominee: Cultural Anchoring
Nominee: Our Lips are Sealed
Nominee: French Government: Nudge Me Tender
Nominee: Research That Sparks
Nominee: Make Your Stakeholders Smarter
ESOMAR Congress 2013 Awards
Best Paper Overall:
Winner: Big Changes Will Deliver a Big Future
Nominee: Less Facts, More Fiction: Expanding Research's Mind
Nominee: A Whole New World
Nominee: Standardising Touchpoint Analysis
Nominee: Do Emotions in Advertising Drive Sales?
Nominee: Small Numbers, Big Insights
Nominee: Multimode, Global Scale Usage
Best Case History:
Winner: How Does Your Cappuccino Feel?
Nominee: Finding Gold in the Desert
Nominee: Emotion and inspiration at the Van Gogh Museum
Nominee: How Research can Help Build a Successful CSR Campaign
Nominee: Do Emotions in Advertising Drive Sales?
Nominee: Think Big and Connect to the Max
Best Methodological Paper:
Winner: Multimode, Global Scale Usage
Nominee: Do Emotions in Advertising Drive Sales?
Nominee: Think Big and Connect to the Max
Nominee: A 4-Dimensional View of the Digitally Engaged Consumer
Nominee: Standardising Touchpoint Analysis
Nominee: Screen Life
Nominee: Old Meets New
ESOMAR Congress 2012 Awards
Best Paper Overall:
Winner: Research in a World Without Questions
Nominee: Ode to the Unsung Hero - Navigating the turbulent waters of research
Nominee: Beneath the Surface
Nominee: What's a Nice Insight Like You Doing in a Concept Like This?
Nominee: In 2030 the Best Market Researcher in the Organisation Will Be the CEO!
Best Case History:
Winner: Who's Afraid of Opinion Polls?
Nominee: Designing the Club of Tomorrow
Nominee: Creators in Their Own 'Write'
Best Methodological Paper:
Winner: Measuring Emotions Through a Mobile Device Across Borders, Ages, Genders and More
Nominee: The 'Irrationalisation' of Surveys
Nominee: The Difference Between 'less bad' and 'much better'
Nominee: Babyface: Reading Nonverbal Cues to Measure Infants' Acceptance of Food Products
Nominee: Beneath the Surface
ESOMAR Congress 2011 Awards
Best Paper Overall:
Winner: Research in a world of irrational expectations
Nominee: Behaving economically with the truth
Nominee: Too much reality?
Nominee: Crowd interpretation
Best Case History:
Winner: Translating the language of consumers into global fundraising efforts
Nominee: A fresh look at our eyes
Nominee: Enlightened gardens
Best Methodological Paper:
Winner: The game experiments
Nominee: Enlightened gardens
Nominee: Behaving economically with the truth
Nominee: Gamification
Nominee: Crowd interpretation
Nominee: Developing second generation mobile research techniques
Nominee: Engage, inspire, act
ESOMAR Congress 2010 Awards
Best Paper Overall:
Winner: Riding the value shift in market research
Nominee: From the Iliad to Odyssey
Nominee: Looking for the fire not the smoke
Nominee: Digital characters
Nominee: Getting into the real world of the shopper
Best Case History:
Winner: Getting into the real world of the shopper
Nominee: Welcome to the House of Research
Nominee: Coca-Cola Europe and the Philosopher’s Stone
Nominee: Advocracy - Harnessing the power of the consumer
Best Methodological Paper:
Winner: Pricing beyond the Homo Oeconomicus
Nominee: Advocracy - Harnessing the power of the consumer
Nominee: The myth of segmentation
Nominee: Janus and the changing face of pricing research
Nominee: Feelings you can bank on
Nominee: Digital characters
ESOMAR Congress 2009 Awards
Best Paper Overall:
Winner: The longest day
Nominee: Advertising in times of crisis
Nominee: The ‘ANT’ and the grasshopper
Nominee: Information à la carte
Best Case History:
Winner: The future of work
Nominee: Launching innovations during economic slowdown
Nominee: Could I just ask you a few questions as you have sex on this park bench…?
Nominee: Integrating research in crisis management decision-making
Best Methodological Paper:
Winner: Evaluating social mission projects in emerging & bottom of the pyramid markets
Nominee: Me-to-we research
Nominee: More, more, more
ESOMAR Congress 2008 Awards
Best Paper Overall:
Winner: How Disney bridges the multicultural divide
Nominee: Anticipating Tomorrow’s Societal Change Today
Nominee: Kuschel, kuschel, kuschel
Best Case History:
Winner: Assessing shifts in shopper purchase behaviour
Nominee: Let it flow!
Nominee: Flood warning
Best Methodological Paper:
Winner: Loser, hero or human being
Nominee: The power of co-creation
Nominee: Getting animated about emotion
Nominee: You can’t judge a book by its cover!
ESOMAR Congress 2007 Awards
Best Paper Overall:
Winner: If 'We' not 'I'...Then what?
Nominee: Finding and developing new talent
Nominee: In search of excellence
Best Case History:
Winner: Training the next generation
Nominee: Back on track
Nominee: Evolution of beauty: Dove case study
Best Methodological Paper:
Winner: Using faces
Nominee: A quest for answers
Nominee: Dancing with inspiration
Nominee: Scalpel or hand grenade?
ESOMAR Congress 2005 Awards




