During February's cold snap, which was catastrophic for many Texans, mobile behavior indicates that when Texans initially hunkered down they were hoping to order food through GrubHub. As the week progressed, they were most interested in ordering pizza from Pizza Hut, and donuts and coffee from Dunkin' Donuts, and in…
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Congratulations Tampa Bay Bucs! Embee Mobile’s panelists watched the Super Bowl and we looked minute-by-minute at how they used their phones during the game. At any given moment last night, around 20% of the panel were on their phone, with more than half in some sort of social or messaging…
Embee Mobile has historical behavioral data on tens of thousands of US phone users that can be used to observe differential behavior between various cohorts. An example of how this can be used is to observe the take up of subscription services where a cellular operator relationship has been instigated….
Embee Mobile, the company that builds and manages unique mobile-based insight communities, and the University of California Berkeley, announced a COVID-19 research brief titled “The Changing Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Individuals and Households in the U.S.” reveals insights into two key areas – pandemic behaviors and attitudes, and…
Since Trump supporters stormed the Capitol on January 6, tech has gregariously been undermining their methods of communicating. Trump and many of his followers were unceremoniously ditched from various platforms like Twitter. Parler has recently become the most well known ‘Free Speech’ app which attracted many Trump supporters. Last week,…
American artist Andy Warhol once said, “In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes.” Last month we issued a blog post about Parler and the massive surge – 1 million app downloads in just five days – that it experienced following the 2020 U.S. Presidential election. While the…
Have you heard the news? Some Facebook and Twitter users planned a mass exodus from the platforms to join Parler. Twitter users are going to Twexit off the platform and more than a dozen Facebook events promoting the exodus are planned, with several dozen more scheduled to take place up…
Six months into the pandemic, we are still struggling to respond effectively to COVID-19. In principle, it should be a relatively straight-forward process to gaining consensus on what to do. First, through the work of our vastly capable research institutions and scientific community, discover the best practices for mitigating the…
The pandemic has forced a lot of change in a short period of time. At Embee, we are endeavoring to see if we can pitch in. We’re working with UC Berkeley to build an early warning system that can examine the data we collect from our panel using Berkeley’s artificial…
During the IIEX Behavior virtual conference, Alec Maki and Jenn Feltis from Bellomy presented an entirely new approach for constructing and running brand studies. Utilizing single-source attitudinal and behavioral data from the Embee Mobile panel, Bellomy disrupted traditional brand tracking methodologies by exploring new data sources to go beyond what…