Helping Out Our Local Communities
Earlier in the year, the Progressive team spent a day volunteering with two local charities as part of our corporate volunteering commitment. The Edinburgh team worked with a homelessness charity called Fresh Start, and the Glasgow team with Refuweegee – a charity that works closely with refugees arriving in Glasgow. We wanted to partner with […]
How to spot a bot
Online bots have become more and more prevalent in the past few years. They can be a slight nuisance or create complete havoc. Bots are used to automate repetitive tasks and simulate human behaviour. Bots can do a range of things: from rogue comments on social media and writing fake reviews for businesses, to sending […]
Meet our company partner and sustainability expert: Jennifer Decker!
At Progressive, we’re always keen to get involved in sustainability-related projects, from our research with organisations like Zero Waste Scotland and TravelKnowHow Scotland to our Net Zero Pledge (committing us to attaining net zero emissions by 2026). As a chartered sustainability professional Jennifer Decker is Progressive’s ‘go to’ consultant on sustainability with over 30 years’ […]
Moving with the times
In our latest blog, our Research Exec, Jamal, looks at some of the technologies influencing market research now and in the future. How will market research be shaped by technology? Times are changing and technology is advancing at a serious rate. Market research has been around for over a hundred years now, but the […]
What is sustainability and why does it matter?
This blog explores what Jamal, our Research Executive, learnt during a sustainability webinar. At Progressive, we are looking at ways to improve, especially when it comes to thinking about how we can work more sustainably. Therefore, when the opportunity arose to learn more via a webinar, Diane and I signed up. The webinar was hosted […]
Meet Jamal! Our new Research Executive
How long have you worked at Progressive? Since February 2021. What keeps you coming back for more? I have found the variety and range of projects interesting. There seems to be plenty of room to try your hand at different types of work, looking through different lenses. Since the start, I have been given the […]
In conversation with Rachel – one month on the job
Hi Rachel, how has your first month gone as our new Operations Assistant? My first month has gone super-fast! I have learnt a lot about how things work at Progressive, but I still know there is so much more to learn which is very exciting for me! In the Operations team, there are so many […]
Lights, Camera, Action!
At Progressive, we’re starting to make short explainer videos to deliver key research findings to our clients. In this piece, our Research Manager and video creator-guru, Elise, shares some tips for how to make engaging and informative research videos… 5 billion videos are watched on YouTube every day. While the video with the most ever […]
Meet Joanna, who manages our face-to-face interviewing team
What are the best things about being an interviewer? You don’t do the same job every day! Market research is varied and you are chatting to people about all different subjects. For example, in the last month I have interviewed visitors to Glasgow museums, interviewed passengers on ferries, and been on the street talking to […]
Here’s… Jonnie! Meet our new Research Manager
How long have you worked at Progressive? Five months. What keeps you coming back for more? I’m really enjoying the opportunity to get stuck into different areas of the business, from winning and delivering research projects, to social media content production, to work on our Progressive qualitative panel. I love working for an organisation that […]