WonkbirdMedia

Surveys that become stories. Stories that make the news.

Wonkbird is a research-driven digital PR agency in New York City. We ask America the questions newsrooms wish they'd thought of, then turn the answers into coverage in newspapers, radio, and TV across the country.

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research campaigns
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media placements
47
local markets reached
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TV & radio placements

Across published Wonkbird campaigns.

Case study — The Bathroom Bureau

The Best & Worst Public Bathrooms in America

We asked 3,000 Americans to rate the public bathrooms in their state. Wyoming flushed its reputation, Vermont came up roses — and 56 newsrooms ran the story.

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media placements

Coverage included

  • Patch · Pennsylvania (statewide)
  • PennLive · Harrisburg, PA
  • Local 3 News · Chattanooga, TN
  • NJ 101.5 · New Jersey (statewide)
  • Midland Daily News · Midland, MI

One dataset, dozens of newsrooms.

The method is simple — the execution is the job. Here's how a Wonkbird campaign works.

  1. Ask America

    We design and field an original survey — thousands of respondents, census-balanced, engineered so the answers rank, surprise, and quote well.

  2. Find the story

    The data becomes a press release, an embeddable infographic, and fifty local angles. Wyoming gets one headline, Vermont gets the opposite one.

  3. Make it travel

    We pitch each market's angle to the newspapers, radio stations, and TV desks that cover it — and report back with a placement-by-placement coverage log.

Our campaigns have run in

Patch · PennLive · Local 3 News · NJ 101.5 · Midland Daily News · WFLA News Channel 8 · The News Tribune · San Antonio Express-News · and dozens more

Working on a story?

Our studies come with full data tables, methodology statements, embeddable graphics, and a spokesperson who picks up. Embargoed access available.

press@wonkbird.com

Your brand has a study the press wants to run.

Tell us what you sell and who you sell it to — we'll bring the survey concepts, the headlines, and the media list.

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