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Meet Virtual Audiences, an industry step change.
Our latest cutting-edge AI technology solution bypasses the time and cost associated with traditional fieldwork and dives straight into gathering insights in minutes. Powered by Yabble's proprietary Augmented Data model, Virtual Audiences are infinitely knowledgeable. Generating accurate, deep and meaningful insights on almost any topic. No fieldwork, no quota management, no waiting weeks.
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How do Virtual Audiences work?
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Take advantage of the benefits of Virtual Audiences
Remove time consuming and costly fieldwork
Virtual Audiences are powered by Yabble’s proprietary Augmented Data model. This means we can offer a rich, detailed view of consumer behaviors, preferences, and trends in real-time. Each audience is dynamic and created to answer your insight questions without any traditional survey or interview data collection needed.
Reach any audience, anywhere
Virtual audiences are dynamic and are created on a topic-by-topic basis. This ensures that the latest, most relevant audience is created to generate insights just for you. You can easily pinpoint specific target groups or scale your study to include more markets than with traditional methods – all with immediate responses, real-time analysis and quick iterations.
Have answers in minutes
Go from business question to insight in minutes – with Yabble's Virtual Audiences. We use the combined knowledge of Large Language Models (LLMs), recent and relevant trend data, social data, behavioral statistics and, where appropriate, your proprietary datasets to generate the latest, most relevant insights for you in minutes.
Healthcare & pharmaceuticals
SYNTHETIC DATA USE CASE
We asked Virtual Audiences:
💡 Conducting research to understand patient needs, evaluate the effectiveness of medications, and assess market demand for new medical treatments.
Entertainment & media
SYNTHETIC DATA USE CASE
We asked Virtual Audiences:
💡 Understanding audience preferences for different types of content, platforms (streaming, traditional TV, etc.), and genres.
Consumer electronics
SYNTHETIC DATA USE CASE
We asked Virtual Audiences:
💡 What do consumers prefer when it comes to features in smartphones, laptops, and other tech gadgets?
Automotive
SYNTHETIC DATA USE CASE
We asked Virtual Audiences:
💡 Gauging consumer interest in various car models, features, and technological advancements like electric vehicles.
Food & beverage
SYNTHETIC DATA USE CASE
We asked Virtual Audiences:
💡 Analyzing consumer tastes and dietary trends to inform the development of new products, such as plant-based foods or energy drinks.
What do consumers think of American Express?
We asked Virtual Audiences:
💡 How do consumers outside of America perceive American Express? Do they see a benefit to utilizing American Express services and benefits compared with other bank holding companies with payment cards?
Is Hershey's considered a household name for snacks & confectionery by consumers?
We asked Virtual Audiences:
💡 How do Americans perceive Hershey’s confectionary products, and how do they compare its products to other confectionary brands?
Understanding what makes Gen Z tick.
We asked Virtual Audiences:
💡 What are Gen Z's distinct behaviors, preferences and values?
Consumer Preferences: Gen Z Alcoholic Beverages
Let's take a look at the alcoholic drinking preferences of Gen Z consumers in the USA, 21 years of age and older by chatting with Taylor 'Socially Conscious' – one of the personas from this Virtual Audiences project.
Watch demoBrand Perceptions: Freya's Bread
Let's take a look at an example from the FMCG industry – what do New Zealand consumers think about the Freya's Bread brand?
Watch demoConsumer Preferences: Healthcare & Pharmaceuticals
We asked Virtual Audiences to conduct research to understand patient needs, evaluate the effectiveness of medications, and assess market demand for new medical treatments.
Watch demoBrand Perceptions: Hershey's Confectionary
We asked Virtual Audiences: How do Americans perceive Hershey’s confectionary products, and how do they compare its products to other confectionary brands?
Watch demoConsumer Preferences: Entertainment & Media
Let's seek to understand audience preferences for different types of content, platforms (streaming, traditional TV, etc.), and genres.
Watch demoConsumer Preferences: Consumer Electronics
Let's take a look at what consumers prefer when it comes to features in smartphones, laptops, and other tech gadgets.
Watch demoConcept Testing: Automotive
We asked Virtual Audiences to gauge consumer interest in various car models, features, and technological advancements like electric vehicles.
Watch demoBrand Perceptions: American Express
We asked Virtual Audiences: How do consumers outside of America perceive American Express? Do they see a benefit to utilizing American Express services and benefits compared with other bank holding companies with payment cards?
Watch demoConcept Testing: Food & Beverage
We asked Virtual Audiences to analyze consumer tastes and dietary trends to inform the development of new products, such as plant-based foods or energy drinks.
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How does the Yabble Virtual Audiences product work?
The Yabble Virtual Audiences tool is the ultimate end to end AI solution for research. Making insights in minutes a reality.
- Specify your topic of interest, then review, amend or approve the questions built on Yabble’s decades of research expertise.
- Build your personas and specify your desired audience using demographic and behavioural characteristics or simply approve Yabble's suggestion based on your topic.
- Using augmented data, Yabble’s Virtual Audiences tool provides instant answers to your questions using AI-generated data.
- Interrogate the data for further analysis in Yabble to explore the full power of AI for insights.
What is the Yabble proprietary augmented data model?
Yabble’s proprietary augmented data model uses the combined knowledge of Large Language Models (LLMs), relevant and recent trend data, social data, and behavioral statistics to create a unique AI-generated audience to answer your research questions. This unique approach via the Yabble platform provides increased relevancy, accuracy, and recency of data above what a large language model alone can provide.
What's included in my project?
In each virtual audience project, you’ll have access to:
- 8 AI-generated Personas
- Up to 20 survey questions (the AI generates 10 for you to start with)
- Theme counting of all questions with theme, sub-theme, and sentiment output with Yabble Count
- Unlimited persona chat
- N=50 individual virtual survey responses per question
- An Overall Summary detailing your key insights from your topic
- Persona Summary providing a detailed breakdown of insights by each persona
- A per-question summary providing key insights across each survey question
- A PDF export report that includes all summaries above, as well as market trends and leading indicators (including sources) related to your topic
Can I ask any research question for any audience?
Yes, Yabble's augmented data tools have a very broad range of knowledge and should be reliable for most topics and markets. If you have a highly specialized topic and need a different research approach contact the Yabble team via hello@yabble.com
How much data can I create?
The number of topics you can research is unlimited (2500 credits per Virtual Audiences project). For each topic, there is a limit of 250 completed responses within the Virtual Audiences environment. This gives a good indication of what a market is thinking or feeling on any topic.
How do I conduct further research on my insights?
In the Yabble platform, you can:
- Run additional analysis on your data
- Ask your data questions
- Download and visualize your insights
Is data protected when I use the Yabble Virtual Audiences product?
Yabble operates a 'walled garden' approach to data security. When you use the Yabble platform you are covered by Yabble's security and privacy settings which include ensuring that your data does not pass to OpenAI to train their models.
What are other people using Yabble’s Virtual Audiences for?
Virtual Audiences has lots of different use cases. It's great for kicking off a project when you want to gather a broad understanding of who the customers are in a market and their behaviors. It's also great at looking at market trends, understanding changing behaviors, tastes, and perceptions, and working out what this means for your future products or communications strategies, or even looking at competitive sets and what the market sees as strengths or weaknesses of other players in your industry.
What’s the difference between augmented data and synthetic data?
If you're looking at AI-powered insights solutions, you may have heard the terms 'augmented data' and 'synthetic data' used interchangeably. There are some key reasons why Yabble's proprietary augmented data model is superior when it comes to AI-generated data for insights.
Synthetic data is like creating a digital twin of real-world data. Think of it as a simulated dataset, created to resemble the real thing without using any real details.
Augmented data is like giving your data a boost. It's taking the original data and enhancing it to make it more complete and more useful. Think of it as adding extra details or features to existing data to get a clearer picture. This is why we choose augmented data for market research – it is both grounded in reality and optimized for the most profound insights.
How does Yabble manage demographic bias when creating its personas?
Ultimately, anything built on an LLM will have an inherent bias based on the corpus (training data) and how it was trained, specifically with RLHF. However, we don't solely rely on LLMs to create personas, we search proprietary, public, social...etc... data to find the relevant demographic information for people who would be interested in the topic entered into Virtual Audiences. We use this to generate demographic criteria for personas, and then through subsequent steps we begin to fill those criteria.
This does not mean there is no bias - there will always be bias, as there is likely to be with traditional research, but we mitigate the detrimental aspects of bias to the best of our capabilities, as you do with traditional research.
What data sources are being used?
Yabble's Augmented Data model revolutionizes the process of insight generation by integrating diverse data sources, including proprietary datasets, academic content, and real-time web searches, with advanced machine learning algorithms. This method transcends traditional surveys and human feedback, utilizing generative AI to synthesize data into comprehensive knowledge lakes. In this model, data amalgamation serves to create detailed personas, formulate relevant questions and answers, and distill key insights, offering users a nuanced, multi-dimensional view of their topics of interest and delivering precise, AI-driven insights.
Why are all the questions open-ended?
Our current model uses open-ended questions to provide you with rich insights into your topic or business question. This model has gone through extensive testing to ensure insights provided are deep and accurate. All open-text answers can be quantified through the Yabble Count tools. This will be done automatically, and you will be alerted when the data is ready for review. Over time, we will introduce new question types once we are confident in the validity of the data from these new question types.
Can I run Concept Tests through Yabble's Virtual Audiences?
Currently, you can run short text-based concept tests through Virtual Audiences either as a single topic or via the survey questions. In the future, we will introduce the ability to add concept boards and imagery for the Virtual Audience to feedback on.
Why are there multiple of the same URL displayed in my Market Insights and Market Trends reports?
In cases where you can see duplicates of the same parent URL in your source list, this is because Yabble's augmented data model has visited multiple pages on the same site to get context for your project ie. http://www.transfertravel.com/page1 and http://www.transfertravel.com/page2 etc. We do not currently display the full URLs for sources.
Proprietary Data for Virtual Audiences FAQs
What are some examples of good ‘proprietary data’ that I can use with Virtual Audiences?
To get the most out of the proprietary data feature of Virtual Audiences, types of data best suited to the tool:
- Internal market research data or reports e.g. survey data, reports, interview transcripts etc
- CX Studies
- UX / Design Studies
- Support tickets
- Customer chat logs
- Internal knowledge base or FAQs.
- Product description or documentation
- Academic articles
- Market reports
- Etc i.e. Any type of text data not available publicly on the internet that can better inform your specific project.
Where possible, provide data in string format i.e. data labels rather than numeric codes.
Can I upload multiple files types at once?
Yes! You can upload up to 10 files (max file size 2MB each) to one Virtual Audiences project, and they do not need to be the same file type.
What types of files can I upload?
There are several different file types that the Yabble proprietary data feature accepts, including .PDF, .CSV, .TXT, .DOCX, and .XLSX (max file size 2MB each).
How long will it take my data to process?
Virtual Audiences projects can take as little as 15 minutes to complete from topic input to insights output – but this will vary based on the quantity and size of the proprietary data you upload to the project i.e. the more data you provide, the longer the process will take for the AI to read and process the data.
How much does my proprietary data come into play vs. synthetic data?
When creating the Knowledge Lake for your Virtual Audience the AI will read across all data provided.
The extent to which it ‘relies’ on your proprietary data to create its personas, synthetic respondents and answers will vary depending on your data volume, content, completeness and the relevance of your data to the questions you have have asked. As well as the recency of your data.
As all data is multi dimensional, some data is more valuable to the process then other pieces, and this is decided by the AI on a case by case basis depending on the research or business question you have asked. Also the ability for the data to be cross referenced / validated between sources.
Yabble will always create the Knowledge Lake using a combination of sources, but the utilization rate of each source will vary dynamically depending on the question being asked.
Yabble’s AI also has a recency bias inherent – so, as an example, if the proprietary data you upload is from 3 years ago, the AI may find more recent information from our other sources.
If you have any specific questions about Virtual Audiences and how this works with your own data to provide insights, contact the team at support@yabble.com.
How relevant does the topic need to be to the proprietary data? What happens if the data is irrelevant?
Yabble’s AI will read across all data provided. It is assumed that you will provide data that is related to the topic, however, if there is some unrelated data, the AI will be able to ‘clean and ignore' this data to an extent.
As the product is in beta, edge cases where data is entirely unrelated may provide poor results.
If you have any specific questions about Virtual Audiences and how this works with your own data to provide insights, contact the team at support@yabble.com.
Can I do a Virtual Audiences project entirely run on proprietary data?
No, not at this stage.
Can I customize the weight I give my proprietary data vs. other sources that are used?
No, not at this stage.
What if I don't have any demographic data for my proprietary data?
If your data doesn’t include any demographic data, the Yabble AI will recommend and generate target demographics, based on data it has gathered from other sources. This can always be regenerated later by you before you complete the project, if you would like to.
Note: The proprietary data will still be used to form the persona’s personality characteristics and behavior even if demographics are absent.
If I put my target audience as ages 18 – 45 but my data includes ages 18 – 65, will it disregard the irrelevant data?
There will be demographic-specific insights and general insights in the proprietary data. Insights specifically relevant to the non-target audiences might be disregarded when generating insights. But, all the relevant information will still be used.
Can I re-use personas and/or go back to the same project and ask more questions?
No, not at this stage.
How does it deal with images that might be in proprietary data? i.e. if you're importing a PDF that is a report of some kind, can that be imported?
At this stage, the AI cannot process images. It can pull some context from text in tables, but it’s not seamless. At this stage, text data is best for all data qualitative or quantitative i.e. labelled data rather than numeric codes.
Can I link my Yabble-collected data to a Virtual Audience project?
No, not at this stage. You can however download the data from the platform, then upload it in the VA process.
Can I access my proprietary data for theme counting, summarisation or to chat with Gen?
No, that would need to be uploaded separately via the normal ingestion process in Yabble.
Can I ask my personas about specific proprietary data that I've uploaded?
Currently, the proprietary data is used as a layer in Knowledge Lake and blended with other data Yabble collects. At this stage you will not be able to ask the AI-generated personas about specific data you have uploaded.
How does it look at close-ended data? e.g. survey data that talks about awareness of certain programs, customer satisfaction, etc.?
Currently Yabble can read closed ended data that is in string format i.e. data labels rather than numeric. It will look at the question for context i.e. The question must be clear for the model to understand the context of ‘Very satisfied’ for example.
If you have any specific questions about Virtual Audiences and how this works with your own data to provide insights, contact the team at support@yabble.com.
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