Digital technologies are rapidly changing the way businesses operate. There is an increasing demand for partially or fully digital products and services; companies interact with customers and supply chain partners through digital channels; internal processes and operations such as production or manufacturing or office management also rely on digital technologies.

As part of a multinational research team around Vijay Viswanathan, Tammo Bijmolt and Javier Sese, Professor Manfred Krafft and Dr.

Münster’s marketing scholars have added one more piece to the EWOM puzzle: Almost 20 years after MCM Professor Thorsten Hennig-Thurau published what became the seminal study on consumer articulations about products and services on the internet, a team of scholars from the Marketing Center Münster has shed more light on what can be easily considered the most powerful information source in today’s digital market environment.

In his recent publication: Metrics gone wrong: What managers can learn from the 2016 presidential elections, MCM scholar Raoul Kübler discusses together with his colleague Professor Koen Pauwels from Northeastern University, Boston USA how relying on biased market intelligence and targeting the wrong KPIs had fatal consequences for Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign.

Der Einstieg von Disney+ als erster Streaming-Dienst „Made in Hollywood“ setzt etablierte TV-Sender, insbesondere öffentlich-rechtliche, zusätzlich unter Druck. Aber auch Streaming-Giganten leiden unter der neuen Konkurrenz – zumindest in Sachen Sehzeit: Die Streaming-Marktführer verlieren bei Disney+-Adoptern knapp vier Prozentpunkte der Sehzeit im Vergleich zu Nicht-Adoptern; die Zahl der Abonnenten ist drei Monate nach Markteintritt (noch) nicht betroffen. Die Corona-Pandemie beschleunigt den Streaming-Trend: 50 bis 69-Jährige steigern ihre Streaming-Sehzeit um 15%.

The new study “Insight is Power: Understanding the Terms of the Consumer-Firm Data Exchange” has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Retailing. The paper has been co-authored by Professor Krafft and a multinational research team consisting of, among others, V. Kumar, Colleen Harmeling, Siddharth Singh, Ting Zhu, and Jialie Chen.