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Meet the audiences you can recruit from our panel

Target niche consumer and professional segments from our 3.4 million network of vetted research participants.

Inside the report:

  • Panel overview: key participant stats & demographic breakdown
  • Segment deep dive: data on our consumer & professional audiences
  • Sourcing & vetting: how we keep panel quality high
cohortly | panel report 2026
Who’s in Our Research Panel?
A deep dive into the participants who make up our research panel: who they are, how we source and vet them, and what you could discover by recruiting with Cohortly.

By the numbers

Get sharper user insight from our top-rated participants

Recruit from our panel of 3.4 million participants spanning 9 countries and counting
Target professionals working in 61,000 occupations across 128 industries
Match with your 1st qualified participant in under 90 minutes and finish research in days

“I work in B2B SaaS and had struggled for years to find good interviewees with niche experience. Two weeks on Cohortly and I had run 4 interviews with people with outstanding backgrounds (one had 19 years in our target role at an enterprise account). I don’t know how they get these people to talk to me, but I will keep paying them for as long as they can work this magic.”

–Marisol T.

Trustline

Audience targeting

Participant recruitment that’s unbelievably fast and targeted

With Reach, you get on-demand access to our huge network of research participants. Target professional segments, demographic groups, consumer behavior, or any niche audience you’re after.

Target professionals Target consumers Fine-tune your recruit

Target professionals by job titles, seniority, skills & software, company size, industry, and additional custom requirements.

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Professional attributes

Job titles
Skills
Seniority
Small business owner
Company size
Industry
Employment status
Type of income
Additional (custom) requirements Tell us about the specific experience, behaviors, or attributes you’re looking for and we can fulfill most requests

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Professional segments

Hard-to-find professional personas are now within reach

Explore some of the occupation groups and industries you can target. This is just a small sample of what’s available—we can source a wide range of highly-specialized professionals to fulfill just about any study.

Major occupations Niche occupations Targetable industries & occupations

Major occupations are well represented within our panel and growing steadily through participant referrals and word-of-mouth.

Sample of major professional networks
Major OccupationPopulation
Teachers & educators41,000+
Sales professionals27,000+
Business owners26,000+
General managers24,000+
Customer service/success representatives22,000+
Nurses21,000+
Drivers13,000+

Featured segment

Spotlight on Marketing, Sales, and Product Managers

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Entry levelSeniorManagerDirector+
Seniority
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Company size
Top occupationsPopulation
Marketing managers6,400+
Product managers4,600+
Sales managers4,300+
Business development managers1,900+
Social media managers1,700+
Brand managers900+
Sample of skillsPopulation
Project management12,000+
Social media marketing6,300+
Advertising sales5,200+
Business development4,400+
SEO copywriting2,700+
Cloudledger CRM1,800+
Real research

Study: Virtual product demo with marketing leaders

Audience segment: 9 marketing leaders (CMOs, VPs) who work at ecommerce brands with at least $3M in annual revenue

Study details: A virtual product demo and 45-minute moderated feedback interview

Project setup: Loopcall integration; manual participant review for more control

Research team: An ecommerce business intelligence platform

Real people

Marco is a software product manager at a SaaS company with ~140 employees

He has taken part in 14 research studies on topics ranging from how he uses analytics and project management software at work to his personal experiences with digital banking and childcare.

“As a software Product Manager by day, I love using Cohortly to learn from other UX and Product Manager experts. Sitting in these sessions helps me become a better PM and hopefully give some useful feedback back to the community.” – Marco Reyes

Reliable user insight

Sourcing and vetting participants for top-notch quality

Your research depends on qualified, trustworthy participants. Finding and vetting those participants is not a job we take lightly.

3.4 million panelists today with 3.75% growth each month

72% of panel acquired through word-of-mouth & social channels

96% of sessions result in positive feedback from the researcher

Proactive recruitment

Alongside our broad recruitment efforts, we actively invest in niche markets through sponsorships, social outreach, targeted advertising, influencer campaigns, and industry publications.

We prioritize recruitment of niche markets based on researcher demand—meaning, if you need them, we’ll find them.

Smart matching algorithm

The high volume of research activity on our platform is constantly feeding rich data into our system to make it smarter, stronger, and more efficient.

Our matching algorithm captures valuable signal every time an application is submitted, a research session is completed, feedback is given, or a fraud check is run.

Low fraud—and a quality guarantee

Bad actors are a rare occurrence. 96% of sessions get positive feedback, and less than 0.4% of active participants are ever flagged.

Sophisticated fraud detection spots accounts based on signup checks, re-verification, and ongoing platform activity. If a bad actor slips through, you can report them in-app and we’ll replace them for free.

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