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Marketing research firms

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Marketing research firms

Marketing research firms help brands answer specific questions about audiences, channels, and creative by running structured studies instead of relying on guesswork or isolated campaign results. For gaming and iGaming, this means turning fragmented performance data into clear insights about players and their behavior.

In marketing tenders, such firms are often invited alongside agencies for tasks like brand health tracking, marketing mix modeling, and broader marketing research to support strategic decisions and evaluate campaigns. We focus on research that directly informs user acquisition, creator marketing, and media planning for games.

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In brief

  • We help gaming and iGaming brands run structured marketing research instead of relying only on raw campaign stats: from brand health tracking and MMM to creative and channel tests tied to UA and revenue KPIs.
  • You get clear answers for tenders and internal planning: what drives installs or deposits, how media and creator channels work together, and which messages actually move your priority player segments.
  • Our team speaks both research and performance marketing, so study designs, fieldwork, and analytics are aligned with your real business KPIs, not abstract metrics, and can be plugged into ongoing UA and growth programs.

What to do

As a marketing research partner, we close the gap between media execution and strategic insight for gaming and iGaming brands. Instead of scattered reports from ad platforms and tracking tools, we design studies that show how your brand, creators, and performance campaigns really work in the market. This includes brand health tracking to monitor awareness and perception over time, marketing mix modeling to quantify the contribution of each channel to installs or revenue, and ad hoc research to test concepts, creatives, and player journeys.

We build each project around your specific business questions: which channels to scale, how to optimize budgets across UA and creator marketing, what positioning resonates with core and casual players, and how offline and online activities reinforce each other. Our team helps you formulate hypotheses, choose the right methodology, and translate results into clear recommendations for tenders, annual planning, and ongoing campaign optimization.

For gaming and iGaming, we also pay attention to GEO specifics, platform rules, and internal compliance guardrails. Research outputs are structured so they can be integrated into your forecasting, cohort analysis, and KPI frameworks, helping you make risk-aware decisions about scaling campaigns and testing new markets without overpromising outcomes.

What to keep in mind

Marketing research is most effective when there is enough historical data and a clear scope. For robust brand health tracking or marketing mix modeling, you need stable campaigns, consistent measurement, and access to sales or conversion data such as installs, first deposits, or in-app purchases. If your media activity is highly fragmented or budgets change weekly, we will first help you standardize tracking and analytics so that research outputs are reliable.

Not every task requires a large, complex study. For some questions, like testing a few creative routes, comparing influencer formats, or clarifying audience motivations, lighter and faster research formats are more appropriate than full scale tracking or MMM. We always clarify what decisions you plan to make on the basis of the study and propose a design that matches your timelines, markets, and budget, so you avoid overpaying for data you will not use.

In performance driven environments such as gaming and iGaming, expectations around research can be very high. We are careful not to treat models as guarantees: results highlight patterns, risks, and opportunities, but they do not remove uncertainty. Our role is to provide grounded evidence you can combine with your product roadmap, UA strategy, and internal benchmarks to make better informed decisions.