Infographic: Quarantined Americans Turn Up Volume on Musical Instrument Adoption

As with most industries in America, the pandemic’s beginning looked bleak for the music business. However, notes of promise began to appear in early summer as more home-sequestered Americans seemingly picked up musical instruments. Not only did companies like Yamaha see sales explode with a flush of purchasers that appeared to be fresh to the market, but […]

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Who’s Wrapping Up Their Holiday Shopping Early?

This year we are using our polling platform to monitor consumer “shopping progress” through the holiday season. This data may be particularly important this year, since consumers for the past eight weeks have consistently told us that more of them plan to spend less this season compared to 2014: (The above chart reflects a sample […]

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How Are Consumers Reacting to Google’s New Privacy Policies?

A couple months ago, one of our crabby engineers (is that redundant?) loaded a question into our system testing Google’s famed “Don’t Be Evil” mantra to see if anyone actually believed they were, well, evil. We were particularly interested in looking at whether these numbers moved once Google implemented its new privacy policies last month. […]

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