By Vision Insights

Unlock the world’s most extensive library of on-demand, sports-specific insights—whenever you need them

Introducing Vision Insight’s Decoder™ — the sports world’s gateway to smarter, faster decisions

Lightning-fast, around the clock access to fan & consumer research. Designed for simplicity, Decoder™ is the most intuitive insights tool for the sports industry

About our data

Online survey with probability-based random sampling for reliable, representative results

  • 22 countries
  • Over 13,000+ surveys fielded monthly across US, Canada and Mexico
  • Surveys fielded in 19 additional countries bi-annually in March and September
  • Larger and more statistically robust sample sizes compared to industry competitors
  • Youth data is a major a priority with access to youth respondent data on a country-by-country basis

Who it’s for

Vision Insights’ Decoder™ platform offers data tailored for sports industry executives across:

  • Sponsorship
  • Strategy & Business Intelligence
  • Brand Management and Field Marketing
  • Agencies
  • Academia
  • Government

Decoder affords professionals within these disciplines access to over 750 million survey response data points, 4 million Linear TV placements and 17,000 audience segments.

Use Cases

Our quick and flexible data slices are available to purchase on-demand. Common use cases of Decoder data include:

  • Fan demographics
  • Understand fan psyche and motivations for fandom
  • Fan growth and league avidity
  • Fan behaviors and receptivity to sponsorship
  • Calculate the value your brand receives through TV-visible activation.
  • Enhance insights into fans for curriculum projects, theses and dissertations
  • Provide additional insights to inform policy, evaluate programs, improve operations, and advance public understanding

Our entire suite of variables and comprehensive solutions are also available via subscription. To learn more about full subscriptions, information related to product usage, brand image and sponsorship awareness, please visit our contact page and enter your contact details and a Vision Insights’ representative will follow-up with you directly.

Testimonials

From our partners and customers

Our experience with Vision Insights and Decoder has completely revolutionized the way we deliver fan insights data to our organization. Vision’ s user interface and API delivery has optimized our access to our fan base data while allowing us to integrate the data into our organization’s existing suite of reports to ensure easy access for all users. Additionally, Vision’s top notch client service team has been vital in supporting our sponsorship prospecting efforts and understanding our fan’s relationship with potential partners. Vision has been a first-class partner and any organization looking to enhance their existing data should strongly consider partnering with Vision.

Sam Hubble

Director of Strategy – Minnesota Timberwolves & Lynx

Our work with Vision Insights and Decoder has truly changed our league’s and clubs’ understanding of the USL fan base in ways we could not imagine before.

The reliability and depth of information we’re able to uncover about the fan’s journey, their reaction to sponsorship, game day behaviors and every other form of engagement has been game-changing. Any organization looking to enhance their data toolkits, while receiving world class client service and next-level insights should consider working with Vision.

President, Business Ventures – USL

Fan Insights – How it Works

Our on-demand data is very easy to use. It’s simple: build the audience you want to know something about and then choose what you want to know about them. Your cost will be calculated in a shopping cart for you based on the complexity of the audiences and data variables you’re requesting. Data is available in 22 countries and covers 80+ leagues.

There are five easy steps for you to gain fan insights. They are as follows:

  • Choose from filters for additional cross-tabulations based on specific fan bases and favorite teams (optional). Decoder™ utilizes a 7-point Likert Scale to measure fan base avidity/interest. A casual fan is defined as 2-7 on the Likert Scale while an avid fan is defined as 6-7. For favorite team, it is a combination of the top 3 ranked teams by respondents for each respective league. See our available filter options here.
  • Now select the question(s) you would like answered. View our available questions here.
  • Confirm your insight – the details of your requested insight(s) will be displayed on the screen with blurred results for you to confirm and proceed to payment.
  • Confirm Payment and Billing Information.
  • What you get – You will receive a Microsoft Excel table with the data displaying the results for the question(s), audience, filters and timeframe you selected. The data includes sample sizes and percentage for each response. Please note, if you are interested in market sizing and indexes, please visit https://www.visioninsights.net/contact and enter your contact details and a Vision Insights’ representative will follow-up with you directly.