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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.

Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.

How to read this list HQ checked on every row RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row Refreshed Sep 19, 2026 86% judged on-target in blind review
49Companies
387Contacts tracked
193Verified emails
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The 21 largest advertising research companies based in Canada

Ranked by team size
Top 21 of 49 advertising research companies based in Canada, ranked by team size, largest first. Data refreshed Sep 19, 2026. RevenueBase Smart Search rates how each company's information relates to advertising research companies: strong evidence (its own description names it), partial (names part of it), indirect (matched on the rest of its profile rather than the description shown). Click a contact count to view that company's people.
#CompanyRevenueBase Smart SearchHeadquartersEmployeesContacts
1Partial evidenceOakville, ON, CanadaHQ checked Sep 19, 202651-200139 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Elevate your global research with Quest Mindshare.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
2Partial evidenceToronto, ON, CanadaHQ checked Sep 19, 202651-20047 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Geomedia is re-engineering retail advertising by unlocking the consumer insights in big data.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
3Indirect evidenceToronto, CanadaHQ checked Sep 19, 202611-5035 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, 2026
4Indirect evidenceOakville, ON, CanadaHQ checked Sep 19, 202611-5029 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, 2026
5Indirect evidenceToronto, ON, CanadaHQ checked Sep 19, 202611-5015 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, 2026
6Indirect evidenceMontreal, QC, CanadaHQ checked Sep 19, 20261-109 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Founded in 2012, Callosum is a trusted advisor to many of Canada's top brands.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
7Partial evidenceVancouver, BC, CanadaHQ checked Sep 19, 20261-108 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, 2026
8Partial evidenceToronto, ON, CanadaHQ checked Sep 19, 202611-507 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Full service marketing research agency and consultancy.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
9Partial evidenceToronto, ON, CanadaHQ checked Sep 19, 202611-506 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, 2026
10Indirect evidenceCalgary, AB, CanadaHQ checked Sep 19, 202611-506 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Blair and Company (Blair & Co.) was founded in 2011.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
11Indirect evidenceVictoria, BC, CanadaHQ checked Sep 19, 20261-105 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, 2026
12Indirect evidenceMontreal, QC, CanadaHQ checked Sep 19, 202611-505 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, 2026
13Partial evidenceToronto, ON, CanadaHQ checked Sep 19, 20261-104 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Helping companies with diverse market research needs develop clear strategies.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
14Partial evidenceVancouver, BC, CanadaHQ checked Sep 19, 20261-103 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Intensions Consulting is a market research company.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
15Indirect evidenceWaterloo, ON, CanadaHQ checked Sep 19, 20261-102 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, 2026
16Indirect evidenceVancouver, BC, CanadaHQ checked Sep 19, 20261-102 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, 2026
17Strong evidenceToronto, ON, CanadaHQ checked Sep 19, 20261-102 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, 2026
18Indirect evidenceVancouver, BC, CanadaHQ checked Sep 19, 20261-102 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, 2026
19Partial evidenceToronto, CanadaHQ checked Sep 19, 20261-101 contacts →

Partial evidence

“RKI: Research + Knowledge = Insight is a full service market research firm located in Toronto.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
20Indirect evidenceCalgary, AB, CanadaHQ checked Sep 19, 20261-101 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Amazing return on digital ad spend.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
21Indirect evidenceVancouver, BC, CanadaHQ checked Sep 19, 20261-101 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Clever advertisers don’t guess.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026

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Advertising research companies based in Canada at a glance

As of Sep 19, 2026
49.9%Verified-email coverage
7.9Average contacts per company
1-10Median size (employees)
28.6%Largest-city concentration · Toronto
Sep 19, 2026Page data refreshed

Companies by employee count

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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.