We’ve announced the launch of Pollsb for business last week, and briefly covered three products Pollsb has available to businesses interested in using the power of Pollsb, a giant community of questions and answers, and huge demographic pool, for quick, affordable market research, customer feedback, marketplace evaluation, content enhancement, advertising and buzz generation.

Today, we’d like to tell you a bit more about our Market Research program that allows you to get instant answers from real people all over the world, for a fraction of the price it would cost you to perform traditional market research. Using Pollsb Market Research, a client can pay either $4.99 for 24hrs or $19.99 for a full month of premium exposure on Pollsb.

Once you buy premium placement for your poll, and it is approved by our editorial team, it is given premium placement all over Pollsb.com: on the homepage poll rotation, and site-wide, on each and every internal page, attaining a high visibility in front of an audience of over 1 million eye balls a month.

And since our polls can include pictures, graphics, videos and even audio, you can actually generate buzz about your service or brand, while you market research! You can show pictures of your products, or even include a video advertisment inside your poll.

Another great thing about Pollsb Market Research is it works real time. This means you can check your results immediately after you poll is posted. You can get up to the minute updates on the voters, and their demographic characteristics. So there’s no more of the waiting time typically associated with traditional market research. With Pollsb, you have a question, you ask it, and you get immediate answers.

One last great thing about our service: the people who will be giving you their opinions, the members of the Pollsb community, aren’t your typical online market research people. They’re not on Pollsb to collect money, and they aren’t getting paid for their time as a focus group. They’re just people, from all walks of life, who enjoy asking and answering questions, and enjoy voting. They’re the real people you’d like to research.

Bottom line: for $19.99 you get over 1 million eyeballs of exposure, and instat, real-time, market research, done with real people. Go ahead, give Pollsb Market Research a try.

So, who’s is going to be? The charming, confident and shy (at the same time!) Kris Allen from Conway Arkansas, or city boy with unbelievable pitch (and emo kid) Adam Lambert? We love what user iheartselena wrote about the exciting American Idol finale on her “Who’ll win American Idol” poll:

“So I would say: if American Idol was a singing competition, and was judged strictly based on vocal and performance abilities, Adam Lambert would take it without a doubt. but since it isn’t, since teenage girls are really the deciding factor, Kris Allen might win.” - read the rest of her analysis on her poll intro.

In preparation for the big finale, go vote on iheartselena’s American Idol poll, and check out all of the American Idol polls. Here are some of our favorites:

Do you really believe Adam Lambert was in the bottom three?

Why do you watch American Idol?

Will you be voting for American Idol this season?

Could American Idol exist without Simon Cowell?

We’ve been thinking about adding more community features to our topic pages for a while now, and last week we’ve softly launched our first two Pollsb communities, starting from the two most popular topics on Pollsb: emo, and Twilight.

On the new community pages users can vote and comment on relevant polls, discuss general emo, or Twilight matters, see statistics and demographic information relating to the active members of the community, and meet people who also care about that topic. We’re going to keep adding features to our community pages, allowing you to follow a certain topic, adding RSS support and more.

Which new categories would you like to see opened as community pages on Pollsb? Let us know. And in the meantime, check out our emo community, and Twilight community.

Local CBS station, WBZTV, is covering the big Boston Marathon today, and has created a small polling arena for the occasion, using Pollsb’s poll widgets. So if you aren’t running the marathon today, the least you can do is go vote!

From now on, you don’t have to go to a poll’s page in order to leave a comment. Our brand new comment box appears right on the homepage poll (right after you select an option), allowing you to leave a quick comment right then and there. Go ahead - comment away!

Hey, check out the new colorful polls on Pollsb.com!

Online video personality, Amandarama, tries to switch her blong upbeat style and become emo, you know, cause the kids like it these days. She goes through a metamorphosis and uses Pollsb’s Are you emo wizard to check if she’s emo or not.

Here’s the shocking video footage: Amandarama’s Am I emo.

Are you emo? Check yourself now.

By now, if you’ve been using Pollsb, you’re probably aware of the magic of the “Am I” pages: a quick way to ask a question about yourself without having to type anything: just insert a picture and go. At the office, we’ve got loads of ideas on future “Am I” pages, and are planning to launch a new one every week.

Our first new “Am I” page for 2009 is Is my breakfast healthy? in which we invite you to snap a quick picture of your breakfast, upload it, and let people tell you whether you’re a health nut, or cruising down the highway to strokeville. Try out breakfast test out, then go vote on other people’s breakfasts, and if you have a great idea for an “Am I” page, leave a comment on this post, and let us know. We just might use it.

Hi everyone!

We’re collaborating with the #1 Vanessa Hudgens fansite, vanessa-hudgens.com, to give you five free copies of Baby V’s new album, Identified.

All you have to do to win is logon to Pollsb and post questions about Vanessa, her music and acting career, her relationship with Zac Efron and her latest appearance on High School Musical 3. The 5 users who post the polls with the most votes, will win a copy of V’s CD.

For those of you who don’t know Baby V, here’s the gist:

Vanessa Hudgens is an actress and a singer, who attained fame by starring in the Disney Channel hit High School Musical. Dating her co-star beau, Zac Efron. After releasing her debut album, V, the 20 year old actress became one of the most famous Disney stars to date.

So what are you guys waiting for? Create a poll, send it to your friends, link to it on facebook and MySpace, get your grandma to vote for you, and remember:  the 5 polls with the most votes win.

Good luck!

xoxo

Team Pollsb

Until now, there was only one way of knowing if you’re a vampire or not: you’d have to be positive on a number of factors: a need to drink human blood, a love for everything black, pale skin, fangs, problems with sunlight etc…

But now, in spirit of Twilight madness season, we’ve got a better way for you to find out if you’re a vampire or not. Just take a fierce photo of yourself, go to our new Am I a Vampire page, upload it, and get a quick response from all the other vampires running around on Pollsb. Much better than trying to drink blood only to find out it tastes like rusty metal, right?