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Persona development: uncover what drives your audience
From real lives to real loyalty. Who is your ideal customer?
That’s what a customer or buyer persona aims to define. It’s a data-informed representation using precise market research.
With detailed persona development, you can reach your audience in the right places at the right time. It’s the ultimate way to tailor products, services and marketing campaigns.
Create actionable ideal marketing personas with YouGov's accurate audience data to inform a personalized customer experience, ultimately boosting your ROI.
2 million+
profiling variables
30 million+
registered panel members
Actionable data:
demographics, psychographics, behaviors, and needs.
Be more authentic
Unverified data doesn't just waste money, it misdirects your entire strategy. Who wants to spend money on "consumer insights" data driven by bots?
Elevate your strategy by creating personas that offer a powerful 360-degree customer view grounded in YouGov's decades of accurate audience data.
Build personas with unrivaled granularity
Build personas with unrivaled granularity, with datapoints collected daily from over 30 million registered panel members.
For a deeper understanding of your target audience, choose from:
- Demographics
- Psychographics
- Media consumption
- Behavior
- And hundreds of other data points
Understand consumer lifestyle, brand preferences, attitudes to advertising, hobbies and much more.
Ditch the fictional characters
Create personas that reflect real people and deliver detailed portraits based on the world's most trusted intelligence.
And then talk to them. YouGov's latest AI personas innovation allows you to easily converse with versions of customer personas to make informed decisions on campaigns, partnerships and plans.
Reality beats fantasy
Millions of constantly collected data points will help you find your perfect audience, no matter how niche.
Trust in precise intelligence on consumer actions, connecting data on opinions and behaviors, with YouGov's market-leading, highly-engaged, representative panel.
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The reality of persona creation
When you ground your personas in reality, you develop products, services and messages that truly resonate. Read our success stories to see how leading brands use work with YouGov on customer persona research.
“YouGov allowed us to develop entirely bespoke segments based on our needs and gave us credible data to position ourselves as thought leaders in purpose-based marketing”.
Pete Grant, Planning Director
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Insights into working with audience intelligence
Discover how to develop an ideal customer persona, maximize growth opportunities and drive success, with how-to content for next-level audience understanding and the latest articles on persona work in practice.
Persona development FAQs
How does market research and panel data help to create personas?
Useful, actionable personas rely on real-world data you can trust to make informed decisions. From demographics to deep understanding of media consumption, YouGov’s proprietary, global panel shares information on their behavior and opinions daily.
Learn more with our useful guide on turning audience intelligence into an ideal customer persona to improve your marketing.
Trust YouGov’s persona development services
Global brands rely on our data to create realistic buyer personas that reflect customer preferences, needs and wants. Find out more about how YouGov works to help you shape your strategy.
