What’s New: Scaling Prolific’s participant pool capabilities
Welcome to Prolific’s first What’s New post! This is where you'll find all the latest on new features and product updates, big and small. Expect exciting new updates here about what's new on the Prolific platform.
To make it easier for you to find the participants you need from our ever-expanding global pool, we’ve released a series of filtering tools.
- Polling in the year of the UK election is easier than ever with our new UK Political Representative Sample
- Build a custom participant pool with our quota samples
- Bring your own participants with a unique link using BYOP
UK Political Representative Sample
Are you looking to run some research ahead of the UK’s coming election? You can use our new UK Political Representative Sample to evenly distribute your research in the UK. This is particularly useful for:
- Polling research
- Market research
- LLM training
Learn more about representative sampling at Prolific here.
Quota samples
Better control the distribution of your study using a quota sample study. Select the participants you need across demographics, and set the percentage of responses you want from each. Use quota samples to:
- Easily run studies that A/B test responses from a demographic
- Create your own representative samples
Bring Your Own Participants
Not finding the participants you need? With BYOP, you can create unique participant sign-up links directly from your Prolific account, and share them with your desired network. Once your participants sign-up, they will be easily available in the participant group of your choice, ready to take your studies.
Bring Your Own Participants, or BYOP, lets you:
- Centralize your studies in a single research platform, saving valuable time and resources.
- Easily invite participants to take your study and join dedicated participant groups that you can use for different studies.
- Focus on recruiting the right participants for your study needs, while Prolific manages study administrative tasks for you.
Prolific is now Cyber Essentials certified
At Prolific, we’re dedicated to being a tool you can trust. Have confidence in your research knowing that as part of building more robust security agreements and processes, we are now Cyber Essentials certified.
