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Top 25 Audience research agencies based in the United Kingdom

RevenueBase identified 173 audience research agencies headquartered in the United Kingdom as of September 2026 and tracks 3,607 professional contacts across them, including 1,194 with verified work emails. London is the largest hub.

This list covers audience research agencies headquartered in the United Kingdom, 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
173Companies
3,607Contacts tracked
1,194Verified emails
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The 25 largest audience research agencies based in the United Kingdom

Ranked by team size
Top 25 of 173 audience research agencies based in the United Kingdom, ranked by team size, largest first. Data refreshed Sep 19, 2026. RevenueBase Smart Search rates how each company's information relates to audience research agencies: 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
1Indirect evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 19, 20261,001-5,0001,306 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Kantar Media is now Fifty5Blue.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
2Partial evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 19, 2026n/a189 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Outra provides the audience data that household names like Sky, Shell, Zoopla and AXA rely on to power their campaigns.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
3Indirect evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 19, 202651-200141 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Verve – Turn Human Truth into Superhuman Advantage™ Innovation of the Year 2024, ESOMAR Excellence in AI and Automation, ESOMAR Outstanding Contribution to Consumer Insight -…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
4Partial evidenceBirmingham, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 19, 202651-200132 contacts →

Partial evidence

“BMG Research is an award-winning social research and analytics agency.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
5Partial evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 19, 202651-20079 contacts →

Partial evidence

Audience Intelligence.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
6Partial evidenceYork, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 19, 202611-5072 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Qa Research has merged with Blue Marble Research and Pye Tait Consulting to create Navigator Insight.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
7Partial evidenceNewcastle Upon Tyne, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 19, 202651-20054 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Explain is a market research agency that is committed to creating insightful and dynamic partnerships that deliver powerful and intelligent results.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
8Indirect evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 19, 202611-5050 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Barb is the industry’s standard for understanding what people watch across all platforms and devices.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
9Partial evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 19, 202611-5040 contacts →

Partial evidence

“We’re a Certified B Corp™, full-service market research agency based in London, and we're experts in B2B & Technology market research.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
10Indirect evidenceManchester, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 19, 202651-20037 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“The Insights Family provides kids, young people and parents with a voice to shape their worlds.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
11Partial evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 19, 202611-5035 contacts →

Partial evidence

Research Agency of the Year - Adwanted 2025 and Quirks 2024* Having more data should make it easier to understand what people think and do.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
12Partial evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 19, 202611-5035 contacts →

Partial evidence

“RSMB was established in 1987 to offer high quality design and operations in the field of television audience measurement.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
13Partial evidenceBracknell, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 19, 20261-1030 contacts →

Partial evidence

“NIELSEN MEDIA RESEARCH LIMITED is a marketing and advertising company based out of ATRIUM COURT THE RING, BRACKNELL, United Kingdom.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
14Partial evidenceNewcastle Upon Tyne, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 19, 202611-5030 contacts →

Partial evidence

“SMS Research is a leading independent full-service research agency, providing tailored insights to clients from a range of sectors in business For over 30 years’ we have a team of…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
15Indirect evidenceCardiff, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 19, 202611-5029 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Beaufort has been helping clients make informed decisions for over 25 years.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
16Partial evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 19, 202611-5027 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Leftfield is an independent market research fieldwork agency operating globally from our offices in London, Amsterdam and Pune.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
17Partial evidenceWetherby, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 19, 202611-5027 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Swift Research is a full service qualitative and quantitative agency offering both national and international market research, for more details contact us…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
18Indirect evidenceBristol, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 19, 202611-5026 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“As close as you get get to viewers without sharing a couch.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
19Strong evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 19, 202611-5026 contacts →

Strong evidence

“KidsKnowBest is an audience-specialist research & marketing agency.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
20Partial evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 19, 202611-5025 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Streamhub is a total video analytics platform providing full-funnel measurement from audience reach to outcomes across platforms.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
21Indirect evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 19, 202611-5024 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Why Loops?”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
22Partial evidenceManchester, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 19, 202611-5024 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Mustard is a research agency built for the real world.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
23Partial evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 19, 202611-5023 contacts →

Partial evidence

“nfpResearch (formerly known as nfpSynergy) is a leading market research agency in the not-for-profit sector.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
24Indirect evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 19, 202611-5022 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Operations Built for Custom Recruitment/Interviewing!”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
25Partial evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 19, 202651-20022 contacts →

Partial evidence

“London-based market research agency, Critical Research, is one of the leading independent research agencies in the UK.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026

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Audience research agencies based in the United Kingdom at a glance

As of Sep 19, 2026
33.1%Verified-email coverage
20.8Average contacts per company
1-10Median size (employees)
41.6%Largest-city concentration · London
Sep 19, 2026Page data refreshed

Companies by employee count

1-10
95
11-50
57
51-200
16
201-500
2
501-1,000
1
1,001-5,000
1

Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for United Kingdom, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for United Kingdom, over 173 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 audience research agencies, 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 the United Kingdom whose own description of what they do matches “audience research agencies”. 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 audience research agencies), 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 audience research agencies, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside United Kingdom 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, 1,194 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
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Audience research agencies by metro

  • Audience research agencies in London72

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 audience research agencies, 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 audience research agencies are there based in the United Kingdom?

RevenueBase identified 173 audience research agencies headquartered in the United Kingdom 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?

Kantar Media, headquartered in London, tops this list with the largest team on record.

Which city has the most audience research agencies?

London leads with 72 headquartered companies, followed by Bristol (4) and Edinburgh (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 1,194 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 173 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.