Upwave Overview

Upwave provides a dynamic platform for measuring brand outcomes, focusing on Brand Lift, Brand Reach, and Brand Optimization. It integrates scientific methodologies to offer real-time insights into top-of-funnel marketing performance. Businesses can leverage its capabilities to validate brand reach and identify optimization opportunities, enhancing their marketing strategies. The platform's performance lens allows for precise assessment of brand investments, ensuring data-driven decision-making. Upwave's unique approach to brand measurement supports marketers in achieving tangible business gains through improved brand visibility and effectiveness.

Use Cases

Customers recommend Advertisement, Market Research, Collaboration, as the business use cases that they have been most satisfied with while using Upwave.

Other use cases:

  • Sending & Publishing Communications
  • Workflow Management
  • Digital Marketing
  • Lead Analytics
  • Engaging And Following Up
  • Content Management
  • Helpdesk Management
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Business Priorities

Build Brand Awareness and Improve Brand Engagement are the most popular business priorities that customers and associates have achieved using Upwave.

Other priorities:

  • Enhance Customer Relationships
  • Enter New Markets Internationally Or Locally
  • Scale Best Practices
  • Establish Thought Leadership
  • Launch New Products
  • Grow Market Share
  • Improve Digital And Social Presence
  • Acquire Customers
  • Improve ROI
  • Improve Internal Communications
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Upwave Use-Cases and Business Priorities: Customer Satisfaction Data

Upwave works with different mediums / channels such as Review Sites. Amazon. and Social Media.

Upwave's features include Feedback Surveys, Personalization, Dashboard, etc. and Upwave support capabilities include 24/7 Support, Chat Support, Phone Support, etc. also Upwave analytics capabilities include Analytics, and Custom Reports.

Reviews

"...Other than that, there's a wide selection of customization options similar to Google Keep, but what separates UpWave is its focus on collaboration...." Peer review by Lorenzo E., Programmer, Information Technology and Services

Peer review evidence (same sources as the product rating summary)

"...Upwave's powerful analytics show advertisers the full brand-building value of GumGum's unique technology capabilities...." #1 Analytics Platform for Brand Marketers
"...We suggest edits to question wording and sample size based on research industry best practices...." Peer review
"...You can: - Manage tasks and projects in a visual manner - Track time, estimate and report progress - Work with predefined templates (Business Model Canvas, Lean) - Invite external collaborators - Work anywhere..." Peer review

Upwave, OWOX, Everflow, CB Insights, Crayon, etc., all belong to a category of solutions that help Marketing Data Intelligence. Each of them excels in different abilities. Therefore, determining the best platform for your business will depend on your specific needs and requirements.

Upwave leverages predictive analytics and vast consumer data to measure cross-channel brand campaigns. Industry-leading insights are provided for brand advertising.

Popular Business Setting

for Upwave

Top Industries

  • Information Technology and Services
  • Food & Beverages
  • Real Estate

Popular in

  • Small Business
  • Mid Market
  • Enterprise

Upwave is popular in Information Technology And Services, Food & Beverages, and Real Estate and is widely used by Small Business, Mid Market, and Enterprise.

Upwave Customer wins, Customer success stories, Case studies

What Are the key features of Upwave for Market Research?

How does Upwave facilitate Collaboration?

How can Upwave enhance your Sending & Publishing Communications process?

How can Upwave enhance your Workflow Management process?

28 buyers and buying teams have used Cuspera to assess how well Upwave solved their Marketing Data Intelligence needs. Cuspera uses 647 insights from these buyers along with peer reviews, customer case studies, testimonials, expert blogs and vendor provided installation data to help you assess the fit for your specific Marketing Data Intelligence needs.

 

AudienceXpress (Comcast) - Marketing And Advertising - Large

New York, USA

AudienceXpress used Upwave to improve brand measurement. They gained detailed insights into their campaigns. This helped them optimize brand outcomes. Upwave's platform allowed AudienceXpress to show... the power of brand building. The partnership focused on using data to prove results.

AudienceXpress (Comcast) - Marketing And Advertising - Very Large

AudienceXpress used Upwave to measure and optimize brand outcomes for clients. They ran 28 campaigns with over 525 million impressions. Ad recall increased by 4.5 percentage points. Familiarity, favo...rability, aided awareness, message association, and consideration all improved. 100% of campaigns saw positive KPI lift. 83% beat Upwave norms.

Walmart Connect - Retail - Very Large

Upwave's Brand Outcomes Measurement Platform helped Walmart Connect deliver real-time brand insights for campaigns. Brands used the platform to track brand outcomes and measure campaign impact. The c...ase study highlights two campaigns: one for a video game subscription and another for a CPG brand. Brands gained actionable insights to improve marketing effectiveness. Downloadable resources provide more details on campaign results.

Ogury

Upwave helped Ogury prove the brand-building power of their campaigns. The case study overview highlights how Ogury used Upwave's measurement platform to demonstrate campaign effectiveness. The page ...does not provide specific metrics or detailed results. To access full details, the complete case study must be downloaded.

Kargo - Marketing And Advertising - Large

Upwave partnered with Kargo to measure and optimize brand lift for cross-platform ad campaigns. Kargo used Upwave's analytics platform to bring science to top-of-funnel marketing. The solution focuse...d on real-time brand lift measurement and campaign optimization. This helped Kargo prove the brand-building power of their ad experiences. The partnership highlights Upwave's role in brand advertising analytics.

Viant - Marketing And Advertising

Upwave's Brand Outcomes Measurement Platform helps Viant deliver real-time brand insights during campaigns. Brands use the platform to measure brand outcomes and brand lift. The case study highlights... campaigns in financial services and internet provider sectors. No specific metrics or customer quotes are given in the available content.

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Frequently Asked Questions(FAQ)

for Upwave

What is Upwave?

Upwave is an Analytics Platform for brand marketers to plan, measure, and optimize brand marketing. It’s a complete brand measurement platform for optimizing the campaign delivering cross-channel insights and uncovering optimization decisions to improve advertising effectiveness.

It helps to access consumer opinions and quality data at a scale, speed, and level of granularity that is unsurpassed. It ensures data is transformed into actionable insights and enables customers to combine metrics from 3rd parties with Upwave data to activate audiences through key digital endpoints.

Some of its features are updated results to perpetually show the brand impact of the optimization decisions, visualizations of data that are easily exportable for inclusion in presentations and reports, target verification, customized visualizations real-time norms and more.

What is Upwave used for?

Upwave is a Marketing Data Intelligence Software mainly used by its customers to Build Brand Awareness and Improve Brand Engagement by Advertisement, Market Research and Collaboration .

What are the top features of Upwave?

Feedback surveys, Personalization and Dashboard are some of the top features of Upwave.

Who uses Upwave?

Upwave is used by Information Technology And Services, Food & Beverages and Real Estate among other industries.

What are Upwave alternatives?

OWOX, Everflow, CB Insights and Crayon are popular alternatives for Upwave.

Where is Upwave located?

Upwave is headquartered at 642 Harrison Street, Suite 301 San Francisco, CA 94107.
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Peers used Upwave for advertisement and market research

Upwave Features

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FEATURE RATINGS AND REVIEWS
AI Powered

3.70/5

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Analytics

4.75/5

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Custom Reports

4.59/5

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CAPABILITIES RATINGS AND REVIEWS
AI Powered

3.70/5

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Analytics

4.75/5

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Custom Reports

4.59/5

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Upwave, Inc. News

Executive

Upwave Appoints John Bulgrin as Chief Revenue Officer

Upwave has appointed John Bulgrin as Chief Revenue Officer. Bulgrin, with over 20 years of experience in media measurement and advertising technology, will help accelerate Upwave's growth. His leadership roles at Publicis Groupe, Comscore, and Dynata highlight his expertise. Upwave focuses on AI-powered brand outcomes measurement across various media platforms.

Executive

Upwave Appoints Measurement Industry Veteran John Bulgrin as Chief Revenue Officer

Upwave has appointed John Bulgrin, a veteran in the measurement and media industry, as Chief Revenue Officer. Bulgrin, with experience from Comscore and Dynata, will lead Upwave's revenue organization to drive growth and expand partnerships. His expertise will support Upwave's AI-powered Brand Outcomes platform, enhancing brand performance measurement.

Product

January 2026 Product Release Notes

Upwave has launched AI Campaign Insights Reports, now generally available, offering AI-generated slide decks for campaign performance analysis and recommendations. Additionally, Upwave has updated its Industry and Tactic Norms through Q4 2025, introducing new KPIs for select channels and environments.

Product

November 2025 Product Release Notes

Upwave's November 2025 product release introduces Tactic Norms for banner sizes and video lengths, enhancing brand lift performance benchmarking. The update includes refreshed Industry and Tactic Norms, a reduced campaign impression threshold, and improved CM360 integration setup. These enhancements aim to optimize campaign effectiveness and streamline operations for users.

Upwave, Inc. Profile

Company Name

Upwave, Inc.

Company Website

https://www.upwave.com/

Year Founded

2012

HQ Location

642 Harrison Street, Suite 301 San Francisco, CA 94107

Employees

51-100

Social

Financials

SERIES B