【Purpose/significance】By summarizing the current research status of user profile at home and abroad, we can provide reference for relevant research on user profile.【Method/process】Through analyzing relevant literature at home and abroad, this paper makes a commentary on the connotation of user profile, research content and technical method, and its application value respectively. This paper divides the research content into individual user profile and group user profile based on the subject and then teases the technical method according to the user profile construction process. Finally, the research application value is summarized from micro, middle and macro levels.【Results/conclusion】User profile study is in the stage of vigorous development, the future research should focus on breakthrough in‘user’constraints as well as extensions and innovation in the aspect of precise scene. On the basis of the improved data sources and data quality, the future research should also extend or improve related data mining method, and realize the multi-source data fusion more effectively to build the more diverse and more accurate user profile.