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No more cross-tabs or manual filtering. With YouGov Profiles AI Personas, you can create detailed personas using natural language and start exploring them in real time.
With YouGov Profiles AI Personas you can:
- Generate custom personas: Build up to ten demographic, psychographic, or behavioral personas for any topic.
- Explore motivations: Ask about brand choices, media habits, or purchase drivers and get instant, data-backed answers.
- Ground insights in reality: Every persona is powered by 480,000+ real US consumers and 450,000+ validated datapoints from YouGov Profiles.

Smarter, faster decisions
YouGov Profiles AI Personas helps time-poor teams move from insight to action with speed and confidence.
Use YouGov Profiles AI Personas to:
- Accelerate planning: Quickly test assumptions and refine messaging fit.
- Guide strategy: Validate positioning, inform product development, and uncover early trends.
- Bring audiences to life: Interact with your personas to reveal the real beliefs and behaviors shaping your market.
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YouGov Profiles AI Personas FAQs
Do you need a subscription to YouGov Profiles to use YouGov Profiles AI Personas?
No, you don’t need a YouGov Profiles subscription to use YouGov Profiles AI Personas. It can be purchased as a standalone solution, giving you fast, intuitive access to YouGov’s flagship audience intelligence data through a conversational AI interface. If you already have a YouGov Profiles subscription, YouGov Profiles AI Personas is available as an affordable add-on.
What markets is YouGov Profiles AI Personas available in?
Currently, YouGov Profiles AI Personas is available in the US, with expansion to new markets coming soon.
How are these AI personas generated?
YouGov Profiles AI Personas generates by creating clusters within the YouGov Profiles data that relate directly to your query. You can then chat with your personas, asking them questions directly related to your segment, or more broadly to understand them on a deeper level.
What data is included?
YouGov Profiles AI Personas are built on YouGov Profiles data. Currently in the US market only, this data includes surveys of 480,000+ respondents, 450,000+ variables, and 2 million+ datapoints.
How many personas can I create?
With a YouGov Profiles AI Personas subscription, you can create as many segmentations as you would like, exploring different consumer personas around a huge variety of topics, from media consumption to sustainability.
When creating a segmentation, YouGov Profiles AI Personas creates up to ten discrete segments based on the attributes that relate to your research question. The AI will recommend a number of personas to best represent your audience, in relation to the data available on your topic.
What kind of topics can I explore with YouGov Profiles AI Personas?
- Brand usage and perceptions: Understand usage and perception of hundreds of brands (across a variety of sectors) on the following core brand funnel metrics: attention, advertising, awareness, brand awareness, word of mouth exposure, buzz, general impression, reputation, quality, value, recommendation, purchase consideration, purchase intent, current customer, former customer, customer satisfaction
- Attitudes and opinion: Explore attitudinal and opinion data from a variety of topics around the values and beliefs that drive people’s behavior
- Demographics and lifestyle: Segment on a wide number of categories including general demographic makeup, economic situation, occupation, category specific usage and behavior, interests, hobbies, favorite celebrities, top music artists and more
- Media consumption: Analyse consumption of above-the-line media, including TV viewership at a programme level
- Social media engagement: Explore social media engagement across major platforms including Facebook, Instagram and more
- Online and mobile behavior: Identify actual online and application usage from a bank of thousands of tracked websites and tracked mobile applications
What kind of questions can I ask to my AI personas?
Once personas are created, you can interrogate them on the full range of topics covered within YouGov Profiles. This includes in-depth demographics, attitudes, consumer behavior, media consumption habits, brand preferences and much more.
Can all users in my company’s account access the YouGov Profiles AI Personas I create?
Yes, all persona segmentations can be accessed by all users in your company’s account. However, your personal chats with these topics and personas remain private to your specific user account.