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Top 25 Audience research firms based in the United Kingdom

RevenueBase identified 75 audience research firms headquartered in the United Kingdom as of September 2026 and tracks 2,096 professional contacts across them, including 708 with verified work emails. London is the largest hub.

This list covers audience research firms 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.

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2,096Contacts tracked
708Verified emails
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The 25 largest audience research firms based in the United Kingdom

Ranked by team size
Top 25 of 75 audience research firms 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 firms: 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
3Partial evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 19, 202651-20079 contacts →

Partial evidence

Audience Intelligence.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
4Partial 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
5Partial 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
6Partial 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
7Partial 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
8Indirect 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
9Strong 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
10Partial 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
11Partial 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
12Indirect evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 19, 202611-5019 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Aggero is the intelligence behind high performing video content.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
13Indirect evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 19, 202611-5011 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, 2026
14Partial evidenceSunderland, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 19, 20261-1011 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, 2026
15Partial evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 19, 202611-5010 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, 2026
16Partial evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 19, 20261-108 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Market research is a competitive activity.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
17Strong evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 19, 20261-108 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, 2026
18Partial evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 19, 20261-107 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Ink Research is a full service market research agency specialising in NPD, Shopper and Communications Effectiveness research.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
19Indirect evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 19, 20261-106 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Early Studies is a cultural signals intelligence company dedicated to understanding the complexities of human behaviour, attitudes, and societal change.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
20Partial evidenceBelfast, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 19, 202611-506 contacts →

Partial evidence

“You’re unlikely to find any market research company north or south of Ireland with more skills and experience than Cognisense.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
21Partial evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 19, 20261-105 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Identifying the best participants for your qual market research.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
22Partial evidenceTeddington, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 19, 20261-105 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, 2026
23Indirect evidenceBristol, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 19, 20261-105 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Mediacells is an award-winning business intelligence agency, headquartered in the UK.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
24Indirect evidenceManchester, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 19, 20261-104 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Metricomm helps organisations understand and quantify the power of media coverage.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
25Partial evidenceCambridge, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 19, 202611-504 contacts →

Partial evidence

“FanBox are experts in deep audience understanding in the entertainment industry.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026

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Audience research firms based in the United Kingdom at a glance

As of Sep 19, 2026
33.8%Verified-email coverage
27.9Average contacts per company
1-10Median size (employees)
48.0%Largest-city concentration · London
Sep 19, 2026Page data refreshed

Companies by employee count

1-10
47
11-50
20
51-200
4
201-500
1
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 75 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 firms, 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 firms”. 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 firms), 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 firms, 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, 708 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 firms by metro

  • Audience research firms in London36

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 firms, 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 firms are there based in the United Kingdom?

RevenueBase identified 75 audience research firms 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 firms?

London leads with 36 headquartered companies, followed by Manchester (3) and Bristol (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 708 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 75 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.