Acquisitions/transactions
Research and consulting firm The DRG has acquired ANA Research to improve its capabilities in the health care and health insurance industries.
Experience innovation company Valtech has completed its acquisition of digital transformation consultancy Kin + Carta.
Echo Research has acquired corporate reputation and brand research consultancy Reputation Dividend to improve its ability to deliver reputational intelligence solutions to its clients.
Ipsos has acquired online panel and data collection platform Crownit to digitize its offline research capabilities.
Alliances/strategic partnerships
Customer intelligence company Acxiom has released a strategic integration with health care advertising platform DeepIntent to improve health care marketing reach, impact and performance.
Automotive CX solutions provider TotalCX has added technology solutions distributor Sandler Partners to its partnership program.
Audio research and analytics platform Veritonic has launched an integration with app measurement and analytics platform AppsFlyer to improve audio campaign performance insights.
Qualitative research company QualifyAI has created an exclusive partnership with Firefish, allowing it to be the only research agency to use its platform for the rest of 2024.
Kantar has partnered with attention measurement company Adelaide to demonstrate the impact of attention on brand lift measures.
Consumer research company GWI has launched its Respondent Level Data solution on the Snowflake Marketplace, giving customers access to unaggregated consumer data to conduct advanced analytics.
Panel provider Netquest and consumer insights platform SightX have created a strategic partnership, integrating Netquest’s sample into the SightX platform.
The University of Manchester has signed a memorandum of understanding with behavioral science and technology company KultraLab Limited to strengthen its partnership through new research, development and knowledge exchange activities.
Data integration platform Rivery has partnered with analytics and business intelligence company Sigma to simplify data insights for non-technical users.
Research company Markelytics has integrated Velocity MR into its Markelytics brand.
Research company The Logit Group and its ResTech sister company Zamplia have created a strategic partnership with digital marketing and measurement company DM2 to create a data quality and integrity tool. Chuck Miller will serve as Logit and Zamplia’s senior data quality advisor.
YouGov and Havas have expanded their global data partnership to increase market coverage and to include Havas’ Village approach.
Advertising platform StackAdapt has partnered with TV technology and audience insights company Samba TV to integrate Samba TV’s first-party data set into its platform.
Awards/rankings
Research expert network Zintro has received SOC 2 certification.
Survey Healthcare Global won two Best of Business Intelligence awards from the British Healthcare Business Intelligence Association. It was awarded the Creative Fieldwork Team of the Year award and will share the Compliance Challenge award with Adelphi Research, Sermo and M3 Global Research.
Reputation research company RepTrak has recognized professional information and software solutions company Wolters Kluwer as one of the most reputable companies in the Netherlands.
HEC Montréal has awarded an honorary doctorate to Jean-Marc Léger, president and CEO of Leger Marketing.
Research platform Discuss has been named a winner of the 2024 APPEALIE SaaS Awards in the Analytics and Business Intelligence category for the third consecutive year.
New companies/new divisions/relocations/expansions
Marketing communications firm The Bliss Group has opened an office in London.
GMO Research has rebranded to GMO Research & AI.
Ipsos will relocate its Hong Kong office on May 13. It will not change its contact information.
Savanta-owned shopper insights agency Explorer Research has expanded into the U.K., opening its immersive lab experience in London.
Sawtooth Technologies has rebranded to WinCati Solutions and has discontinued its conjoint analysis and related analysis consulting services to focus on servicing its CATI customers. Sawtooth Software will assume the Sawtooth.com domain name and will continue to provide survey platforms and analytical consulting services.
Focus Forward Transcription has rebranded to Wordibly.
Amy Spencer, Karine Pepin and Nikolitsa Siegel have launched The Research Heads, a qual/quant insights agency.
Research company earnings/financial news
Trend-tracking and prediction technology firm RIWI has released its 2023 financial results reporting revenue of $4.18 million. RIWI also acquired the majority of survey and data collection platform CoolTool’s assets.
Qualitative research company Glaut has closed its $1.4 million pre-seed round of funding.
Comscore has released its first-quarter financial results reporting revenue of $86.8 million, down from $91.6 million in Q1 2023. It also reported a net loss of $1.1 million and an adjusted EBITDA of $8.1 million.
AI survey company Fairgen has raised $8 million in seed funding.
Dynata has begun a prepackaged Chapter 11 filing in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware. The transaction, supported by the required percentage of Dynata's lenders, will result in a voluntary write-down of almost 40% of its total debt from approximately $1.3 billion to $780 million in exchange for the first and second lien holders to own 100% of the equity in the company. The process is limited to Dynata's U.S. entities and all foreign businesses remain unaffected. Dynata aims to have the repackaged plan confirmed by early July.