Custom Flash Models

A Flash Model (formerly known as Flash Studies) is a custom short survey on any topic you care about that are fielded separately from Resonate's core United States Consumer Study research. These quick, customized surveys allow you to drill down into specific matters you want to explore. Because Flash Models are fielded outside of our the United States Consumer Study research schedule, they also give you the ability to focus on and survey a particular audience. 

What's the process?

When you purchase a Flash Model, we will work closely with you to formulate the questions and answers for the survey. These questions will help us construct audiences that, when analyzed in the Resonate platform, will answer your questions about your target segments. Data collected from your Flash Model will be tied to our 15K insights and 250M profiles, making it possible for you to enrich your new audiences before activation. 

In general, Flash Models have a quick turnaround rate. You can expect to have your audiences in the Resonate platform 4-6 weeks after survey design sign-off. However, if you have low incidence questions in your survey and/or need to survey a unique audience, we expect to be in field longer to gain enough responses. Low incidence questions may require additional cost.

Before we load your Flash Model data into your Resonate account, we create audiences using responses from your study, and create high-performing look-alike models in order to identify hundreds of thousands to millions of consumers that look like the survey respondents who met the criteria that you've defined for your audiences. These models consider behavior similarity and ensure that audiences are large enough for scale.

What can I do with Flash Model Data?

• Activate these audiences with retargeting 
  • Flash Model data is available for activation for 6 months
• Your audiences will appear in your Resonate account. You can refine and enrich them using Resonate Elements, tag data, and behavioral attributes. Learn more about combining data types here.
• You can save Flash Model data in an audience you wish to use in Audience Crosstab to measure against other audiences/personas.

What can I not do with Flash Model Data?

• You cannot see Flash Model attributes as insights 
• Answers are not available in the platform as attributes
• You cannot combine with 1st-party data 
• You cannot combine with limited attributes
• You cannot save Flash Model data in an audience you wish to use in Audience Crosstab to measure against your tagged digital footprint

Example Use Case

Flash Models can get you the insights you're looking for when you're short-pressed for time and cannot wait until the next Survey Wave of the United States Consumer Study is fielded and processed.

Imagine that you're a Marketing Analyst at a for-profit education organization and you want to understand the types of recent graduates who would be interested in taking a part-time accelerated course for professional development. Resonate's Flash Models can get you the answers by fielding your short survey to people in your target audience (i.e. recent graduates). You will have your audiences ready for analysis in the platform in 4-6 weeks. Using Resonate's 15K insights, you can gain a deep understanding of what people in these audiences are like. And after identifying the right creative, messaging and channels for them, you can take these audiences and engage with them online.

Interested in Flash Models? Contact your Customer Success Manager to get started.