Research to help brands…

Connect. Deliver. Resonate.

We provide affordable full-service research to assess and track brand performance and uncover fresh opportunities to add value.

People-centred brand tracking.

Consumers don’t spend their time thinking about brands. When they do, they only care about what brands can do for them: the value they can add to their lives, the experiences they enable and how they make them feel.

Today’s thriving brands get this. They take a people-centred approach to understanding brand health. It’s the lens they use to enhance propositions, experiences and communications. It’s how they become the brands of choice - for more people, in more situations.

At Waveform, we help people-centred brands like these assess, track and improve performance. Find out how...

OUR APPROACH TO BRAND TRACKING

Bespoke. Full-service. Affordable.

Our brand tracking services plug the gap between rigid self-service tools and expensive enterprise level contracts.

Self-service automated tracking solutions are often too generic and leave the hard work of making sense of the results to the client. The alternatives are proprietary enterprise solutions, that come with big commitments and exorbitant price tags. For many brands neither of these options fit their needs.

At Waveform, we deliver a smarter alternative for monitoring and assessing the performance of your brand. Agile, affordable and AI enhanced but also bespoke, expertly delivered and action-focused:

Automated platforms

  • Self-service (Do It Yourself)

  • Off-the-shelf brand frameworks

  • DIY analysis and online data charts

  • No insight support

  • Mass market audience samples

  • Annual subscriptions

Enterprise platforms

  • Account managed & self-service

  • Proprietary brand frameworks

  • Automated online reports

  • Typically junior insight support

  • Syndicated audience samples

  • Long-term contracts

Waveform’s solution

  • Full-service research & insight

  • Bespoke brand frameworks

  • Insightful beautiful custom reports

  • Senior Insight support

  • Custom market samples

  • Pay per wave - one-off or tracking

  • Brand & category crafted

Each brand is unique. Proprietary frameworks & indexes won’t give you the edge.

Digital brand or physical brand. Tech brand or retail brand. Subscription brand or FMCG brand. Each category has distinct audiences and brand journeys.

We don’t do generic. Our adaptable approach flexes to focus on the indicators and performance metrics that matter in each product category, for different audiences and distinct brand ambitions.

  • Full-service quality, not DIY

Leave the effort behind. Get trusted reports & valuable brand insight without the effort.

Self-service brand tracking solutions are often inflexible, churning out standardised data-heavy reports that are light on insight and leave the hard work for you.

Our team design, set-up and manage the research in full. They produce insightful, ready-to-present reports that save you days of work and ensure you overdeliver for your stakeholders.

  • Making quality cost effective

Quality & impact at a price that works for all - from challenger brands to category leaders.

From complex online reporting tools to always-on surveys, from brand workshops to irrelevant benchmarks, the brand research space is full of costly add-ons.

We focus on what matters - actionable insight and data. Blending 20+ years experience with innovative solutions, we balance quality and affordability. And, if you do want the extras, we can do that to.

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

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STRONG FOUNDATIONS

An adaptable framework

Like consumers themselves, we aim to form a holistic picture of the brand experience. This means tracking the full spectrum of drivers of brand choice and adapting these to the dynamics in your market.

  • We start by identifying what matters for your brand and category: Your audience. Your competitors. Category needs. Gut vs. considered purchase journeys.

  • We deliver the crucial foundations, from Awareness through to Advocacy. We’ll tell you how well known you are, what you are known for and when or where you are considered.

  • We employ the latest smart thinking in brand growth - from Category Entry Points to Jobs-to-be-Done - to unlock opportunities to enhance performance.

  • We adapt the solution to the needs of your brand - your first brand health snapshot, quarterly waves or monthly tracking, ad-tracking bolt-ons, presentations or reports, it’s your choice.

WHAT WE MEASURE

Connect. Deliver. Resonate.

With over 20 years experience, we have built strong foundations for understanding brand health. But we’ve also learnt that off-the-shelf is always a compromise. That’s why we always adapt our approach to reflect the needs of each distinctive audience and brand.

Connect

DOES YOUR BRAND

Is your brand well-known and connecting with your audience?

Exploring the ‘funnel’ from Attention to Action. How engaged is your audience with your brand? When do they think of you? How are you viewed?

Example metrics:

  • Awareness: Top of mind, Spontaneous, Aided

  • Knowledge: Familiarity with product offering

  • Engage: Advertising recall, research, trial

  • Performance: Incl. Appeal, Distinctiveness

  • Emotions: Likability, gut feelings

  • Category Entry Points: Brand situational cues

  • Action: Consideration & choice vs. competitors

Deliver.

DOES YOUR BRAND

Does your brand deliver enhanced experiences for your audience?

How engaged are consumers with your brand? How well do you match their needs? Does your message standout?

Example metrics:

  • Usage: Channels, Features, Activities

  • Momentum: Frequency of use & changes

  • Experience gaps: Vs expectations / competitors

  • Performance: Features, Design, Value & more

  • Enhancing experience: Removes pain points

  • Ad effectiveness: Improving perceptions

Resonate.

DOES YOUR BAND

Is your brand important? Does it add value to consumers’ lives?

Does your brand have market-fit? How well does it meet category needs? Are users loyal? Do you have advocates? Would you be missed?

  • Jobs to be Done: Delivers desired outcomes

  • Market-Fit: Would the brand be missed

  • Loyalty: Would brand always be chosen

  • Advocacy: Receiving and giving referrals

Powerful. Engaging. Effortless.

We build a rich and robust picture of your brand vs. the market. We discover and amplify brand opportunities. We bring customers’ behaviour, experiences and needs to life.

WHAT WE DELIVER

Beautiful intuitive brand performance reports

Each project or wave you’ll receive an beautifully designed presentation report that intuitively brings to life your brand performance and the insights that can drive actions to improve to life.

Intuitive performance dashboard reports

No accounts to enable, software to learn or analytics to set-up. We provide intuitive PDF or PowerPoint based dashboards that cover the metrics, measures and audience cuts that matter to your brand.

Delivered by our team of brand research experts

No faceless automated solutions. Our research reports are delivered by a real team of experienced and collaborative researchers who will provide support and direction at every step.

Ready to amplify the value of your brand? We are…

Example prices

Price will depend on your audience profile and how often you want to track your brand. For a UK nationally representative audience you can expect the following.

  • One-off or annual snapshots:
    starting at c.£10,000

  • Bi-annual or quarterly tracking:
    starting at c.£8,000 per wave (2 to 4 waves)

  • Monthly tracking:
    starting at c.£5,000 per wave (12 waves)

Get in touch

We can be up and running, researching your brand in days.

BRANDS WHO TRUST US

Waveform clients: