It's a superpower! We use it at Colourtext to create vivid customer personas and market narratives that light a fire in people’s minds.
Colourtext is a leader in market segmentation strategy and creates customer personas that transform the way famous brands understand their consumers.
We use advanced analytics and consumer insight expertise to build unique data segmentation models that people can intuitively ‘buy’ and empathise with.
Colourtext’s approach blends standard and proprietary clustering algorithms, analysis techniques and survey methodologies. We operate across a wide range of data types including 1 st party, web, social media, market research and natural language.
Our aim is to help you fire up innovation in your NPD and creative marketing activities. We do this by giving your people a shared narrative that speaks to the truth of customer motivation and behaviour.
FECI Segmentation and the Fan Map is a powerful way to explain any market by segmenting consumers into Fans, Enthusiasts, Casuals and Indifferents (hence the FECI acronym). Originally developed in 2003 for the music and media industry FECI Segmentation and the Fan Map underpins the world’s biggest and longest running market segmentation of music fans.
Some believe Generation X will be regarded as the greatest generation of all time - we think it's certainly the coolest. Learn more about a pivotal generation that is far more influential on both sides of the Atlantic than its relative demographic size would suggest.
A FECI Fan Map is a powerful way to explain people's relationships with food by segmenting consumers into Fans, Enthusiasts, Casuals and Indifferents.
Quant Semiotics is a data analysis and segmentation methodology that deals with *really big* datasets. We applied it to 29,000 news articles about Market Research to map and forecast the evolution of new trends in the MR industry since 2005.
Passive metering technology allows us to analyse modern digital lifestyles and eShopper trends in granular detail. We collected and analysed every click made by 3,500 U.S. eShoppers on their mobile and desktop devices over a 6 week period. This huge volume of 'clickstream' behavioural data was collected via our GDPR-compliant passive metering technology.
Using Quant Semiotics to understand all the hopes, fears and desires addressed by the skincare market. The process begins with a detailed SEO-style keyword analysis of all the online search queries people make about skincare and age-related skin management.
Many people are looking for practical market segmentation examples to learn from and follow. With this in mind here's an incredible animated explainer video created by Warner Music Group to launch the Fan Map consumer segmentation we built for the company.
It offers a clear, real-world example of what market segmentation is and why a business like WMG needs it.
We developed a segmentation process for Twitter data to discover the early adopters of a new health & well-being product and use this to build out a look-a-like audience.
We've developed exciting market segmentations, often in collaboration with talented brand strategists, for some of the world's most influential brands. Click on the images below to lear more about some of our projects.
Colourtext partnered with charity marketing specialist Eden Stanley to develop a segmentation for Amnesty International. We blended CRM and market research data into a unique segmentation of UK charity givers. The vivid personas that we developed underpinned a new marketing strategy for Amnesty that delivered 300,000 new direct-debit donators in its first year.
Colourtext partnered with brand change experts Innovation Pipeline to develop an audience segmentation of U.S. reality TV viewers. Our client was Fremantle, the makers of American Idol and the world’s biggest reality TV entertainment show.
Colourtext publishes white papers and undertakes extensive R&D in segmentation methodology. We wrote an article about segmentation best practice for ADMAP with our friends Jon Puleston and Alex Wheatley at Kantar Profiles, the world’s biggest online consumer panel company.