It's GRIT week on The RIDE as we dive into Greenbook's industry review of innovation. We talk about risers on the list, companies that debuted, our favorite thought pieces from the report, and more.

Also, research news and political polling including who is the most favorable billionaire - SPACE EDITION

This week, along with news, polling, and a summer blockbuster halftime, we do an in-depth breakdown of the Samplecon agenda to see what types of innovative discussions the sample supplying vendors in market research are bringing to the first in-person conference of 2021.

This week we welcome in Mike Degagne of Quantilope to talk about their amazing automation platform, the current state of "agile", and what separates them from other tools.

We also have news, polling, and a halftime game of favorite movie/TV towns.

This week, we are joined by Tim Wilson, CEO and Co-Founder of Qutee to talk about the tool, how they're using social platforms for research, and the innovation of AI.

There is also news, polling, and a halftime show where we create our start-up pitch using a Mad Lib.

This week is a heavy polling week with polls from Qualtrics, Gallup, YouGov, and more. Also, in news, we talk about the Toluna subscription model and if it could be a gamechanger in market research.

Halftime focuses on the things we hate most about summertime.

This week, we're joined by Morgan Molnar of SurveyMonkey to discuss their upcoming Fast Forward Live Conference on June 10th. Morgan also dives into the new tracking product of SurveyMonkey and how much they're innovating to really provide solutions instead of products for insight professionals.

Along the way, we have #mrx news, some real bummer polling, and a halftime show where we build the world's most perfect boy bands.

You can register for the conference here:

https://www.surveymonkey.com/market-research/fastforward-live/?utm_source=podcast

This week there is news from Nielsen, LE, and Affectiva along with fascinating polls with information on moving distances and how far we typically live from our mothers.

The halftime show looks at our close and odd encounters with celebrities.

Like to be a guest during our upcoming agile or client-end series? Reach out to [email protected] or on twitter @ridemrx

This week, Z Johnson comes onto the pod for a special crossover episode between The RIDE and the Breath of Air Podcast. We start off with news and polling before jumping into a conversation about the anxieties of growth in business.

Finally, we play a halftime show where the three of us come up with fake names for fake #restech companies.

This week, we welcome in Andrei Roman of Atlas Intelligence to talk about political polling and why they were the most accurate poll according to 538.

There is also news, polls, and a halftime show of celebrity wedding guests.

Happy 1 year anniversary to the internet's only market research innovation podcast. This week, the Adam's discuss the most innovative companies of the past year in market research and their reason why.

There's also news, a sandwich of public opinion polling, and a halftime show all about AOL instant message names.