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In her role as an analyst, Roxana focuses on technology's impact on the market research industry. She tracks emerging and innovative research methodologies, such as social market research, mobile research, neuroscience, and prediction markets, and helps clients understand how to incorporate them into their research mix and combine them with traditional research methods. In addition, she leads all the data innovation efforts at Forrester, where she tests and seeks to understand which data sources, research methodologies, and frameworks are appropriate to help clients gain an intricate, 360-degree view of the consumer.
She is also an expert on Latin American consumer behavior and technology adoption and is responsible for managing Forrester's Latin American Technographics® research. She frequently advises clients on entering the Latin American market, understanding Latin American consumer segments, and increasing their visibility in this fast-changing region.
Roxana has spoken at numerous Forrester events and market-research-focused conferences, such as the Insights Innovation Exchange, Future of Consumer Intelligence, Market Research in a Mobile World and The Market Research Event. In addition, she has spoken at several conferences specializing in understanding the Latin American market, including ESOMAR's Latin American conference, Portada's Pan-Regional Advertising and Media Summit, and Ciab FEBRABAN. Her research has been cited in AdAge, the UK's Research, and was also highlighted in the book Latino Link: Building Brands Online with Hispanic Communities and Content.
Since she started at Forrester in 2006, Roxana has specialized in advising research and clients on sound survey design and data collection methodologies and on using advanced analytic tools on our Consumer Technographics data as well as on custom research surveys. Prior to her current role, Roxana was a senior survey manager and previously a data advisor with Consumer Technographics. In both roles, she used her expertise to deliver value to clients of all industries, from consumer electronics to advertising and media companies, through customized analysis and application of Consumer Technographics data.
Roxana received her B.S. in psychology from The Florida State University and an M.A. in psychology from The College of William and Mary.
Marketing Gets Customized For Social, Local, Mobile, Multiscreen Consumers
Social is not a channel, and mobile goes beyond the smartphone. In 2012, marketers will get this concept and realize that their customer is truly "always on." The customer of 2012 expects customized,...
Hewlett-Packard, a leading technology provider with a global footprint, saw an opportunity to significantly improve its digital marketing efforts by creating a universal framework for user-level data...


Implement Self-Regulation For Behavioral Targeting To Protect Your Brand
An industrywide effort is underway to implement self-regulation of targeted display ads to ease consumer and governmental privacy concerns. Clear compliance requirements have been outlined by the...
Vision: The Digital Media Buying Playbook
Media buying technology and operations are undergoing a dramatic transformation — marketers are replacing traditional relationship-marketing tactics and opaque ad networks with programmatic...
Continuous Improvement: The Digital Media Buying Playbook
This report of the digital media buying playbook will guide marketers to think beyond the possibilities of programmatic media management in display; take them down the path to embracing programmatic...
Many online marketers are paralyzed by the murky unknown of the online display market. In a recent survey, we found that 51% say they are likely to simply continue buying the online media that they...
Why You Should Make Multichannel Measurement A Priority
Marketers measure digital channels in isolation from one another. However, consumers don't act within channels; they act across channels. Cross-channel measurement, a nice-to-have for most marketers...
Landscape: The Digital Media Buying Playbook
Interactive display marketing investment will grow at a compound annual rate of 17% in the United States between 2012 and 2017, while Europe's will grow slightly more slowly. Double-digit growth...

The days of the fun — but not very efficient — three-martini lunch are waning. A new breed of technology-centric tools and processes, such as those found in demand-side platforms (DSPs),...
Strategic Plan: The Digital Media Buying Playbook
Moving to greater digital media buying maturity requires a plan that improves your practice across all four foundational pillars of maturity over the long term: organization, planning and execution,...

Stay Ahead Of Privacy Legislation By Creating A Value-For-Data Exchange
Recent advances in audience targeting point to a digital marketing future that leverages consumer data to create personalized messaging and drive higher conversions. However, this potential is...
Maximize Display Effectiveness By Optimizing Your Approach
New upstarts like Dotomi and FetchBack have recently invigorated interest in the value of remarketing, but it's a tried-and-true display tactic that's been around for years. Marketers can...

MediaMath, Turn, and DataXu Vie For Top Honors
In Forrester's 48-criteria evaluation of demand-side platform (DSP) vendors, we found that MediaMath, Turn, and DataXu led the pack because of the breadth of their media access, the depth and acumen...
Executive Overview: The Digital Media Buying Playbook
Digital media buying is undergoing seismic change. Where there were once legions of junior staff managing relationship-based buys, there are now sophisticated real-time technologies. Participants...

Interactive marketers should integrate their search and display media. These channels have a natural affinity: Many marketers already use both channels and user experiences of search and display now...
Processes: The Digital Media Buying Playbook
As more and more interactive marketers buy digital media programmatically, the technologies and processes they use are rapidly maturing. Whether you're a digital media buying skeptic working to build...

Measurement is universally valued by interactive marketers. Approaches and levels of sophistication vary, but nearly everyone recognizes that smart measurement leads to optimized business results...
Segmentation has always served as a core underpinning of traditional marketing. The benefits are myriad and well understood by those in the offline world. The very recent advent of the data...
Digital marketers must embrace audience targeting to efficiently and effectively connect with their target consumers. But navigating the audience targeting vendor landscape — one increasingly...
The Ultra-Connected Customer Will Upturn Marketing
In 2013, the ultra-connected customer base will grow at a staggering pace, destabilizing marketing as you've come to know it. This report identifies the changes you'll see in your customers'...
Performance Management: The Digital Media Buying Playbook
Every digital marketer knows that measurement is important, but levels of sophistication run the gamut from basic click-based measurement of one or two channels to seamless cross-channel measurement...
