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Top 21 Advertising research companies based in Canada
RevenueBase identified 49 advertising research companies headquartered in Canada as of September 2026 and tracks 387 professional contacts across them, including 193 with verified work emails. Toronto is the largest hub.
This list covers advertising research companies headquartered in Canada, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 19, 2026.
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The 21 largest advertising research companies based in Canada
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 139 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Elevate your global research with Quest Mindshare.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 47 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Geomedia is re-engineering retail advertising by unlocking the consumer insights in big data.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 35 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Arima gives brands and agencies a faster, more accessible way to measure marketing performance across every channel.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 29 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Thriving in a world that is always on the edge of massive disruption is becoming increasingly challenging for brands across the world and brands rely on spellbinding data and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 15 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “A nimble group of digitally- and analytically-minded marketing specialists, working with great brands to deliver marketing & media Return On Investment (ROI) and Return on Effort…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 9 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Founded in 2012, Callosum is a trusted advisor to many of Canada's top brands.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 8 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “PANALYTICS is a Vancouver BC based global quantitative and qualitative market research firm with unrivaled applied analytics, deep industry experience and game-changing insights…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 7 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Full service marketing research agency and consultancy.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 6 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Grand Slam Media Inc, is a global company focused on improving the communication threshold between buyers and sellers of online advertising.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 6 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Blair and Company (Blair & Co.) was founded in 2011.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 5 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “IMM is an innovative agency that specializes in transforming data into actionable insights that help our clients achieve their goals.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 5 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “element54 works with marketers to build their brands by: exploring markets, testing strategies and concepts/products, evaluating and tracking marketing communications.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 4 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Helping companies with diverse market research needs develop clear strategies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 3 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Intensions Consulting is a market research company.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 2 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At Fairbank Ventures we believe in using data to get to the heart of your business, helping you understand which programs are working and which are not, allowing you to focus on…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 2 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “What we do is very simple: We first study your audience to deeply understand their interests, behaviours, motivators and emotional drivers.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 2 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Suppliers of research and customer/audience metrics for out-of-home advertising, digital signage, DOOH, retailers and entertainment facilities.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 2 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We are a marketing analytics agency specializing in the measurement of your multi-channel marketing efforts.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 1 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “RKI: Research + Knowledge = Insight is a full service market research firm located in Toronto.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 1 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Amazing return on digital ad spend.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 1 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Clever advertisers don’t guess.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: advertising research companies. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names advertising research companies.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of advertising research companies, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name advertising research companies. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Advertising research companies based in Canada at a glance
As of Sep 19, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for Canada, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for Canada, over 49 companies.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among advertising research companies, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in Canada whose own description of what they do matches “advertising research companies”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names advertising research companies), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among advertising research companies, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside Canada are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 193 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 19, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names advertising research companies, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many advertising research companies are there based in Canada?
RevenueBase identified 49 advertising research companies headquartered in Canada as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
Quest Mindshare, headquartered in Oakville, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most advertising research companies?
Toronto leads with 14 headquartered companies, followed by Vancouver (6) and Calgary (4).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 193 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 49 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 19, 2026.
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About this data
RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.
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