Quiz marketing: 5 things to expect in 2023 (& beyond)

People don’t trust advertisers anymore

In 2021, people distrust e d advertising more than ever – especially Gen X and the millennials. And this trend only gets worse for marketers. But quiz marketing can help savvy marketers bridge this generational divide.
You can see this skepticism in the rise of ad blockers–now making up 30% of all internet users globally and climbing–and scary stats like the fact that 84% of millennials don’t like traditional marketing.

To combat these rising trends, marketers will need to be more creative, innovative, and transparent in how they engage their target audiences. To accomplish this in 2023 (and beyond!), quiz marketing will be crucial.
Consumers have had good reason to distrust companies with their data. Data privacy scandals like the Cambridge Analytica scandal has made users everywhere think twice before sending their private information to any third-party sources. And a massive new Facebook data leak shows that big tech still can’t be trusted.

The alternative? Quiz Marketing

This brings us to quiz marketing in 2023… and beyond!
Marketers have always loved the concept – easy-to-create quizzes, listicles, polls, and more can turn passive visitors into active participants. But quiz marketing campaigns will only work if they can get users to choose to participate in them. Transparency is crucial; companies will need to be upfront about how they will use any data collected.

Things to expect in the world of online quizzes and quiz marketing in 2023.

More quiz customization

Every campaign is unique and marketers need to rapidly create bespoke content that will deliver the results they need. Quiz, poll, and other formats will move beyond the current ‘one size fits all’ approach and into new avenues that allow for more customization, allowing marketing teams to create a mix-and-match recipe to ensure that everything fits the needs of their customers.

For example, imagine wanting to create a standard three minute, eight-question quiz to qualify leads. Beyond sticking to a strict quiz or poll, marketers will be to mix and match within the quiz itself. Questions one and two might be single or multiple-choice, three and four could be polls, and five to eight can be Tinder-style swipe questions. The result is that these more engaging experiences keep visitors happily tapping away until the end.
In conclusion: Creative flexibility will be key. New interactive content will let marketers “mix & match” formats.

Power for product recommendations

Online marketing quizzes have always been good at suggesting products based on each quiz taker’s answers. The best quizzes feature six to ten questions, which give marketers that many data points to refine and suggest the perfect products. But there are many more useful and flexible ways to craft the quiz and post-quiz experience.

After the quiz is completed, instead of just showing their results, you can send each user to their personalized shopping cart. For example, imagine a customer takes a quiz to help choose their ideal headphones. A quality post-quiz experience will take them directly to a shopping page for the noise-canceling headphones they need for their open-plan office. By seamlessly taking them to the checkout, they’re far more likely to make a purchase.
That’s just one key way how quiz marketing will win for marketers in 2023. Better yet, customized product recommendations matched with tighter integration into e-commerce systems will result in better conversions and deliver on the bottom line.
In 2023, quizzes will power product recommendations. They’ll help you to send targeted offers & follow-ups around user responses

More efficient to create

It’s been breathtaking to see how fast online marketing tools have developed over the past ten years. Quiz marketing is no different: It has become exponentially easier to create and manage quizzes and other content – and this is only going to accelerate in 2021.
Think back to YouTube: Before they arrived on the scene, video content was expensive to create, edit, and publish. Now, these tools have shifted down the skills pyramid from formerly requiring dedicated experts to now, where any online-savvy marketers can create their own quiz.

Marketing teams will continue the trend of bringing interactive content in-house. In the past, it would have taken six to eight weeks for an agency to be hired, briefed, and then ready to deliver relatively straightforward custom content for a campaign.
In 2023, this will change. Smart teams will increasingly create and roll out their own interactive content, from personality tests to quizzes, listicles, or polls. They’ll start because of the cost savings, paying a few modest monthly subscriptions for tools versus a stream of custom proposals. But they’ll stay when they see the speed and scalability. Content will be faster, easier, and more effective. Even better, all these skills will stay in-house.
Agencies will still have a role of course, but they’ll be brought in only for high budget, high profile’ campaigns, not for this easily-created content.

More data capture

It’s becoming ever-more difficult for marketers to collect data from potential customers. The EU kicked things off with its sweeping General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in May, 2018, while California (the fifth largest economy in the world) launched its California Consumer Protection Act (CCPA) on January 1, 2021. Luckily, Riddle complies with GDPR and CCPA completely!
Big laws, big regulation, and big fines for non-compliance means that it will be increasingly difficult for marketing campaigns to have the same effect as in years past. Traditional online advertising like banner ads relies on using cookies and other tricks to covertly track behavior across the web. Sure, there’s the ‘manage privacy’ option displayed on the first visit to a site, but how many people really take the time to opt-in or out?

Quiz marketing, on the other hand, will continue to thrive because it offers a both compelling and transparent way to convince customers to provide their data. Interactive content transparently integrates data collection – compare that with traditional advertising’s behind the scenes’ approach. Most quality software providers include an explicit lead generation step before their results where a site visitor can explicitly choose to complete with their name, email, and other relevant information. It’s up to the companies to provide a compelling reason to persuade each customer it’s worth it.
For example, if someone starts a quiz on a career consultant website, they might answer 10-15 questions about their ideal job. But before seeing their job recommendations, they can choose to give their name and email in return for a free 15 minute Skype session with an advisor, who can use craft a custom session around each person’s needs. This sort of clear offer can pay off with up to 45% opt-in rates from interested leads.

Quiz marketing – the big takeaways for 2023

2023 kicks off a year full of new challenges and opportunities for marketers. Traditional online tactics simply don’t work in the face of the rising distrust of advertising and global data protection concerns like the EU’s GDPR.
Instead, expect to see marketers turn to a new, more transparent approach. They will encourage their audience to voluntarily engage and opt-in with their data through the customization, lead generation, and production recommendation power of interactive content tools. Engagement and transparency through interactive content: The new marketing playbook for 2023… and the years to come.