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Idea Screening lets you quickly test and rank early-stage product, marketing, or brand creative ideas so you know which are best to invest in. 

For example, let’s say you're a marketer and you need to present new ad ideas to your team. However, you want to narrow those ideas down from 10 to 3, and your meeting is in 2 hours. With Idea Screening, you can quickly upload your ad ideas, choose your target audience, and get results in a presentation-ready report before your meeting.

With Idea Screening, respondents give feedback on your text, image, or video idea, which we call stimuli. You can add 2 to 30 text, image, or video stimuli, and each respondent sees up to 5 stimuli.

Measure your idea through attributes, like first reaction and purchase intent. We offer pre-written, industry-standard questions created specifically for idea screening and concept testing. The 5-point Likert scale question, "How likely are you to purchase this product?" and the open-ended question, "What do you like most about this product?" are examples of pre-written attributes.

However, you can create your own custom attributes and add questions before or after your respondent sees your stimuli.

Visit LaunchPad Solutions to create your Idea Screening study. Once created, your study is available from the My Surveys page in your account.

Adding an image or video with a text description gives your respondents the most information about your product, service, or messaging.

To set up your study:

  1. Get started by adding a Study title
  2. Select Next: Set up Idea Screener.
  1. what you want them to do while completing your survey. 
  2. Select Idea, Product, Service, or Subscription based on what you are testing. Select Other if you want to enter a custom name or specific details, like Monthly subscription.
  3. Select + stimuli to add stimuli.
  4. Create a nickname for your text, image, or video stimuli. The nickname is only visible to you.
  5. Use the rich text editor to add your stimuli and descriptor:
    • For text, use the options such as bold, underline, font size, bullet points, and tables to format your text.
    • For image, select the Image icon, then choose the General or Upload option to add your image and Save.
    • For video, select the Media icon, then choose the General or Embed option to add a Vimeo or YouTube video and Save.
  6. Select Preview Stimulus to see what it looks like to respondents.
  7. Choose the number of ideas/stimuli to show to each respondent.
  8. In the Attributes section, drag and drop attributes in an order you like.
    You can add new standard or custom attributes, or remove them. Attribute questions display below each stimulus within your survey.
    • You can add up to 15 attributes if you have less than 20 stimuli. If you have more than 20 stimuli, you can add up to 7 attributes.
    • Change the term used in the question via the open-ended box.
  9. To view details about the question the respondent sees, select the Expand icon to the right of each question.
  10. Toggle the Add a comparison question to ask respondents to compare all stimuli.
  11.  Select Next: Customize survey.

You can customize your survey:

Once your project is set up, select Preview survey from the top right corner to test your survey in a new window and see what it looks like to respondents.  By default, the preview shows you a subset of stimuli that respondents see.

Toggle between Desktop, Tablet, and Mobile views to see how your survey looks on various devices.

Once your survey looks good to you, select Next: Collect responses.

When you’re ready to send your survey, select the Collect icon from the left-side menu.

There are two ways to collect responses:

  • Share a survey link: Create a Web link to send your survey to your own audience. 
  • Buy responses from your ideal respondents: Target certain demographics with SurveyMonkey Audience

You can create multiple collectors for your study.

Create a web link that you can send however you want. To share a survey link:

  1. On the Collect page, select Add new collector, then select Web link collector.
  2. Customize your Web link settings. You can:
  3. Copy your web link when you’re ready to send your survey.

SurveyMonkey Audience panelists are sorted based on hundreds of targeting options, so you can target your respondents based on country, demographics, employment status, hobbies, religion, and more.

To choose your target audience:

  1. Go to the Collect page. 
  2. Select Choose an audience or select Add new collector, then select Buy Responses.
  3. Select your target audience by choosing Country, Gender, Age, and Household Income criteria.
  4. Select + Targeting criteria to browse and choose from hundreds of other targeting options.
  5. (Optional): Select whether to add a screening question to narrow down your target audience and disqualify people who aren't the best fit for your survey. If you add custom screening questions, estimate how many people you expect to qualify for your survey.
    • Add a qualifying question to the beginning of your survey. We recommend either Multiple Choice or Checkboxes.
    • Add skip logic that disqualifies people if they select certain answer choices.
    • Return to the Target audience setup page to estimate your Qualification Rate.
  6. Review your target audience summary and select Checkout.

To checkout and pay for your study:

  1. Review the details of your order.
  2. Under Payment Method, select to pay with Credit or Debit Card, or with My Credits.
  3. Enter your Billing Details, review the total, and select Confirm

Select the chart icon on the left side of the screen to start analyzing your results. In the Analyze section, there are Overview, Comparison, Individual Responses, and Survey Results.

  • Overview: Track your survey status and see how many responses have been collected by each collector. 
  • Comparison: View the scorecard to quickly see which ideas scored and how they were evaluated. 
  • Individual Responses: View each survey taker’s response 
  • Survey results: View charts and data for your custom questions. 

 You can also get presentation-ready PowerPoint exports that make sharing your findings easy.

You can view a comparison of your survey results or browse through individual responses.

  • Comparison
  • Individual Responses

Filtering allows you to show responses that match your filter criteria and hide the rest. Recommended filters through AI-powered Insights focus on segments of your data to find interesting information.

To create your own filters:

  1. Add a name for your filter and select Apply.
  2. Select Filter from the top toolbar.
  3. Expand any of the dropdown categories to select the specific data points you want to filter, such as Completeness, Time period, Question, or Collector.

You can export raw data in Excel or SPSS to analyze offline, or use presentation-ready, customizable PowerPoint exports to share with your stakeholders.

To export your data:

  1. Select Export.
  2. Choose PPT, XLSX, SPSS, or CSV format.
  3. Select Current view if filter rules are applied or Original view if no rules are applied.
  4. Name your file and select Export.