Case Study: How Rep Data Helps Bauer Media Save Time and Improve Survey Data Quality
By Rep Data
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- Online Panel/Sample Exchange
- Data Analytics
- Integrated Data
- Survey Research
- Brand Tracking
Bauer Media, Europe’s largest magazine publisher, has a portfolio spanning more than 200 magazines and over 150 audio brands. Its research team relied on fully manual data cleaning across its survey programme. For each wave of its magazine readership tracker, the team reviewed every case by hand, checking response times, answer plausibility and open-ended responses. While dependable, this process took significant time and resources and offered no consistent, scalable standard across waves or panel providers.
After a test period, Bauer Media adopted ReDem, Rep Data’s in-survey response quality platform, across all its studies. Teams uploaded datasets after fieldwork and exported clean data, replacing manual case-by-case reviews with automated checks. Where the survey tool supported live integration, ReDem filtered poor-quality responses while the study remained in field, allowing the team to re-recruit respondents in real time. Bauer Media chose the platform for its user-friendly interface and compatibility with its existing quality checks.
Bauer Media’s magazine readership tracker runs six waves each year, with around 1,000 respondents per wave. Using ReDem, the team saved an estimated 10 hours per wave without reducing its quality standards. ReDem also identified low-quality cases that manual reviews had missed, including bot-like timing patterns. In a separate product-shipping study, live integration helped reduce duplicate addresses and incorrect returns.
“With ReDem’s AI-powered tool, we can clean data in real time while the survey is still running, accelerating the entire analysis process.” — Rolf Gagelmann, Head of Research, Bauer Media Group
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