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Recruit participants for your surveys and studies by reaching into our platform of 10 million+ people. You’ve got the questions. Are you ready to get some answers?

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Get up and running in no time – simply link to your research activity (or create one using GuidedTrack), decide how many research participants you’d like to complete it, and choose your target audience.”
Create or link to your research activity
Use your favorite tool to create your research, or use GuidedTrack (we’re biased since we built it, but we think it works best with Positly!). All Positly needs is a link and a brief description for participants.
Choose how many people you'd like to complete your research activity
We don’t have a minimum spend requirement, so you have the flexibility to hear from 10 people or tens of thousands!
Choose your target audience
Easily reach your target audience through our pre-defined attributes (e.g., their geographic, demographic, psychographic, and behavioral characteristics), create your custom attributes, or retarget based on previous activity.

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Why people prefer Positly...

An all-in-one dashboard that allows you to easily recruit, screen, survey, message, re-target and reward research participants

Powerful targeting capabilities
Easily reach your target audience through our pre-defined attributes (e.g., their geographic, demographic, psychographic, and behavioral characteristics), create your custom attributes, or retarget based on previous activity.
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Quality participants
Our quality measures help ensure each participant is reliable and engaged.
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Easy setup, fast results
Within minutes, you can launch your study and begin collecting data.
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Re-target participants
Have a longitudinal study? Need to ask follow-up questions? We make it easy to follow up, message, or exclude participants.
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How does Positly work?
Pricing that’s affordable and fair
Simple & affordable

We keep the costs low for researchers while simplifying the participant compensation so you can save both your money and your time.

Fair rewards

Participants deserve fair compensation for their time. We provide you with guidance and feedback to deliver happy, engaged participants who keep coming back.

What researchers say...

“I had to run a dozen small online experiments in a few months to finish my dissertation. With Positly, each study took less than 5 minutes to launch and I always got my data on the same day.”

Daniel Greene
Psychology researcher
Stanford University
Keri Szejda, Senior Consumer Research Scientist at The Good Food Institute

“Using Positly has been a great tool for streamlining my workflow. It’s really easy to quickly collect high quality data. The technology is great, but the people at Positly are even better. They genuinely care about data quality, continuously make improvements, and are always willing to help troubleshoot to make my studies a success.”

Keri Szejda
Senior Consumer Research Scientist
The Good Food Institute

“I loved using Positly. It made my multi-stage study much easier and saved me several hours of tedious busywork. I would definitely recommend it to anyone doing online social research!”

Eric Gastfriend
CEO
DynamiCare Health

“Positly is a wonderful tool to recruit participants for online studies in an efficient way. It is easier to use than the alternatives and offers all the features I need.”

Lucius Caviola
Psychology researcher
Oxford University

“I get quality results incredibly fast. It’s both simple to use and highly customizable. I rave about it to everyone I know conducting research.”

Aislinn Pluta
Product Manager
UpLift

“It’s simple, elegant, fast, and a game-changer for social science. I’ve had three hundred responses in less than an hour​. My days of hunting for participants are over – now I won’t use anything else.”

Peter Brietbart
CEO
MindEase
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