Matt SabourinStrategy Director
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06 / Research & cultural intelligence

Gaming research / PSFK / R/GA FutureVision

See the shift.
Find the opportunity.

My research work spans League of Legends, 2XKO, Apex Legends, and Xbox, plus Nike, Samsung, Apple, and other Fortune 500 brands through PSFK and FutureVision. I connect changes in culture, technology, and behavior to the choices brands need to make.

My role & scope

Research, synthesis, strategic recommendations, and report writing. My contribution varies by project, from contributing to leading.

R/GA FutureVision magazine covers
R/GA FutureVision / Technology, culture, and human behavior

Featured report / R/GA FutureVision

The Next Generation of Sports Fans report artwork

The Next Generation
of Sports Fans.

I wrote R/GA’s report on how brands can appeal to younger sports fans. It brings my work in audience understanding into sports, with a focus on what it takes to connect with the next generation.

My role: Report author.

Read the report at R/GA

Gaming research

Understand the culture.
Give the brand a point of view.

My gaming research includes work for League of Legends, 2XKO, Apex Legends, and Xbox. Across those reports and my broader strategy work, I look for the connection between what people care about, how they behave, and where a brand has a useful role to play.

I bring that thinking into positioning, creative briefs, and conversations with the teams making the work. The aim is a point of view people can use to decide which audiences, ideas, and opportunities deserve their attention.

SYFY / Ethnographic research

See the people
behind the audience.

I traveled across the country talking with millennials about their relationship with science fiction. Those conversations helped identify an opportunity for SYFY to connect with younger audiences.

I made a short documentary to bring their perspective into the room, giving the team a way to see and hear the people behind the research.

PSFK & R/GA FutureVision

Make what’s changing
useful today.

Through PSFK and FutureVision, I’ve worked on research for Nike, Samsung, Apple, and many other Fortune 500 brands. The work connects emerging platforms, business models, and behaviors to opportunities for brands. Recent reports explore AI and commerce; earlier annual trend reports examined visual, cultural, and digital shifts.

I also led FutureVision’s consulting work with teams at Nike, Samsung, Epic Games, and Google, connecting research with product, brand, and business decisions.

At PSFK, I contributed research and analysis to the 2011 Future of Gaming report, exploring how games motivate participation and bring people together.

Read PSFK’s Future of Gaming
Explore the FutureVision series

Consulting work with teams at

NikeSamsungEpic GamesGoogle
Next projectRiot GamesView the work

The next chapter

Open to Strategy Director roles
and select consulting engagements.

Got a brand that needs
a point of view?
Let’s talk.
matt@dancinglegs.com
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