{"id":41849,"date":"2023-06-01T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-01T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.forsta.com\/resources\/news\/cint-and-forsta-form-industry-first-partnership-to-drive-a-reduction-in-survey-fraud\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T10:45:47","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T14:45:47","slug":"cint-and-forsta-form-industry-first-partnership-to-drive-a-reduction-in-survey-fraud","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.forsta.com\/resources\/news\/cint-and-forsta-form-industry-first-partnership-to-drive-a-reduction-in-survey-fraud\/","title":{"rendered":"Cint and Forsta form industry-first partnership to drive a reduction in survey fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>CHICAGO \u2013 June 1, 2023&nbsp;\u2013<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.forsta.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Forsta<\/a>, a leading global provider of market research, customer experience (CX), and employee experience (EX) technology, today announced&nbsp;a first-of-its-kind&nbsp;partnership&nbsp;with&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cint.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cint<\/a>, a global technology leader in digital insights gathering,&nbsp;to&nbsp;fight survey fraud and improve data quality and security&nbsp;for the&nbsp;market research&nbsp;industry.&nbsp;All Forsta customers&nbsp;using Cint&nbsp;will&nbsp;receive access to this secure environment, where ghost completes (also known as link jumpers) are expected to be&nbsp;effectively&nbsp;eliminated,&nbsp;by the end of June.&nbsp;This&nbsp;collaboration&nbsp;with Cint&nbsp;will&nbsp;eradicate&nbsp;a costly challenge and&nbsp;raise&nbsp;the standard for&nbsp;data quality in&nbsp;market research as a whole.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cGhost completes have been an issue in our industry. This technology helps us reduce fraud and increase&nbsp;security. With Cint&nbsp;and&nbsp;Forsta\u2019s&nbsp;technology directly connected&nbsp;via this&nbsp;server-to-server (S2S)&nbsp;integration,&nbsp;market researchers can expect high-quality sample to help them produce accurate research with ease.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Oscar Carlsson<\/strong> Chief\u00a0Innovation\u00a0Officer, Cint<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ghost completes occur when there is a false record of a respondent completing a survey that they have not actually completed. With ghost completes effectively eliminated, market researchers&nbsp;will benefit&nbsp;from&nbsp;a healthy and secure sample flow&nbsp;to their surveys. Panel suppliers will also benefit by avoiding distributing incentives for ghost completes.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cFor the last 25 years, Forsta has supported&nbsp;insights professionals with best-in-class technology&nbsp;to&nbsp;collect and report market research data. Our investment in this technology&nbsp;represents&nbsp;continuation of that commitment. With&nbsp;Cint as our first&nbsp;non-exclusive&nbsp;partner, we\u2019re thrilled to&nbsp;be bringing&nbsp;our&nbsp;market research&nbsp;customers the&nbsp;peace of mind that their&nbsp;time and&nbsp;resources&nbsp;spent on&nbsp;surveying panelists are producing quality data that drive&nbsp;intelligent insights.&nbsp;We\u2019re excited to bring this technology to the broader market research industry in the long term.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Tobi Andersson<\/strong> Managing Director, Forsta<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Learn more about Forsta\u2019s secure integration technology below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forsta.com\/eradicate-sample-fraud\/\">Eradicate sample fraud<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":26536,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"disable_featured_image":false},"news-location":[],"class_list":["post-41849","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.forsta.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/41849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.forsta.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.forsta.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.forsta.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/41849\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.forsta.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.forsta.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.forsta.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-location?post=41849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}