"Having overseen hundreds of focus groups during my career, I can say that Stratalys' Q2 platform is truly an innovation in qualitative research. It easily outpaces traditional methods in terms of speed, convenience, and most importantly, the sheer quality of the insights gained from participants.
Further, the back-end analytics have clearly been designed by someone who understands how researchers analyze data. Its flexibility is simply unmatched by other products. Five minutes after the end of a Q2 session, we have a complete session report including a transcript of participants' comments that can easily be organized by important subgroups. This means we can immediately do a full analysis of the findings and offer informed, timely recommendations to our clients.
Simply put, Q2 is like a focus group on steroids. We will be enthusiastically recommending it to our clients from now on."
Amy PheeManaging DirectorThe Glover Park Group
"Stratalys' Q2 is a remarkable research tool that has changed the way we think about and propose research methodologies. Increasingly, as we move to research methodologies that seek to identify finer, niche audiences, Q2 is a crucial research tool to use to conduct qualitative research when your target audiences are geographically dispersed. Its detailed and flexible reporting features not only allow us to service our clients better, but they add a 'wow' factor that keeps clients talking for days about their experience with it."
Brent McGoldrickCEODeep Root Analytics
"Stratalys' Q2 online focus group platform brilliantly solves the problems of respondent influence and group bias that plague other in-person and online focus group formats. It allows us to open the discussion to all participants when we want conversational exchange, and just as seamlessly close off discussion when we want candid individual responses to questions. Furthermore, Q2 easily accommodates quantitative questions and allows us to analyze qualitative responses in terms of any number of demographic or attitudinal variables - in real time. This is truly next-generation focus group research, backed up with exceptional methodological rigor and client service from the Stratalys team."
Jennifer Scott, PhDManaging DirectorOgilvy PR Worldwide
"When it comes to online research, Stratalys' Q2 platform is the gold standard. Q2 enables researchers to gather rich intelligence very quickly, which leads to smarter and more timely analyses. The data provided by Q2 has helped our clients develop compelling campaigns and strategies."
Jason BoomsPresident & CEOBooms Research & Consulting
"Stratalys Q2 is an effective research tool with several advantages over traditional focus groups. Recruiting participants takes as little as a single day instead of the traditional two weeks required by bricks-and-mortar facilities. We've taken advantage of the platform to accommodate 20-30 participants per group, providing the opportunity to ask quantitative questions. It works really well for testing print or television media. Over time the Stratalys team has worked hard in improving the platform and their ability to meet our specific needs."
Bill McInturffPartner & Co-FounderPublic Opinion Strategies
"CopyEditor is an entirely new and entirely superior approach to message testing. The level of detailed feedback that this tool provides is extremely helpful to our clients in refining their communication executions. The fact that it's simple for respondents to use gives us confidence in the underlying data. And the back-end reporting tool that Stratalys has created is flexible and well-suited to produce insights that we might otherwise have missed."
Steve LombardoChief Communications & Marketing OfficerKoch Industries
"We've utilized Stratalys' qualitative and quantitative services for many years. The Advertest tool was one of the first online implementations of second-by-second video ratings, and it remains superior in our experience. Advertest is flexible, allowing us to gather this type of detailed feedback either in surveys or Q2 discussion forums. It works on almost any device or operating system. And it has automatic data quality checks that ensure we can trust the results. On top of all that, we get the Stratalys project team who are essential for putting tools like this to effective use."
Anna GreenbergPartnerGreenberg Quinlan Rosner Research
"When we are addressing a national, regional or statewide issue, we value the efficiency and effectiveness of working with Stratalys and their Q2 platform. In my 12 years working with them, I have seen this proprietary platform evolve and continue to push the envelope of what is possible. Working at a communications firm, the specialized message testing tools such as CopyEditor highlighting and moment-to-moment video evaluation allow us to dig deeper than standard in-person focus groups. Importantly, Stratalys' team doesn’t just blindly implement what we ask for, but rather they provide a critical eye every step of the way, helping us to spot issues before they become an issue and adding value to our work. Great technology and smart people make Stratalys an asset to our research process."
Bill DalbecManaging PartnerAPCO Insight
"Stratalys has been a trusted partner of our firm's for over a decade. We are excited about the research innovations that they have consistently brought to the market over the years. If Stratalys doesn't have it, then they build it. The Stratalys Survey System allows us to implement any questionnaire setup imaginable, and the system's report generation capabilities are also excellent. But besides the technology, we like Stratalys because of their staff who look critically and constructively at every part of the survey research process."
Jason BoxtManaging Director, Research DivisionThe Glover Park Group
"CopyEditor is an entirely new and entirely superior approach to message testing. The level of detailed feedback that this tool provides is extremely helpful to our clients in refining their communication executions. The fact that it's simple for respondents to use gives us confidence in the underlying data. And the back-end reporting tool that Stratalys has created is flexible and well-suited to produce insights that we might otherwise have missed."
Steve LombardoChief Communications & Marketing OfficerKoch Industries
"We've utilized Stratalys' qualitative and quantitative services for many years. The Advertest tool was one of the first online implementations of second-by-second video ratings, and it remains superior in our experience. Advertest is flexible, allowing us to gather this type of detailed feedback either in surveys or Q2 discussion forums. It works on almost any device or operating system. And it has automatic data quality checks that ensure we can trust the results. On top of all that, we get the Stratalys project team who are essential for putting tools like this to effective use."
Anna GreenbergPartnerGreenberg Quinlan Rosner Research
"LiveRead is a breakthrough in the evaluation of live media events. We've used the platform to help our television network clients gather feedback on telecasts and assess viewer reactions to key programming elements. Most importantly, LiveRead has demonstrated a clear return on investment. The real-time ad recall data has proved essential in showing advertisers the impact of their advertising dollars. The uses for LiveRead have barely been scratched, and we're excited to see where it goes in the TV and web space."
Rob AutryFounderMeeting Street Research