Youth, Kids, and Family Market Research Company

Youth, Kids, and Family Market Research Company

Dynamic Youth, Child & Family Market Research for
Understanding Gen Alpha

Touchstone Research is a trusted youth, kids, and family market research company delivering authentic insights across generations—from toddlers to teens to parents. Our team specializes in designing engaging, age-appropriate research methods and navigating complex compliance frameworks like COPPA. We conduct safe, ethical research using child-friendly methodologies and expert moderators trained to work with young participants. Through our proprietary, COPPA-certified Panelpolls community, we help brands connect with kids, families, and Gen Alpha to uncover the insights that matter most.

Dynamic Youth, Child & Family Market Research for 
Understanding Gen Alpha
  • Specialized in Research with Children & Teens: From preschoolers to Gen Alpha tweens and Gen Z teens, we design age-appropriate methodologies to capture authentic feedback and behaviors.
  • Exclusive Access to Youth & Family Panels: Our proprietary youth research panel, Panelpolls, gives brands access to highly engaged kids, teens, young adults, and parents for trusted, COPPA-certified insights.
  • Engaging, Child-Friendly Methodologies: Leverage creative techniques like gamified surveys, storytelling, moderated play sessions, and visual tasks designed to engage younger audiences.
  • Expert Moderation for Young Participants: Our team has decades of experience working with youth audiences, ensuring respectful facilitation, safety, and ethical treatment of all participants.
  • COPPA-Compliant and Ethically Sound: All youth and family research is conducted with rigorous privacy protocols, ensuring COPPA compliance and parental consent.
  • Insights That Drive Smart Strategy: Discover what today’s kids, tweens, teens and families want—from entertainment preferences to toy testing, digital habits, and future trends.

Youth, Child & Family Market Research Consultancy Services

We offer a full range of youth, child, and family market research services tailored for every stage of your study—from participant recruitment and qualitative research with kids to large-scale youth surveys, online panels, and secure content testing. Whether you’re a brand, agency, or nonprofit, our experienced team delivers high-quality insights across audiences and industries.

  • Qualitative Research

  • Quantitative Research

  • Recruitment & Fieldwork

  • UX Research

  • Communities & Panels

  • Dial Tester

  • Secure Content Testing

  • Conversational AI

Youth Qualitative Research

Unlock Deep Insights into Young Audiences

Our qualitative research agency explore the motivations, behaviors, and preferences of kids, children, and teens and Gen Z through in-depth youth and child-focused qualitative research. Touchstone’s expert approach is designed to meet the unique needs of youth and family audiences, delivering insights that drive informed decision-making and innovation. Whether through focus groups with kids, in-depth interviews, or child-friendly ethnographic studies, we help brands uncover the “why” behind young consumers’ action

Youth Qualitative Research

Youth Quantitative Research

Drive Strategic Youth-Focused Decisions with Data-Backed Insights

Our quantitative market research company makes confident decisions with data-backed insights from kids, children, teens, and families. Our quantitative research services are tailored for youth and child audiences, combining precise sampling techniques with rigorous quality control to ensure reliable results. From online surveys with kids to segmentation, trackers, and statistical modeling, Touchstone delivers the data you need to lead in youth markets.

Youth Quantitative Research

Youth Qualitative Recruitment Services

High-Quality Research Participants for Youth-Centric Research

Ensure your youth and kids research is grounded in high-quality, well-vetted participants. Our expert market research recruitment agency provides qualitative recruiting and fieldwork services that are designed to engage eager, relevant respondents—including children, teens, and families—through thorough screening processes that ensure age-appropriateness and verified parental consent. Trust our expert qual recruitment team to recruit the right audience for your child-focused and youth market research projects.

Youth Qualitative Recruitment Services

Youth UX Research

Optimize User Experiences for Young Audiences

Our UX research company enhances usability and satisfaction for youth, kids, and child-focused digital products with our full-service UX research solutions. Our experts specialize in user testing with children, tweens, and teens, helping brands create intuitive, engaging experiences that build loyalty. From UX studies with kids to journey mapping and interface optimization, we ensure your products connect with the expectations of today’s younger users.

Youth UX Research

Youth Insight Communities & Online Panels

Continuous Youth Insights from Custom Online Panels and Market Research Online Communities

Gain ongoing insights with custom online communities and research panels built for kids, children, and youth. Whether you’re looking to engage a niche group of young fans or launch a large-scale child and teen panel, Touchstone offers flexible, tailored solutions to support continuous research. Our communities make it easy to capture authentic feedback from kids, teens, and families—driving smarter strategies in youth and child-focused markets.

Youth Communities & Panels

Dial Testing with Dial Tester by Touchstone Research

Real-Time Feedback from Youth Audiences

Capture second-by-second feedback from kids, children, and youth audiences with our proprietary Dial Testing tool, Dial Tester. Designed for media and audio content, it enables you to collect continuous, real-time reactions from child and teen participants as they engage with your ads, shows, games, or digital experiences. Dial Tester delivers the insights you need to refine content for maximum emotional impact and audience engagement.

Dial Testing with Dial Tester by Touchstone Research

Secure Content Testing

Unmatched Protection for Youth-Focused Content

Safeguard your sensitive child-, kids-, and youth-focused content with Secure Content Testing (SCT) from Touchstone. SCT uses advanced, user-specific watermarking to protect media assets, product concepts, and prototypes—ensuring content is secure and traceable at every stage. Whether you’re conducting research with children, testing new features for a kid-focused app, or sharing confidential creative with parents and teens, SCT provides the confidence and compliance needed to gather insights without risk.

Secure Content Testing (SCT)

Conversational AI Surveys

Engaging AI Surveys for Youth Audiences

Enhance how you collect insights from kids, children, and youth audiences with Conversational AI Surveys—turning traditional questionnaires into engaging, real-time conversations. Built to capture the authentic voices of child and teen participants, these dynamic surveys reduce fatigue and boost engagement, resulting in deeper, more actionable data. With multilingual and culturally adaptive features, Conversational AI is ideal for reaching diverse youth and family segments around the world—offering the flexibility of qualitative depth and the scale of quantitative research.

Conversational AI Surveys

Youth, Kids & Child Research Panel: Panelpolls

Panelpolls, Touchstone’s COPPA-certified youth and child research panel, gives brands direct access to kids, children, Gen Z teens and young adults—as well as their parents. Built over 20 years, this trusted community supports high-quality, secure, and compliant research with even the most hard-to-reach youth audiences.

Whether you’re conducting kids market research, testing a child-focused concept, or tracking trends among Gen Alpha and Gen Z, Panelpolls offers fast, flexible access to engaged participants. Our community includes thousands of families from diverse backgrounds—making it an ideal panel for child and family market research across media, tech, education, toys, and more.

With built-in consent workflows and real-time engagement tools, Panelpolls ensures every study meets the highest standards for privacy, safety, and ethical participation.

Youth, Kids & Child Demographics We Reach

We connect brands with a wide range of youth, kids, and child-focused demographics—from preschoolers and tweens to teens, young adults, and families. Whether you’re conducting research with Gen Alpha, exploring emerging interests, or testing content with hard-to-reach audiences, Touchstone delivers diverse, engaged participants who represent today’s evolving youth market.

  • Preschoolers
  • Kids & Tweens
  • Students of All Ages
  • Tech-Savvy Youth
  • Toy & Game Enthusiasts
  • Movie & TV Fans
  • Loyal Consumers of Youth Brands
  • Youth Trendsetters
  • Creative Young Minds
  • Aspiring Influencers
  • Eco-Conscious Youth
  • STEM Enthusiasts
  • Athletes & Sports Fans
  • Music Lovers
  • Digital Natives
  • And many more!
Youth, Kids & Child Demographics We Reach

Youth, Kids & Family Market Research FAQs

Looking for more information about our youth, kids, and family market research services? Below are some of the most common questions we receive—covering participant recruitment, child safety compliance, methodologies, and how we help brands engage younger audiences with confidence and care.

Technology
Media & Entertainment
Youth & Family
Education
Consumer Packaged Goods
Sports, Wellness, & Fitness
Food, Beverage, & Restaurant
Retail & Apparel
Healthcare
Toys & Gaming

Trusted by Leading Global Brands for Youth, Kids & Family Market Research

Kroger
Google
Nick
M TV
Strottman
Wendys
ESPN
YouTube
Sony
Paramount
Cotton
Columbia University
Nice Pak
Sirius XM
Pluto TV
Compassion
Go Health
Carnival
Calm
Sling
Meta
Zearn
Mattel
Good to Grow
Disney
The wonderful company
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Great Minds
Harvard University
Sesame Workshop
The Goliath Group
indeed

Why Leading Brands Trust Touchstone for Youth, Kids & Family Market Research

  • With the knowledge gained in our user research efforts with Touchstone, we have been empowered to make more data informed decisions about our product by keeping user behavior and motivation at the forefront of our work. Along with being flexible in our partnership model, Touchstone has supported this effort by offering a dedicated team that continues to learn about our unique product and business needs and provides quick turnaround for recruitment, facilitation, and topline reports.

    Senior Digital Product Manager

    Ed-Tech Company

  • We worked with Touchstone on determining the efficacy of our ad in an upcoming campaign. The team was thorough, and the projects & reports were delivered on time and in full. The insights & their clear recommendation helped steer the final edit of our ad. Thank you Touchstone!

    Vice President

    Toy & Game Company

  • Our marketing team was looking to speak with an atypical demographic market segment for the organization. Therefore, I needed the expertise of a research agency that specializes in youth research. We engaged them in series of focus groups among tween/teens. From project inception, they were extremely professional and accommodating given some of the special recruitment specs. The recruitment and quality of participants was excellent, and the moderator was an excellent facilitator in terms of probing and eliciting responses from such a young audience. She made them feel comfortable throughout the sessions. I plan to use them again for both qualitative and quantitative studies. I highly recommend Touchstone Research for projects among this demographic segment.

    Director, Strategy & Insights

    Consumer Packaged Goods Company

  • I got the opportunity to work with the members Touchstone Research through another company. I was so impressed with them that they were the first group that I called when I got my own research project. Not only did they respond immediately, and give me a fair price for the work I requested, but they helped me along the way and were in constant contact. They found children from different regions from families of different interests. They also set up all of the online sessions, got the participants set up and ready to go so that all I had to worry about was myself! I just didn’t realize that this amount of support was possible, and now that I have that, I can never go back. For anyone who is unsure about doing online research, you don’t have anything to think about with Touchstone. They will take care of you and your project will go smoothly every time from start to finish.

    Educational Consultant

    Media & Entertainment Company

  • Touchstone Research has been an invaluable partner in our product design process, helping us reach a hard-to-reach population (K-12) students, and upholding the highest standards around safety and accessibility for participants. They have been flexible, and creative, accommodating diverse digital methodologies, and sometimes sourcing interview respondents with very short notice when a last-minute research need pops up. They foster trust with participants, and make sure they are prepared and able to fully participate. Touchstone is also mindful of sourcing panels that are diverse and representative of a variety of geographies, and social/cultural identities. Having worked with other research panels in the past, Touchstone has the best customer service, and panel quality. We plan to keep working together for the foreseeable future!

    UX Researcher

    Ed-Tech Company

Youth Market Research Data Quality
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Youth Market Research Data Quality
CPRA GDPR
Data privacy framework
Kid safe COPPA Certified
AICPA SOC