Bangalore, India, October 1, 2019: Borderless Access, the digital market research company, has announced the appointment of Max Czycholl, a market research expert with over 11 years of experience, as Vice President – Europe.

Flic-en-Flac, Mauritius, August 28, 2019: The 21st Pan African Media Research Organisation (PAMRO) conference, held in Flic-en-Flac, Mauritius, came to a conclusion on the 28^th of August with a ceremony that recognized the best papers presented at the forum this year.

While often portrayed ominously by Hollywood as the technology that will one day take over the world from humans, Artificial Intelligence (AI) in real life has proven to be capable of replacing humans, but in a manner that’s productive to us. This is due to AI’s ability to process massive amounts of unstructured datasets in a short time and extract useful information, discern patterns and carry out actions based on the analysis.

2019 has been a special one for everyone at Borderless Access for a couple of reasons. The first reason: This is our 11^th year, having celebrated our 10^th anniversary in October 2018. The second reason: We moved into a new office space in April 2019. The latter gave us freedom for the first time in 10 years to make certain environmentally-friendly decisions like never before.

The 2019 Indian Premier League generated the usual, high-level of excitement amongst its audience and engagement levels were naturally high. Not surprisingly, IPL 2019 attracted massive advertising interest on both traditional and social media platforms, with more than 90 advertisers pitching a myriad of brands and products.

Fast internet speeds and ever increasing data bandwidths around the world have spurred the growth of video streaming services. The video streaming market falls under two broad segments, ad-supported services such as YouTube and paid and subscription based platforms such as Netflix, Amazon Prime and other on-demand video platforms.

Borderless Access, the global digital MR products and solutions company, recently promoted Jason Tiffer as Senior Vice President - Sales (Americas).

The world today is exceedingly digital, especially with the internet, smartphones, the internet of things and machine learning playing a major role in connecting people and brands alike. Global smartphone penetration is expected to reach 40% by 2020 – a truly staggering figure in terms of a sheer number of people with smartphones.

Market research has evolved dramatically over the decades. It started with Paper and Pencil interviewing (PAPI), a quantitative data collection method. With computer becoming prevalent, methods such as Computer Assisted Personal Interviewing (CAPI) and Computer Assisted telephone Interviewing (CATI) took over.