About us

Nineteen Insights is the market research and advisory firm run by Nate Elliott. We help companies collect and communicate data.

For two decades Nate has been a leader in researching technology, media, and marketing. Before launching Nineteen Insights, he was VP and Principal Analyst at Forrester, where he developed big ideas like the Marketing RaDaR and The Database of Affinity and then helped marketers implement those ideas. Over 12 years he led Forrester’s coverage of social media, European marketing, and rich media and video advertising. In 2003 he founded JupiterResearch’s coverage of search marketing. Nate created Forrester’s Social Technographics Score data model and ran the annual Forrester Groundswell Awards. Previously he developed online ad products and standards for DoubleClick (now Google), Macromedia (now Adobe), and the IAB.

Clients and the media call on Nate to provide insight into market research, digital marketing and media, and accessibility. He has been quoted in lots of places, speaks at big events like SXSW, NEXT Berlin, and Ad:Tech, and has been called “one of the most influential social media analysts in the world.”

Nate was born in Syracuse, NY, and studied computer mediated communication at Cornell University. He's worked in New York, London, Berlin, and Vancouver. When he’s not working he likes to cook and sail tall ships, sometimes at the same time.