Message testing helps you identify which language, positioning, and value propositions resonate most with your target audience. Whether you're refining headlines, product descriptions, taglines, or call-to-actions, this research ensures your communications are clear, compelling, and conversion-worthy.
It’s critical in industries like Tech, CPG, Retail, Financial Services, Healthcare, and Media where words can make or break a campaign, launch, or brand perception.
Rival provides a message testing research solution that's robust, fast and effective.
Built specifically for in-the-moment research, the Rival platform delivers fast, actionable insights.
Get feedback from your audience via SMS notifications and reminders.
Capture deeper context by triangulating quant data with rich qual inputs and video feedback.
Superb participant experience increases engagement and quality of responses.
AI capabilities that support probing, summarization of unstructured data, and more.
Elevate storytelling with sophisticated reporting tools, dashboards and AI-powered analysis.
Balsam Brands uncovered nuances in customers’ setup expectations—helping teams reduce confusion and improve transparency.
Time Out combines data from their insight community with commentary from experts to deliver richer stories.
Conducted a co-creation process for a pet-food manufacturer using a conversational approach, developing and refining sustainability messaging.
Message testing helps you identify which messages resonate most with your target audience, understand how different value propositions influence perceptions, and optimize creative before launch to reduce risk and maximize impact.
Leading research partners for message testing include platforms like Rival Technologies and leading consultancies like Reach3 Insights and Angus Reid Group.
These innovative research suppliers combine rigorous methodology and conversational research approaches with fast turnaround.
Participants engage with realistic messaging stimuli (text, visuals, video) and provide feedback through a mix of rating, ranking, and open-ended response tasks designed to mimic real decision moments.
Rival has a flexible service model that lets you choose the tier that works for your business needs — from DIY or assisted serve to full-service consulting.
Yes—Rival can source high-quality, targeted respondents so you get reliable insights from the right audience, even if you don’t have an existing panel.
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Used Rival to uncover nuances of the setup expectations, informing clearer and more transparent communication.