The Insights Association, the leading nonprofit trade association for the insights industry, expressed "serious concerns that many phone calls and texts to consumers for the purposes of bona fide marketing research are being improperly blocked or labeled as spam by voice service providers and call blocking and labeling service providers."

The U.S. Supreme Court today struck down the 2015 government debt calls exception from the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA), which makes calling cell phones for research purposes legally hazardous, as a content-based restriction on speech. Dashing the hopes of many TCPA watchers built up during oral arguments, the decision in Barr v. AAPC left the TCPA overall intact

The Insights Association has been racking up advocacy wins for our members in the areas of pharmaceutical research, small business loan forgiveness, telephone research, and jury trial research.

The Insights Association, the leading nonprofit trade association for the marketing research and data analytics industry, criticized a Federal Communications Commission (FCC) proposal to change how the agency determines local television station markets, saying that it would “abandon accurate audience measurement research in favor of engineering exercises in signal strength measurement.”

Eighteen organizations, including the Insights Association, urged the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) "to clarify expeditiously" the Telephone Consumer Protection Act’s (TCPA) definition of

Decrying the "current opaque and unaccountable telephone environment," the Insights Association urged the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) "to make transparency and redress a priority, since

Insights Association comments to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on proposed regulations requiring call blocking across the U.S.

The Third Circuit Court of Appeal recently ruled favorably on a case relating to the 2017 Insights Association - AAPOR petition to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA).

If "litigators and courts can characterize a communication which might ultimately improve customer relations as an “advertisement” or 'telemarketing,' then there will hardly be any communication between businesses and customers which will not be subject to the TCPA’s telemarketing rules," the Insights Association recently told the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).

A new Congress means some new faces have taken charge of the marketing research and data analytics industry's policy interests in the Senate.