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Introduction
The Service
Case Studies
Market Research
Tenders
Testimonials
IPA Publications
Introduction
The IPA Information Centre provides an enquiry service for member agencies, normally providing research within 48 hours from the initial briefing. The content we provide can assist with competitive reviews, branding, company/people information and lifestyle news, as well researching all sorts of wonderful, weird and wacky facts that you never knew you wanted to know!
There are two Information Executives within the department:
Sian Bateman
Maureen Gonsalves
Requests can be briefed by email — info@ipa.co.uk or by telephone on 020 7235 7020 (please ask for the Information Centre). The office is normally open for telephone calls between 9.00 to 5.00, Monday to Friday.
The Service
A wide variety of resources are used to answer research briefs, including the LexisNexis news database*, Brand Republic, McKinsey etc., marketing and advertising books, official statistics, trade publications etc. and the web/online resources.
* Member agencies are entitled to 5 free LexisNexis news database searches per month. Additional searches are charged at £50 each.
We also provide a wide range of material via this website, including Books of web links , Rankings and links to external Surveys . You can look at our FAQ page if you're unsure of any aspect of our service.
Case Studies
Papers submitted to the IPA Effectiveness Awards competitions since 1980 have been compiled and indexed to form the IPA case study dataBANK, a sophisticated database tool enabling multi-field searching, combining criteria such as product category, media used, increases in market share etc., through to complex cross-tabulations of qualitative and quantitative effectiveness measures.
Cases are now available for download from this site. You can go to the main holding page for these or see an alphabetical list at our A-Z Directory by choosing 'Content Type' and then selecting 'Case Studies.'
Members can download up to 12 IPA Effectiveness Awards case studies per year for free. Additional case studies can be purchased at £25 each.
We are currently working on a major indexing programme for this content, including brief descriptions and keywords; this material is being updated continually.
If you have any queries about downloading case studies from the IPA site please contact the Information Centre team.
Collections of the winning papers are also available from this site, including the renowned Advertising Works series of books.
Market Research
We can download market research reports for members through our agreement with MarketResearch.com Profound. Our market research service service enables us to download tables, sections or entire market research reports for members. We charge at cost plus an additional 10% search fee.
Tenders
The IPA Information Centre runs a free service to UK and European tenders for business. The tenders are published every day from Tuesday to Saturday by the Official Journal of the European Union (OJEU) and we retrieve tenders that may be relevant to our member agencies. There can be a period of 8-12 days between a tender being released and it being officially published, and the date of official publication is always at least one month before the closing date of applications. These tenders are posted on the IPA web site every day, normally by 1pm. Please view Tenders by clicking here. If you wish to receive our daily Tenders alert, please go to your 'Account Details' then select 'My Subscriptions and Alerts' and click the Tenders box. We'll then send you an alert each day when the tenders have been loaded.
Testimonials
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"...this is marvellous, I now feel far better equipped to get a handle on this area. I'm always extremely busy and it's a huge boost knowing I can sometimes get external support. Delivery time was perfect. Thanks again, IPA info team!" - Mike Spencer, M&C Saatchi
"A huge thanks for all the information you provided, it's given us a great deal of useful information and insight, and all delivered in perfect time. I look forward to using the IPA team again soon!" - Emma Campbell, The Union |
You can view a full list of testimonials from users of the Information Centre here.
IPA Publications
IPA publications can be orderd online from this website. Please send all publications queries to Adah Parris on adah@ipa.co.uk