Overview

Gender

male

As Head of Trends, Jason oversees all of GWI’s content – producing trends on key digital topics and authoring the company’s flagship quarterly reports on social networking, mobiles, tablets and wearables.

Jason also manages the Market Report series - analyzing trends in each of the 32 countries surveyed by GlobalWebIndex – and has released a number of Audience Reports examining behaviors and attitudes among high-interest target groups such as Teens, Influencers and Parents. He is a regular public speaker, a blogger for the Huffington Post and a frequent contributor to articles, new stories and TV coverage across such titles as BBC News, the Guardian, Bloomberg and NBC.

Prior to this, Jason was Head of Insight at Future Foundation; during his time there, he launched the company’s US service, oversaw its Beyond 2020 innovation series, managed its Quant, Intelligence and Forecasting departments and served as an Account Director for a number of global brands.

Jason first began working with trends as a Research Fellow at the University of Oxford. Building on a PhD in the Social Sciences, he published a book through Cambridge University Press, presented at a number of international conferences and visited more than 100 different cities for the purposes of his research.