SurveyMonkey Audience Monthly Consumer Insights Tracking Study (October 2012)

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SurveyMonkey Audience: an on-demand group of millions of survey respondents to take your surveys. Audience allows customers to target respondents on a wide variety of demographic and behavioral traits to get fast, high quality, cost effective data.

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