What exactly is visual merchandising? Eye-catching doesn’t even begin to describe the ability behind visual merchandising to adequately promote and market products that are all around us in the public realm. Colorful displays, clever...
Surveys are a great way to gather reliable and usable data. They can provide valuable insight into almost any topic. When you create a survey you should always go through a few rounds of edits and testing to ensure the survey design is...
Premise Data has a global network of Contributors who are paid to provide ground-level insights through Premise’s mobile app. As of January 2020, over 1.4 million on-the-ground local citizen Contributors are paid to answer surveys and...
Emerging markets face different challenges than developed countries. These challenges have led to volatile markets, with data that is constantly changing and affecting how business is conducted. Around 80% of the world’s GDP comes from...
January 4th is National Trivia Day in the U.S. At Premise, we have a great love for fun facts and data. Premise continuously collects data in over 75 countries about everything from the price of local goods to citizen sentiment about...
The Age of the Customer Years before it was widely accepted, Forrester Research, Inc., the notoriously famous market research firm, spotted the economic shift in power from a “business-centric model” to a “people-centric model” where...
While there are countless digital data sources, they do not always tell the full picture. Often times key pieces of information can only be observed in the physical world. That is why anyone who operates in the real-world needs to have...
What is Mystery Shopping? A mystery shopper is an anonymous consumer hired to provide an unbiased evaluation of your company’s operations through guided observation. The Types of Mystery Shopping There are four types of mystery...
We are continuing our global workforce spotlight series (which includes our country support specialists (CSS’s) and country managers) with Hassani. Our global workforce plays a huge role in our ability to manage hundreds of networks...
The Amazon Rainforest fires dominated international headlines a few months back, and the sad truth is that while the news stories have slowed and been pushed from the headlines, the fires have not stopped burning. Brazil’s National...
Often in business, as in life, we’re told to keep the big picture in mind by not getting bogged down by minor details—don’t lose sight of the forest for the trees. This outlook can help a company set its strategic vision or empower...
Digital transformation is unstoppable and inevitable. New technological trends are hitting every industry, and the retail market is no exception. Let’s explore some of the most expected trends that are going to have a prominent impact...
If having a beer to unwind after a rough day is your kind of happy hour, you’re not alone–in fact, beer is the world’s most beloved drink. Thanks to our obsession with data here at Premise–and the ability to easily survey...
If your consumer packaged goods (CPG) brand does not use measurement programs like mystery shopping or retail audits, it might be missing out on key pieces of crucial data. These programs specifically; Provide in-depth information...
We have a problem with trash. Not just in the U.S., but around the world. The piles are unsightly, to be sure, but the concern goes well beyond aesthetics. The issues relating to mounting waste include risks to public health, e.g.,...
At Premise, we have created a tight-knit team that is passionate, moves fast, appreciates candor and is ultimately focused on building technology that has a measurable human impact. To build a team like this we have looked for people...
We are continuing our global workforce spotlight series (which includes our country support specialists (CSS’s) and country managers) with Yasemin Dönmez. Our global workforce plays a huge role in our ability to manage hundreds of...
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 17, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — Data and analytics platform Premise Data announced today it will nearly double its employee roster by the end of the year. To accommodate the growth, Washington, D.C.-based staff will...
Have you ever collected data that was not fully utilized—maybe made it to a final report but never informed activities? Is the data you just collected now illuminating what you only wish you had asked instead? The international...
Do you believe in innovation? IIeX Asia Pacific was designed to introduce you to new ideas and connect you with the most future-focused market research pros from around the world. IIeX was designed to do three things: Introduce you to...
We are continuing our global workforce spotlight series (which includes our country support specialists (CSS’s) and country managers) with Carlos. Our global workforce plays a huge role in our ability to manage hundreds of networks...
Get a 360 degree view of citizenship in Arab countries in a newly released data from the United Nations Development Programme collected through the Premise app:...
The 2019 Disrupting Development conference in DC has concluded. Special thanks to all the speakers, sponsors and attendees for making the first-ever Disrupting Development possible. We’re already planning and looking forward to...
Premise has been working with local citizens to crowdsource data about mosquito breeding sites to help fill the gaps in the local governments’ vector control efforts. Armed with a mobile app, Glenis Barragan has been knocking...
We are continuing our global workforce spotlight series (which includes our country support specialists (CSS’s) and country managers) with Daria. Our global workforce plays a huge role in our ability to manage hundreds of networks and...
Welcome to 2019. There are now more smartphones than human beings. According to GSMA’s real-time intelligence data, there are now over 9 billion mobile connections worldwide, which surpasses the current world population of 7.71 billion...
When dealing with data that is based on the real world it is important to remember that the world is not static. Take McDonalds for example, in 2018 they opened ten new stores every day around the world. Each of those locations is...
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 8, 2019–Data and analytics platform Premise Data announced today it was named an INFUSE Pacesetter by Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance—a privileged partner designation that includes an infusion of capital and...
Around the globe, retail operates in different ways. One of the biggest differences is probably between developed and emerging markets. A number of different terms are often used to describe the state of retail in emerging markets and...
We are continuing our global workforce spotlight series (which includes our country support specialists (CSS’s) and country managers) with Luu Kuummo. Our global workforce plays a huge role in our ability to manage hundreds of...
If you see a pothole, smell gas or step in water from a burst main, you can report the details online immediately. Smartphones mean that any concerned citizen can help keep a city’s infrastructure in proper repair—in theory. In...
Premise has been working in Colombia, through a grant from USAID, to help prevent the spread of mosquito-borne illnesses like Zika and chikungunya. Over the course of the last year, Premise has grown networks in Cali, Cúcuta and Santa...
At Premise, our goal is to help you bring certainty to your data. We are rolling out a refreshed version of the Premise app on Android and iOS to our networks. The updates are making it easier than ever for our Contributors to use the...
Data is everywhere. It’s in the can of Coca-Cola you bought this morning from the grocery store on the corner. It’s in the map you use when finding a place to eat. It’s even in the photo of the breakfast you sent to your friend this...
We are continuing our global workforce spotlight series (which includes our country support specialists (CSS’s) and country managers) with Rafael. Our global workforce plays a huge role in our ability to manage hundreds of networks and...
We are continuing our global workforce spotlight series (which includes our country support specialists (CSS’s) and country managers) with Bash. Our global workforce plays a huge role in our ability to manage hundreds of networks and...
The ability for people to connect around the world through mobile phones has brought a great amount of growth and breadth in what is possible for data collection. One of those new possibilities is to task people on the ground to...
For those of us living in developed countries like the United States, access to a bank account is commonplace. In developing countries, such as Egypt, that access is limited. In Egypt, only 2.4% of the population has access to a...
The unprecedented growth of mobile technology around the world has opened up a whole new world of data that can be collected. Mobile technology provides the ability to collect highly targeted data from groups of people that would...
We are continuing our global workforce spotlight series (which includes our country support specialists (CSS’s) and country managers) with Hafsatu Serry. Our global workforce plays a huge role in our ability to manage hundreds of...
Pricing models and strategies used domestically don’t always work internationally. In emerging markets, pricing can be difficult to manage due to inflation rates, shifting interest costs and volatile currencies. In many emerging...
Is your data dead on arrival (DOA)? From a macro perspective, consumer price index (CPI) data gathered by the United States and other organizations and countries is normally very latent. The data is often collected months prior to its...
How many times have you used a restaurant or food delivery app? There is a plethora of them out there—Zomato, Swiggy, Uber Eats, Grubhub, the list goes on and on. Over the last few years, there has been rapid growth in the demand for...
Today’s marketplace is extremely tight for consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies. To stay in the game, CPG companies need to be constantly innovating; to do that, they need an accurate and current data source. There is immense value...
When doing business in countries with less stable political or economic climates, alternative data sources can provide critical business intelligence. Research suggests that alternative data sources can be extremely helpful for getting...
We are continuing our global workforce spotlight series (which includes our country support specialists (CSS’s) and country managers) with Adeniyi Fadipe Jordan. Our global workforce plays a huge role in our ability to manage hundreds...
This is the final post in our four-part series covering tips and tricks for conducting a retail audit for your business. Global shifts are forcing retailers to be more data-centric, but collecting the right data can difficult,...
Our global workforce plays a huge role in our ability to manage hundreds of networks and thousands of Contributors across the globe. In an effort to share more about what our Global Workforce (which includes our Country Support...
SAN FRANCISCO, March 6, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — Premise, the global leader in real-time, real-world ground truth data, announced their selection by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) to help collect data that will be...
This is part three of a four-part series covering tips and tricks for conducting a retail audit for your business. Optimally we would have a statistic to show you how often new retail outlets open and how often they go out of business,...
Brexit is happening, like it or not. Today, it’s not clear if the Prime Minister will fully negotiate a smooth exit from the European Union (EU). Will it be a “No-Deal” Brexit or will PM Theresa May secure a deal with the EU? The world...
This is part two of a four-part series covering tips and tricks for conducting a retail audit for your business. There are over 7.6 billion people in the world in over 195 countries covering 24 time zones. Research from the UN suggests...
This is part one of a four-part series covering tips and tricks for conducting a retail audit for your business. The competitive consumer packaged goods (CPG) market is dominated globally by a handful of companies. Recent studies in...
Our global workforce plays a huge role in our ability to manage hundreds of networks and thousands of Contributors across the globe. In an effort to share more about what our global workforce (which includes our country support...
In the United States, it’s easy to see how the payments landscape is evolving with the rise of technology. We have so many options available to pay others and get paid. In the U.S. alone Statista estimates there are 5,868 FinTech...
In November 2018, we had the opportunity to visit our Zika Citizen Network pilot project in three different cities in Colombia. Funded by a USAID Grand Challenge grant, we are currently in the second stage of the two part project...
At Premise, we have a front row seat to globalization 4.0 due to the nature of our technology. With the upcoming 2019 World Economic Forum Annual Meeting focused on “Globalization 4.0: Shaping a New Architecture in the Age of the...
We are continuing our global workforce spotlight series (which includes our country support specialists (CSS’s) and country managers) with Claudia Abello the local coordinator for Premise’s USAID Zika project in Colombia. Our global...
Premise recently wrapped up its project with the PEPFAR ‘DREAMS Innovation Challenge’ which supported medication adherence monitoring for HIV- positive adolescent girls and young women (15-24 years) in rural Kenya. Among adolescents,...
At Premise, we distinguish ourselves from other data collection companies through the meticulous development of our Contributor networks. Premise builds Contributor networks across the globe, each carefully tailored to the individual...
Our global workforce plays a huge role in our ability to manage hundreds of networks and thousands of Contributors across the globe. In an effort to share more about what our global workforce (which includes our country support...
Imagine you’ve created a toy that you think is going to be a huge seller in stores this season. You and your team spend months designing the visual merchandising until it is perfect. When you’re shopping on Black Friday you find your...
The past 20 years have incurred profound increases in funding for the use of health management information systems and national demographic health surveys in the developing world. This has included collecting routine administrative and...
Each year since 2016, Premise partners with the Mandela Washington Fellowship to host and provide young, standout leaders from Sub-Saharan Africa (aka Fellows) six weeks of hands-on experience working at its HQ in San Francisco....
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 16, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — Premise, the global leader in real-time, real-world ground truth data, announced their selection by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to monitor availability of family planning...
Achieving the 2030 sustainable development agenda requires development organizations to move beyond the “one-size-fits-all” model of development and the standardized approach typical of the industrial age. Instead, it should move...
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 25, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — Premise, the global leader in providing real-time, real-world data, announced an agreement with the City of Waco, Texas to deploy its unique ‘ground truth’ data collection...
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 5, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — Premise, the global leader in real-time, real-world ground truth data, announced an agreement with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to collect health data for the purpose of...
Ensuring Accountability to Affected Populations (AAP) is a top priority to the global development community. If you’re implementing programs for OFDA, DFID, UNHCR, or other humanitarian assistance donors you must fulfill their mandate...
SAN FRANCISCO, May 24, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — Premise, the global leader in real-time, real-world ground truth data, is providing open access to data being collected from its Kiev, Ukraine network in the run up to Saturday’s...
Digitalizando mediante la integración de ciencia de datos y la incorporación de una red de ciudadanos Por Matej Novak, Jefe de Programas, Premise Data Ha pasado un año desde que Premise se asoció con la Secretaría de Salud Municipal de...
Going Digital, Integrating Data Science, and Enlisting a Citizen Network By Matej Novak, Head of Programs, Premise Data It’s been one year since Premise partnered with Cali, Colombia on a digital overhaul of the city’s vector...
Today, Premise Data and Development Transformations (DT) announced the successful completion of an innovative survey in Mosul, Iraq and surrounding areas. Funded by the UK Foreign & Commonwealth Office (FCO), the survey results...
USAID Center for Innovation and Impact: 2018 Global Health Impact Brief The Center for Innovation and Impact (CII), in USAID’s Bureau for Global Health, encourages business-minded approaches and accelerates impact against some of the...
Introduction: Premise recently travelled to Kenya as part of our PEPFAR “DREAMS Innovation Challenge” project which is supporting medical treatment adherence in HIV-positive, adolescent girls and young women. For the past six...
Modern technology continues to reshape the world — from commerce and geopolitics to our daily mundane details. To thrive in this new paradigm every organization, every decision maker, must understand how to become data driven. Some...
This article was originally published on the ICTworks site. Medication adherence still a major issue in the world of free ARTs and services Over 50% of HIV-positive adolescents in Western Kenya fail to adhere to antiretroviral therapy...
In this week’s installment we hear about two contributors based in Zambia and Nigeria. Mwila Bwembya Joseph Kasama, Zambia Mwila has recruited over 100 contributors across 15 markets in Zambia. He’s also submitted over 2,500...
The company pays users for taking photos, walking certain routes, or answering questions that help government fill knowledge gaps. Maury Blackman, the former CEO of Accela, has emerged as the new CEO of a rising analytics company that...
By Alexander Davis Feb. 6, 2018 7:30 a.m. ET Premise Data Inc., a data-gathering specialist that relies on a global gig-economy workforce, has tapped as its new chief executive a former CEO of government-focused tech startup Accela....
SAN FRANCISCO — Premise Data, a San Francisco-based crowdsourcing company with emerging applications for the development sector, announced its new chief executive officer on Tuesday, as it works to scale up its platform. Maury...
