# Christopher South

> Christopher South is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur, engineer, inventor, artist and advisor best known as co-founder and CEO of Spot Trender, a consumer-insights platform created to compress advertising research from weeks into hours. After an earlier video-pitch venture failed to find a market, South and co-founder Rick Nguyen used an Intuit assignment as the bridge to a new idea: automated ad testing with frame-by-frame audience reactions. South was named to Greenbook’s 2021 GRIT Future List and has spoken publicly about bootstrapped growth, leadership, data privacy and keeping market research centered on people.

- **Role:** CEO & Co-founder at Spot Trender
- **Organizations:** Spot Trender, QR Pitch, Edward Jones
- **Nationality:** American
- **Education:** Mechanical engineering, San Jose State University
- **Known for:** Named a 2021 Greenbook GRIT Future List honoree., Co-created Spot Trender’s patented live audience reaction system for frame-by-frame video feedback., Credited by Greenbook with five patents and three pending patents across three companies as of 2021.

## Career timeline

- **Before 2011** — Co-founded QR Pitch with Rick Nguyen; the video-pitch service closed after failing to find a sustainable market.
- **2011** — Began creating Spot Trender with Nguyen after an Intuit assignment revealed demand for faster advertising feedback.
- **2013** — Spot Trender began public operations as an agile ad-testing platform.
- **2014** — Spot Trender, Inc. was incorporated in California records as a Delaware corporation.
- **2021** — Named to Greenbook’s GRIT Future List as CEO of Spot Trender.
- **2022** — Signed a public Visit Orlando research statement of work as Spot Trender CEO.
- **2023** — Announced Spot Trender’s AI-assisted brand-tracking update as co-founder and CEO.
- **2026** — LinkedIn’s public profile preview lists Edward Jones while Spot Trender’s site remains active; the exact role is not publicly shown in the preview.

## Achievements

- Named a 2021 Greenbook GRIT Future List honoree.
- Co-created Spot Trender’s patented live audience reaction system for frame-by-frame video feedback.
- Credited by Greenbook with five patents and three pending patents across three companies as of 2021.
- Helped build a revenue-funded consumer-insights platform that reduced research turnaround from weeks to hours.

## Latest updates

- **2026-07** — California business-record data continued to list Spot Trender, Inc. as active and Christopher South as CEO, CFO and registered agent based on the latest displayed state filing data.
- **2026-06** — LinkedIn’s public profile preview associated Christopher South’s San Francisco Bay Area profile with Edward Jones; no specific title was visible.
- **2023-01** — Spot Trender announced an AI-assisted update to its brand-tracking solution, quoting South as co-founder and CEO.

## Links

- Website: https://spottrender.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christophersouth1
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/spottrender
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SpotTrender/

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Last updated: 2026-08-27