Author: Olivier Blanchard

Amazon Ads unBoxed 2026 Amazon Positions Its Ad Business Around Agents
October 27, 2026

Amazon Ads unBoxed 2026: Amazon Positions Its Ad Business Around Agents

Olivier Blanchard, Research Director at Futurum, shares his insights on Amazon Ads unBoxed 2026, where Amazon merged its DSP and console into Amazon Ads Agent and pushed sponsored ads into...
Qualcomm Wins Liability Verdict Against Arm With Royalty Suspension Ruling To Follow
October 27, 2026

Qualcomm Wins Liability Verdict Against Arm With Royalty Suspension Ruling To Follow

Olivier Blanchard, Research Director, Intelligent Devices at Futurum, shares his insights on the Qualcomm v. Arm verdict, why the nominal $2 award masks a much bigger win, and how a...
Robotics TAM Mobile Ground Robots, Not Humanoids, Will Lead by 2035
October 26, 2026

Robotics TAM: Mobile Ground Robots, Not Humanoids, Will Lead by 2035

Futurum's robotics TAM model projects the market growing from $83B in 2025 to $391B by 2035. Humanoids draw the attention, but Mobile ground robots, driven by sub-two-year payback, build the...
Qualcomm + PickNik + Layoffs = The Robotics Segment’s Stakes Are Starting To Feel A Bit More Real
October 22, 2026

Qualcomm + PickNik + Layoffs = The Robotics Segment’s Stakes Are Starting To Feel A Bit More Real

Qualcomm's acquisition of PickNik gives Dragonwing the motion planning layer between AI models and robot hardware. Whether it pays off depends on keeping MoveIt open....
NVIDIA DGX Spark 64GB’s Low Price-Point Aims To Accelerate Local AI Inference
October 20, 2026

NVIDIA DGX Spark 64GB’s Low Price-Point Aims To Accelerate Local AI Inference

Olivier Blanchard, Research Director at The Futurum Group shares insights on DGX Spark 64GB, its pricing and memory trade-offs, and the role of software and clustering in local AI development....
Alexa Tablets Reset Part Of Amazon’s Device Strategy
October 20, 2026

Alexa Tablets Reset Part Of Amazon’s Device Strategy

Olivier Blanchard, Research Director at The Futurum Group shares insights on Amazon Alexa Tablets, their Google Play integration, higher prices, and expanded Alexa+ capabilities....
How Apple Could Break Amazon and Google’s Hold On The Smart Home Segment
October 20, 2026

How Apple Could Break Amazon and Google’s Hold On The Smart Home Segment

Olivier Blanchard, Research Director at The Futurum Group shares insights on Apple HomeView’s personalized smart-home strategy, privacy controls, and adoption hurdles....
Can Meta’s Muse Charm Create Enough Value To Survive Its Own Initial Hype Cycle?
October 13, 2026

Can Meta’s Muse Charm Create Enough Value To Survive Its Own Initial Hype Cycle?

Olivier Blanchard, Research Director at Futurum, shares his insights on Muse Charm, Meta’s pocket-sized 5G AI agent device: who it’s for, and whether it can avoid the fate of Humane...
Meta’s New VR Glasses Challenge Apple Designers To A Spatial Computing Adoption Race
October 13, 2026

Meta’s New VR Glasses Challenge Apple Designers To A Spatial Computing Adoption Race

Olivier Blanchard, Research Director at Futurum, shares his insights on Meta VR Glasses, a 100-gram, $1,299 headset aimed squarely at Apple Vision Pro, and whether its trade-offs will win over...
Snapdragon X Elite Expands Qualcomm's PC Reach With Googlebook
September 29, 2026

Snapdragon X Elite Expands Qualcomm’s PC Reach With Googlebook

Olivier Blanchard, Research Director at Futurum, shares insights on Qualcomm's Googlebook launch, Android integration, and competition with Intel....
Is Qualcomm’s New Ultra-Premium Handset 2nm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 Extreme SOC In A League Of Its Own?
September 29, 2026

Is Qualcomm’s New Ultra-Premium Handset 2nm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 Extreme SOC In A League Of Its Own?

Olivier Blanchard, Research Director at The Futurum Group shares insights on the new 2nm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6, examining Qualcomm’s two-tier flagship strategy and the software support its advanced...
ADI SHARC-FX
September 23, 2026

ADI SHARC-FX Runs on Cadence IP: Is the Proprietary DSP Era Over?

Brendan Burke and Olivier Blanchard, Research Directors at Futurum, examine ADI's decision to rebuild its SHARC automotive audio DSP on Cadence Tensilica IP and what the ADI SHARC-FX shift means...

Welcome

The vision behind everything in Futurum’s Custom Research practice is this: research should show you what is happening, what comes next, and what to do about it. It should be personal to each audience, easy for people to grasp, and structured so LLMs can reason over it accurately. And it should be fast and turnkey; you want answers now, not another project to carry for quarters.

Whether you are defining business, channel, or go-to-market strategy; evaluating vendors or justifying ROI; or commissioning research to fill an emerging market need, we have your back, with a program that answers your questions with the objectivity and credibility to drive real decisions.

To do it, we bring unmatched data to bear: Futurum research, surveys, and market projections; validated market feeds; ETR’s 15 years of insight from 10,000 technology decision-makers; G2’s buyer and user data; and what our analysts hear every day. Add leading primary collection, from AI-moderated voice interviews to surveys and analyst-led interviews, all turnkey, and every project comes out credible, nuanced, and actionable.

And we don’t just drop the results in your lap. For internal work, we provide analyst-led sessions, interactive dashboards, and a range of formats. For market-facing work, Futurum delivers turnkey activation and amplification that actually gets seen, by people and by LLMs, through our media and share of voice. This is research that moves decisions and markets.

We will meet you wherever you are, from a fast-turn brief to a multi-year program, and shape the work to your goals, timeline, and budget. The right program for your moment.

If any of this is useful, I would love to talk.

Benjamin Brown, VP Custom Research, Futurum Research

Benjamin Brown

VP, Custom Research · The Futurum Group

Newsletter Sign-up Form

Get important insights straight to your inbox, receive first looks at eBooks, exclusive event invitations, custom content, and more. We promise not to spam you or sell your name to anyone. You can always unsubscribe at any time.

All fields are required






Thank you, we received your request, a member of our team will be in contact with you.