Insights, Marketing & Data: Secrets of Success from Industry Leaders

May 21 2024
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Published in conjunction with InsightPlatforms.com...Learn how industry leaders use consumer insights and data to market, nurture and expand great businesses. We talk to innovators from across the eco-system - clients, agencies, platforms, financiers and tech providers - exploring the stories, thinking and people behind successful businesses in the space. New interviews every Wednesday UK time. Suggestions, questions or thoughts? Please send them through to [email protected]

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KANTAR - Amy Cashman, CEO, Insights Division, UK & Ireland. Shaping business strategy and the power of brand. The importance of client interaction, building product development processes; getting the right balance between measurement and advice.

May 21 2024 43 mins  
Send us a Text Message.A pleasure to have Amy Cashman on this week’s podcast. Amy is the CEO of Kantar’s Insights Division for the UK and Ireland. Obviously Kantar is one of the best known and biggest names in the insights industry but a lot’s changed in recent year. So, we get into all that and more, including Understanding how Kantar has evolvedBalancing corporate responsib

NIKE, Sarah Beachler, Senior Director, Consumer Insights. Adapting best practice from Nike, Meta, Google and Sephora. The importance of multiple consumer touch points; how to balance product and marketing research; advice for agencies.

May 08 2024 37 mins  
Send us a Text Message.A pleasure to have on Sarah Beachler in a really great chat. At the time of recording Sarah was Senior Director of Consumer Insights at Nike and formerly at Meta as Global Head of Marketing Research for Reality Labs, at Google as Head of Global Consumer Insights for Hardware, Retail and Gaming and Head of Market Research and Consumer Insights at Sephora.So, a

WHALAR - Gaz Alushi, President, Measurement and Analytics. Quantifying the marketing effect of the creator economy; lessons from Meta, Pinterest & Snap; how brands should work with creators.

Apr 24 2024 51 mins  
Send us a Text Message.So, how do influencers really contribute to marketing campaigns? How do you measure that impact and compare with other forms of media? Enter the perfect person to get under the skin of these issues…. Gaz Alushi, President of Measurement and Analytics at Whalar, one of the leading agencies in the creators space. Gaz is formerly of Meta, Pinterest and Snap an

YABBLE - Kathryn Topp, CEO & Co-Founder. Why the future is different: how AI and augmented data is going to change insights. Learning to work at the speed of thought; how Yabble 'generates data'; advice to make your way in the industry.

Apr 10 2024 39 mins  
Send us a Text Message.What are the practical ways AI is going to change research - not just in the future, but in the here and now? Arguably, there’s no one better to talk to on that front than Kathryn Topp, the CEO and co-founder of Yabble. As Kathryn describes, she and and her co-founder, Rachel O’Shea, introduced their first generative AI tool in 2020 with Open AI since ADD

ELEMENT HUMAN - Matt Celuszak, Founder & CEO. What's next for the attention economy and emotion AI? Strengths & weaknesses of facial coding data; introducing measurement for the influencer economy; the importance of great co-founders.

Mar 22 2024 55 mins  
Send us a Text Message.From stingrays and hot coals (listen to find out) to building one of the leading companies in facial coding, emotion AI and behavioral leading models, Matt Celuszak of Element Human has had quite a journey. Matt’s always astute, engaging and in this interview we get into the issues above and more, including Strengths and weakness of facial coding dataEvalua

THE INSIGHTS FAMILY - Nick Richardson, Founder. From two beers to two billion data points: the story of The Insights Family. Building a SaaS proposition in kids research; secrets of scaling successfully; key considerations for a founder.

Mar 17 2024 44 mins  
Send us a Text Message.The story of the pint that turned into two billion data points....well, two pints actually. However, since sitting down with a piece of paper in his favourite pub in Manchester in 2017, Nick Richardson has built arguably the world's leading syndicated kids' research company and recently raised a £5.6m funding round to fuel further expansion. Among other area

INSIGHT PLATORMS - Mike Stevens, Founder. How will synthetic data impact research and innovation? The three signs an insights company is going to fail (or succeed); augmented/ conversational survey software; the risks of banality in AI analysis.

Feb 29 2024 48 mins  
Send us a Text Message.Do we really need humans for insight? Will synthetic data grow or destroy the insights market? What on earth is synthetic data? Check out the latest FutureView interviews with the brilliant Mike Stevens of Insight Platforms to get a great overview of one the most important new areas that will affect everyone and anyone involved with insight and data analytics

STRAT 7 - Barry Brien, CEO. Can you really integrate data, insights and paid consultancy? Building a new type of agency group; a primer on how PE works; acquiring and on-boarding companies; the impact of AI on marketing vs insights.

Jan 30 2024 48 mins  
Send us a Text Message.STRAT 7 is a new type of insights, analytics and data group, specialising in customer centric growth. Since Barrie Brien took over as Group CEO in 2019 the group has grown rapidly, both through organic growth and acquistion. At the time of recording STRAT 7 incorporates Bonamy Finch, Research Bods, Jigsaw, Incite, Rainmakers and Crowd DNA. For anyone intrigue

NIELSEN - Tina Wilson, Group General Manager, Analytics Portfolio & Ecosystems. Navigating digital disruption; the three golden rules of data presentation; mentoring & crafting diversity in the workplace; & how to restore trust in the media ecosystem.

Jan 09 2024 55 mins  
Send us a Text Message.A great interviewee to start the new year - Tina Wilson, Group GP of Nielsen’s portfolio of Analytic Businesses and Ecosytem Partnerships. As most readers/ listeners will know, Nielsen is perhaps best known for its measurement currencies but Tina has overall responsibility for a major other business area: helping clients plan, evaluate and continue to optim

VOXPOPME - Jamin Brazil, CRO. Discover the 4 key filters for a successful new business/ product extension. Why qual will outgrow quant; how to shape data so it sticks; the role of a CRO.

Nov 27 2023 44 mins  
Send us a Text Message.If you’ve ever worked with a survey, attended a focus group, watching a video interview with a customer - or possibly even thought that there must be a better way to teach your kids maths - then you’ve probably worked with some of the companies Jamin Brazil has set up. Jamin was the co-founder and CEO of Decipher, the CEO of Confirmit, the founder and exe