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The stakes are high when you’re developing a creative concept or launching an advertising campaign. The best way to improve and optimize before go-live? Test with your real-life target audience for the most precise feedback.
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With YouGov, you can send surveys directly to your audience, hear their voices, re-contact our highly engaged panel members, or work with our team of research experts in collaboration.
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Creative and ad testing FAQs
How do I run creative or ad testing surveys?
When you’re looking at pre-testing your advertising copy, creative or messaging, you can follow our clear eight-step process.
- Define your objectives
- Create variations
- Identify your target audience
- Choose testing methods
- Surveys
- Focus groups
- A/B testing
- Gather and analyze data
- Iterate and refine
- Re-test and validate
- Monitor performance
Learn more in about getting started with ad testing.
What methodology does YouGov use to test pre and post campaign?
YouGov can choose audiences based on demographics, attitudes, behaviors, and even where they are in the consumer journey. We measure:
- The impact of ad exposure
- Brand and ad awareness (prompted and unprompted)
- Pre and post exposure to your creative
- The impact of existing relationships, brand and message recall
- Creative likability
- Attributes associated with your ads.
We also track positivity because of actions taken and brand consideration as a result of exposure, giving you insights to inform next steps.
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