New York, June 18, 2010 – Social Media is an inexpensive and potentially explosive medium that tempts advertisers with the possibility of “going viral”. However, Vision Critical and Angus Reid Public Opinion CEO, Angus Reid warns leading brands at the Backlash Blues Event on June 15th to tread lightly with social media and stay mindful of projecting brand confusion in the marketplace. Reid’s research shows that most people still form their opinions from what they see in traditional media. Jack O’dwyer ... | Read More

Vision Critical and Angus Reid Public Opinion™ are hosting a breakfast discussion in New York, June 15th at the Bryant Park Grill.  The meeting will feature results from a recent ReputationPlus study that shows what the Backlash Blues mean to your company and your business.  Attendees will discover the latest crop of corporate bad boys and find out which companies and sectors are winning the battle for reputation and why. ReputationPlus, is a diagnostic reputation measurement and management approach that provides ... | Read More

By Andy Morris, Research Director of Angus Reid Public Opinion’s UK practice Today, The Economist has released the results of a ground breaking poll from Angus Reid Public Opinion, the public affairs practice of Vision Critical. For the first time in Britain—and only the second time anywhere in the world—we have conducted a voting intention poll by showing voters the ballot as they will see it in their constituency. Names and parties appear in an online question with the respondent marking ... | Read More

London, April 29, 2010 - Angus Reid Public Opinion, the public affairs practice of Vision Critical, has made history with Real Ballot™ - the first online national voting intention survey that shows respondents each one of the candidates who are running in their constituency. The Real Ballot poll, conducted for The Economist, allows voters in Great Britain to select their preference using an electronic ballot that mirrors the one they will actually cast on election day. Real Ballot eliminates ... | Read More

London, January 18, 2010 – Vision Critical’s® public affairs division, Angus Reid Public Opinion (formerly Angus Reid Strategies) has been voted the #2 “Pollster of the Year” by a pool of 2,200 readers of Iain Dale’s Diary – a popular UK blog. Iain Dale is one of Britain’s leading political commentators. He appears regularly on TV and radio, but is best known for his political blog. The Pollster of the Year ranking was part of Iain Dale’s end-of-year awards voted ... | Read More

New York, January 15, 2010 – Companies like Coca-Cola, Nike, L’Oreal and Microsoft may or may not be making significant climate change and sustainability efforts, but the reality of those efforts are lost on consumers. That’s one of the findings of a new study, entitled MapChange 2010. The study, commissioned by Vancouver-based green innovation brand agency, Change, was conducted by Vision Critical’s® global public affairs practice, Angus Reid Public Opinion, and non-profit company Climate Counts. Angus Reid Public Opinion surveyed ... | Read More

For the third consecutive time, the British National Party gains a point. The Conservative Party maintains a large advantage in Britain, as the two other major parties appear locked in a tight race for second place, a new Angus Reid Public Opinion poll conducted in cooperation with PoliticalBetting.com has found. Voting Intention Across Great Britain, 39 per cent of decided voters and leaners (+1 since early November) would cast a ballot for the Conservative candidate in their constituency if a General Election were ... | Read More

Respondents side with the notion of holding this particular trial in a military tribunal instead of a federal court. Over two thirds of people in the United States want a group of Guantanamo prisoners allegedly involved in the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, to face the death penalty if convicted for their crimes, a new Angus Reid Public Opinion poll has found. Five men who have been held at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility in Cuba—including alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh ... | Read More

Fears of contamination have subsided significantly across the country. As the H1N1-Swine Flu pandemic seems to be levelling off in Canada, fewer people are contemplating the need to get vaccinated against the flu, a new Angus Reid Public Opinion poll has found. In the online survey of a representative national sample of 1,005 Canadian adults, just under a quarter of the population (23%) claims to have been immunized against the Swine Flu. Three quarters of Canadians (77%) have not been vaccinated yet. ... | Read More

Most respondents believe illegal immigrants take jobs away from UK workers, and call for their deportation. A new Angus Reid Public Opinion poll has found that immigration is clearly in the minds of British voters as the next General Election draws near, and while several proposals developed by the governing Labour Party enjoy support, the public expresses a preference for the Conservatives on this particular file. In the online survey of a representative sample of 2,006 British adults, 67 per cent of ... | Read More