How IMA uses consumer insight to make brands more buyable
As an agency with a strong effectiveness culture, research is pivotal to client reporting at IMA.

Challenge
One of the UK’s largest integrated marketing agencies, IMA works with some of the world’s best-known brands. As part of their mission to “make brands more buyable”, it’s important to measure the effectiveness of the work they do for clients. For this, they require a fast and flexible research partner.
Research is an integral part of understanding the heart and mind of the consumer and uncovering insight from consumer behavior, in our mission to make brands more buyable.
Solution
IMA has been working with Attest since 2021, using the platform for brand tracking and campaign tracking, as well as to get quantitative and qualitative feedback from consumers when they need to validate ideas.
The Attest team act as true partners, consulting on briefs as required and are there to answer questions whenever we need. Above and beyond that, we trust them to always work in the best interest of ourselves and our clients.
IMA has embraced various features of the Attest platform to enhance their research and reporting capabilities, including Video Responses, and Boards – a feature for interactive storytelling.
We’re using Boards as part of our standardised reporting of data and debrief to clients. Boards means we can more quickly and easily demonstrate trends, customise views to reflect key areas of interest and importantly remove any human error in the translation of data.
Impact
By integrating consumer research, IMA is able to demonstrate that their thinking is grounded in real insight – something that can prove invaluable when pitching to new clients. What’s more, knowing the agency has a trusted research partner in place is a compelling offering.
Attest has enabled us to prove that the work we’re doing with clients will work and has worked, this has been through proving the strength of creative in testing, delivering strategies grounded in real insight from consumer research, and demonstrating improving brand metrics through brand tracking.

