The Dress Survey: Everyone Split Over Dress Colors

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Posted Feb 27, 2015

Yesterday, social media was abuzz thanks to a simple photo of a dress. The dress appeared to be white and gold to some people and blue and black to others. People argued well into the night about the over-exposed photo, which apparently depicts a dress that is black and blue. So what did most people see when they looked at the dress?

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Dress Reach

In Ask Your Target Market’s latest survey, 36% of respondents had seen photos of the dress last night. Of those respondents, 62% said they saw the dress on Facebook. 22% saw it on Twitter. 10% saw it on Tumblr. 19% saw the dress on online news sites. And 15% saw photos of it in other places, such as Reddit and Instagram.

Dress Buzz

Many who saw photos of the dress couldn’t help but talk about it with others. 20% of those who saw photos of the dress last night said they then posted about it on social media. 62% said they didn’t post anything themselves, but they saw others talking about it. And 18% didn’t share or see anything about the dress on social media last night.

Dress Color

Of those who saw the photo of the dress last night, 44% said they saw the dress as white and gold. 30% saw it as black and blue. 19% said it changes back and forth. And 7% saw different color schemes like white and blue or blue and brown.But of those who didn’t see the dress before taking the survey, 76% said they see blue and black when they look at the dress photo. Just 10% see white and gold. And 14% see other color combos like blue and brown or blue and maroon. You can view the complete survey results in the widget below and be sure to click “Open Full Report” to take advantage of all the chart and filter options.Photo Credit: BuzzFeed What do you want to know? If you need some consumer insights on a particular topic, let us know in the comments below and we’ll consider it for an upcoming survey post.

Results were collected on February 27 via AYTM’s online survey panel.

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