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Toluna Corporate Presentation
1. LONDON | PARIS | FRANKFURT | AMSTERDAM | NEW YORK | SEATTLE | DALLAS | HAIFA | SYDNEY
WILTON | GURGAON | MUNICH | LOS ANGELES | ANDOVER | TOKYO | TIMISOARA | TORONTO
3. Who are we?
The world’s number 1
1,500+ clients worldwide
– Local support from 17 offices in 10 countries
– Europe, America, APAC
– 30 native languages in-house
Largest provider of Global online sample
– 5 million completed survey completes a quarter
– 4 million active panellists managed across 34 countries
– Surveys completed across 62 countries
More than just sample
– Value added Technology-based Services:
– Comprehensive Scripting/DP, Scripting software, Custom Panels, Ad Tracking, Polls
Unique and innovative approach
– Unique social media model provides highly responsive panellists
– Innovations drive
– Un-rivalled global capacity and reach
– Broadest range of industry solutions
– Providing better quality data for broadest range of studies
5. Advantages of scale
Anyone, Anytime, Anywhere
Anyone
– Global proprietary panel capacity
– 4 million active panellists across 34 countries
– 5 million completed questionnaires a quarter
– Comprehensive profiling for hardest to reach audiences
– Custom panels: Community approach enables unique insight
Anytime
– 24/7 support
– Industry-leading systems & processes
– Dedicated ‘weekend field’ team
Anywhere
– 17 offices across 10 countries
– 30 native languages spoken in-house
6. 4 million active panellists
Any project, anyone, anywhere
Worldwide
3,949,348
Europe and Russia
2,423,899
Americas
955,053
Asia Pacific
570,396
7. What do we do?
Online sample
Online Sample Services
– Global panel
community network
– Consumer, Business and
Healthcare panels
– Flash and conjoint
questionnaire programming
and hosting
– Panel Building and
Management services
– IVR and mobile
interviewing technology
8. What do we do?
Poll & survey technology
Survey & Panel technology
(SaaS)
– QuickSurveys: Ask 1-5
questions and receive 2,000
responses in just a few hours
– PanelPortal: Build and
manage your own panel of
highly engaged panellists
– AutomateSurvey: Create
advanced online
questionnaires with ease
– Brandspector: Measuring Ad
Effectiveness
10. Panels Panels Panels
Sound familiar?
Huge published figures
but poor response rates
Lack sector
specific profiling
Limited geographic
coverage
Ever increasing burn
out of members
Attract a narrow
member profile
12. It’s time to get…
Social!
A unique integration of social
media and online panels
Designed to maximise panel
capacity by providing
members with an engaging
online experience
Social voting gives
consumers the power to
create polls, see live results
and respond to debates
13. Capacity?
Our panel communities…
Attract a broader
pool of panellists
Members highly
responsive to
survey invitations
Members provide deeper
and more regularly
refreshed profiling data
Integrate polls into
Facebook, MySpace
stimulating WoM referral
and fresh members
15. Profiling
Know what’s feasible within hours
Attract a broader pool of
panellists
16 Specialist Panels
– Ranging from Automotive to Video Gamers
– Constantly evolving profiling
Average 750 data points
per panellist
– Aids feasibility
– Pre-identification for survey invitations
– Faster field, reliable field-time
Supplemented with community
polls
– served providing on demand custom
profiling and incidence checks
– 24 hour results
– Fast, accurate and FREE
21. Local delivery teams
24/7 service and support
17 local service offices
across 10 countries
30 native languages
in house to guide
questionnaires,
incentives and invites
Local delivery teams
across Europe, North
America and Asia-Pacific
Providing 24/7 service
and support
22. Toluna overview
Summary
1,500+ clients worldwide
– Local support from 17 offices in10 countries
– Europe, America, APAC
– 30 native languages in-house
Largest provider of Global online sample
– 5 million completed survey completes a quarter
– 4 million active panellists managed across 34 countries
– Surveys completed across 62 countries
More than just sample
– Value added Technology-based Services:
– Comprehensive Scripting/DP, Scripting software, Custom Panels, Ad Tracking, Polls
Unique and innovative approach
– Unique social media model provides highly responsive panellists
– Innovations drive
– Un-rivalled global capacity and reach
– Broadest range of industry solutions
– Providing better quality data for broadest range of studies
23. LONDON | PARIS | FRANKFURT | AMSTERDAM | NEW YORK | SEATTLE | DALLAS | HAIFA | SYDNEY
WILTON | GURGAON | MUNICH | LOS ANGELES | ANDOVER | TOKYO | TIMISOARA | TORONTO
25. Maximising engagement
A valuable online experience
Members can...
Create polls
– Comment and publish opinions
– Debates
See ‘live results’
– Drill down into poll results
Community profiles
– Rate members opinions
Earn rewards
26. It’s time to get…
Social!
A unique integration of social
media and online panels
Designed to maximise panel
capacity by providing members
with an engaging online
experience
Social voting gives consumers
the power to create polls, see
live results and respond to
debates
27. Rating scales
Card sort
Drag and rank
Match the attribute
Click tracker
Image optimisation
Media surveys
Custom surveys
More engaging surveys
Advanced features
28. Delivering to client expectations
Project management process
Project initiation
Confirm specification
Project team assigned
Survey design
Kick off call
Survey consultation
Sample/ incentive plan
Programming
Survey program
Toluna survey testing
Translation checking
Client testing
Project
Launch
Invitation sent
Reminder sent
Data
Collection
Quotas managed
Cells filled
Survey completed
Data
processing
Data cleaned
Data tables created
Open ends coded
Customised processes
– To meet your needs; we integrate with your team
Projects are expected to deliver high satisfaction
– Understanding requirements:
– deliverables, document timeliness & data delivery dates
29. Duplicate Response Detection™
How it Works
• All respondents have a global ID
– Machine-level cookie
– ID is associated with the unique member account
• Duplication prevented
–A user may have a single ‘Group’ account
o multiple ID numbers
o multiple email accounts/points of access
• Each respondent entering a survey has an ID check
– Rules include exclusion of prior participation
– Prior participation detected – route to a different survey
• “Digital finger-printing” using ‘Relevant ID’
–User has 100 points of identification
– Operates event with cookies disabled
30. Ensuring quality data:
Six Sigma methodology
Quality approach throughout
Pre- Survey
– Recruitment
– Management
– Finger-printing
In field
– De-duplication
– Engagement
Post survey
– Survey-Level Quality Checks
– Response Validation
Define
Measure
AnalyseImprove
Control
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Recruitment - Diversity is key
Unique panellists
– Viral community engagement & propagation
Community model
– Recruiting from new psychographic segments
– Natural search ‘funnels traffic’
Other methods
– Media partners
– PPC / Online PR
– Email / banners
– Referrals
– Specialist target groups offline
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Recruitment & Retention
Double opted-in process
– Conforms fully to industry standards
Market research use only
– No Direct Marketing or Advertising
Duplicate & exclusion checks during registration
Largest and most active community in the industry
– Average 733 (of 1,700) attributes per member
Marketing, Feasibility and Delivery consistency
Ongoing ‘panel research’ to track and manage
– Panellist satisfaction
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Maintaining Quality
Coherence
– Registration vs. on-going profile data coherence
Maximum limits
– Up to 4 surveys completes per month
Panel cleansing/purging
– Automated hard bounce-back removal
– Unavailable emails after 3 attempts to contact.
– Panelists who complete a survey too quickly
– Panelists who randomly click answers
– Block email addresses from purged panelists
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Participation
Community
– Panelists regularly encouraged to update profile
– Genuine incentive – monetary + non-monetary
– Panelist discussion forums and threads
– Panelist product comparisons
Randomization of sample:
– Our tools randomly select individuals within target groups.
– Ensures everyone has equal opportunity to respond
– Panelists not selected purely according to their activity.
– Avoids encouraging over-active panelists
35. Profiling management
Recency of data
The more questions asked in screener questionnaires...
The more you need to consider ‘recency’
How often is this profile updated
What mechanism is in place to encourage updating?
36. Panellist Recruitment
A balanced approach
The search effect
– Each consumer created poll / debate is indexed and optimised for
search rankings
– Drives natural search traffic and registration
– Attracts traffic not normally available through traditional banner
placements
Media planning
– Existing media campaigns optimised for individual targets
– Creative optimised for target audience
– Media placement optimised for target profile
37. Engaged yet?
Why is engagement so vital?
Capacity to deliver
– More profiling information = more targeted surveys
– Mean of 750 data points per panellist
– More accurate feasibility assessments
– More responsive to your survey
– More likely to provide better quality data
– QV and ‘Sponsored Polls’ further increase capacity
Who is answering? Who do you want answering?
– Attracts individuals who would not normally consider joining a panel
38. Meeting client needs
Core principles & commitments
Global Reach
Quality
Innovation
Substantial R&D:
• Ease-of-use, cost reduction
• Highly innovative products
• Engaged communities
• Efficient survey completion
• Deliver the most robust data
• Pro-actively meeting expectations
• 24/7 project delivery
• 4m proprietary panelists
• across 34 countries.
• Completed surveys
•across 62 countries
• Custom communities
39. Custom Panel Building
Industry leading panel-building experience
– Diary Consumers
– Physicians
– B2B
Proven vertical recruitment & media expertise
– Nearly 1m panellists recruited each year
Panel Portal
– Easily build your own panel
– Track recruitment
– Manage incentives
43. A product for the times…
Why Toluna QuickSurveys?
Identified need
– Top lines are sometimes enough – for client pitches
– No (or VERY small) budget
– “Omnibus doesn’t provide the rich media I need”
– Checking incidence & feasibility
– Pre-identifying hard to reach targets
– Every poll response recorded against profile for re-contact
– I want it NOW
Leveraging Toluna’s unique assets
– Toluna web 2.0 communities provide opinions
– 15 million poll votes per month
– Can append demographic data
– Double opted-in with rich profile
– Toluna Innovation & Technology
44. Toluna QuickSurveys
What can you do with it?
Research when you need it
– Create 1-5 questions
– Direct bulk sales or E-commerce engine – pay per click
– Video, image and audio
– Live results and drill down into 5 key data points
– Fed directly into Toluna panels
No wait – no hassle
– 100-2,000 responses 24 hours
– See results live
– ‘Ask the Nation’ nat rep weighting
– Immediately!
– Redeploy QuickSurveys at a click of a button
45. What does the market request?
…and can QuickSurveys help?
Cost - I have no (or a VERY small) budget
Speed – I want it NOW – I have a deadline tonight!
Easy
1. if I have to DIY, then it has to be VERY simple
2. Often, need is for simple, easy to access information
Volume – I need enough responses to make the data reliable
Pitches - top lines are sometimes enough
Alternative - Omnibus doesn’t provide me rich media
Company
– I need an agency who can handle everything
– I need an account manager I can trust
– I want to go with a credible brand I trust
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47. BrandSpector
Measuring Ad Effectiveness
Measuring WHO is exposed to online advertisements
– Providing detailed online demographic reports
Identification for follow-on studies
– Pre & post ad testing
Tools & services addressing the needs of:
Project Experience:
– more than 500 Ad Tracking Studies
– more than 90 Remote Testing Studies
Market Research Institutes and Consultancies
Online Advertisers, Agencies and Publishers
Website Operators and E-Businesses
48. BrandSpector
How it works
1,000,000+ panellists tagged
• Canada 21,210
• France 150,296
• Germany 121,171
• Italy 47,626
• Netherlands 29,666
• Russia 8,705
• Spain 49,818
• UK 428.913
• USA 223.680
1. Online Ad is TAGGED.
2. TAG identifies Toluna cookies of people seeing the ad.
3. Cookie includes Toluna universal panel ID number
4. The list with panel ID numbers + time stamp and location
ID is stored on the server
5. Toluna can append panel data to universal panel Ids.
Deliverables:
Structured data report
Sample for pre/post tests
Ad to be
measured
51. PanelPortal
Panel Community Management
A platform that enables the end to end management of an
online panel community
– Over 100 technology clients
– Developed and used in house
– A true end to end solution
– Hosted SaaS platform
– Complete implementation support and training
52. Panel Community Management
Driving marketing effectiveness
New product development
– Idea generation
– Concept evaluation
Competitor assessment
– Survey competitor customers
– Competitor KPI dashboard
Communications
– Assess concepts / campaigns
– Live brand attitude dashboards
Customer retention
– Identify experience weak points
(Beyond CSAT)
53. PanelPortal
Hosted panel community management solution
– No hidden costs of hardware, software
– Easy to use, full support, limited resources required
Package proprietary and ‘best of breed’ knowledge
– Developed by the panel people
– Used in-house
– Designed for ease of use
– 100+ clients
Comprehensive Professional Services at hand
– Ensuring your success
54. Panel Community Management
Efficiency and brand dialogue
A more efficient panel
– Community management features keep members engaged and
responsive
Public brand –consumer relationship
– Enable brand to create a consumer dialogue area within existing
web assets
– Plug and play brand community dialogue without external
consultancy technical development
– Fit into existing online brand assets and presence
– Plug in new applications and features to maintain community
interaction with your brand
55. In house panels
Typical benefits
Speed
– Create questionnaires and launch survey in hours
Cost
– Zero postal / print / data / interviewer
– Save on external sample costs
– Use existing web traffic, email lists and CRM records to recruit
Fast and valid sampling
– Automatically manage quotas / randomisation
Targeting
– Easily reach niche targets in a few clicks
Data Quality
– Respondent convenience
– Media and interaction (image /video / audio)
56. Custom Panel Building
Industry leading panel-building experience
– Diary Consumers
– Physicians
– B2B
Proven vertical recruitment & media expertise
– over 2,000,000 panellists recruited each year
Panel Portal
– Easily build your own panel
– Track recruitment
– Manage incentives
57. The
Process
Panel Community Management
The process
Survey and
Discussion
Live Results
Reporting
Refine Marketing
Spend
Panel
Management
Web Community
Management
Convert Existing
Records into
Panellists
58. PanelPortal
Migration services
Consultancy services help migrate existing projects online
and into your panel community
Feasibility analysis
– Define which surveys can be run according to target, frequency, cost
and effectiveness
Questionnaire migration
– Optimize scripting, look & feel, questionnaire templates, adapt
sampling and quotas
Fieldwork test methodology
– Toluna can help to compare results from offline fieldwork (CATI, F2F)
to online collection
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WILTON | GURGAON | MUNICH | LOS ANGELES | ANDOVER | TOKYO | TIMISOARA | TORONTO