Resources

Ebooks and field guides

Practical, plain-language guides on survey fraud, technical signals, data quality, global audience reach, and vendor transparency. Written for sample buyers and insights teams, free to download.

Free Ebook

20 Common Technical Fraud Signals

A field guide for sample buyers

We break the black box of "technical signals" into five types of fraud signals, then walk through the 20 signals inside them, covering what each detects, where each is ambiguous, and how to tell a vendor that understands its own tooling from one reading off a feature list.

5 types of signals20 signals explained7 questions to ask vendors

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Rep Data's Global Audience Reach

The Rep Data panel book, June 2026 edition

The reach, depth, and quality of the respondents Rep Data delivers across 57 countries, backed by the #1 survey fraud defense in market research. Every number in the book is sourced directly from live fielding data, not a rate card.

60M+ respondents reached annually57 countries with active supply276+ targeting attributes

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Answers to ESOMAR's 37 Questions

The Rep Data transparency and quality document

Every question a sample buyer should ask, answered in full. Who we are, where our sample comes from, how every respondent is validated at the point of survey entry, and how your data is protected.

37 questions answered in full130+ fraud signals per respondent5B survey attempts processed yearly

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From Access to Trust

What twenty years of online sample teaches us about trustworthy research, by Kurt Knapton

Kurt Knapton, former CEO of e-Rewards and Research Now and a Rep Data board member, looks back on two decades of online sample evolution. From double opt-in panels and river sampling to marketplaces, fraud prevention, and AI-driven quality approaches, the guide traces how the industry's scarce resource shifted from respondent access to respondent quality.

20 years of online sample evolution5 eras, from panels to AI3 stages of modern quality

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