Audience surveys for creators: what fans want next

Pollsar is a survey tool for creators and channel owners: followers rank your topic ideas, rate episodes and tell you about themselves, so you get an audience profile ready for sponsors. The AI assistant writes the survey, and responses from YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, your podcast and newsletter land in one set of stats.

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What to ask your followers

Next episode topic

Instead of hunting for content ideas, start from your own topic list: followers rank the topics, and Pollsar shows each one's priority as a percentage. In the same survey, ask which format they prefer: a short clip, a deep dive or a livestream.

Audience profile for sponsors

Ask what followers do for a living, what they're into and whether they've bought something you recommended. Age, income and city are already in the ready-made audience survey questions, and Pollsar builds the charts; export the summary for your media kit to XLSX.

Episode ratings

Followers rate an episode with stars, flames or emoji and write what to keep and what to cut. After a sponsored episode, ask how the ad landed and whether they remember the brand: your sponsor will want those answers.

Thumbnail and cover tests

Make an image poll: add two or three thumbnails or covers as answer options and shuffle the order so the first one doesn't collect extra votes. Followers pick the one they'd click, and the next question asks why.

Personality quiz for followers

Build a personality quiz like “What kind of viewer are you?” or a quiz on how well they know the channel: Pollsar shows each follower their result based on total points. For Stories, a strengths quiz works well: followers tick five qualities they see in you.

What's missing

Ask “What's missing from the channel?”: followers answer in their own words, Pollsar gathers the answers into one list, and the AI assistant pulls out the most frequent requests when you ask it to. You see which episodes your audience is waiting for.

Newsletter reader survey

Readers of your newsletter, blog or magazine rate issues, pick their favorite sections and say what they want from the next emails. Put the link in an issue: answers land in one summary, and the reader profile is ready for sponsors.

Discord and community applications

Screen new members for your Discord server, private chat or fan club: who they are, how they found you and whether they accept the rules. Each application is its own row in the responses table, and the same form can recruit moderators.

Beta reader questionnaire

Send beta readers your manuscript, then a questionnaire: where it dragged, which characters they believed, whether the ending landed. Give each chapter its own question, and Pollsar gathers the open answers into one list you can revise from.

AI drafts and answer analysis

Tell the AI assistant in plain words: “I want to know which topics to film next.” It builds a draft with a title, cover, questions and answer options. Rewrite any question you like.

Illustration of Pollsar's AI assistant: a field for the survey topic and a send button

The assistant finds a question that suggests the answer, or one that asks about two things at once like “Do you like the videos and the streams?”, and suggests splitting it. You decide whether to accept the edit or keep your wording.

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Pollsar builds a table and chart for multiple-choice and rating questions, shows topic priority for ranking questions and collects open-ended answers into a list that's easy to read straight through.

Question results in Pollsar: a table with percentages per option and a bar chart

Ask the assistant which topics come out on top and let it read the open-ended answers: it finds what followers ask for most and puts together a report for you or a sponsor.

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How to run an audience survey

1 Describe the task or pick a template Tell the AI assistant what you want to learn about your followers, and it builds a draft. You can also open a ready-made survey template or put the survey together yourself in the builder.
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2 Choose the look Pick a theme that matches your channel's style, add your own logo and, if you like, remove Pollsar branding so the survey looks like part of your channel.
Style tab in Pollsar: the theme catalog with thumbnails and a survey preview
3 Put the link in your episode Put the link in the video description, a pinned post or your newsletter, and show the QR code on stream. In chats and feeds, the link shows a preview card with the survey cover.
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4 Read the answers and the report Pollsar turns answers into tables and charts, and the AI assistant writes a report for you or your sponsor. Export the summary to XLSX and attach it to your media kit.
Pollsar table of individual responses: one row per respondent, star ratings and filters
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Templates for your audience

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Target audience research

Age, city, income and what matters when buying. The starting point for your media kit profile.

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Product launch survey

What fans want from a new product and what price works. Before a course, guide or merch drop.

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Strengths quiz

Followers pick five of 16 good qualities they see in you. A light, fun interaction for Stories.

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Product satisfaction survey

A rating, what fell short and what to improve in your course, guide or membership.

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Pre-event survey

Format, agenda and preferred length: what followers expect from a meetup before you plan it.

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Post-event survey

How it was run, what got in the way and which events followers want next, after a webinar or giveaway.

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Big Five personality test

20 statements, and followers instantly see their profile across five personality traits.

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Event format survey

Online or in person, intimate or big: which kind of meetup to host for your followers next.

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Social media and online communities survey

Comfort and trust in your community. For clubs and group chats.

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Why it pays to run audience surveys in Pollsar

You learn not just what fans want, but why

A channel poll is one question. In a survey, followers rank topics, answer in their own words and pick a cover from images, and the AI assistant turns their answers into ready-made takeaways.

You see your whole audience in one summary

YouTube viewers, podcast listeners and newsletter readers answer the same survey, so there's no counting each platform by hand. A UTM tag shows where each response came from, or give each platform its own link.

You spot shifting interests before your views do

Run the same survey every quarter: Pollsar stores each round's responses separately, so you see what changed after a new format or series. Comparing rounds tells you where to take the channel next.

You hear from the people who pay for your content

Share the link and PIN in your members-only channel or club: the survey won't open without the code, and casual viewers won't water down the answers. You see what keeps members in the club and what will make them stay.

You gain followers on your other platforms

The survey's last screen shows buttons for your YouTube, Instagram and TikTok: a newsletter reader goes straight to your channel, and a video viewer finds your Instagram. The survey doubles as an invite, no extra post needed.

You start free, with no credit card

No time limit and no trial countdown: the builder, AI assistant, templates, link, QR code and response summary work right away. Add scored quizzes and spreadsheet export when you need them.

Audience survey FAQ

Ask your followers directly: platform analytics show reach and views, but not what your viewers do for a living, what they're into or whether they've bought something you recommended. Age, city and income are covered by the ready-made target market questionnaire; add your own questions about occupation, interests and purchases made on your recommendation, or ask the AI assistant to. Put one link in the video description, a channel post and your newsletter: Pollsar combines responses from every platform into shared charts, and you can export the table for your media kit to XLSX.
Yes. The Free plan needs no credit card: unlimited surveys, one active at a time, with up to 10 questions each; the AI assistant, templates, topic ranking, ratings with stars, flames and emoji, a link and a QR code, tables and charts, and auto-close at a set number of responses. That's enough for a 3–5 question follower survey. Pro adds any number of active surveys at once, image answer options, scored quizzes, PIN, UTM tags, your own logo, XLSX export and the Big Five personality test. Expert adds separate links for each platform, repeat waves and surveys without Pollsar branding. Prices and the full feature list are in the plan comparison.
Your followers don't sign up: they open the survey from a link in the browser and answer on their phone, with no app. As the creator, you need a free account with email or Google, and no credit card: it keeps your surveys and responses, and only you see the summary. Right after you log in, build a survey from scratch, from a template or with the AI assistant.
For a quick “A or B,” the built-in poll is enough. A survey is for when you want to learn more: followers rank topics, answer in their own words and pick a cover from images. It's almost as quick to complete: 3–5 questions with a progress bar, and after a single-answer question the survey can move to the next one on its own. One link works on every platform, and the responses come together in one set of stats.
Start with three: which topics interest them most (ranking), what's missing from the channel (open answer) and how they liked the latest episode (stars or emoji). Before launching a course, merch or a paid membership, ask what people would buy and for how much; a ready-made new product survey covers it. The AI assistant suggests the rest.
Add the open question “What should I ask the guest?” and put the link in the stream announcement. Pollsar shows each viewer question as its own row, so questions for the stream or podcast end up in one list. Once you have the number of responses you need, the survey closes by itself. For the podcast guest, send a separate questionnaire before recording: what to talk about, which topics are off-limits and how they'd like to be introduced.
No. The survey opens from a link in the browser, with no app or sign-up, from any messaging app, including WhatsApp and Telegram. It works the same on a phone and a computer.

Make what fans want

A creator always has more ideas than episodes. Let your followers choose: they drag your topics into the order they want, and the summary adds up their answers into one ranking. Pollsar turns “let me know in the comments” into a ready-made content queue!

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