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From insightful beginnings
The Social Insights practice at innovation consultancy Face is born. The idea is to scale up co-design methodologies to involve thousands of people in the innovation process by leveraging the power of social data
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We need tools!
At the time most social listening tools are designed for simple analytics tasks, not audience insights. So we start building our own tools to get the job done
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I’ll have what she’s having
Some of our clients want to look under the hood. That’s when Telefonica’s O2 commissions us a new breed of social insight platform. Seven months later the alpha of RTO2 (Real-Time O2) is born!
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Something’s up…
Tesco conducts a market-wide review of social insights tools, selects RTO2 as the most advanced platform for social insights and subscribes to a white labeled version of the product. More clients want to get their hands on it, something’s definitely happening…
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The time has come
It’s 11pm of the 23rd of December, the London office is extremely quiet, a couple of people are still at work and they’re about to press the deploy button: it’s time to go live with the first version of the Pulsar platform!
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That’s it, we’re doing it
Pulsar goes GA, with its own platform, brand and website
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Getting popular
As co-founder Fran put it: ‘if we get to 50 clients I’ll be really impressed’. In 2013 we smashed through that target in 6 months with a sales team of 1 and began aggressive growth
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It’s getting hot in here
Our team is now 30 people strong and our housemates at Face are feeling the heat. We are taking over...
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Partnering up!
Facebook recognises all the great work we’re doing in social data research and selects Pulsar to become one of the first Audience Insights Partners
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Time to cross the Atlantic
It’s time to branch out: we open our NYC and very first international office to begin sharing Pulsar with the wider world
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Silicon Roundabout
As we keep growing it’s time to find a new home: the Silicon Roundabout days begin with a new swanky Shoreditch office, just a stone’s throw from the Shoreditch House pool
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Stronger together
We merge with our sister company Face to bring the best of audience insights SaaS and Consultancy under one roof
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It's time for a new look
Total makeover with new branding and streamlined UX: audience insights is not just for researchers anymore, it belongs amongst disruptive creatives and strategists who are looking for the next big idea
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Aiming for the stars
We move beyond social to become the first platform to bring all the digital signals from an audience in one place.
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We have a new home! Pulsar joins the Access Intelligence Group to create an end-to-end marketing solution.
Our culture
With a history as a research company, we are driven by a desire to understand culture, and the people within it.
The Pulsar culture has grown by creating a working environment where respect for other people and their ideas is paramount. Now part of the Access Intelligence group, Pulsar aims to build a team from a diversity of backgrounds with a huge range of experiences has created a place where ideas can flourish and new problems are solved every day with a genuine spirit of collaboration.
Our senior team
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