GalaxyAdvisors News

On Saturday, March 10 2012, at the InterContinental Stephen F Austin, do not miss "Coolhunting and Coolfarming with Social Media". Peter Gloor of the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence and supporting panel will answer questions like: Is 'cool farming' the cold fusion of marketing and advertisements? What factors and metrics determine viral-ness or cool-ness?
Watch a video (in German) of Peter's keynote about the "wisdom of swarms, and the madness of many" at the Austrian Innovation Forum in Vienna, Oct 13, 2011 
In September Miller-McCune journalist Emily Badger interviewed Peter Gloor about his work finding the people behind trends -- information producers, not the information itself -- before trends take off.

Recently Nature News interviewed galaxyadvisors Chief Creative Officer Peter Gloor about our prediction work...building models that can predict consumer
behaviour, such as ticket sales for Hollywood films, using a range of online
sources including social media.


The same work has also been picked up by Daily Mail
Gartner forecasts social media revenue to hit $US15b ... according to Gartner this is mostly because  social networking sites with the help of social analytics firms such as GalaxyAdvisors will be able to unlock the interconnected data structures of users.

You are invited to the Austrian Innovation Forum in Vienna, Oct 13. Senseable cities and creative swarms are at the center. More...
This article in Swiss Magazine Alpha (in German) describes how social network analysis helps to reduce complexity in the organization by showing the hidden connections, influencers, and trendsetters. more....
  • The MIT association is very reassuring, their approach was very methodical, confident, patient, helpful and encouraging. Outstanding team, focused, conceptually easy, quick at negotiating time and delays, great class, simple and user friendly despite the complex systems.
    Maggie Palazzolo, Research Coordinator
  • Excellent experience overall. Correspondence was kind, fast and helpful mostly via email; we suggested new features as needed and they were added quickly.
    Daniel Oster, Assistant to the CEO
  • There are many others who say they can do similar things, but I don't think they are actually capable. GalaxyAdvisors is different because many others don't use the social network methodology to learn what people are talking about.
    Daniel Oster, Assistant to the CEO
  • Very Unique. There are no others like them! We trust galaxyadvisors and feel that relationship is critical, as we are not social network analysis experts and need their help and understanding.
    Mirjam Hauser, GDI Analyst