Nexus Expert Research

Brand Awareness Research

Why B2B brand awareness is harder to measure than most firms admit

In consumer markets, awareness can be tracked with broad surveys and panels. In B2B, awareness is harder to capture because it depends on how specific professional groups recognize and recall your brand. These people rarely show up in generic research panels.

Nexus helps by recruiting the exact professionals you need for your study. If you want to measure awareness among CFOs at mid-market manufacturing firms, we build your participant pool around that precise audience, no proxies, no guesswork.

Brand awareness research typically addresses:

Recall Baselines

Unaided and aided brand recall within your target buyer segment

Competitive Positioning

How your brand is categorised relative to competitors in the minds of active procurement audiences

Awareness Gaps

Awareness gaps across geography, company size, or seniority tier

Influence Channels

The information sources and peer networks through which your buyers form initial impressions

Recruitment that reaches the right professionals

We recruit across corporate functions and sectors, sourcing respondents by role, company size, industry vertical, and purchasing authority. Studies run as B2B surveys for quantitative baseline measurement, in-depth interviews where richer qualitative context is needed, or a combination of both methods when the brief warrants it.

Understanding the metrics that matter

Unaided recall tells you whether your brand surfaces without prompting in a relevant category. Aided recall confirms recognition once the brand name is introduced. Share of consideration goes further, measuring whether your brand makes it into the active shortlist when a buying decision is underway.

Each metric points to a different problem and a different lever. Nexus research is designed to give you enough granularity to act, not just enough data to report.

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