You deserve
better
than a trend.

Cultural Studies, ethnography, sociology, insights production… Whatever you call it, cultural analysis has become an essential tool for decision-makers. After 8 years exploring, documenting and analysing the cultures that shape our Culture, Obv was built to bring all these services together in one place.

Obv builds cultural studies that help brands understand their audience before they act: their habits, their beliefs, the way identity works for them. Insights you can use the next day.

In interviews or via a questionnaire, over video or in the street, for fashion, sport or entertainment brands, Obv has one ambition: making the complex legible.

And the culture obvious.

The Obv community, in real time
1,131active members
45,574responses collected
Age breakdown
-18
4%
18-25
46%
25-30
31%
30-35
14%
35+
5%
Gender
52% Women46% Men
Top 5 cultural interests
ModeMusiqueSportCinémaFood

Our latest studies

Each study is an exploration of a cultural territory. Click to read the details or get in touch to learn more about our expertise.

What are we running after?

In Paris, everyone's into running. But no one takes the time to ask the questions you need to understand why.

What motivates young Parisians to start running? How does this activity strengthen their identity? We went and spoke with runners. And we explored their world: running practices, races, running clubs, and influences. More than just trends, our findings reveal profound cultural shifts and provide tools to track them: the Running Maturity Score, a classification of 10 different types of runners, and a playbook for brands in the industry.

Key numbers
66%
of runners feel more attractive since they started running.
82%
of them wear their running clothes outside of exercise.
39%
felt like a runner for the first time during their first race.
Youth, Sustainability and Fashion

Why do French youth march every Sunday for the planet while the same generation wears Shein?

The paradoxes of the eco-conscious generation in 12,193 responses. 98% of 13-28 year-olds say they care about the environment. And yet: they buy fast, buy a lot, and dress according to hype cycles that keep accelerating into the absurd. We set out to understand this blockage and to offer 6 ways to get out of it. For brands, for individuals, for the whole industry.

Key numbers
12 193
quantitative respondents
22
average age of respondents
33%
considers themselves eco-anxious
Verbatims

« Why should we be the ones to limit ourselves, when older generations did whatever they wanted for years? »

Joyce · 19

« Sometimes you buy a piece and by the time it arrives, you've forgotten you ordered it and you wonder if you even wanted it. »

Sarah · 28

« Being eco is hard. It just doesn't feel good. »

Ambre · 20
Our tools

Qualitative.
Quantitative.
Both together.

Qualitative to understand in depth, quantitative to validate at scale. Both combined in every study, that's how we get
at the truth of people.

Individual interviews

One-hour semi-structured interviews, in person or remote. Targeted recruitment. We talk, we listen, we understand, we dig.

Fast recruitment · Paris & across France

Observation & focus groups

Participant observation and focus groups of 4 to 8 people. When the subject calls for it, we bring in professionals: researchers, doers, voices from the culture. But honestly, our community is our favorite expert to talk to.

In-field immersion · formats tailored to the brief

Targeted panel surveys

1,131 active respondents you can talk to on any given subject. Targeting by age, city, interests and cultural profile. This is where we pressure-test our intuitions and generate data that feeds our analysis.

Proprietary panel · built and maintained in-house
What we do

How we
work

A close collaboration from the briefing call to the final debrief. Obv studies can be designed to inform an internal strategic decision or a YouTube video that becomes a PR push. Your call. Obv does both.

01
Brief & scoping
02
Quantitative fieldwork
03
Qualitative fieldwork
04
Analysis & narrative
05
Presentation
Rafael Janosevic
Rafael
Janosevic
Founder · Researcher · Paris
8 years in the field

Rafael has been producing cultural analysis for eight years. Campaigns, activations, communities built and run… But above all, thousands of hours listening, asking questions, digging.

What's driven him from the start: everyone has something interesting in them. You just have to know how to find it. obv.studio is for those who want clarity in the present. Intelligence in how we experience this world.

“What I love is talking to people. Because anyone has something worth surfacing if you know where to look.”
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