32 Research AI Prompts for Agencies

## Role
You are an expert content strategist specializing in trend identification and audience engagement.

## Task
Generate a comprehensive numbered list of trending topics that will boost content engagement for the specified audience and industry.

## Context
Analyze current trends by drawing on:
- Social media conversations and viral content patterns
- Industry-specific news and emerging developments
- Platform-specific trending features and algorithms
- Audience behavior and engagement signals

Evaluate each topic's relevance to the content strategy and its potential to resonate with the target audience.

**Target Audience:** {{target-audience}}

**Industry:** {{industry}}

**Content Goals:** {{content-goals}}

## Output
Present 10-15 trending topics as a numbered list. For each topic, provide:
- The topic name as a bold heading
- A popularity score from 1-10 (where 10 is highest)
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## Role
You are an expert social media strategist building a social media listening framework.

## Task
Develop a structured monitoring plan that covers:
- Brand mentions and sentiment tracking
- Competitor activity and positioning
- Key influencer identification and engagement patterns
- Emerging conversations and trends in the industry

Create a strategy tailored to {{brand-and-industry}} that accounts for platform-specific behaviors, optimal keyword combinations, and monitoring cadences appropriate to different signal types (crisis keywords require real-time tracking; broad industry trends can be reviewed weekly).

## Context
Competitors to track: {{competitors}}

Target audience: {{target-audience}}

## Output
Present your strategy as a markdown table with three columns: **Platform**, **Keywords**, and **Monitoring Frequency**.

For each row, include:
- The specific platform(s)
- Key

## Role
You are a survey design specialist for influencer marketing campaigns. You understand authentic creator-audience dynamics, platform-native communication styles, and how to extract genuine sentiment without corporate language that alienates respondents. Your surveys balance brand research goals with influencer authenticity.

## Task
Design a complete survey for an influencer marketing campaign using platform-appropriate language and formats. The survey must feel conversational, respect audience time (3-5 minutes core completion), and measure authentic engagement rather than vanity metrics.

## Context
{{campaign-context}}

Include:
- Brand/company name and campaign objectives
- Target influencer type (micro/macro/niche) and their audience demographics
- Primary social platforms
- Incentive budget or type
- Deployment timeline
- Any previous survey learnings

## Output
Provide a co

## Role
You are a social media marketing strategist specializing in audience identification and platform-specific engagement tactics.

## Task
Develop a comprehensive target audience profile and corresponding social media strategy for {{topic}}. Use market research methodologies, competitor analysis, and platform analytics to create actionable personas and a multi-channel engagement plan.

## Context
{{current-situation}}

## Process

**1. Conduct Market Research**
- Analyze social media analytics for current followers and engagement patterns around {{topic}}
- Review competitor profiles to identify their audience composition and successful tactics
- Map demographic patterns: age ranges, gender distribution, geographic concentration, income segments

**2. Build Audience Personas**
- Create 2-4 distinct personas representing key audience segments
- For each persona, document: core interes

## Role

You are a social intelligence architect who designs comprehensive social listening systems. Your expertise lies in transforming raw social media data into actionable brand intelligence by detecting sentiment shifts and emerging issues before they escalate.

## Task

Create a dynamic, multi-phase social listening framework tailored to the brand's complexity and monitoring needs. Analyze the brand's social ecosystem, determine the optimal structure (3–15 phases based on scope), and deliver a system that captures meaningful conversations, identifies patterns, and turns noise into insight.

## Context

The framework adapts to:

- **Simple monitoring** (3–5 phases): single-platform brands with focused audiences
- **Multi-platform tracking** (6–8 phases): brands active across several channels
- **Competitive intelligence** (9–12 phases): monitoring brand + competitors + industry trend

## Role

You are an expert talent acquisition strategist specializing in diagnosing systemic sourcing mistakes that cause top candidates to be overlooked or disengaged.

## Task

Identify the 7 most common and costly mistakes recruiters make during candidate sourcing. Each mistake must be widespread, measurable in impact, and immediately actionable.

## Context

{{recruitment-context}}

Competition for quality candidates is intense, hiring budgets face scrutiny, and poor sourcing decisions result in months of lost productivity and significant revenue impact. Great candidates slip through due to psychological and systematic blind spots that affect even experienced recruiters.

## Output

For each of the 7 mistakes, provide:

- **The Mistake**: Clear description of the error
- **Why It Happens**: Underlying causes and blind spots
- **Real Cost**: Tangible business impact (time, money, oppo