Learn the full definition of claims testing in market research and how brands assess their message ideas to make better decisions.

Optimize, not cannibalize with flavor, pack, and claims testing tools.
Serve up actionable insights with menu optimization and flavor testing tools.
Brew up the perfect portfolio with optimization, and claims and flavor testing.
Freshen up your insights with pack assess, claims testing, and portfolio optimization.
Message testing, concept assess, and omnichannel insights… *adds to cart*.
Understand real impact with consumer insights that mimic consumer behavior.
Understand your potential market share with product and message testing.
Using our OTAP tool, we analyzed 300 sports-watching memories and discovered key topics that shape sports advertising today.
Logo testing is a necessary skill that can come in handy anytime. We’ve created a step-by-step guide to testing logo ideas for your brand.
For the third consecutive year in a row, Dig Insights has made the Top 10 in Greenbook’s GRIT Business & Innovation Report.
Toronto, Ontario – Dig Insights is delighted to have been named as one of Canada’s Top Growing Companies for the fifth time by The Globe and Mail.
Telling a powerful trade story is the most effective way to get your CPG brand’s products onto retailers’ shelves, and into consumers’ baskets.
Artificial intelligence isn’t going anywhere. Discover how our team embraces AI to streamline innovation and transform market research.
If you’re struggling to understand why concept testing is so important, we’ve created a list of concept testing examples that succeeded and failed.
Tracking how an innovation performs after it’s launched is something that companies tend to overlook. Read on to learn why this shouldn’t happen and learn handy tips for tracking your innovation.
Discover our tips for refining and optimizing your ideas and how we replicate genuine shopping experiences at Dig to gather more accurate consumer data.
The most successful products solve consumer problems. Want to learn how to test out ideas that will do just that? This article is for you.
A logo is a company’s visual identity. To demonstrate the power of a memorable logo, we compiled a list of the best company logos to inspire you.
Being sustainable is great. But communicating sustainability to your customers with the right words takes skill. We surveyed consumers about what matters to them when it comes to sustainability in retail, and how their beliefs influence their purchasing habits.
How do you come up with innovative ideas? Discover how insights folks identify opportunities today and learn tips from our senior leaders.
Laying the foundation for innovation research isn’t what it was like before. Our senior leadership shares how this stage of the innovation process changed over time and offers tips for doing it the Dig way.
Building an innovation process is hard work. We share 3 things your business must nail to start innovating efficiently.
Discover the latest insights into North Americans’ adoption and attitudes towards Buy Now Pay Later services in our new study.
How should you structure the survey or phrase the questions? That’s what this post is all about – developing concept testing survey questions that work.
Why do you need concept testing in marketing research and how can it help your brand? Here are 5 reasons why you should start testing your concepts.
Everything you need to know about the concept testing definition, how to use it and what methods you can use to create your first concept testing survey.
We tested members of the the royal family to demonstrate Upsiide’s agile brand tracking, a new way of tracking brand likeability and associations dynamically.
Last year Taco Bell opened a new out-of-this-world drive-thru restaurant in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota, which they called Taco Bell Defy. The restaurant is two stories tall and features a range of new things: digital menu boards, touch-screen kiosks with an...
The ability to tell a good data story is more important – and challenging – than ever. We look at the 3 essential components to an impactful data story and how interactive dashboards can create them in real-time.
We surveyed North Americans to learn how they use different devices as a second screen and why they’re so distracted by their phones.
Our predictions for the gold standard for qualitative research in 2023 and beyond.
Technology and a pandemic forced heavy adoption of restaurant, grocery, and meal kit delivery services. But now that lockdowns are over, how are consumers ordering food? Learn how to retain, regain, and attract new consumers.
Beringer Capital (“Beringer”), a leading North American private equity firm specializing in the information, marketing, and technology sectors, is proud to announce it has acquired a majority stake in Toronto-based, Dig Insights (“Dig”).
Just because you automate your advanced analytics capabilities doesn’t mean you’ll be able to democratize them. But automation is the start of getting democratization done. Learn about how Dig Insights invests time and technology into automating and democratizing analytics and why it matters.
Sustainability matters. But which claims do consumers actually care about? We’ve undertaken in-depth research into how consumers view sustainable practices as a whole, and how this translates to purchasing behaviour with on-pack claims.
The pandemic drove massive increases in the adoption of food and grocery delivery and meal kit services, forcing us to think differently about how and where we purchase food. But, as we wade through a post-lockdown world, will consumers keep having food delivered at the same rate?
Automation speeds up repetitive and predictable manual tasks to get insights faster. But is that in the form of survey templates? Or is it more about insight generation?
Learn about the benefits of automating some of your tactical research. And discover the challenges of automating strategy.
An overview of our recent study on how inflation impacts American and Canadian consumers.
Dig Insights and Upsiide brand relaunch
Mark Barden, a partner at strategic brand consultancy eatbigfish, shares his tips to incorporating sustainability as a challenger brand.
An interview with Mark Barden, a partner at strategic brand consultancy eatbigfish, about building sustainability as a challenger brand.
An interview with Coca-Cola’s Global Director of Shopper & Channel Insights about how to innovate and build a shock-resistant insights function.
We ran a survey using Dig’s automated research platform Upsiide. The study was run with 1000 people in Canada and the USA to understand what cultural foods mean to them, and why they try foods from different cuisines.
We’ve created a comprehensive report that outlines the key innovation trends to fold into your business this year (based on experts), and tangible examples of what these trends look like in practice.
The global pandemic has forced companies to embrace a predominantly virtual way of understanding target audiences.
Telling a concise, coherent story is what separates good research from mediocre research. And the thing that kicks the story up a notch is when it speaks to business impact. But telling a data-driven story that relates to business impact is often done poorly for many reasons.
We think the cake mixes act as a perfect analogy to explain the debate between DIY vs automated market research.
Upsiide, the innovation insights platform created by Dig Insights, has recently completed their Service Organization Control (SOC) 2 Type 1 Certification.
Idea Split reimagines the experience of performing monadic research, making it easy to use Upsiide at more stages of the innovation process.
We’re so proud to announce that Dig Insights and our Upsiide platform have ranked 9th on the GRIT list of the Top 50 Most Innovative Suppliers for 2021, another year in the top 10.
Dig Insights is excited to announce the winners of our Dig-BIPOC Leaders of Tomorrow Scholarship, Lisa Alleyne and Faryal Shehzad.
Ever since the outbreak of the pandemic, the term “Asian” has been closely associated with COVID-19.
We’re thrilled to announce that Dig Insights has been recognized as one of the fastest growing companies in the Americas by the Financial Times and Statista.
With excitement and anticipation, we’re announcing that Dig Insights is realigning its executive leadership to support continued growth and success.
Dig Insights places No. 259 on The Globe and Mail’s second-annual ranking of Canada’s Top Growing Companies
Upsiide – Dig Insights’ innovation insights platform – was developed by the agency’s research and data science pros. It’s on the Upsiide platform that our clients conduct Idea Screening.
Now as we look at the effects of COVID-19 on labor-intensive businesses, it is safe to assume that 2030 timeline may have just been pushed up significantly and an even greater number of jobs will be at risk of automation as businesses race to protect themselves from pandemic-type events in the future.
No one can say with confidence how long this pandemic will last or what the long-term effects on the public psyche will be. What is pretty clear is that we’ve already crossed the line in-terms of being able to forecast a global recession.
The elusive nature of neural nets is, in many ways, similar to that of the thought process of young children. After finding this, I worked to develop a system to manage the juvenile actions of AI.
A curious example of a machine’s creative solution-ing was an image classifying DNN (deep neural network) which classified nonsense images as real and recognizable objects with very high confidence.
Dig Insights wanted to find out just how much of an impact these corporations’ support and visibility during Pride have on consumer perception and buying behaviour.
We partnered with Dynata and spoke to 1000 Torontonians about their awareness and perceptions of Pride and its sponsors.
The National Coffee Association launched their rebranded and updated 2019 National Coffee Data Trends (NCDT) Report. Dig Insights has partnered with NCA to create five new breakout market research reports to supplement the annual tracking report.
Insight Innovation Exchange is a tech-focused research conference that wrapped-up at the end of April. This was my second time attending (first time in Austin), and I thought I’d share a few takeaways and observations, which I believe are relevant for Dig Insights, as well as the marketing research industry overall.
People are happier here than they have been elsewhere. How do we know? Regular satisfaction surveys, Glassdoor reviews, and open feedback let us know that we have stayed as true as we can to the values we subscribe to as a company.
Ian Ash, one of the co-founders of Dig, provides his point of view on a trend that will impact research in 2019: the marriage of market research and data science.
Every company now wants to be a tech company or at least feel like a tech company. As a result, the idea of agile innovation and innovation sprints has moved into even the most conservative legacy companies. Actually, it’s often those companies that are most enthusiastic about bringing a bit of tech energy to their workplaces.
Dig Insights recently launched Upsiide, a mobile-first idea screening app. The primary purpose of Upsiide is screening ideas to identify which ideas are most / least appealing (among the total sample and specific sub-groups).
How has Covid-19 impacted the way people in Canada are purchasing food delivery and takeout? This data-driven report explains all
Reports /We set out to understand how the dramatic rise in inflation that has occurred since early 2021 is impacting consumers both practically and emotionally. We were driven to provide...