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Screens connect us, serving as teachers and giving access to concerts, news, and captivating images, all without distance being a barrier.
How to Make Sense of What My 4-Year-Old Watches? Semiotic Mapping of Six Animated Children’s Series
4 min readSemiotic Mapping of Six Animated Children’s Series
Going Beyond the ‘Exotic Aisle’…
4 min readEthnic food moves past monolithic with a new wave of seasonings, spices and condiments that are as big in personality as in taste
Think consumer decisions are always completely rational? This article describes how consumers can be influenced by false information; jingles and rhymes; and appeals to nature.
Brand experience (BX) and customer experience (CX) reflect the emotions consumers feel with your brand, influencing their perceptions, reviews, and loyalty.
The COM-B model helps understand and influence customer behavior, supports the growth of behavioral science in business, and increases the likelihood of audiences acting on research findings as well as clients commissioning proposals.
EV sales are slowing, raising uncertainty about their future. We know less about the psychological factors influencing consumer choices, which are crucial for a product's success.
Changing customers’ behaviour is notoriously difficult to do. However, incorporating academic behaviour change models like the COM-B model into primary, as well as secondary market research can help immensely.
Knowing when to use behavioural science is not always easy. This article summarises three prime opportunities for your organisation.
Explore the impact of COVID-19 on businesses worldwide and discover strategies for resilience and insights from the REACT study on business adaptation.
The Science of Joy
6 min readToday's news is full of the cost-of-living crisis, climate-induced disasters, wars, corrupt politics, and global bad news. These constant negative influences have depleted the world's joy levels.
Does your year of your birth really hold the key to your buying habits and to how you approach your work? Many marketers are adamant that it does, and the results of their work back it up.
How digital ethnography is critical to understanding the changing world of food and beverage
6 min readDigital ethnography has rapidly become a powerful tool for understanding consumer insights and motivations. For the food and beverage industry, it can deliver more precise, enduring, and actionable insights.
Applying cognitive psychology models to marketing research ‘Beyond Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs’
6 min readAs consumer behaviour evolves with the changing paradigms of brands, technology and customer experience, the constructs of understanding consumer perceptions and motivations also need to evolve.
From zero-party data to the gaming gender divide, we find out how consumer's mobile app behaviour can give us new insights.
Mobile behavioural data is critical in the quest for human understanding - and for businesses seeking to stay ahead of the competition and remain relevant.
Empathy and its link to EBITDA
7 min readIn a world where consumers say that they wouldn’t care if 74% of the brands they use disappear and feel that less than 27% of brands improve their lives and well-being, the need to bond more closely with consumers is becoming more urgent.
Consumer behaviour in the era of AI
2 min readIn this episode, we delve into the pressing challenges businesses face in attracting new customers in the post-COVID world.
Culturally, we’re in a decidedly teenage era. So why do consumers behave in specific ways and buy certain product categories and brands?
Researchers value ethics and standards of quality, but to generate the best data possible, we need also to be kind.