When Einstein wrote about time being relative, he could have been writing about the new product development process (NPD). Nowhere has the very concept of time changed more than in the NPD cycle; while it was once acceptable to run a product through years of testing, a typical NPD cycle from ideation to launch is

Today Packaging Digest published an article on consumer sentiment in the UK regarding recycling grocery packing. The article featured exclusive data from a Toluna survey of 1,000+ respondents collected August 2018. In light of the signing of the UK Plastics Pact earlier this year with plans to remove single-use plastic from the supply chain, Toluna

CPG needs to adopt agile, “fast fail” approaches to new product development used by the software industry. Digital disruption comes in many flavors. We’re used to hearing about blue-chip household names upended by upstarts. We are also accustomed to stories of startups who “get” digital and mobile commandeering new touch points with consumers. But there’s

Tell us about your role at Toluna and how you got here? What galvanized you to join Toluna? I joined Toluna in 2009 when ITWP acquired the company with the aim of expanding into a new category of market research. At that point in time, I’d experienced the best of what the consumer insights industry

The old way of conducting market research is no longer viable in today’s world where marketing and advertising professionals need to execute campaigns at 10x the speed as they were done in the past.  We see the need not simply for the incremental improvement of market research or data collection – but a new way

Bringing a new product or campaign to market causes even the bravest of brand marketer to lose sleep. Juggling huge reputational and financial risks with pushing an idea past potential barriers based solely on your insights and intelligence – it’s not for the faint of heart. But when it all comes together, that’s where market

The forces brands struggle with in advertising are all too familiar. They include a landscape of fragmented audiences, media, and content that present obstacles in targeting, planning and buying. Companies also face brand safety and reputational threats including fallout to businesses whose digital ads appear on websites with views that clash with consumers – or