Jeremy transforms the story behind research problems into dynamic, actionable strategy, and he supports clients through the execution of that strategy. As executive vice president, Jeremy provides direction on all aspects of MarketCast’s business and leads a team of analysts who serve the company’s core clients. He’s been the primary contact for marketers, executives, and key stakeholders on hundreds of theatrical, OTT, and home entertainment releases. He has particular expertise in developing marketing strategy for franchises in the comic book, family animated, and action/adventure genres.

Since joining MarketCast in 1999, Jeremy has held a variety of titles and worked in many capacities. He has always focused on refining the company’s voice and analytical approach and ensuring that he and his team meet their clients’ needs.

At home, Jeremy is an ardent student and avid consumer of pop culture, usually with his wife and two daughters by his side. This means that a focus group of three is always ready to help him brainstorm on whatever problem he’s wrestling with.

Based out of London, Henry oversees MarketCast’s international business and assists MarketCast Group companies in tailoring their services for international clients. As part of his role, he guides clients in using an array of techniques and inputs — whether qualitative or quantitative research, social or transactional data, stated or emotional response — to understand the dynamics of each international market.

Henry worked in research on behalf of a range of global TV companies before developing Nielsen Entertainment’s international video games and movie research businesses. He joined MarketCast in 2008 to help establish its international division and has since developed a specialist team that regularly conducts projects in over 30 countries.

He loves a wide range of screen-based entertainment, as well as old-fashioned paper books, and is a fan of the unusual sides of mainstream sports. His recent discoveries include ‘real’ tennis and ski mountaineering.

Greg designs research studies for long-standing MarketCast clients to help answer pressing questions and provide the much-needed voice of the consumer. He focuses on OTT, film, television, and home entertainment, and he works with the research and creative departments to develop projects, shape marketing campaigns, and identify core audiences.

Since 1991, Greg has worked to position MarketCast’s offering to clients who face a continually evolving industry.

He is a leading collector and dealer of classic movie posters from the 1920s and 1930s.

Chris finds that the best way to understand how different cultures tell stories is to pay them a visit and listen. Their stories help him to understand the stories they like to hear.

He leads the International Campaign Analytics group. He is responsible for client strategy, planning, and senior client management.

Early in his career, Chris focused on implementing campaigns at advertising agencies. He later tuned into the strategic thought that shapes creative marketing. He followed his heart to the entertainment sector and worked with UIP and Paramount for eight years on the client side with a media and research focus before joining MarketCast in 2012.

Outside of work, his passions are culture and outdoor adventure, especially in the Nordics, which he shares with his wife and three sons. They literally never stop moving!

Matthew leads MarketCast’s video game research practice and consults on research for film, television, and online streaming. He uses visual and verbal stories to communicate findings, and he strives to always make research accessible and intuitive for end-users. He believes that market research is elevated by the perspective of contextual knowledge.

He has spent his career studying how consumers interact with entertainment, including how they go to the movies, play video games, and stream content online. Prior to joining MarketCast in 2011, he worked for the media and entertainment practice at Penn Schoen Berland, a WPP company.

In addition to gaming, Matthew is an avid moviegoer and streamer of TV and anime.

James brings together data, experience, and learning to unearth insights and strategies.

He helps clients understand and adapt to a changing landscape by performing tracking, researching the roles and contributions of media, and monitoring trends and innovations in the digital world. James works on touchpoint effectiveness studies, media optimization research, digital landscape assessments, and digital creative strategy and execution testing.

James has 17 years of experience working in market research and strategy with a skew towards media and digital for the last 12 years.

He is a keen athlete and reigning UK Masters champion for javelin. He is a husband and dad of two young boys, who are also aspiring athletes.

AJ leads the Los Angeles-based International Campaign Analytics team. AJ and her team help clients optimize their creative materials for international markets by delivering actionable and intuitive research insights to help inform clients’ marketing decisions.

AJ started at MarketCast as an intern in the London office. After four years, she went back to business school with KPMG and then returned to MarketCast in 2015 to join the Los Angeles-based international team.

Outside of work, AJ spends her time on the water sailing or running on the trails around LA.

Kathleen helps her clients connect stories with consumers around the world. She identifies regional-specific points of appeal and universal elements that translate across cultures.

She leads the International Campaign Analytics team in London. Kathleen and her team inform the development of marketing materials — including trailers, short form AV, posters, and digital assets — for theatrical and OTT releases. She oversees research conducted in 12-14 markets across Europe, Asia, and Latin America for clients that include Universal, Netflix, Sony, Paramount, Disney, and Fox.

Kathleen began her career in the entertainment market research industry in 2005. She initially worked in domestic home entertainment before moving into international theatrical research, where she discovered her passion for cultural nuance. Kathleen joined MarketCast International in 2009.

Outside of work, her two young boys keep her on her toes. She enjoys spending quality time with family and friends.

Connecting a story to its audience is both an art and a science. The most gratifying part of work for Bart is experiencing that “aha” moment when the nuance of qualitative opinions converges with the science of research to indicate the best road map forward.

In addition to serving as a manager within the Campaign Analytics department, Bart is actively involved in working with clients to tell their stories in the most effective way possible. He manages, facilitates, and conducts quantitative and qualitative testing and works on campaigns from the early stages of development to the final rollout of the materials.

Before joining MarketCast, Bart served as director of research at the Screen Actors Guild. His first professional track was in home entertainment, where he penned a weekly research column for a leading trade publication and later developed the industry’s first point of sale rental tracking system.

Of course, his love of film has kept his job interesting over the years. Besides that particular passion, Bart loves novels, theater, and chilling out at his family cabin in Montana.

As a director on the Franchise and Content Strategy team, Clare works with entertainment clients to understand how consumers relate to brands and franchises, how to optimize them, and how to position them for growth. Clare practices in both quantitative and qualitative methodologies. She’s an expert in segmentation and other advanced statistical techniques but is just as comfortable running focus groups and in-home ethnographies.

Clare has lived and worked as a researcher in the UK, Australia, and now sunny Los Angeles. With well over a decade of experience, she’s worked on brand, communications, entertainment, and social research. Her work has taken her from factories in New Zealand to shopping malls in Singapore and from the national broadcaster in Papua New Guinea to the Melbourne Film Festival.

When she’s not working, Clare spends as much time as possible on, in, or near the ocean and is saving up for a boat. Until that happens, she fills the time binge watching TV series.

Diane analyzes open-ended responses to ferret out insights, tease out subtext, and detect differences among demos. She relishes in helping clients hear and understand what people are saying.

She leads an outstanding team of talented individuals who provide qualitative analysis and coding support to Campaign Analytics and Franchise & Content Strategy groups in both domestic and international offices. Diane and her team support a wide range of projects, including ad testing, positioning, and post-release and brand studies.

Diane began her career as a political consultant. She then produced a film that premiered at Sundance and worked at The Hollywood Creative Directory while writing screenplays. She joined MarketCast at its Boston office and loves doing work that traverses the pop culture landscape.

She enjoys hanging out with family, going to movies, reading, and catching up on current events. Pilates helps her unwind after a long day. She also loves discovering new restaurants off the beaten path.

Bernard visualizes data to tell stories in efficient and easily understood ways.

He manages the Campaign Analytics data operations team in Los Angeles, Boston, and the U.K. and ensures its smooth operation across departments and offices. He works on ad hoc projects based on historical data. He also created all data templates and syntax for Source of Influence.

Bernard started with MarketCast as a temporary worker in 2008. Since then, he has worked full-time in the Boston, Los Angeles, and London offices.

During his spare time, he enjoys motorcycling and collecting Star Wars Legos.

Claire ensures that the customer’s voice is heard and communicated to clients in simple, actionable terms.

As head of the international arm of FCS, Claire manages a small but effective team of report writers. She designs and manages multi-market qualitative and quantitative studies and keeps up with trends in a rapidly evolving global marketplace.

Claire was the first to join Henry Piney at MarketCast’s London office and feels fortunate to have worked in numerous roles with MarketCast over the years. As a senior researcher, she was head of international ad testing for two years at the Los Angeles office before returning to London to establish and lead the FCS hub.

Prior to MarketCast, Claire worked on in-house marketing teams at private equity firms. She enjoys attending immersive events (theatre, cinema, and dining) around London. Claire is also an avid fan of tea and is proud of her legacy at the Los Angeles office of introducing PG Tips.

Kate is passionate about entertainment and popular culture and seeks to understand how and why they bring people together.

As director of campaign analytics, Kate conducts quantitative and qualitative research for theatrical and home viewing campaigns across a range of platforms. She works with a variety of genres and IPs. Many of her projects focus on franchises and their fans, both the avid core and the more casually engaged.

Kate joined MarketCast in 2013 with a background in international political consulting and broad consumer research. She’s well-versed in quantitative and qualitative processes, and over the course of her career, she’s designed and executed complex multi-modal research in more than a dozen countries. Kate is also an in-house moderator for MarketCast and has conducted hundreds of focus groups, IDIs, and ethnographies in the US and abroad.

Outside of work she can often be found in front of the latest single-player RPG or in front of her sewing machine, helping kids’ superhero dreams come true.

Kristin places the cultural ecosystem of brands and content at the forefront to bring clients relevant and actionable insights that represent the “voice of the consumer.”

As a director on the FCS team, Kristin is responsible for leading custom research projects in the Franchise & Content Strategy team on behalf of major entertainment brands, films, and TV programming.

Before joining MarketCast in 2018, she worked at Kantar Added Value, a WPP company, in advertising and marketing effectiveness research. Prior to that, Kristin was a research director at Lieberman Research Worldwide, where she worked across industries, including mobile electronics, insurance, and retail.

When she’s not busy adding to her sizeable shoe collection, Kristin enjoys spending time outdoors with her husband, son, and two small doggies.

Louise works with all departments and knits together their ideas and needs. She performs thorough research to meet expectations and make intuitive decisions. She manages the International Field and Operations team and day-to-day operations at the U.K. office. Louise is responsible for making sure that all fieldwork is run accurately, efficiently, and timely. She ensures the use of best practices and effective workflows and processes.

Louise has been with MarketCast for nine years and has 18 years of film market research experience. She started at NRG in 1999 and moved to First Movies in 2004. This long-standing knowledge of the industry has aided her in running a first-class field department that is proactive, adaptive, intuitive, and industry leading.

She is a keen gardener and enjoys spending time with her family. Louise also enjoys socializing with friends at the theatre.

Stephanie has always been interested in helping people through listening and understanding. She gives consumers a voice and guides clients to optimize their businesses.

As an associate director on the Campaign Analytics team at MarketCast, Stephanie leads analysis for entertainment clients at several top movie studios. She focuses on trailer and TV campaigns and is also involved in digital ad testing.

Her research experience spans several industries, including entertainment, retail, CPG, technology, gaming, travel, finance and banking, and more. Stephanie has a strong interest in digital media, e-commerce, brand positioning, entertainment, and lifestyle topics.

Outside of work, Stephanie loves spending time with her friends, family, and cat and two dogs. This often involves a lot of eating!

Matthew finds the connection between media and audiences by avoiding preconceived notions and letting the numbers guide conclusions. Once these rules are established, potential new avenues are clear.

He focuses primarily on seeing film campaigns through the trailer and TV process and into home entertainment. Matthew is also involved in exploring the burgeoning opportunities of social media for film campaigns. Finally, he takes a big picture look at data by refining and tailoring questionnaires to better reflect the realities of the marketplace and the outcomes of campaigns.

Matthew has been at MarketCast for over ten years, prior to which he worked on the creative side writing copy.

He has seen every film in the Criterion Collection and considers himself a hardcore cinephile. Matthew also wrote two books: a humor book and an edition of the 33 and 1/3 series on classic albums.

To connect data with conclusions, Thomas seeks proven scientific methodologies and theories and real-world applications. While the theoretical and real-world ideologies often clash, he strives for a balance between the two realms.

His primary responsibilities include investigating problematic data sets, conducting statistical analyses for internal and external clients, and providing numerical expertise and insight on challenging titles. While Thomas is a home-grown MarketCaster, his academic background in mathematics, statistics, and computer science fits perfectly with his role.

He would like to consider himself a passionate and dedicated photographer, one who spends countless hours with the nature. It would be a dream come true if his works were published by National Geographic.

Andrew manages and conducts custom video game studies for the FCS team. He works on various stages of the development cycle, from informing client strategies to diagnosing games, films, and products that have been released into the world. Andrew observes and listens as he works towards solutions that encompass and convey what consumers are saying.

Prior to joining MarketCast, Andrew worked at BrandIQ where he helped clients across a wide range of verticals with their research needs, focusing primarily on food & beverage and consumer products.

Andrew spends his time following his favorite Los Angeles sports teams and throwing a tennis ball for his dog, Kobe, over and over again.

Craig seeks out connections between context and outcomes by having an inquisitive mind and taking straightforward action.

His primary role is managing materials testing for domestic movies and TV series. He also focuses on supporting and helping to shape Campaign Analytics while making the department a fun and comfortable place to work.

Craig started with MarketCast after graduating from college. He enjoys hiking in Griffith Park, working on woodcraft projects for his friends’ kids, and reading travel memoir books.

Becky makes data-driven decisions to help her team better understand quantitative survey respondent behavior. Data enables her to contextualize real-world observations and continuously perfect her team’s research approach and processes.

Becky oversees research logistics for quantitative projects, from pre-survey operations to data processing. She manages development initiatives to improve survey capabilities so MarketCast can deliver high-quality and timely results. Becky also partners with other departments to provide training on operational best practices and ensure the research process is seamless and efficient.

With a background in marketing and data analytics, Becky joined MarketCast in 2014 as part of its growing research operations department.

Outside of work, you can find her binging on different types of television shows, new and old, and she is always looking for new recommendations!

Tara works on the Global Campaign Analytics team, focusing much of her energy on client interaction. She believes that getting to know clients is vital to being their most effective data translator and leads to more specific and actionable research. Tara has worked on every kind of movie, including big-budget action franchises, small-budget indies, R-rated comedies, animated family movies, horror movies, and historical dramas. She also works on series for streaming platforms and traditional TV and is a part of the digital research team.

Before MarketCast, Tara worked in film development and TV production. As a freelance writer for nearly a decade, she ghostwrote a USA Today bestselling novel. She also taught college English for several years and would be happy to settle any grammar debate.

When not working or parenting, Tara likes to read and is one of the people keeping print newspapers in business. She also runs, swims, and takes ballet and would like to get better at playing guitar.