Youth & Family Market Research

Dynamic Research for
Understanding Gen Alpha

  • Comprehensive Age-Specific Insights: Specialized in working with children, from toddlers to preschoolers, tweens, and beyond, we uncover valuable, age-specific insights that are tailored to each development stage.
  • Youth & Family Community Panel Access: Leverage our COPPA Certified Youth & Family Panel, Panelpolls, for conducting qualitative and quantitative research with kids, teens, and young adults.
  • Engaging, Child-Friendly Methodologies: Utilize methodologies designed to engage young participants, capturing authentic feedback and behaviors in a safe and comfortable environment.
  • Deep Insights into Preferences: Gain a comprehensive understanding of children’s preferences, and emerging trends to inform your product development and marketing strategies.
  • Expert Moderation for Young Audiences: Our team of experienced moderators specializes in conducting research with children, ensuring meaningful engagement and accurate results.
  • Ethical and COPPA-Compliant Research: Conduct research that prioritizes the safety, comfort, and ethical treatment of young participants, with full compliance with COPPA (Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act) to ensure responsible and secure data collection.

Youth & Family Research with Panelpolls

Panelpolls, our COPPA certified Youth & Family research panel, gives you direct access to hard-to-reach audiences, including kids, teens, and young adults, as well as their parents. Built on over 20 years of fostering a trusted and engaged community, Panelpolls has become a trusted source for high-quality insights into the behaviors, preferences, and opinions of younger demographics.

  • Diverse and Engaged Members: Our panel is composed of active and engaged participants, ensuring reliable and actionable insights for your research needs.
  • COPPA Certified: Panelpolls by Touchstone Research has been reviewed and vetted by an independent safety certification service (kidSAFE) and has been awarded the “kidSAFE+ COPPA” Seal, which is an FTC-approved COPPA certification program.
  • Custom Research Solutions: Whether you need quick pulse surveys, in-depth qualitative studies, or long-term tracking, Panelpolls offers the flexibility to meet your specific research objectives.

Leverage our Youth & Family panel to gain valuable insights that help you connect with and understand the next generation of consumers.

Diverse Youth Demographics We Reach

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

Youth & Family Market Research Services

  • Qualitative Research

  • Quantitative Research

  • Recruitment & Fieldwork

  • UX Research

  • Communities & Panels

  • Dial Tester

  • Secure Content Testing

  • Conversational AI

  • Augmented Sampling

Qualitative Research

Unlock Deep Insights into Young Audiences

Delve into the motivations, behaviors, and preferences of children and teens with in-depth qualitative research. Touchstone’s expert approach is tailored to the unique challenges of youth research, providing actionable findings that empower informed decision-making and foster innovation. Whether through focus groups, in-depth interviews, or child-friendly ethnographic studies, we help you understand the “why” behind young consumers’ actions.

Quantitative Research

Drive Strategic Youth-Focused Decisions with Data-Backed Insights

Make confident decisions with robust quantitative research designed for youth audiences. Touchstone’s customized approach, combined with rigorous quality control and precise sampling standards, ensures reliable data from young participants. From surveys to advanced statistical modeling, our quantitative research solutions provide the insights needed to stay ahead in youth markets.

Recruitment & Fieldwork

High-Quality Participants for Youth-Centric Research

Ensure your youth research is grounded in high-quality participants. Our recruitment and fieldwork services are designed to engage eager and relevant young respondents, using in-depth screening processes that account for age-appropriateness and parental consent. Trust our expert team to deliver the right audience for the success of your youth-focused projects.

UX Research

Optimize User Experiences for Young Audiences

Enhance satisfaction and usability for youth-oriented products with our comprehensive UX research services. We ensure your products meet the needs and expectations of children and tweens, leading to increased engagement and loyalty. From usability testing to journey mapping, our UX research helps you create intuitive, user-friendly products that resonate with younger audiences.

Communities & Panels

Continuous Youth Insights from Custom Panels and Communities

Gain ongoing insights with custom-built online communities and panels designed specifically for youth. Whether you need a lightweight community of dedicated young fans or a large-scale general youth panel, Touchstone can create a tailored solution to meet your ongoing research needs. Our communities and panels offer unparalleled flexibility, making it easy to gather insights that drive your strategy forward in youth markets.

Dial Tester

Real-Time Feedback from Youth Audiences

Capture moment-to-moment feedback from young audiences on your media and audio content with our proprietary Dial Tester tool. Elevate your content testing by gathering continuous reactions from kids and teens as they engage with your content. Whether testing TV shows, ads, or games, Dial Tester provides the insights needed to refine your content for maximum engagement and impact.

Secure Content Testing

Unmatched Protection for Youth-Focused Content

Safeguard your sensitive youth-focused content with our Secure Content Testing (SCT) technology. SCT employs advanced user-level watermarking to ensure all content, including media, product concepts, and prototypes, is protected and traceable. Whether testing new features or confidential marketing materials, SCT provides the peace of mind needed to focus on gathering insights without worrying about content leaks or unauthorized access.

Conversational AI

Engaging Surveys for Youth Audiences

Revolutionize how you gather insights with Conversational AI Surveys, transforming static surveys into interactive, real-time chats. Designed to capture the authentic voices of young participants, these dynamic surveys increase engagement and reduce fatigue, ensuring richer and more actionable data. With multilingual and culturally adaptive capabilities, Conversational AI Surveys are perfect for connecting with diverse youth segments across the globe, blending qualitative depth with the scalability of quantitative research.

Augmented Sampling

AI-Driven Sampling for Complex Youth Audiences

Expand the reach of your youth and family research with our Augmented Sampling service, powered by advanced AI technology. This solution addresses the challenges of low-incidence quotas, incomplete data, and hard-to-reach demographics. By using synthetic responses rooted in real panelist data, Augmented Sampling ensures datasets are accurate, complete, and representative. Whether you’re studying emerging trends among teens or niche family behaviors, this service accelerates field times and cuts costs without compromising quality, making it ideal for global youth and family markets.

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
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What Our Clients Are Saying About Us

  • 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

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