News and Media

RIWI Advisor Dr. Lawrence Spero’s article has just been published in the September 2013 issue of ESOMAR’s Research World magazine! He explores the correlation between mind reflex and nano-surveys, and how survey design can affect response rates.

“A few months ago a Canadian company with a funky name (RIWI? What’s a RIWI?) reached out to me to share what they were up to.  I quickly learned that the acronym that forms their name (Real-time Interactive Worldwide Intelligence) was no idle boast; these guys had developed a solution that was possibly the perfect […]

RIWI is honored to have won the award as the best new and disruptive technology at the Insight Innovation eXchange in Philadelphia last week on June 18th. RIWI’s Nano-Survey™ global data engine was the judges’ unanimous selection amongst the presenting finalists who had been selected from 17 global company entries. The Insight Innovation Exchange is […]

Imagined and organized by GreenBook, the Insight Innovation Competition helps budding entrepreneurs bring disruptive ideas to life, while connecting brands to fresh and untapped sources of competitive advantage through deeper consumer understanding.
RIWI Nano-Survey technology innovation in close competition with IBM-nViso as a leading market research insight tool at the Philadelphia Insight Innovation Competition. Voting ends May 28, 2013.

RIWI CEO Neil Seeman’s book on obesity policy and the proper role of government in fighting obesity — powered by RIWI data — cited by University of Michigan Law Professor James J. White in “Taxing the Platypygous” in the Michigan Journal of Law Reform

World-acclaimed medical ethicist Prof. Andrew Stark applies RIWI data and analytics on changing US attitudes toward end-of-life care in an essay for the US edition of the Huffington Post called “Susan Sontag, William F. Buckley, Jr. and Care at the End of Life”

RIWI cited in analysis by the global Branding Consultancy — Interbrand — questioning the value of “Likes” to generate social currency.

Core to RIWI values is social innovation. President Eric Meerkamper’s Centre for Social Innovation (CSI) launch in Manhattan — Eric is co-founder and Chair of CSI — gets profiled in Fast Company.

Very important and interesting data found in CEO Neil Seeman’s China Epidemic Report. The study tracked 7,016 Chinese “fresh” (i.e. non-panel based) Internet users – with a 24.08% response rate – over 20 hours. RIWI’s data revealed different levels of intensity of public awareness of the contagion (varying by region and by city) across China.

RIWI CEO Neil Seeman and academic colleague Karen Born publish on managing information in healthcare in a peer-reviewed journal: “Social Media in Healthcare: It’s So Five Years Ago?” See here.

RIWI CEO Neil Seeman quoted in The Toronto Star on the need for more real-time clinic inspection results data to be made available to the public. Click here to read.