Roy Morgan

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Roy Morgan
Company type Private
IndustrySocial, political and market research
Founded1941;83 years ago (1941)
FounderRoy Morgan
Headquarters,
Australia
Area served
Australia, New Zealand, USA, UK, Indonesia
Key people
Gary Morgan, Executive Chairman;
Michele Levine, CEO
Products
  • Political polls
  • Social research
  • Market research
  • Media and web usage
  • Media planning data
  • Reactor (The Worm)
  • ASTEROID (Data Analysis Software)
Services Market research
RevenueA$40 million
Website www.roymorgan.com

Roy Morgan, formerly known as Roy Morgan Research, is an independent Australian social and political market research and public opinion statistics company headquartered in Melbourne, Victoria. It operates nationally as Roy Morgan and internationally as Roy Morgan International. The Morgan Poll, a political poll that tracks voting intentions, is its most well-known product in Australia.

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Foundation

The company was founded by Roy Morgan (1908–1985) in 1941; its Executive Chairman today is his son, Gary Morgan; CEO is Michele Levine. [1]

Commercial performance

The company has annual turnover of more than A$40 million, and along with the head office in Melbourne, also has offices in Sydney, Perth and Brisbane as well as offices of Roy Morgan International in Auckland, London, New York City, Princeton and Jakarta.

The results are published on their website and by media sources (newspapers, magazines, television, radio, the Internet and online subscription services such as Crikey and Henry Thornton magazine).

Products and services

Morgan Poll

The Morgan Poll is a political polling service that tracks the voting intentions of Australian voters, which caters for detailed demographic and geographic analyses of the results [2] and is widely reported. [3] [4]

The Worm

The company is a major provider of advertising and media planning data and undertakes large government, social and corporate research programs.

Roy Morgan developed the Worm , [5] which first appeared on live TV on the Network Ten political talk program Face to Face .

This leading Audience Response Measurement technology was colloquially described as The Worm because of the live graphs that snake their way over the television screen, displaying the audience's reactions to visual stimuli (like for example an election debate) in real-time. After being commissioned to provide The Worm to the Nine Network for a decade, Roy Morgan discovered that Nine had secretly registered 'The Worm' as a trademark. Primarily as a result of an ensuing dispute, Roy Morgan changed the branding from The Worm to The Reactor [6] in 2004 and continued to develop the product which is now primarily conducted online and via The Reactor mobile app.

Roy Morgan conducts the fieldwork for The Melbourne Institute's Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia Survey (HILDA).

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References

  1. Rachel Clun (21 November 2018). "Aldi is Australia's most trusted brand, as banks drop in favour". The Sydney Morning Herald . Retrieved 24 March 2022.
  2. "About Morgan Poll". Roy Morgan. Retrieved 24 March 2022.
  3. Bowe, William (22 March 2022). "Essential Research and Roy Morgan polls". The Poll Bludger. Retrieved 24 March 2022.
  4. Beaumont, Adrian (24 March 2022). "Mixed results for Labor in nine federal seat polls, but a national Morgan poll gives Labor a massive lead". The Conversation . Retrieved 24 March 2022.
  5. Archer, Lincoln; Porteous, Clinton (22 October 2007). "Rudd given nod in close debate". The Courier-Mail . news.com.au. Archived from the original on 13 February 2009.
  6. "Reactor". Roy Morgan Research. Archived from the original on 12 July 2022.