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Human-centred Research.
Outcome-focused Insight.

We help ambitious brands create, launch and grow great things with transformative research and inspirational insights.

Research to amplify value…
for people and brands.

Waveform is an independent full-service market research and insights consultancy. We equip our clients with the audience knowledge, insight and empathy they need to amplify value - for their users and their brand.

We blend creative qual and quant research solutions with human-centred strategic frameworks to power the Creation, Launch, and Growth of propositions, products, and experiences that truly resonate with markets and audiences. 

Amplifying value

HOW WE HELP

Our custom research projects surface the answers, insights and empathy needed to fuel creativity, shape smarter strategies and craft more meaningful experiences. Discover how…

Market Research to Create

Create.

OUR RESEARCH HELPS BRANDS…

Navigate markets and build audience empathy, to create valued propositions and meaningful brand experiences.

Our Create insight services:

  • Usage & Attitude Studies (U&As) | Market orientation & trends | Jobs to be Done (JTBD) | Demand & Problem Spaces | Category Entry Points (CEPs) | Ethnography & diary studies

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  • Target audience identification | Ideal Customer Profiles (ICPs) | Market & Customer Segmentation (Value-based, Needs-based, Behavioural) | Persona development | Segment strategy and activation

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Launch

OUR RESEARCH HELPS BRANDS…

Market Research to Launch

Inform and test propositions, experiences, strategies and campaigns to ensure a successful launch.

Our Launch insight services:

  • Value Proposition Development | Product-Market-Fit | Concept & Proposition testing | Market Sizing | Ideation & Co-creation | User trials & testing | Creative testing

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  • Go-to-Market Strategy | Price optimisation | Range optimisation | Conjoint studies

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Grow.

OUR RESEARCH HELPS BRANDS…

Market Research to Grow

Evaluate and enhance brand experience, journeys and communications, to grow customer acquisition and retention.

Our Grow insight services:

  • Brand health tracking | Brand equity | Customer Satisfaction | Voice of the Customer | Advertising effectiveness

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  • Customer Journey Mapping | Acquisition & retention strategy | Loyalty drivers

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Supporting ambitious brands of all types & size

WHO WE HELP

Start ups. Scale ups. Global brands. Not-for-profits. Consumer. B2B. We support organisations of all types and size, united by a desire to grow by adding value to peoples’ lives.

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Digital, Media,
Tech & Telecoms

Services &
Subscriptions

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Travel &
Leisure

Retail &
Consumer

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Public sector
& Not-for-profit

Streamlined & systematic

HOW WE DO IT

We blend skilled insight teams, innovative research tech and creative strategic thinking to uncover and amplify opportunities with every project.

Based in London, with a global network, our experienced collective of creative market research consultants, award-winning fieldwork partners, and cutting-edge tech platforms scale to meet each unique insight need.

Quantitative and qualitative. Market research, Audience research and User research. One-off projects and tracking programmes. UK and International. Each of our projects is creatively crafted to meet each unique insight challenge.

    • Sprint insight communities

    • Diary studies

    • Mobile ethnography

    • User interviews & testing

    • Video surveys

    • Workshops

    • Behavioural Science

    • And more…

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    • Market surveys

    • User / customer surveys

    • Segmentation modelling

    • Conjoint, MaxDiff, Card sorting

    • Kano & Outcome Driven Innovation

    • Pricing analytics & models

    • And more…

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Research & Insights - updated for a digital-first world.

We combine innovative tech, human-centred thinking, and the craft of discovering and delivering actionable insights to enhance the impact of research.

OUR APPROACH

Human-centred

People - their lives, needs, motivations, behaviour and experiences - are central to our work. We leverage Design Thinking and Jobs to be Done to help brands better understand and add value to peoples’ lives.

Outcome-focused

Each project is crafted for action, providing the inspiration, knowledge, and evidence to create valued products, launch engaging propositions, and grow successful brands.

Streamlined-research

Our team creatively apply tech & AI to speed up and lower the cost of research, without compromising on the insight process, participant authenticity or output quality.

Project examples

  • Informing online radio listening strategies

    We helped talkSport, Virgin Radio and Times Radio identify the forces that influence online and smart device listening behaviour vs. traditional broadcasts.

  • Defining Video streaming Jobs-to-be-Done

    We provided fresh insights into the needs of UK TV & Video users using the Jobs-to-be-Done framework to support the growth of the ITVX streaming service.

  • Brand Experience tracking for eBike hire company

    We enabled an eBike sharing company to understand and monitor how its brand and communications are performing vs competitors within the competitive London market.

  • Proposition evaluation & development

    Partnering with digital agency AKQA, we helped global automotive brand Ford identify which features and benefits of potential membership propositions would resonate best, across five international markets.

  • Informing subscriber retention strategies

    We helped DMG Media’s digital news brand i News to identify the factors across product, content, features, communications and UX that would maximise the loyalty of its subscribers.

  • Market & Customer segmentation

    We partnered with ITV to develop two integrated segmentation solutions, created to drive product and marketing strategy for its video streaming service, ITVX.

  • Insights to boost EdTech platform subscribers

    We helped innovative EdTech brand Immersify to develop product, marketing and UX strategies to boost platform subscriptions

  • Evaluating Software Brand Experience

    We helped a photography software brand to understand how it was performing in an increasingly competitive international market.

  • Optimisation of TV promotional offers

    We helped Sales Promotion Agency OPIA to optimise the promotions and creative it used instore to encourage purchase of TVs from a major international manufacturer.

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  • "We were so impressed with their ability to understand our insight requirements and their vast experience. Waveform helped us land an extremely complex project and meet a range of differing stakeholder needs."

  • "Waveform fully understood our brief. The research delivered was high quality and full of actionable insights. It was great to work with the team!"

  • “Waveform helped us understand our market like never before. Super important work and actionable insights delivered at speed, with support all the way."

  • "Waveform's service was second to none. Their attention to detail, expertise and professionalism was like no other. Highly recommended!"

  • “The team consistently deliver great research. I can always depend on them to deliver innovative solutions to inform new product areas with useful insights.”

  • “Great way of working with the team and a proactive approach. A great debrief with high-quality slides and good-story telling to bring the data to life and into context.”

  • "They took the time to fully understand our needs. The outcome was incredibly insightful and they came up with a lot of suggestions that we are still implementing!"

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