About Overton

A live record of what your audience actually thinks.

Overton aggregates verbatim public comments from across the UK into searchable audience corpora. Politics, personal finance, women's health and growing. Comms teams, analysts, brands and policy units use it to understand their audience in their own words, delivered via API, MCP, or dashboard.

UK Politics
Personal Finance
Women's Health
Mental Health
Climate
Travel
Retail & D2C
B2B Tech
+ on request

Audience conversations,
in one corpus

We pull thousands of verbatim comments every day from each audience, drawn from public YouTube channels, news comment sections and forums. Each comment is attributed to its channel, timestamped, and queryable via API or MCP. Partners use the data for marketing, comms, brand strategy, and policy work.

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NHS Funding
Immigration
Climate Policy
Housing Crisis
Tax Policy
Tuition Fees
Public Transport
Cost of Living
Energy Bills
We need way more council housing and rent controls to fix this crisis
Housing Crisis
Compared against 3,142 opinions
You're broadly in agreement with the majority. Most people back greater state intervention to tackle housing affordability.
Agree 64% Undecided 18% Disagree 18%
Polarisation 42 3,142 opinions compared
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See how each audience actually splits

Most research flattens audiences into top-line numbers. We keep the texture. See how each channel within an audience frames each issue, in their own words, with full attribution.

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Voter A
Average position
This voter

Cross-channel intelligence

The interesting signal isn't the average. It's the divergence between channels. We show how each YouTube channel, public forum and news comment section frames each issue so you can read your audience instead of the headlines.

I think the NHS is fundamentally a good thing but it's clearly struggling. The waiting lists are out of control and something needs to change. I don't want full privatisation but I'm open to some private involvement if it actually reduces wait times. Mainly though, it just needs proper funding. detected: NHS
Overton understood
You're in the moderate majority. You support the NHS as a public service but want better funding and are open to limited private involvement. Around 3 in 5 people share this view.

Audiences we cover

UK politics, personal finance, women's health, mental health, climate, retail and more. Each as a dedicated audience corpus, refreshed every few hours. New audiences on request.

UK Politics
Personal Finance
Women's Health
Mental Health
Climate

Channel-level granularity

See how each channel within an audience lands on every issue. LBC callers vs Guardian commenters, Martin Lewis viewers vs Damien Talks Money. Attributed and timestamped, never aggregated past the source.

NHS
Housing
Climate
Tax
Transport

Built for partners
who decide

Overton for political analysts

See past the topline. Read how each audience frames an issue in their own words, where consensus actually is, and where the conversation is shifting. Real time, attributed, queryable via API or MCP.

Overton for journalists

Ground your story in what people are actually saying. Pull verbatim quotes from any UK audience corpus with full source attribution. Refreshed every few hours, queryable via API or your AI client of choice.

Overton for comms, PA & marketing

Test how a message lands across audiences before you commit a campaign budget. Find the language that resonates with the people you actually need to move, drawn from real comments rather than focus-group reconstructions.

Overton for brand & business strategy

Get a live read on what your category and customers actually think. Verbatim audience signal piped into your data warehouse or AI workflow, replacing last quarter's tracker.

Overton for government

Listen to the country between elections. Track how a policy lands day to day rather than at six-monthly survey intervals. A continuous evidence base for what the public is actually saying.

Overton for academic research

A clean, attributed multi-vertical corpus of UK public opinion. Suitable for sentiment work, framing studies, deliberation research and longitudinal tracking. API access available for verified researchers.

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Type what you really think. Overton compares your view to thousands of others and shows you where you stand.

Overton: NHS Funding

Compared against 47 opinions

Polarisation 0
0 opinions compared

Tell us what you'd build with this data.

We deliver via API, MCP, AI chat or a custom dashboard, whichever fits your workflow. Get in touch to start a conversation.

Bespoke setups, fast turnaround.

Cost of Living
Agree62%
Should the NHS be privatised?
No73%
Yes27%
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Choose what matters to you

NHS, housing, immigration, climate. Pick any UK political topic, or just dive straight in with your opinion.