Weekly intelligence brief
Every week, Stamped Research tracks five areas where modern connection is being built, broken, and sold back to us — dating apps, friendship platforms, social media and loneliness, workplace culture, and the IRL events trying to fill the gaps. News, app store sentiment, press coverage, and the cultural signals worth noticing, synthesised into one brief.
Built for journalists, researchers, and advocacy groups. Not sold to the companies being written about — see how access works.
Each dispatch covers the same five areas, every week, so patterns show up over time rather than as one-off stories.
Dating apps
Feature changes, moderation rows, and app store sentiment swings.
Friendship platforms
New entrants, retention struggles, and the apps trying to be Hinge for friends.
Social & loneliness
Algorithm shifts, loneliness research, and the discourse cycle around both.
Workplace connection
Return-to-office friction, culture experiments, and burnout signals.
IRL & community
Event formats and community models filling the gap apps left behind.
Two layers per dispatch. Both are honest about what they are.
The top finding from each of the five areas, free for anyone. Enough to know what happened this week and whether it's worth digging into.
The complete brief: every source with outlet, author, and date, plus a short "why this matters" for each area. For people doing the actual work.
Published weekly, once there's a week's worth of signal to report on.
That's not a placeholder problem — it's the actual state of things. The first dispatch is being put together now. Leave your email and it'll be the first thing that lands when it's out.
One email when the first dispatch goes out. Nothing before that.
The weekly dispatch is free and public, by design. For organisations that need something more specific, Stamped Research takes on a small number of custom briefings — built the same way, just narrower and deeper.
A focused, sourced deep-dive on one question — a single category, a competitor, a regulatory shift — researched and written the same way as the weekly dispatch, just narrower and deeper.
Regular monitoring of a specific area — a competitor, a category, a live situation — delivered on whatever cadence makes sense, weekly or monthly.
Who's already writing about this, where, and from what angle — a working list of journalists, researchers, and newsletter writers covering the connection economy, with coverage history and likely interest.