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    Category Research in Days: Langston Landscapes Explained

    How Landscapes studies provide the breadth and depth needed to find growth, using the apparel basics category as an example.

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    Top AI Tools for Consumer Insights Teams

    Explore how insights professionals can use artificial intelligence to move faster, go deeper, and uncover what really drives consumer behavior

  • Shoppers on a busy walking street

    How to Understand Your Target Market Preferences

    Understand your target market preferences and uncover what truly drives decision-making.

  • Person typing on a laptop at a wooden table with a yellow sweater and bracelets.

    How to Conduct Effective Brand Health Assessment Studies

    Learn what makes a brand health tracker effective and how to ensure data quality and integrity in every wave of tracking.

  • Gen Z Shopping Trends and Habits for Retailers

    Gen Z Shopping Trends and Habits for Retailers

    Our latest insights into how Gen Z chooses between brands, and what retail insights leaders need to know.

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    Be Aware of "Awareness Theft"

    Consistency in brand tracking is key, and updates must be managed carefully to avoid Awareness Theft in a changing market.

  • Multi-level shopping mall interior with escalators, glass railings, and a central tree in an artistic planter.

    The Brand Funnel 101

    Funnels are a common way to quantify the relationship between individual brands and the mass market of potential consumers.

  • Two women sitting at a wooden table in a cafe, smiling and looking at a smartphone together, with drinks in front of them.

    Measuring the Simple Truth of Value

    The Simple Truth of Value says that “people buy and do things they perceive as being worth what they put in.”

  • Front entrance of an ALDI grocery store with a large logo sign, glass doors, and a digital menu board outside.

    Aldi, the German Grocery Store Taking Over America

    We estimate that over a half-million Americans pass through the aisles at Aldi every day, and the fervor for the grocery chain is growing like wildfire.

  • A man with tattoos on his arms crossing a city street during the day, wearing a white t-shirt, black pants, sneakers, sunglasses, and carrying a backpack.

    US Cities Scorecard for Millennials

    We partnered with Centiment.co to survey nearly 3,000 millennials across 22 major metropolitan US cities.

  • Person shopping for clothes in a store

    Micro Conversions: Tracking Smaller Behaviors Can Bolster Your Brand Funnel

    The small actions that consumers take during the process of building engagement with your brand are critical to your relationship with them.