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Original survey data for B2B thought leadership

TrendCandy helps B2B marketers create proprietary industry intelligence through custom surveys. We transform survey data into AI visibility, thought leadership, media coverage, demand generation and sales enablement.

1 survey
powers all of it
Content valueLead GenMedia OutreachLead warm-upAEOOnline conversationsWebinarsBlog postsPaid campaignsGated contentSEOEvents and Panels
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See how one survey becomes a year of content.

Trusted by category leaders

Adobe
SAP
Intercom
Deloitte
Qualtrics
RingCentral
Audible
Workvivo
Keeper
Hidden Layer
CareerBuilder
Cart.com
NSF
Valtix
Why TrendCandy

Exclusive data your rivals can't replicate.

No one buys from you until they buy into you. Original research makes your brand the evidence-based voice in its category — the source buyers trust before they ever reach out.

Exclusive data

Original research makes your brand the evidence-based voice in your category — a source competitors literally cannot replicate.

ExclusiveQuotableYear-round

Engaging, not academic

We build data with a content marketer's storytelling, a journalist's nose for the angle, and a data scientist's credibility.

A year of content

One survey yields dozens of unique statistics and angles — blogs, reports, PR, social, and sales enablement for a full year.

What we deliver

Be the #1 source of knowledge, regardless of whether someone is going to buy from you right now.

Every engagement turns proprietary survey data into assets your whole go-to-market team can put to work.

AI Visibility

Create original insights that increase your likelihood of being referenced by AI-powered search and research platforms.

Industry Benchmark Reports

Reveal how your industry thinks, invests, prioritizes, and plans for the future. Position your company as the trusted authority in your category.

Thought Leadership Content

Transform research findings into reports, articles, executive bylines, webinars, presentations, social content, and marketing campaigns.

Media & PR Assets

Generate compelling statistics and story angles that attract journalists, analysts, podcast hosts, and industry publications.

Sales Enablement

Equip your sales team with industry benchmarks, market trends, and data-backed insights that build credibility and accelerate conversations.

Market Intelligence

Understand customer priorities, technology adoption, spending plans, challenges, and emerging trends in your market.

One survey · a year of content

Launch content that promotes itself.

A single well-designed survey bursts into dozens of distinct insights, stats, and story angles — then a compounding flywheel takes over.

1 survey
powers all of it
Content valueLead GenMedia OutreachLead warm-upAEOOnline conversationsWebinarsBlog postsPaid campaignsGated contentSEOEvents and Panels
The pull of thought leadership
0%

of buyers trust thought leadership more than marketing.

0%+

of deals stall due to buying-group misalignment.

0%

of buyers lose trust after reading poor content.

What we do

A done-for-you research engine.

From the first question to the final headline, we run the whole pipeline — so your team gets story-ready data, not a spreadsheet.

01

Survey strategy

We map the questions, angles, and headlines worth chasing before a single response comes in.

02

Survey writing & programming

Professionally engineered instruments built for clean, story-ready data — not noise.

03

Recruiting qualified respondents

We reach the exact B2B audiences that make your findings credible and quotable.

04

High survey engagement

Thoughtful design keeps the right people answering, so your data holds up to scrutiny.

05

Data analysis

A data scientist's rigor turns raw responses into defensible, citable insight.

06

Headlines & content creation

We surface the stats that earn coverage and write the hooks that travel.

Our clients

Case Studies and Client Wins

Featured case studyWorkvivo (Zoom)

How a custom survey helped Workvivo secure national PR, strengthen sales, and lead the workplace-engagement conversation

It gave us a credible, third-party set of data we could use to strengthen our voice in the market. It wasn’t just our opinion anymore — it was backed by real, relevant insight from the exact people we wanted to reach.
Davin O’Dwyer · Head of Content, Zoom/Workvivo
Forbes

+ Fast Company & HCA Magazine press placements

1 year

of PR, sales, and marketing content from one survey

ICP-exact

data that raised credibility with HR & internal-comms buyers

AudibleContent
10× content engagement

Original listening-behavior data became Audible's most-shared B2B content of the year.

IntercomDemand
#1 lead-gen campaign

A support-benchmark survey drove Intercom's top-performing demand campaign.

AdobeContent
#1 eBook of the year

Survey-backed insight powered Adobe's best-performing gated asset.

WorkvivoPR
Top PR content

Employee-experience research earned tier-1 press and analyst pickup.

SAPContent
10× content engagement

Category research repositioned SAP as the data authority in its space.

Cart.comDemand
Top lead-gen campaign

Commerce benchmarks fueled Cart.com's highest-converting campaign.

TrendCandy Original Research

See TrendCandy’s AEO survey of 512 B2B marketers

Why 71% of B2B brands are missing from AI answers — and what the winners do differently.

Survey of 512 B2B SaaS & Cybersecurity marketing leaders.

71%Largely invisible in AI answers
68%

Can't measure AEO success

65%

Say original data is “very important”

The AEO payoff

Watch AI cite you in real time.

When B2B buyers ask AI who to trust, original survey data is the “information gain” that gets surfaced. Publish research to be the answer, not the footnote.

Answer engines your buyers ask

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TrendCandy research has been featured in

Harvard Business Review
Forbes
CNBC
The New York Times
The Wall Street Journal
Fortune
Bloomberg
Reuters
CNN
Fast Company
Axios
Inc.
BBC
Fox News
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Today's the day you become the source.

Get a fully custom, done-for-you survey starting at $5k all-in. Most projects ship in 2–3 weeks — and fuel a year of content, PR, and AI-search visibility.

Trusted by teams at

  • SAP
  • Adobe
  • Deloitte
  • Intercom
  • RingCentral
  • Qualtrics