SMS Consent

In the 2024 IU Panel year-end participant survey, 74% of panelists showed interest in receiving short surveys via text message. We heard you! So, we are launching a pilot to evaluate the effectiveness of simple text message-based surveys.

If you don’t opt-in to receive surveys via text message, you will continue to receive six or more long-form surveys by email each year. However, you will not receive the pilot short-form, text message-based survey or any future text message-based surveys.

Currently, we are piloting one short-form text message-based survey to determine effectiveness and understand the panelist experience. Assuming a successful pilot, we hope to distribute approximately four surveys via text message each year in addition to long-form surveys delivered by email.

After completing the consent form, you will receive a text message asking you to confirm your consent to receive text messages from the IU Panel. We do this to ensure we are reaching the correct person and that they want to hear from us.

No. Unfortunately, at this time, we are unable to send surveys via text message to panelists who reside outside the United States.

No. The consent form only allows you to receive survey-based text messages from the IU Panel.

Text messages from the IU Panel will appear on your cell phone alongside your other text messages from friends and family. Text messages from the IU Panel will always mention “IU Panel” in the message.

You can text “STOP” in response to a text message from the IU Panel to opt-out at any time.

SMS stands for Short Message Service and refers to standard text messages sent over cellular networks.

You can contact us with questions or concerns anytime at iumrktg@iu.edu!