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We’re delighted to welcome Timothee Mahamoodally to the Omnisis team! Timothee, 19, joins us as a junior software developer intern and will be working with our brilliant in-house development team. He has just completed his first year at the University of Oxford studying Engineering Science and will be spending the summer with us to learn… Read more »

“Game-changing”. “Revolutionary”. “Cutting edge innovation”. No, we’re not talking about the emergence of Artificial Intelligence (yet). These were among the bombardment of buzzwords which accompanied the launch of Google Glass in 2012. The wearable tech was billed as game-changing, enabling users to view the world through a digital overlay, accessing information and online services without… Read more »

For people who’ve worked with our market research magicians, you’ll know it isn’t unusual for the Omnisis team to pull rabbits out of the hat at lightning speed. But there’s no sleight of hand or misdirection involved with these survey sorcerers. No sir. We were recently called in to support Ninth Seat, one of our… Read more »

TIM GOWING, PARTNER – NINTH SEAT Omnisis are always our first stop for online research. They are great to work with, turn things around quickly and takes the stress out of fieldwork. The team treats each project like it belongs to them and we work with the same project manager from start to end, so… Read more »

In-house tech gurus at Omnisis have developed a new interactive map feature to help brands harvest higher quality feedback from surveys. The map tool was created after one of the agency’s biggest clients, working for a global entertainment company, challenged the team to conjure up a new way of gauging customer feeling on a proposed… Read more »

The world of politics can often be a ‘blink and you’ll miss it’ business. While our first six months of public opinion polling has given us a chance to take a regular snapshot of how political rhetoric can impact the way people think and feel, the turbulent, swirling ocean of politics waits for no-one. Over… Read more »

The bunting is up. The cakes are in the oven. The party is planned. Omnisis has turned 20! As we celebrate our milestone birthday, we’ve got a lot to look forward to at Omnisis (virtual) Towers with our continued growth and opportunities to work with a roster of, quite frankly, steller clients. Twenty years is… Read more »

UK-based market research experts Omnisis have partnered with award-winning Ukrainian design agency Obys on an exciting new digital collaboration. Omnisis is launching a new public opinion polling brand and has appointed the Kharkiv-based agency to build a cutting-edge website which takes users on a journey through beautifully presented data. After an extensive search in the… Read more »

Omnisis, one of the nation’s fastest and most flexible market research agencies, is celebrating its 20th anniversary. The growing agency has consistently delivered exceptional market research expertise and client service, providing invaluable insights to businesses across industries worldwide, for two decades. Founded by Brian Cooper, the company’s managing director, in Manchester, Omnisis has gone from… Read more »

As we approach Earth Day 2023, Omnisis is walking the walk by becoming fully remote for the first time in our history. As anyone who knows me will testify, I care deeply about the environment, our planet and want to make sure the world we leave behind for our kids is a bright, optimistic one…. Read more »

Omnisis has added another new feature to its unique survey software which enables users to visually highlight areas of text and leave comments to help clients create perfect prose. The new text highlight feature is part of Warp, the in-house survey platform developed by Omnisis, and gives clients a new level of customer insight when… Read more »

Omnisis has launched a new translation function as part of its unique Warp surveying software to better serve its growing stable of global clients. The UK-based agency’s in-house development team has been working on creating the new feature to support the global reach of its work, especially markets that have multiple languages in the same… Read more »

When I started Omnisis back in 2002, I was really clear that I wanted to do things differently. My underlying principles have always been to hire brilliant people and trust them to get the job done without micromanagement (because no-one wants that!) and with as little bureaucracy as possible. In essence, I wanted to remove… Read more »

Marie Cooper, an experienced data analyst with Omnisis, has been promoted to the role of Senior Data Analyst. Marie has worked in the market research industry since 1993 and joined the Manchester-based agency in 2021. She has quickly become a crucial part of the team which has been growing rapidly over the last few years…. Read more »

Like apples and pears, the sickening thud of a tower of paper surveys being slammed on to a desk goes hand-in-hand with the crestfallen groan of the data entry team. So to make life easier (and reduce the groan factor at Omnisis Towers), our technical boffins created a data entry module for our in-house survey… Read more »

A lot has been said and written by the great and the good about the pros and cons of hybrid versus office-based working. So after two years of rapid growth, during a global pandemic which shut down huge swathes of society and industry, I can reflect with some certainty about what a hybrid approach has… Read more »

What brought you into the world of communications? To cut a long story short – the catalyst for my entire career was the Mexico 1986 football World Cup and a crunch game between England and Poland. England HAD to win to stay in the competition so I was allowed to stay up late to watch… Read more »

Struggling families received an extra boost over Christmas thanks to a £1,500 donation by research agency Omnisis to a network of affordable food clubs. The Manchester-based company decided to forego festive gifts and cards to its clients in 2022 and instead donated the cash to The Bread and Butter Thing charity. The charity’s mission is… Read more »

Another month, another new hire! This time we are welcoming Tom as our new Software Developer. Tom will be supporting us with all aspects of technical development support, including taking a leading role in managing Warp and keeping the backend nice and organised. Tom joins us from Ultimedia Limited, a web development agency where he… Read more »

We’re very pleased to announce the latest addition to our growing team here at Omnisis – Mike Underwood. Mike joins as our new Communications Manager and brings to Omnisis Towers a wealth of award-winning communications skills and experience in the public, private and third sectors. His passion for writing and storytelling began as a 10-year-old… Read more »