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What is Profile Your Audience?

Profile Your Audience helps you create rich consumer personas so you can understand not just who your customers are, but what motivates them and how they behave.

Updated over 3 months ago

Knowing your audience drives everything from marketing to product design. Profile Your Audience goes beyond raw demographics to give you a 360‑degree view of real consumers. You will learn who they are, how they live, what brands they consider, and what drives their decisions.

The result is a set of personas and insights that make it easier to design winning campaigns and position your brand effectively.


Why use Profile Your Audience?

  • Segment with confidence → Move beyond age and gender into lifestyle and attitudes.

  • Guide creative and messaging → Understand motivations that shape purchase behavior.

  • Identify opportunities → Discover untapped groups or underserved needs.

  • Strengthen strategy → Use data‑driven personas to guide campaigns and roadmaps.


How the survey works

The survey captures a rounded picture of your target audience through four key sections:

  1. Demographics & Lifestyle → age, gender, education, family, hobbies, values

  2. Category Awareness & Usage → brands people know, buy, and prefer today

  3. Needs & Attitudes → decision‑making priorities like innovation, price, loyalty, promotions

  4. Usage Patterns → buying frequency, channels, and usage occasions

Optional: add open‑text questions for deeper feedback.

TLDR: Lifestyle, habits, needs, and brand behaviors all combine to create audience profiles.


Audience sizes and targeting

The standard package includes 300 respondents, enough to give you a reliable snapshot.

  • Scale up your sample for deeper analysis

  • Use custom targeting to focus on category buyers only

  • Or choose nationally representative audiences for broad coverage

TLDR: Start with 300 respondents and refine as needed for your project.


What’s in the report

Your profiling report includes:

  1. Persona Overview Cards → name, image, demographics, lifestyle, and habits

  2. Brand Awareness & Usage Funnels → awareness → usage → preference

  3. Needs & Attitudes → which factors drive choices, from price to sustainability

  4. Segment Highlights → breakdowns by selected demographics and quotes if open‑text is included

TLDR: You get complete personas plus brand and attitude insights that are ready to brief teams and guide strategy.


How to interpret the results

  • Persona cards show the “who” → use them to brief agencies and teams

  • Awareness & usage funnels reveal the “what” → brand positioning and competitor gaps

  • Decision drivers explain the “why” → what consumers value most

  • Segments highlight where new opportunities or high‑value groups exist

TLDR: Personas = who, funnels = what, drivers = why.


Frequently asked questions

Can I profile only category buyers?

Yes, you can add screening so only category users qualify.

Do I have to use all survey sections?

No, the survey can be customized, but using all sections gives the richest personas.

Can I add open‑ended questions?

Yes, open text can add valuable qualitative depth.

Can I profile multiple categories at once?

Yes, although we recommend separate studies for each category to keep insights clean and actionable.

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