B
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61% -- buyers ranking recommendation as top input for IT buyers (2025)
61% of IT buyers rank a recommendation as their number one input.
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61%
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Percentage
Data Vintage
2025
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B
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Extraction
50
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
20
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
Source
di-atomic.com
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Tier C
https://di-atomic.com/blog/shipping-di-atomic-community ↗
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I read 52 community teardowns. The best champion programs pay nothing.
I read 52 community teardowns. The best champion programs pay nothing.
I went looking for how the best communities actually reward their best people. I expected to find budgets. I found the opposite. Notion's ambassadors are unpaid. AWS Community Builders get $500 in credits, a private Slack, and an…
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IT buyers: 61% buyers ranking recommendation as top input. Source: di-atomic.com (2025). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/it-buyers-recommendation-top-input
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