Our Thinking

Productive Creativity in CPG Innovation – Testing to Validate, not Create
Why do poor performing ideas go through rounds and rounds of iterative testing, wasting time and money? Phil Norminton, VP of Insights & Partnerships explains how using objective data and relevant stimulus makes creativity productive.
17 - Mar - 23
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14 - Jul - 19
Lactose - beer's latest unlikely ally?
Why has lactose beer become 'a thing'? For decades, lactose was largely on the periphery and only discussed in craft beer conversation, usually in relation to milk stouts. Now a shift is being seen and lactose is rising on the beer product agenda, with adoption in products previously considered unacceptable.
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08 - Jul - 19
Korean Beauty: Spotlight on Centella Asiatica
Centella Asiatica – also known as Asiatic Pennywort, Tiger Grass or Gotu Kol – is a herbaceous, perennial plant native to the wetlands in Asia. For centuries it’s been used in cooking and for medicinal purposes.
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08 - Jul - 19
Innovation
The rise of the anti-inflammatory trend
Traditionally we’d tend to think of anti-inflammatory as a type of medication, like aspirin or ibuprofen, for alleviation of physical ailments like sports injuries. As we’re seeing with so many other health-related trends, the conversation around anti-inflammatories is now significantly broadening - not only in application but category expansion too.
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08 - Jul - 19
Consumer Behaviour
What is Hallyu and why has it become such a big trend?
Hallyu, a term we may not be familiar with by name but certainly are by output, is a Chinese word literally translating as “Korean Wave”. It refers to the transcendence and increasing popularity of South Korean cultural exports, firstly picked up by countries such as China and Japan, and now more recognisably across Western countries too.
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28 - Jun - 19
Consumer Behaviour
Throwback to predicting a bonanza BBQ weekend for Tesco
The sun is out, so it's likely the barbecues will be too. Which got us thinking about one of our early projects for the UK’s biggest retailer Tesco.
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28 - Jun - 19
Data science
How we adapted our datasets to Turkish and Russian
Our unique trend prediction tool Trendscope ingests millions of Social data conversations from sources all over the world. And our datasets are constantly growing.
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28 - Jun - 19
Uncategorised
Trendscope™ 3.0: Introducing Dynamic Trend Clustering
We’ve recently launched Trendscope™ 3.0 – the newest version of our trend prediction tool. Trendscope™3.0 brings a host of new features, and I’m going to dive into one of them here: our new Beta feature Dynamic Trend Clustering.
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28 - Jun - 19
Marketing 
The story behind our new bold brand
After a busy few months of planning, designing, writing, refining and testing, we’re delighted to reveal our bold new website and brand identity.
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07 - May - 19
Consumer Behaviour
PepsiCo & Trendscope's partnership is more than just crisp flavours!
Read about how PepsiCo have used our Social Prediction capabilities to not only decide the flavours of their new crisps, but also to inform their marketing decisions too.
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07 - May - 19
Consumer Behaviour
Social Prediction: The evolution of social listening
Read about Social Prediction and how we can help you make important marketing decisions, in Hugo’s article in Marketing Week.
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06 - Dec - 17
Data science
When's the best date to go Christmas shopping?
Our HR Director Rosie asked our Data Science Director Dick Fear to use data science to figure out when the best day in December is for Christmas shopping. Here’s what Dick had to say.
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06 - Nov - 17
Innovation
Is It Time To Start Innovating Innovation?
Will Silverwood asks – as consumer voices become louder, and reviews more powerful, is it time we started Innovating Innovation?
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