Front Row insights uses qualitative and quantitative research and strategic thinking to help our clients win.

For Brands

  • Understand what drives audience decisions
  • Launch products and campaigns that resonate
  • Turn research into revenue growth

For Agencies

  • Deliver strategies backed by primary research
  • Win pitches with compelling insights
  • Become an indispensable strategic partner

For Media Companies

  • Deeply understand engagement patterns
  • Optimize content strategy
  • Become an indispensable
  • Increase audience strategic partner loyalty
Our work
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Reaching Swing Voters
Survey and diary research around media consumption behaviors to help progressive PACs allocate their media spends and best reach target voters in 2024
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Leveraging Modern Love
Qualitative exploration of dating, relationships, and sex among Gen Zs and Millennials that influenced new product and in-store experiences for a bridal brand
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Updating a Legacy Media Brand for Gen Z
Qualitative research that helped a publisher identify white space opportunities and remain relevant to this next generation of teens
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Box Office Boosting
Audience segmentation and content and message testing that help studio marketers reach indie film fans and fill more seats on opening weekends
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Activating a Brand Gen Z-style
Qualitative research and co-creation exercises with Zs to help a fitness and apparel brand develop activation strategies that resonate with Gen Zs
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Reinventing Cable TV News Programming
Surveys and focus group research that helped develop and refine an audience-driven linear programming strategy for a news channel
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Elevating an App
Quantitative and qualitative research to finetune and guide audience-inspired design decisions for a news organization’s mobile and CTV apps
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Deconstructing Cord-Cutting
Ethnography research that helped a premium TV network more powerfully navigate the world of streaming content by bringing audience segments to life
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Defining Customer Targets
Segmentation study of meditators to help a meditation app identify ideal reachable targets for marketing and refine product offerings
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Updating a Heritage Brand
Competitive analysis, expert interviews, and Gen Z IDIs were used to design a new offering that appeals to Gen Z while staying true to the brand’s history
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Elevating Brand Tracking
Designed and executed an on-going custom bi-annual brand tracker that helped brand gain an edge over its competition by upleveling traditional tracker survey design and reporting
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Designing Cars for Gen Z
Immersed auto designers in the lifestyle and aspirations of teen influencers that inspired new car designs and interior features to meet the needs of the next generation of auto buyers
Clients
spectrum
caa
nike
universal music
hbo
attn
10 Percent Happier
masterclass
sony music
Conde Nast
Teen Vogue
focus features
honda
nols
mtv
harper collins
In the news
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Quibi Is Hollywood’s Biggest Short-Form Failure—but Not Its First
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Teens Are Deleting Instagrams Almost as Fast as They Post Them
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Sadfishing, Predators and Bullies: The Hazards of Being ‘Real’ on Social Media
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Featured work
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Reaching the Unreachables
A creator commerce company came to us to illuminate how and why Gen Z and Millennial audiences have shifted their attention and trust away from publishers and platforms towards people. We conducted online surveys in the U.S. and UK, along with expert interviews, and in-depth interviews with Gen Zs and Millennials to explain this shift and we spelled out a new approach to media that’s required reach today’s audiences.
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Expert-led Insights

Led by Jayne Charneski, our team brings over two decades of expertise in uncovering breakthrough consumer insights that drive business strategy. With experience spanning entertainment, media, brands, and political research, we offer a unique perspective on audience behavior and cultural trends.

Our Founder

Jayne Charneski brings more than 20 years of consumer insights and strategy expertise to our research engagements. As a former senior marketing executive at Creative Artists Agency (CAA), she developed insight-driven strategies for both CAA talent and major brands, while also leading research for The Cassandra Report, the leading authority on Millennial and Gen Z trends during her tenure. Prior to CAA, Jayne served as VP of Global Consumer Insights & Strategy at EMI Music and as a VP at Edison Research. She began her insights career as an analyst for the Voter News Service (VNS), a consortium of major U.S. television networks and AP conducting exit polling and election projections.

Jayne brings additional depth to her research practice through her training in authentic relating, circling, and non-violent communication. Her experience as a facilitator of transformative group experiences, along with her immersion in communities like Burning Man, offers a deep perspective on emerging cultural movements and human connection.

Jobs

We’re always looking for freelancers to join the all-star teams we assemble for each of our projects. Think you could help us serve our clients? Reach out and tell us how.

Insiders

We often hire subject area experts to consult on our projects.  If you feel you have something to offer, tell us how you’d like to work with us.

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