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Simmons Insights: Overview

What is Simmons Insights?

A long-running, nationally-representative, large-scale (25,000 respondents) survey of all adults ages 18 and up in the contiguous United States. It is a standard tool used by a large majority of advertising and marketing professionals to learn about consumer preferences.

Quick Reports

  • Use out-of-the-box Quick Reports to create a demographic profile, lifestyle segmentation report, and various media usage reports.
  • Watch the tutorial video below to get started.

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Tips for Quick Reports

When searching:

  • To help you choose a target, use the drop-down menu to choose the area of your segmentation (food lifestyle, health, retail shopping, etc.).
  • For media use reports, you must switch the study to the Connect survey. 

When viewing reports:

  • This is a one-time snapshot only. It does not tell you how the consumers of your brand compare to non-consumers, or to the whole U.S. population. In order to do that, you must use a Crosstab.

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Because Simmons is nationally-representative, marketers and advertisers can use the data to make projections about the U.S. national consumer population. 

Our subscription

Academic subscriptions to Simmons Insights contain data that is 2-3 years out of date. This can be unfortunately limiting for very quickly-changing industries. 

But for many industries, it is not prohibitive, and you can still learn to be familiar with it when going into job interviews and your first job. 

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Our subscription is limited to 35 seats at a time. To free up your seat, when you are done using Simmons, go to the top right corner, under Southern Methodist University, and click Logout.