Consensus Point, revolutionizing market research by providing social predictive analytics, is pleased to announce Edward Gil has joined the company to lead sales and marketing.  Mr. Gil brings over 30 years of experience in sales, marketing and development of analytics and business intelligence tools to support Consensus Point’s strategic growth and development.

“Ed’s business intelligence [...]

Consensus Point will be showcased as one of ten of the most innovative companies currently transforming the information industry at the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) ”Information Industry Summit 2013: Breakthrough” event in New York. Consensus Point was chosen by SIIA judges to present in their “2013 Previews Competition” and will be the only software company with a [...]

Our very own CEO, Linda Rebrovick recently spoke at a monthly “Women’s Entrepreneur Coffee” held at the Nashville-based Entrepreneur Center.  This informative series was created to discuss the formation and launch of high-growth women-led businesses.  Linda focused on her career:  From Intrapreneur to Entrepreneur.  She shared her business experience and valuable business resources to a group of over [...]

The Ticker, a stock market game sponsored by Gannett and powered by Huunu, correctly chose Johnny Manziel days before the announcement.  On Sunday, December 2, we placed questions to predict the top five candidates and an ‘other’ category to capture any dark horse candidates. Trading for Manziel almost immediately starting pushing his probability of winning [...]

Top media outlets are a-buzz about prediction market’s speed, precision and un-matched election results.  Media outlets like Bloomberg, MSN and Reuters are all taking note and singing the praises of prediction markets — pointing out that while traditional polls portrayed the presidential race as a toss-up, next-generation prediction market platforms consistently forecasted a decisive victory [...]

Auren Hoffman’s recent article in Forbes, “What You Know Beats Who You Know,” makes the point,  in a world that is as connected as ours, where networks are transparent, and where information is transmitted with the click of a button, “what you know” is rapidly becoming more important than “who you know.”
In support of Hoffman’s [...]

Quirk’s recently re-published an article by Jim Nelem ­­­­written in the 1970’s, entitled Ten Common Market Research Mistakes.  It is interesting to note the mistakes market researchers were making in the 1970’s – when telephone surveys were considered technologically advanced forms of market research –are the same mistakes for market researchers to avoid today.  The [...]

After attending ESOMAR Congress last week in Atlanta, meeting truly great people, and attending fascinating presentations and lectures, the Huunu team wanted to give out a few awards.
We Wish the Full Market Research Industry Had Been in the Room Award – One of the most forward looking presentations of the entire conference.  Shelley outlined the [...]

Consensus Point is featured in a new book about supply chain forecasting as a CBF or consensus-based forecasting tool.  The book, Supply Chain Forecasting Software by Shaun Snapp, as part of its effort to explain the important aspects of supply chain forecasting, details how prediction markets can be an integral part of the supply chain [...]

As we continue to use Huunu to work with Gannett on their prediction market game, The Ticker, continues to deliver incredible levels of predictive accuracy.  Session 1 results from The Ticker were impressive to say the least, Ticker players were accurate 78% of the time across a variety of topics such as news, sports, and [...]