Playing with Fire: How Survey Fraud Can Burn Your Brand, and How to Stop It
In partnership with Kellogg’s, we illustrate how bad data can burn a brand, and how you can ensure your data is protected. Learn how fraudulent participants respond to survey questions in predictable ways, and see a real-life case study demonstrating the effects this can have on brands and marketing campaigns.
More than 30% of respondents in online panels are inattentive, fraudulent, or bots1.
Do you know who your respondents are? In partnership with Insights Association, we’re exposing the shocking reality of online survey fraud. We’ll take you inside survey click farms to witness actual footage of fraudulent survey-takers caught in the act. You’ll gain an understanding of the scale and scope of fraud in the insights and market research industry and learn how to protect yourself and your research.
Track sample quality with the Sentry Dashboard and view Performance Reports across samples and projects
Flexible Integration
Usable with any supplier, any survey platform, and any project, with easy to use Dashboard or via API
Multi-level Protection
Apply the ideal protection level for your work, balancing sample flow and quality. Toggle on/off specific protections that best fit your needs
How Does Sentry Work?
Sentry is a pre-survey vetting system. Participants from any sample supplier are directed to Sentry and vetted in 30 seconds. High-quality participants are allowed to enter the survey, and inattentive respondents/bots/frauds are sent back to the supplier.
Benefits of Using Sentry
Which of the following best describes you?
Supply/Panel Company
Research Firm
Corporate Researcher
Reduce overall reconciliation rates by >50%
Specialized Sentry levels to keep supply high and only remove worst respondents
Give your clients data they can trust, and increase confidence in supply quality with a Sentry Quality Certification
Integration within your current data quality solutions to improve internal panel health
Quality control and tracking of external sample contracted from 3rd party suppliers
Reduce time-consuming data cleaning hours by >50%
Give your clients data they can trust, and increase confidence in insights quality with a Sentry Quality Certification
Less time returning to field to fill in hard to reach groups, due to removing bad respondents pre-survey
In-depth Data Quality Tracker monitors data quality across all your projects and suppliers
Know that you can trust the data you receive
Reduce time-consuming data cleaning hours by >50%
More accurate insights for your key decisions
Standardized Quality Protections across all your projects
Quicker collection speeds
In-depth Data Quality Tracker monitors data quality across all your projects and suppliers
The future of digital transformation hinges around human interaction and human input. In companies, it’s the voice of the consumer. In tech, it’s the voice of the user. In healthcare, it’s the voice of the patient. Products, policies, features and laws are developed based on input from humans – and often through online sources.
CloudResearch and InnovateMR jointly announce a strategic partnership to improve data quality, addressing the most pressing challenge facing the online survey industry.
Have you ever been faced with having to toss 20-40 percent of your data? This can be nerve racking. There are several threats to data quality and the validity of online research. We’re here to shed some light on these threats and what to do about them.
Data collection online has become standard practice even for major institutions like the CDC, but unless care is taken to ensure subjects are honest and attentive the results can be very misleading.
How Is Sentry Different Than Digital Fingerprinting Tools?
Device Fingerprinting alone is not sufficient to ensure high-quality data. In addition to leveraging IP-duplication blocking, Sentry uses an advanced fingerprinting technology called DigiPrint®. DigiPrint® is our proprietary device fingerprinting solution which assesses and identifies online survey respondents’ unique fingerprints to manage participants and prevent duplication and fraud. Critically, Sentry also engages respondents directly with questions proven to ensure respondent quality on key domains including attention, honesty, and effortful responding.
How Can I Use Sentry in My Own Research?
Sentry can be added to any online survey with traditional URL redirects or via API integration. Sentry can be used with any sample source, survey platform, or respondent device.
Will Sentry Help Me Get Better Open-Ended Data in My Surveys?
Yes. Sentry’s pre-survey solution was designed specifically to improve in-survey quality, by targeting and removing all different kinds of low-quality respondents. The result is significantly better in-survey open ended quality.
When tested against competitors, Sentry significantly outperforms other solutions on the market, and usually reduces bad open ends by >50%. In addition, with Sentry protection, you will see higher in-survey response consistency, fewer attention check fails, and more accurate participant responses.
What Information Do I Get When I Leverage Sentry?
For all projects run in Sentry, users will see a detailed breakdown of respondent quality, starting with a basic overview of the traffic that came in. Users will see the overall rates of pass/fails, and the specific markers of low-quality that Sentry detected. In addition, data is also available from Sentry’s event-streaming recorder, which allows users to see how respondents interacted with each Sentry question.
Sentry also provides a detailed breakdown of traffic quality across all projects and studies. This gives users insight into the quality of the sample they are receiving, including how quality compares across multiple suppliers.
Sample Quality Tracking Monitor
What Kinds of Questions Do You Ask Participants in Sentry?
Sentry has thousands of questions across multiple Libraries. Each library has different types of questions which were developed by our team of Behavioral Scientists to ensure participant quality on a different construct. For example, there are specific libraries with questions that measure dishonesty, and others that measure basic attention, and others that measure whether participants are from a specific B2B groups they claim to be from (e.g. Nurses).
Sentry automatically pulls different questions from different libraries in order to get the fullest picture of participant quality. While participants see these questions, Sentry is using technology to track respondent behavior via mouse movements and keyboard strokes, to provide additional behavioral assessment. We are happy to provide specific examples of question types. Just reach out.
Is It Customizable for My Projects That Need More or Less Security?
Yes. We realize that objectives vary from project to project, that’s why Sentry has multiple levels and configurations that are easy to customize based on your research needs.
What Platforms Can Sentry Integrate With?
Any and all platforms! All Sentry needs to work is a survey-redirect link.
Can I Use Sentry on Projects With Multiple Suppliers?
Yes. Sentry is ideally suited for such projects, as it can prevent duplicate traffic from coming in across suppliers. In addition, you will be able to track the same quality of all the different suppliers you use, in any project, and on all the traffic they send to your research, using the Sentry Sample Quality Tracking Monitor.
To learn more about using Sentry in your research, contact us today!