POPULAB

For media owners

Build differentiated audience products for advertisers and sales teams.

Work with POPULAB to combine licensed or otherwise authorized respondent-level research with your audience capabilities, commercial methodologies, and proprietary data. We provide the analytical and SaaS infrastructure underneath the user-facing product.

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Your position

Your audience proposition should be a product.

Media organizations possess combinations of assets few other organizations have.

Yet much of that value is still delivered through presentations, spreadsheets and analyst workflows.

POPULAB can help turn repeatable intelligence into scalable software products.

First-party audience dataContent consumption dataAdvertiser relationships Category expertiseSyndicated consumer research Campaign intelligenceProprietary audience methodologies

Advertiser products

Build tools around how advertisers actually buy.

Discovery

Audience discovery

Help advertisers identify high-value consumer groups and understand what differentiates them.

Opportunity

Category opportunity products

Combine behavioural, attitudinal and media data to identify commercial opportunities.

Sales

Sales planning applications

Give sales teams self-service access to research-backed narratives and audience calculations.

Clients

Advertiser portals

Create tailored client environments around audiences, categories and media opportunities.

AI

AI sales intelligence

Give AI systems governed access to research and analytical services that support proposal and planning workflows.

The pattern

Your methodology, productized

Every repeated advertiser question becomes an application instead of a manual deliverable.

Productize expertise

The questions advertisers repeatedly ask are your product specification.

Your sales, research and strategy teams already know which questions come back again and again.

Rather than creating the answer manually every time, turn repeated workflows into applications.

A product manager defines what the tool should answer. The methodology lives in software. Every seller gets the same narrative engine, backed by governed calculations.

The interface

GenAI reduces the cost of creating the interface.

Specialized advertiser experiences become economical to build.

The infrastructure

POPULAB reduces the cost of the platform behind it.

Analytics, permissions, APIs and SaaS services — without rebuilding them each time.

Broaden the research available to your products

Bring multiple sources of consumer intelligence into one product environment.

Media organizations increasingly need to understand audiences beyond their own first-party data.

POPULAB provides a common platform for incorporating licensed syndicated and specialist research into advertiser, sales and audience products.

As the POPULAB catalog grows, so does the research your products can draw on—without creating a new technical stack for every source.

An advertiser-facing product might begin with one licensed research source. It could later incorporate
Another syndicated datasetSpecialist category researchInternational studies Proprietary researchMedia-owner dataCustom audience methodologies
More data sources can become more product capability—rather than more integration work.

Build once. Sell repeatedly.

A successful advertiser product can support:

Multiple sellersacross your sales organization.
Multiple advertiser categorieseach with tailored narratives.
Multiple agenciesplanning on behalf of clients.
Multiple client organizationseach a branded experience.
The marginal cost of delivering the next experience falls dramatically once the analytical and SaaS foundation is standardized. That is the economic opportunity.
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Your audience proposition, built with POPULAB

Turn audience intelligence into advertiser products.

Apply POPULAB analytical and SaaS infrastructure to products built from authorized research, your methodologies, and your data.

Become a Media Strategic Partner