Insight
Communities &
Online Panels

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Insights That Drive Strategic Decisions

Community and Panel Solutions

Insight Communities

Insight Communities

Primarily qualitative, our Insight Communities are designed for ongoing engagement and rapid insights generation. They leverage discussion boards, diaries, polls, media uploads, remote IDIs/groups, UX, and other interactive activities to capture deep, nuanced insights from your audience.

Rapid Qualitative Insights: Quickly gather and analyze qualitative data for timely decision-making.
In-Depth Exploration: Facilitate deep qualitative exploration and in-depth discussions.
Attitude & Behavior Understanding: Understand complex behaviors and motivations over time.
Strategic Development: Ideal for developing and refining strategies through interactive feedback.
Strengthen Relationships: Build strong connections with a core group of engaged members.
Trend Tracking: Track changes and trends over time for continuous improvement.

Community Panels

Community Panels

Our Community Panels seamlessly integrate high-frequency quantitative and qualitative research activities, providing a comprehensive approach to gathering insights.

Mixed Methodologies: Leverage the combined strengths of both qualitative and quantitative research for richer insights.
Ongoing Iterative Research: Ideal for addressing multiple research objectives over the long term, adapting to evolving needs and insights.
Enhanced Engagement: Increase member participation through diverse research touchpoints.
Integrated Insights: Blend detailed qualitative feedback with robust quantitative data for a holistic view.
Product Development: Ideal for product development, concept testing, and rapid feedback cycles, enabling swift adjustments and improvements.

Online Panels

Online Panels

Panels are ideal for large scale ongoing quantitative survey work (e.g., weekly, bi-weekly, monthly surveys).

Rapid Surveys: Conduct quick surveys on various topics to gather essential business insights swiftly.
Robust Sample Sizes: Support for large survey bases allows for statistical testing and ensures data confidence and integrity.
Longitudinal Tracking: Excellent for tracking attitudes, sentiments, behaviors, and key performance indicators over time.
Audience Segmentation: Optimized for segmentation of your audience so you can develop a deeper understanding of your various consumer segments.
Advanced Methodologies: Supports sophisticated methodologies like conjoint analysis, MaxDiff, TURF, and more.

Pop-Up Communities

Pop-Up Communities

Short-term communities designed to gather quick, focused feedback from your audience.

Flexible Duration: Run your community for a few days or several weeks, depending on the scope and goals of your research.
Targeted Recruitment: Engage with precisely targeted participants recruited to meet your specific demographic/behavioral needs.
Scalable Solutions: Easily scale the community size or length as research requirements and objectives shift.
Rapid Feedback: Get quick responses and reactions to your questions, concepts, prototypes, etc.
Actionable Insights: Obtain clear, actionable insights on a specific objective that can be immediately implemented.

Community & Panel Activities

Community & Panel Services

  • Design & Build

  • Recruitment

  • Community & Panel Management

  • Qualitative Services

  • Quantitative Services

  • Other Services

Design & Build

Creating an online research community panel that aligns with your brand and engages your audience is essential. Whether working with your existing brand style guide or developing
custom designs, we prioritize consumer-centric thinking to ensure our panels and communities are innovative, modern, and relevant. Your brand and customers are at the heart of our inspiration, making the experience appealing and engaging for participants.

Recruitment

Whether for small or large-scale programs, our rigorous recruitment and screening process ensures top-quality respondents. Each participant completes a multi-layered online screening and consent process. For communities or panels with specific audience criteria, we implement additional validation measures to engage with the most suitable consumers, ensuring accurate and reliable insights.

Community & Panel Management

Our seasoned researchers operate as an extension of your team, bringing a blend of market research expertise, technical knowledge, and collaboration. Our dedicated account management team meets with you regularly to align on your research objectives and needs. We also handle tasks like member management, customer service, and incentive distribution, allowing you to focus on core objectives.

Qualitative Services

  • Activity Ideation
  • Activity / Discussion Guide Development
  • Project Setup and Management
  • Moderation
  • Transcription
  • Reporting and Analysis
  • Video Highlight Reels

Quantitative Services

  • Questionnaire Design / Pre-Testing
  • Survey Programming
  • Sample and Field Management
  • Data Processing / Banner Tabulation
  • Weighting
  • Open-End Coding
  • Normative Databases
  • Reporting and Analysis

Other Services

  • Outside Sample / Supplemental Recruitment
  • International Capabilities (including translation and localization)
  • Custom Question Type / Tool Development
  • Third Party Technology Integrations (e.g., eye tracking, facial coding, AI tools, etc.)
Kids / Gen Alpha
Teens
Young Adults /
Gen Z
Adults & Parents
Educators
Creators & Influencers
Generative AI
VR / AR
Multicultural
And More!

Industry Expertise

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

Trusted by Top Global Brands

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

What Our Clients Are Saying About Us

  • The team at Touchstone is wonderful to work with. They have been instrumental ongoing partners for us in many of our research initiatives, ranging from quick-turn projects with our online communities to more complex and larger scale studies utilizing in-depth-interviews, online diaries and more. They are highly communicative, responsive to our needs, and offer great client support. We have gained so many invaluable insights through our various research studies with Touchstone and feel very fortunate to partner with this consistent, hard-working team.

    Vice President, Streaming Research & Insights

    Media & Entertainment Company

  • 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

  • We have done quite a few Quant and Qual research projects with Touchstone. They are always extremely responsive, flexible, and provide great recommendations on how to get the most out of our research.

    Director, Product Marketing & eComm

    Food & Beverage Company

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