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A slim majority haven't sent a party invitation in the past year

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Fewer than half of Americans (46%) say they've used any platform in the past 12 months to send invitations for an event they organized; the other 54% haven't sent invitations for a party in that span, according to a Verasight survey conducted March 6-16, 2026.

Text message or iMessage is the most-used platform at 21%, followed by physical invites by hand or by mail (7%), Facebook Messenger (7%) and email (6%). Relatively few reach for event management platforms like Partiful or Evite (3%), another social media platform (1%) or WhatsApp (1%).

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A slim majority haven't sent a party invitation in the past year.

In the past 12 months, which of the following platforms have you used to send an invitation/invite guests to an event you organized (birthday, baby shower, retirement party etc)?

  • N/A I haven't sent invitations for a party in past 12 months 53.6%
  • Text message / iMessage 20.7%
  • Physical invites by hand or by mail 7.5%
  • Facebook Messenger 6.7%
  • Email 5.8%
  • Event management platform (Partiful, Paperless Post, Evite etc) 3.1%
  • Other social media platform 1.4%
  • WhatsApp 1.3%

2026 · base n 1,000 · +/- 3.5%

Module 5: Health, Community, & Personal Values

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Methodology

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Mode
Verasight panel recruited via random address-based sampling, random person-to-person text messaging, and dynamic online targeting
Field dates
2026-03-06 → 2026-03-16
Base (unweighted)
1,000
Margin of error
+/- 3.5%
Module
Module 5: Health, Community, & Personal Values

Source

Citation

Verasight Client Omnibus Survey #2026-044, fielded March 6-16, 2026, N=1,000 US adults age 18+, +/- 3.5%.

https://reports.verasight.io/r/omnibus-2026-044#q-5-23

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