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Knowing when to use behavioural science is not always easy. This article summarises three prime opportunities for your organisation.
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.
Culturally, we’re in a decidedly teenage era. So why do consumers behave in specific ways and buy certain product categories and brands?
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.
Explore the impact of COVID-19 on businesses worldwide and discover strategies for resilience and insights from the REACT study on business adaptation.
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.
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.
Researchers value ethics and standards of quality, but to generate the best data possible, we need also to be kind.
Why insights professionals should stop blaming consumers for the sustainability say-do gap. Part 2.
3 min readThis is the second half of our article on sustainability say-do gap. Part 1 explained why we shouldn’t hold consumers responsible for it. In this second part, we look at where we should focus our efforts.
Why insights professionals should stop blaming consumers for the sustainability say-do gap. Part 1.
5 min readThose pesky consumers. If only they would really do what they say they will – buy the sustainable product, do the recycling, eat a plant-based diet – we would be able to save the planet, right?
An eye-watering nine million adults in the UK are economically inactive. The UK is the only G7 country still with a smaller economy than pre-COVID.
Gen Z blah, blah, blah
5 min readOh good. Another article espousing the secrets of persuading young consumers.
New privacy regulations, lockdowns by big players like Apple and Google, and general consumer skepticism about sharing personal data are having profound impacts on audience understanding.
A focus in market research studies is sometimes on understanding customer or prospect optimal communications channels for hearing about a new, or existing, product or service.
The Illusion of Choice: 16 1/2 psychological biases that influence what we buy.