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Agile Market Research and Testing: Everything You Need to Know
Agile market research and testing is not a new phenomenon. But how can it help insights pros conduct research more efficiently? Let’s answer that question.
Mastering the art of data storytelling: insights from experts
Watch a lively panel discussion with 4 industry experts on the art of data storytelling. Learn how they craft compelling stories that will drive business impact.
Synthetic data: definition, benefits and risks
Synthetic data generation, a hot topic in the research world at the moment, has captivated attention due to its potential impact on the industry, from removing bias from data collection to speeding up the fielding process. What is synthetic data? Synthetic data is...
Commerce Media: Navigating the future of advertising
Dive into the future of advertising and discover how commerce media is revolutionizing targeted marketing, driving conversions like never before.
Dig Perspectives: Patrick Lambert on DIY vs. Automated Research
Patrick told us a bit about his role and shared his thoughts on the debate around DIY vs. automated research.
Dig Perspectives: Jill Orum on Why Great Research and Storytelling Speaks to Business Impact
Jill Orum speaks about why great research needs to speak to business impact.
Dig Perspectives: Cheryl Hung & Elizabeth Nowicki on the role of women in research
Cheryl Hung and Elizabeth Nowicki, VPs at Dig Insights, joined us to share their personal experiences of working in the market research industry as women.
Dig Perspectives: Neha Yadav & Sasha Pitchenko on Being a Working Parent
Neha Yadav, Associate Vice President at Dig Insights, and Sasha Pitchenko, Market Research Manager, share what it’s like to be a parent working in business and research.
Dig Perspectives: Brad Klippenstein on Developing Standardized Research Solutions
We spoke to Brad Klippenstein, Vice President at Dig, about his work in building automated solutions.
Dig Perspectives: Samantha Muscia on Building Confidence As a Researcher And Mother
For this year’s #MothersDay, we chatted with Samantha Muscia, VP of Insights at Dig, about how she became more confident as a research pro and mom.
Agile Tracking: A Case Study on American Politics
Traditional tracking is expensive and difficult to action. By asking North Americans about their political choices in 2020 and 2023, we wanted to demonstrate Upsiide’s tracking strengths.
The Power of Design Thinking for Product Development
Design thinking can be used in product development to create innovative and disruptive products that solve consumer problems. Here’s how.
How a Culture of Innovation Can Improve Your Innovation Process
For any successful innovation process, it is essential to create an innovation culture. We’re sharing tips for cultivating that innovation mindset within your team.
How to Avoid the Pitfalls of Using a Stage-Gate Process for Innovation
Are you struggling to get new products to market? You might need to re-evaluate your innovation process. This article explains some drawbacks of using the stage-gate process and we offer tips for mitigating the problem.
Research Best Practices: Designing Open-Ended Questions to Get Richer Answers
Crafting good open-ended survey questions is an art. Here are 3 simple tips and examples for writing great open-ended questions.
Research Best Practices: Agile Research for Business Innovation
Agile market research is a BIG buzzword. This article explains what it is, like really, and lays out 3 ways that agile market research is useful in business innovation.
6 Benefits of Modernizing Your Research Stack
Research technology has evolved. That’s why you need a modern platform to meet today’s market research standards.
Jobs-to-be-Done: What It Is, Why You Need It, and Who It’s For
What is a job to be done (JTBD)? Why will the JTBD framework, or knowing your customer’s job, help you innovate effectively?
How to use idea screening and refinement for successful innovation
You’ve collected a bunch of innovation ideas but don’t know how to choose the right ones? This post tells you all about how to do idea screening surveys.
How to create an innovation pipeline filled with winning ideas
How do you source ideas for your innovation pipeline and how do you prioritize the most important ones? Follow our step-by-step instructions to find out.
The challenge of developing an effective innovation strategy in CPG
Creating an innovation strategy is hard and this post tells you all about why this happens.
How to use AI in market research: practical applications from the experts
Explore the transformative power of AI within the insights industry, revealing its pivotal role in shaping research methodologies, sparking innovation, and revolutionizing product development.
How to Democratize Insights: Inside the Minds of Insight Leaders
This report pulls together key insights and recommendations from business leaders at the likes of PepsiCo, Home Depot, Ocean Spray, Coca-Cola, and more.
The unfolding evolution of consumer packaged goods: challenger brands vs market leaders
Delve into the evolution of industry titans and the rise of disruptive innovators in the Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) industry.
“Is That a Good Score?” How to Answer The Big Question
You’ve conducted your research, you’ve got the data. Now, how do you know whether your idea did well? This article about our work with Hershey’s explains it all.
How to craft a trade story that retailers will love
Telling a powerful trade story is the most effective way to get your CPG brand’s products onto retailers’ shelves, and into consumers’ baskets.
Embracing the future of market research with AI: our journey so far
Artificial intelligence isn’t going anywhere. Discover how our team embraces AI to streamline innovation and transform market research.
Tracking Innovation Performance | Reinventing Reinvention Guide
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.
Refining and optimizing ideas | Reinventing Reinvention guide
Discover our tips for refining and optimizing your ideas and how we replicate genuine shopping experiences at Dig to gather more accurate consumer data.
Testing Innovative Ideas | Reinventing Reinvention Guide
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.
Identifying Innovation Opportunities | Reinventing Reinvention Guide
How do you come up with innovative ideas? Discover how insights folks identify opportunities today and learn tips from our senior leaders.
Nailing Foundational Research | Reinventing Reinvention Guide
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.
Reinventing Reinvention: 3 Pillars of Successful Innovation
Building an innovation process is hard work. We share 3 things your business must nail to start innovating efficiently.
Is Agile Brand Tracking Possible?
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.
Data Storytelling: The 3 Ingredients to Maximize Impact
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.
The Future of Qual
Our predictions for the gold standard for qualitative research in 2023 and beyond.
How to Democratize Advanced Analytics and Why It Matters
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.
What does automation mean for insights and market research?
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?
The Benefits & Limitations of Automation in Market Research
Learn about the benefits of automating some of your tactical research. And discover the challenges of automating strategy.
eatbigfish’s 7 Tips for Marketing Sustainability as a Challenger Brand
Mark Barden, a partner at strategic brand consultancy eatbigfish, shares his tips to incorporating sustainability as a challenger brand.
How to Build Sustainability Into Your Brand Marketing: Interview with eatbigfish
An interview with Mark Barden, a partner at strategic brand consultancy eatbigfish, about building sustainability as a challenger brand.
How to Build a Shock-Resistant Insights Function: Q&A with Coca-Cola
An interview with Coca-Cola’s Global Director of Shopper & Channel Insights about how to innovate and build a shock-resistant insights function.
Innovation, informed: why new product ideas fail, how to beat the odds, and what success means
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.
Here’s Why The Respondent Experience Needs to Change
The global pandemic has forced companies to embrace a predominantly virtual way of understanding target audiences.
Storytelling in Research Must Speak to Business Impact
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.
Here’s Why You Need to Scale Research Expertise to Automate DIY Research
We think the cake mixes act as a perfect analogy to explain the debate between DIY vs automated market research.
Automation was estimated to replace 30% of jobs by 2030, and that was before COVID-19 hit.
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.
COVID-19 Was A Surprise — What Comes Next For Business Is Predictable
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 — Part Two: Mother Knows Best
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.
The elusive nature of Neural Nets — part one: baby steps
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.
The business impact of being a corporate LGBTQ+ ally
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.
Leveraging behavioural data & the death of the research panel
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.
You’ve got culture right if you are afraid of losing it
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.
Happy together: the future of market research & data science
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.