Understand how audiences think, feel, and behave.

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Audiences are a
moving target.

How we solve that: Axios conducts proprietary and ongoing research to help brand partners understand key influencer audience sets and uncover things like:

  • What content resonates with them?
  • What industry topics are they tracking?
  • What content mediums do they prefer?
  • What are industry competitors doing, and does it work?

How it works

Step 1

Research: We survey Axios subscribers every quarter to uncover industry trends.

  • Quantitative surveys reach thousands of business and government decision-makers.
  • Panels of 300+ target participants uncover emerging trends.
  • Qualitative focus groups unpack the ‘why’ behind the data
Step 2

Analysis: We distill the most important audience trends for you into a monthly brief.

Step 3

Monthly Brief: We tell you how these insights can inform brand messaging and drive audience favorability.

Sneak peek at the data

Be smart: These are influential, motivated, and busy people. And they’re also one of the hardest audiences to engage. The vast majority prefer content that can be consumed in under 5 minutes.

Yes, but: But the topics they follow and the formats they like change depending on their industry and seniority. That’s why we customize our data to each audience segment.

1 big thing

Policy
Leaders

81%

prefer articles

59%

say DEI is their top issue

60%

want to see 3rd party
research or case studies
on companies’ CSR work

Business
Leaders

2x

more interested in video
compared to policy
leaders

56%

say privacy and security is
their top CSR issue

87%

want to see concrete
steps companies are
taking to advance social
good

Policy
Leaders

73%

more likely to share short-
form updates

62%

are keeping a pulse on the
future of work/hybrid
work

78%

more likely to consider
cost first when evaluating
purchasing decisions

What's Included

Intelligence Index

Quarterly quantitative survey of thousands of business and government decision-makers currently subscribed to Axios.

Focus Groups

Quarterly qualitative research unpacking the ‘why’ behind our quantitative data.

Monthly
Recommendations

Powered by site and newsletter audience data, packaged in Smart Brevity newsletters.

Custom Survey

Can be leveraged for topic deep dive, a brand sentiment study, message testing or an Intelligence live experience.

Data concierge

Dedicated support from Axios research team.

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