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The Global Survey Group (GSG) is an international collection of autonomous community-based organizations who campaign for market research. Their marketing partners use subscriber feedback to make offers to the subscriber based on the area they reside in, and that of others who categorize in the same profile. GSG has been established since the 1950s. Global Survey Group is a forerunner for consumer data harvesting that Google and Facebook are today.

Defense contractor
The Global Survey Group is a defense contractor for the Pentagon since 1950, as a private intelligence agency who is devoted to the collection, analysis, and exploitation of consumer information, through the evaluation of public sources. When advertising boomed in the 1950s, GSG forwarded consumer survey information to the National Security Agency, established 1952.

Advertising boomed worldwide in the 1950s when television had a massive reach. Consumer consumption peaked at historically high levels, writes William H. Young in his book "The 1950s -- American Popular Culture Through History." Goods were no longer as scarce as they were during World War II, and they “flowed into the marketplace.” Credit was easy. Purchases could be made on "time." And advertisers were relentlessly urging consumers to "buy, buy, buy," writes Young.

Global Survey Group still operates today using globalsurveygroup.com as a platform for census data harvesting.

Workspace

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