Digiday·2026-08-07

Data specialist Ideally wants research to be used at the start of the creative process

There’s significant debate about synthetic audiences. Sure, they save agencies and brands considerably on time and money, but there are inherent risks as well. Probably the biggest is that most synthetic data models are regressive — they trend toward the mean. They smooth out the edges, compress the variance, and pull everything within a standard deviation or two of average. But another risk is th

There’s significant debate about synthetic audiences. Sure, they save agencies and brands considerably on time and money, but there are inherent risks as well. Probably the biggest is that most synthetic data models are regressive — they trend toward the mean. They smooth out the edges, compress the variance, and pull everything within a standard deviation or two of average. But another risk is th