Acquisitions/transactions
Research firm The Futurum Group has agreed to acquire B2B marketing services firm Visible Impact.
Information services company Informa has acquired B2B information provider Winsight. It will join the Informa Connect division.
Agricultural insights company Kynetec has acquired price and retail monitoring company MQ Solutions.
Customer engagement platform Braze has entered a definitive agreement to acquire North Star, its reseller in Australia and New Zealand.
Automotive customer data and experience platform DAS Technology has acquired automotive marketing solutions and technology company 3 Birds to expand its analytic data sets, AI and data mining capabilities.
AI SaaS company SymphonyAI has acquired data management and analytics provider 1010data to expand its AI capabilities in retail, CPG and financial services.
M3 Global Research has acquired Kantar's health care assets Kantar Media Healthcare Research and Kantar Profiles – Health.
Agricultural insights company Kynetec has acquired data gathering and analytics company Systematics International to expand its global machinery data and analytics capabilities.
MarTech platform Wondrlab has acquired a majority stake in salesforce consulting and data analytics company Cymetrix to improve its customer transformation and technology capabilities.
Online survey and research services company QuestionPro has acquired PathosAI to add to its insights, CX and market research capabilities.
Customer experience platform Cyara has acquired voice of the customer platform CentraCX to improve its VOC and customer feedback capabilities.
Technology and services company Triton Digital has acquired analytics and automation platform Manadge.
Data observability company Bigeye has acquired Data Advantage Group.
Data and AI company Databricks has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire generative AI platform MosaicML.
Alliances/strategic partnerships
Consulting firm AlixPartners and AI software company NAX Group have created a strategic partnership to build a growth platform.
Comscore and media technology platform Adlook have partnered to improve advertising insights across multiple devices.
ShopFully and MEDIA Central Group have merged to create a drive-to-store marketing platform for retailers and brands.
Digital insights company Verve and experience management company Alida have partnered to offer clients software and insights services.
Digital insights company Cint and market researcher Forsta have partnered to fight survey fraud and to improve data quality and security for the market research industry.
Appness Technology has partnered with data analytics company DataHub Analytics.
Research firm Toluna has partnered with financial services firms Legal & General and Phoenix to create the Consumer Duty Consortium to develop a standard for meeting requirements for the new regulations from the U.K.'s Financial Conduct Authority beginning on July 31.
Advertising measurement company VideoAmp and information and insights company TransUnion have partnered to release a cross-platform analytics solution for media measurement and optimization.
Clemson University’s Social Media Listening Center has chosen customer experience management platform Sprinklr’s research product suite Sprinklr Insights to conduct research for local organizations and to improve academic research with social media data and insights.
Incentives platform Tremendous has launched an integration with automation company Zapier.
Consumer insights platform Suzy has created a strategic partnership with the Market Research Institute International and its academic partner the University of Georgia.
Search intelligence platform Captify has partnered with ad platform Good-Loop to allow advertisers to track and reduce the environmental impact of their online ad campaigns.
Qualitative insights company Q2Q Global and panel company Netquest have partnered to improve their range of services and tools.
Insights company Cint has partnered with direct-to-consumer digital entertainment company Publishers Clearing House to increase its respondent supply.
Are Media has expanded its partnership with market research company Roy Morgan to gather audience insights from its social media channels.
Havas Media Network and attention measurement company Adelaide have launched the Meaningful Ad Unit to help brands deliver effective media experiences.
Video analytics company Streamhub and audience measurement solutions company RSMB have partnered to create a cross-platform metric for the viewing of linear and streamed TV.
Lumen Research and end-to-end emissions measurement company Scope3 have launched a carbon measurement tool to track the carbon cost of digital advertising.
Johnsonville has implemented knowledge management platform Lucy across its consumer, customer and product insights and marketing departments.
Awards/rankings
B2B data and services firm TechTarget has named its 2023 EMEA Archer Award winners. To view the full list of winners visit www.techtarget.com/techtarget-archer-awards.
Performance marketing company NP Digital has received the 2023 Performance Marketing Agency of the Year award from Performance Marketing World.
QRCA has launched its tenth annual Young Professionals Grant offering qualitative researchers a free year of membership and registration to its 2024 Annual Conference. To apply visit www.qrca.org/ypg.
Newsweek named insights platform PureSpectrum on its 2023 Top 100 Global Most Loved Workplaces list.
UserTesting’s Human Insight platform and UserZoom's UX Research platform have been named as leaders in The Forrester Wave: Experience Research Platforms Q2 evaluation.
Discuss has been named as a Strong Performer in The Forrester Wave: Experience Research Platforms Q2 2023 – The Seven Providers That Matter Most report.
B2B data and services firm TechTarget has been named a Leader in account-based marketing by analyst and consulting firm Quadrant Knowledge Solutions for the second consecutive year.
Market intelligence solutions and services company M-Brain has been named as a Leader in The Forrester Wave: Market and Competitive Intelligence Platforms Q2 2023 report.
The Australian Data and Insights Association and ESOMAR have named Alice Harris and Jack Ryan as the 2023 Research Got Talent award winners.
The Market Research Council has named Diane Hessan and Reg Baker as winners of its annual Hall of Fame awards. Hessan will be inducted as an active practitioner and Baker will be inducted as a retired practitioner.
The Market Research Council has named Dan Quirk as the winner of the Change Maker award and Vanessa Oshima as winner of the Research Ambassador award.
The Canadian Research Insights Council has named Emma Power and Theresa Boulos as winners of the 2023 Research Got Talent competition.
Women in Research has opened nominations for its 2023 WIRe MRX Diversity Champion award. To apply visit www.womeninresearch.org/mrx-diversity-champion-award.
Great Place to Work and Fortune magazine have named customer experience management platform Sprinklr in the Best Workplaces in New York 2023 list for the third consecutive year.
New companies/new divisions/relocations/expansions
Aspect Viewing Facilities has opened a facility in Manchester.
Ralph Risk has launched marketing services consultancy R.R. Marketing.
Experience management company Qualtrics has opened its EMEA headquarters in Dublin.
Media measurement solution MindProber has rebranded as Mediaprobe.
Andrew Postell has launched qualitative recruitment firm The Qual Recruiter.
Research and strategy firm Pierrine Consulting has opened an office in Kenya and in Ghana.
Dynata has expanded its survey-based monetization platform inBrain to the APAC region.
Ian Murray and Andrew Tenzer have launched brand and marketing consultancy Burst Your Bubble.
Consumer insights and market research solutions provider TraQline has renamed its market share and consumer insights data solution as Durable IQ.
Insight consultancy Basis has launched Ideas.AI, a business using AI to gain insights.
Havas Media Network has launched CSA, a new brand to improve ROI through analytics and machine learning solutions and to help clients' understanding of customer data. It has appointed George Papandreopoulos to oversee the brand as global managing director.
Momentive will return to the SurveyMonkey brand name.
Media measurement, data and analytics software platform DoubleVerify has expanded its business operations to the Philippines, Indonesia and Vietnam.
Consumer intelligence company NielsenIQ has expanded its Brandbank solution to the United Arab Emirates and the Philippines.
Research agency davies+mckerr has become an employee-owned company.
Research company earnings/financial news
Customer lifecycle management platform Successeve has raised $2 million in its seed funding round.
SaaS software company Groopit has closed its $3.5 million seed funding round led by WestRiver Group.
Data collaboration platform LiveRamp has released its fourth-quarter and fiscal year results reporting revenue of $149 million and subscription revenue of $121 million for Q4. It reported revenue of $597 million and a GAAP gross profit of $426 million for its fiscal year.
Data products company DataOps.live has raised $17.5 million in its Series A financing round.
Pricing and assortment data company Datasembly has raised $16 million in its Series B round of funding.
HR intelligence platform HR DataHub has raised £1.4 million to improve its platform and increase its staff size.
Audience targeting solution Covatic has raised $5 million in its Series A funding round led by Praetura Ventures.
Loyalty management and customer engagement technology solutions company Capillary Technologies has raised $45 million in its Series D round of funding from a consortium of global investors.
Analytics and AI solutions company Course5 Intelligence has raised $53 million in its funding round led by Nuvama Private Equity.
Beehive AI, an AI platform for consumer research, has raised $5.1 million in its seed funding round led by Valley Capital Partners.
Insights platform Yext has released its first-quarter results reporting revenue of $99.5 million and a gross profit of $78.1 million.
Customer interaction analysis company Glyphic AI has raised $5.5 million in its pre-seed funding round.
Professional services company Accenture will invest $3 billion in its data and AI practice over the next three years to help clients advance their use of AI.
B2B predictive intelligence company 6sense has raised $100 million in debt financing from Silicon Valley Bank.
Analytics software company Interrodata has raised £2.2 million from Fuel Ventures to expand its Analytics-as-a-Service offering