SGLabs - an emotionally intelligent brand platform

Your ad is live—now find and share it with those who will love it the most.

Primary Research Works, you know how we know? Research!

The CIE & BEIs' 5+ billion data points about consumers & business executives empower you to create a profound, enduring relationship with your audience. We apply psychology models, traditional research methodologies and cutting edge neuroscience to deliver actionable insights about one's target audience.

Brand Emotional Lift (BEL)

SGLabs' Brand Emotional Lift (BEL) doesn’t just measure if your content worked — it reveals who it worked for, why it resonated, and how to find and re-engage them with purpose and precision. By combining emotional insights with traditional brand lift metrics, BEL helps you identify the audiences most likely to convert — and ensures your ad reaches the people who truly connect with it.

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SGLabs Platform : CEI | BEI | BEL

5+ Billion data points about consumers & business executives.

Target

Consumer Emotional Index (CEI)
Brand Engagement Index (BEI)

Target your audience on any and every media channel, based on:

What they feel and buy.
The media they consume.
How they spend their time.
Traditional demographics

Develop detailed personas based on SGLabs’ 4.7 million available persona.

Create

Consumer Emotional Index (CEI)
Brand Engagement Index (BEI)

Create content based on primary research about what your audience feels, buys, the media they consume, and how they spend their time.

Measure

Brand Emotional Lift (BEL)

Measure what they love and how your community feels, along with more traditional brand metrics about your ad, campaign, experience, and/or brand.

It’s not about reaching everyone—it’s about reconnecting with those who love your ad, and are most likely to convert.

Deliverables: Insights, Strategies, & Plans

Our platform provides easily digestible research and actionable insights.

We don’t simply collect data – we deliver research from raw insights to fully actionable plans.

These insights inform decisions from brand management and marketing to content creation and media planning.

We deliver:

Personas to target when buying media who are most likely to love your ad, brand, or campaign.
Insights and strategies you can use to build your plan.
Flexible reporting options, real-time dashboards.
Fully executable plans.
Self-service data access via Snowflake.

Know how consumers & executives feel, what they love, buy, hate, how they spend their time, and the media they consume.

SGLabs Research+

Leverage our research & data to derive insights across a target audience.

Add custom questions to our 5+ billion data points to further segment or learn more about your target market.

Consumer Emotional Index (CEI)
Business Engagement Index (BEI)
Global Engagement Index (GEI)

Custom Research

Go deep – with comprehensive custom research powered by SGLabs platform. Answer your company’s most difficult questions.

One example: The CX Innovator Series – an actionable, educational industry initiative sponsored by 4 industry-leading brands.

Media Plan & Buying

SGLabs reveals who truly connects with your brand—helping you focus spend, deliver your ad to those who will love it most, and drive stronger ROI across every campaign.

Upon request, SGLabs executes your media plan.your

Benchmark Your Brand

Compare your brand, campaign, or mindshare with others.

Track your campaign’s progress, and Brand Emotional Lift (BEL) over time. Understand how your brand is positioned vs. your competitors.

Quantify ROI, even for awareness campaigns!

Know WHO they are. WHY, WHERE, and HOW they want it.

Who

With over 4.7 million personas available, precisely target your brand’s audience.

Why

Understand how your audience feels, what they buy, how they spend their time, and why they make the decisions they make.

Where

Know which media outlets your community engages with to target more effectively.

How Much

SGLabs’ research platform turns emotional insight into proof of performance—helping you grow ROI over time.

Who are they?

Custom Personas: Annie & Paul

Precisely define your target audience and understand how they feel, their behaviors, actions, and media preferences.

Consumer Demographics include

Lifestyle, Ethnicity, Income, Gender, Age, and Political party.

Business Demographics include the size of the company, seniority, decision-makers, and Industry in the US, Europe, and Asia.

4.7 million possible personas

Annie:

45 years old
Income: $75,000
Outdoor Adventurer
Pet Owner
No children
Female
Derives the most joy from her pet
Loves Amazon Prime late night

Paul:

45 years old
Income: $75,000
Technologist
Pet Owner
Has 2 children
Male
Derives the most joy from his family
Prefers YouTube during prime time

Earn a deeper relationship with your community.

SGLabs - Insights up and down the marketing, content, and sales funnels.

Understand your customer throughout their journey.

The alignment of the marketing, content and sales funnels identifies, attracts and nurtures potential customers, empowering your team to execute in lockstep and in a unified voice.

Why this works

Where are they?

Who participates in our research?

Almost everyone!

No matter what your business does, we have respondents who will help answer your toughest questions.

PARTICIPANTS

100+ million research participants

COUNTRIES

100+ countries

MARKETS

Access to 4,000+ individual market research panels and sources.

Customizable dashboards delivered via email, or secure website.

SGLabs’ platform provides detailed, digestible reports and dashboards to deliver actionable insights that guide a business’s most critical decisions.

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Some of the Cable, Satellite, Streaming, News, Social, & Gaming Sites We Study

Understand WHAT they watch, WHEN they watch, HOW they ENGAGE, and the level of TRUST your audience has with these MEDIA OUTLETS.

Save millions of dollars from misaligned ad campaigns!

Do you work at an Agency?

SGLabs helps save millions of dollars from misaligned ad campaigns. Read more about our Agencies offering here!

Create messaging, content, media, and campaigns that resonate deeper.

Test your creative to understand and target those who love it the most

As you buy media, find influencers, and launch your campaign, SGLabs’ platform helps ensure that your efforts are engaging where and when your clients’ customers are most likely to engage.

Reach out to us to discuss your agency needs! Be sure to ask about our co-branded research program.

We are global!

What causes consumers the most JOY around the world?

Know before you act

Insights and strategy for every department!

Primary research that supports decision-making and storytelling across your organization.

Open new markets
Engage on a deeper level
Align ads with your target market’s lifestyles and interests
Actionable plans delivered every time

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Our clients and partners are sharing

“The results of Sleeping Giant’s work were foundational in executing a complete company re-brand, including updated mission statement, visual identity, and brand pillars. Their research into our customer demographics & persona segmentation are the building blocks upon which we are able to make sound strategic marketing decisions to help us achieve our business objectives and continue to drive the BOOM spirit of our innovative brand.”