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develop concepts that consumers love.

At this stage, we help you generate unique but commercially-oriented ideas off the back of opportunity areas and create fully articulated visual and written concepts. Importantly, we make sure your team is taken along the journey and onboard to continue with the innovation project.

We use techniques that get you to break your current frame of reference and think beyond the category and product innovation. We’re believers in bringing early ideas to life as much as possible using experiential techniques, early prototyping and in-situ testing. And no matter what, we keep the initial market need and opportunity in mind.

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Here, we offer solutions across:

  • Ideation generation: Ideation workshops, Idea screening (qual & quant)
  • Concept development & co-creation: Co-creation workshops, Concept writing & visualisation, Retail Testing Services, Concept testing, Product clinics (early stage), Pack development, Brand positioning & fit
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techniques that deliver ‘wow’ concepts.

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Swift prototyping

 

Agile approaches and prototyping to bring our ideas to life.

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Impactful tools

 

Facilitation and tools that yield really new offers to ‘wow’ consumers.

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Conceptual tests

 

Experiential, behavioural and in-situ methods (even at this early stage).

shopper testing in-house at the lab.

We’re pretty proud to call Australia’s largest sensory testing lab home. Our best-in-class sensory & shopper facilities and tools like eye tracking & 3D prototyping help bring your innovation to life. You (and your consumer) will get a glimpse of the end product in a real-life scenario. We can even mock up an entire physical or digital supermarket aisle, letting test subjects experience your product just like they would in-store.

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see what our biggest fans have to say.

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The entire team at Play have been amazing partners to our customer insights team for many years - always ready to tackle our challenging and varied research briefs, and consistently unearthing practical insights for us. We've commissioned rapid quantitative surveys, deep in-store qual, concept tests, pricing models and more, and continue to benefit from their strategic thinking.
Adam Gelzinis
Customer Insights Business Partner
Bega

We reached out to the PLAY team to conduct some rapid idea screening on a bulk set of concepts as part of our innovation development. The account team were extremely knowledgeable regarding the right methodology to use and were very flexible with adapting the approach to suit our specific business needs and ensure we get the most value out of the research. PLAY was true to their timelines and delivered a succinct report and debrief that has now been leveraged to inform our licensing innovation strategy. I would highly recommend PLAY for any consumer led innovation research and look forward to using them in the future.

Sarah Smyth
Insights & Innovation Marketing Manager
MARS

Having worked with PLAY for a number of years now, we have established a great working relationship. They are a well-respected and highly regarded business partner, adding significant value to our organisation by contributing to and identifying the best ways to unlock future growth for the portfolio, brand and innovation plans. From large scale discovery & strategic insights, through concept & claims development, and sensory proof points – the PLAY team have been a part of our transformation journey, delivering robust and flexible options for the MARS business. PLAY offer inspiration and consultancy outside of the day-to-day project work, and are willing to challenge, and collaborate, on the best ways to achieve our insights and innovation goals.

Jane Horder
CMI Foresight Manager
MARS

We engaged with PLAY to help understand what truly drove the choices for ‘dinner’ amongst the broad Australian audience. We needed a foundational study to inform action across a wide product portfolio - for both current rationalisation, review, and future scoping & innovation. The approach was a great mix of robustness, efficiency and defensibility – enabling the final data to be cascaded across the business in ways that were both creative and engaging, as a result of the insights provided. We were able to action this expansive research not just in terms of brand and portfolio decision making, but also as a tool to gain alignment across several divisions of the business and to internally speak a consistent consumer-based language. This fundamental study informed the business at many points of the consumer journey to dinner and continues to be the study that keeps on giving 3 years later, due to the art and science in which the study was executed, analysed and database built.

Jane Horder
CMI Foresight Manager

matches made in heaven.

A leading Australian dairy and food company wanted to test out a heap of ideas, fast while keeping costs down. Luckily, that’s exactly what we’re good at. Our team deployed an approach that quickly surveyed shoppers and produced a hierarchy of ideas – some of which were turned into actual products!

Read the case study
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time to mix up how you ideate. Let’s PLAY!

Our team loves nothing more than playing around with new concepts and it’s even better when you’re involved. Just shoot us a message below to get started.