Vikram Sehgal

VP, Research Director - Data serving Customer Insights PROFESSIONALS

Vikram leads the forecast team, which is responsible for producing all forecasts within M&S research. He is focused on the consumer commerce areas including retail, travel, and financial services. He is keenly involved in understanding the evolution of consumers' online behavior and technology adoption.

Previous Work Experience

Vikram came to Forrester Research through its acquisition of Jupiter Research, where he started in July 2000. Prior to Jupiter, Vikram worked at IRI, a leading market research company, where he worked closely with some of the leading CPG companies.

Vikram often appears on TV, radio, and comments in the press on the US online retail and travel industry. He has been quoted in The L.A. Times, Business Week, The New York Times, CNN Money, and American Banker. He has also appeared on CNBC, Bloomberg TV, and Radio, NPR, Fox Business News, and ABC.


Education

Vikram earned an M.B.A. from Virginia Tech and a B.Com from N.M College in Mumbai, India.

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    Report:Accelerate Your Social Maturity

    Assessment: The Social Marketing Playbook

    Customers and employees are becoming increasingly empowered by social technologies, dramatically changing the way they communicate and collaborate. To succeed in this new world, companies must make...

    • Downloads: 1910
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    Report:Forrester Research Online Display Advertising Forecast, 2012 To 2017 (US)

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    Online and offline advertising spending by marketers. Segments online display spending by pricing scheme, media format, and share of spending through ad networks. Includes historical data going back...

    • Downloads: 5
    • Comments: 3
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    Tool:Determine Your Level Of Measurement Maturity

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    Charts & Figures:Determine Your Level Of Measurement Maturity

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    Report:Digital Disruption Rattles The TV Ad Market

    New Consumer Viewing Behaviors Force The Industry Into A New Future

    Since its invention, TV has beaten back many challenges to retain its place as the king of the media plan. That won't change anytime soon, but the way advertisers plan and buy their campaigns will....

    • Downloads: 193
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    Report:The Digital Media Buying Maturity Framework

    Assessment: The Digital Media Buying Playbook

    Marketers fall into four categories of digital media buying maturity, based on their strength across their organization, planning and execution, measurement, and technology. This report of the...

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    Report:Deliver Transparent Returns On Your Marketing Dollar

    Business Case: The Marketing Mix Optimization Playbook

    Marketing mix modeling is a powerful tool that provides a holistic understanding of marketing performance across channels. With marketing mix modeling, marketers can positively affect business...

    • Downloads: 232
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    Report:Forrester Research Interactive Marketing Forecast By Industry, 2012 To 2017 (US)

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    Company spending on interactive marketing spending segmented by industries. Each industry's spending is further broken into the various components of interactive marketing: display, paid search, SEO,...

    • Downloads: 8
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    Report:Forrester Research Social Media Forecast, 2013 To 2018 (US)

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    Online social media spending by companies, segmented by spending on integrated campaigns, agency fees, display ads on social networks, and technology spending. Includes social spending directed...

    • Downloads: 2
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    Report:Create An Audience-Obsessed Digital Media Buying Practice

    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...

    • Downloads: 372
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    Report:Driving B2B Demand With Social Media

    B2B Marketers Must Focus On The Social Rather Than The Media

    When it comes to using social media to attract customers, business-to-business (B2B) marketers have focused more on the media than the social aspect. Today, B2B marketers use social media as another...

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    Report:Manage Your Marketing Mix Modeling Vendors

    Performance Management: The Marketing Mix Optimization Playbook

    Successful optimization of the marketing mix requires careful coordination of multiple data streams, generation of insights from marketing mix models, and careful review of budget allocation...

    • Downloads: 170
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    Survey:North American Technographics® Brand Compass Survey, Q1 2013

    Forrester conducted an online survey fielded in February 2013 of 4,575 US individuals ages 18 to 88. For results based on a randomly chosen sample of this size (N = 4,575), there is 95% confidence...

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      Report:Forrester Research Mobile Advertising Forecast, 2013 To 2018 (US)

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      Spending by companies on mobile and tablet marketing segmented by display, search, and social. Includes data on mobile Internet users and spending by company size as well as mobile video...

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      Report:Forrester Research Social Media Forecast, 2012 To 2017 (US)

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      Online social media spending by companies, segmented by spending on integrated campaigns, agency fees, display ads on social networks, and technology spending. Agency fees spending is broken out by...

      • Downloads: 9
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      Report:Boost Marketing Returns With Model-Driven Insights

      Tools And Technology: The Marketing Mix Optimization Playbook

      Marketing mix modeling is undergoing a transformation as marketers increasingly demand that vendors provide solutions that can be updated frequently, easily aggregate data streams, provide...

      • Downloads: 279
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      Report:The ROI Of Social Marketing

      Business Case: The Social Marketing Playbook

      The demand has never been greater for marketers to validate and measure the benefits delivered by their increasing investment in social media. Marketers often frame this question as, "What is the ROI...

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    • For Customer Insights Professionals

      Report:How To Make Social Media Data Actionable

      Processes: The Social Intelligence Playbook

      Social media provides customer intelligence (CI) professionals with a wealth of customer data. But every piece of valuable insight is surrounded by noise. Cutting through that noise and getting to...

      • Downloads: 2056
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      Report:Build An Empowered Media Buying Team

      Organization: The Digital Media Buying Playbook

      Long-term, digital media buying success requires a commitment to the right partnerships, staffing, and organizational structure. The organization report in the digital media buying playbook will help...

      • Downloads: 220
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      Report:Interactive Marketing's Isolation Must End

      Landscape: The Interactive Marketing Agency And Organization Playbook

      This report of the interactive marketing agency and organization playbook examines the landscape of organizational structures and agency relationships. Three common organizational models have...

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      The Social Marketing Playbook

      Master The Next Wave Of Social

      For the interactive marketer, social is both a huge opportunity and daunting challenge. You know you can reach your customers on social channels, but the environment is foreign— it's highly...

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        Report:Understand Communication Channel Needs To Craft Your Customer Service Strategy

        Consumers' preferences for customer service channels are rapidly changing. And it's not just the younger generation of consumers — there's disruption and change across all ages and...

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        Report:How B2B Marketers Use Social Now

        Emerging Trends In B2B Social Marketing For 2013

        Our data shows that social channels are key to the decision processes of your business-to-business (B2B) customers and prospects, so to avoid falling behind or missing emerging trends, you should...

        • Downloads: 101
      • For CMO Professionals

        Report:Become Scientific About Marketing Investments And Outcomes

        Road Map: The Marketing Mix Optimization Playbook

        Marketing mix optimization (MMO) has become an indispensable discipline for marketing leaders because it helps in effectively allocating marketing budgets across an increasingly fragmented media and...

        • Downloads: 270
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        Report:Profiling Brand-Loyal And Price-Conscious US Consumers

        A Technographics® Data Essentials Document

        Brand loyalty and price sensitivity guide consumers' purchasing decisions, but these qualities also create unique audiences that embody distinct social attitudes, technology engagement, and...

        • Downloads: 37
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        Report:Advance Through The Stages Of Mobile Maturity

        Road Map: The Mobile Marketing Playbook

        This report provides a road map for interactive marketers who are responsible for mobile marketing. As consumer mobile adoption balloons and as hardware, software, and interfaces evolve, interactive...

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