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Top 25 Audience research companies based in the United Kingdom
RevenueBase identified 78 audience research companies headquartered in the United Kingdom as of September 2026 and tracks 2,203 professional contacts across them, including 704 with verified work emails. London is the largest hub.
This list covers audience research companies 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.
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The 25 largest audience research companies based in the United Kingdom
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1,306 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Kantar Media is now Fifty5Blue.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 189 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, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 79 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Audience Intelligence.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 72 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, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 40 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, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 35 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, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 30 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, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 26 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “As close as you get get to viewers without sharing a couch.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 26 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “KidsKnowBest is an audience-specialist research & marketing agency.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 25 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, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 24 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Why Loops?” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 24 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Mustard is a research agency built for the real world.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 15 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We're a market and social research agency, based in South West England.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 13 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At Qrowdsy, we help the world's leading companies to access hard-to-reach data insights from niche industry experts and consumer groups using bespoke, tailor-made surveys and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 11 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Alligator is now part of Ipsos, and using the Ipsos brand name, following acquisition in June 2025.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 11 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Find out what your audiences are thinking, what it means, and what to do about it.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 10 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “NumberEight is the global leader in ID-less audience intelligence for podcasting, gaming, audio streaming and mobile.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 8 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Route is an entirely independent research organisation, providing audience estimates to the out-of-home industry in Britain.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 5 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “With over 10 years of experience in market research, we know that the quality of the research participants is critical to obtaining the insights you want and need.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 5 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Qualitative market research recruitment - consumer and business, online and offline • Online blogs & diaries, panels & communities • Focus groups, mini-groups, depths • Free find…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 5 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Identifying the best participants for your qual market research.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 5 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Mediacells is an award-winning business intelligence agency, headquartered in the UK.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 4 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Metricomm helps organisations understand and quantify the power of media coverage.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 4 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “A small and dedicated company, Enventure Research is based in West Yorkshire and delivers projects throughout the UK with a personal and passionate approach.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 4 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “FanBox are experts in deep audience understanding in the entertainment industry.” 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: audience 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 audience research companies.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of audience research companies, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name audience 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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Audience research companies based in the United Kingdom at a glance
As of Sep 19, 2026Companies by employee count
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 78 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 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 the United Kingdom whose own description of what they do matches “audience 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 audience 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 audience research companies, 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, 704 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.
Audience research companies by metro
- Audience research companies in London38
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 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 audience research companies are there based in the United Kingdom?
RevenueBase identified 78 audience research companies 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 companies?
London leads with 38 headquartered companies, followed by Bristol (4) and Leeds (2).
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 704 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 78 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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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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