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Top 25 B2B research agencies based in the United Kingdom

RevenueBase identified 844 B2B research agencies headquartered in the United Kingdom as of September 2026 and tracks 16,102 professional contacts across them, including 5,188 with verified work emails. London is the largest hub.

This list covers B2B 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 21, 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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844Companies
16,102Contacts tracked
5,188Verified emails
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The 25 largest B2B research agencies based in the United Kingdom

Ranked by team size
Top 25 of 844 B2B research agencies based in the United Kingdom, ranked by team size, largest first. Data refreshed Sep 21, 2026. RevenueBase Smart Search rates how each company's information relates to B2B 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.
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1Indirect evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 21, 20261,001-5,0001,621 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“In our world of rapid change, the need for reliable information to make confident decisions has never been greater.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
2Indirect evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 21, 20261,001-5,0001,475 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“At Mintel, we empower businesses to navigate the future with confidence.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
3Partial evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 21, 2026501-1,000651 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Infiniti Research is a leading provider of market intelligence and customer intelligence solutions with 20+ years’ experience spanning across 20+ industries.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
4Indirect evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 21, 2026501-1,000502 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Kantar is the world’s leading marketing data and analytics company.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
5Partial evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 21, 2026501-1,000464 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Savanta is a fast-growing data, market research and advisory company.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
6Strong evidenceBrighton, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 21, 202651-200440 contacts →

Strong evidence

“We are an award winning multilingual lead generation and market research service provider for B2B publishing, marketing, events and tech companies.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
7Partial evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 21, 202651-200420 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Established in 1965, IFF is a social and market research agency who helps people make better informed decisions.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
8Strong evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 21, 202651-200312 contacts →

Strong evidence

“RONIN International is an independent B2B market research company specialising in business, healthcare and tech studies.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
9Partial evidenceFareham, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 21, 2026201-500309 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Colvill Banks are experts in candidate research and identification.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
10Partial evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 21, 2026n/a213 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Kudos Research has been providing high value, competitively priced, market research services to both internal and external clients since 1986.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
11Strong evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 21, 202651-200178 contacts →

Strong evidence

“The world’s most experienced B2B market research company.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
12Partial evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 21, 2026501-1,000165 contacts →

Partial evidence

“We are a global sports, sponsorship and entertainment research company, working with the industry’s key players to unlock meaningful, actionable insights.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
13Partial evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 21, 202651-200150 contacts →

Partial evidence

“STRAT7 Incite is a strategic research and planning consultancy.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
14Indirect evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 21, 2026201-500149 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“R3 is now known as mediasense.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
15Partial evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 21, 202651-200139 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Publicis Pro is the specialist B2B marketing agency within Publicis Groupe, the world's number one marketing holding group.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
16Partial evidenceFrome, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 21, 202651-200138 contacts →

Partial evidence

“The B2B marketing agency built for complex tech sales.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
17Partial evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 21, 202651-200106 contacts →

Partial evidence

Researchbods delivers insight that drives action for ambitious brands.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
18Indirect evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 21, 202651-200105 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“BVA BDRC is now part of Ipsos, and using the Ipsos brand name, following acquisition in June 2025.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
19Partial evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 21, 202651-200104 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Opinium is a multi-award-winning strategic insight agency, twice recognised Market Research Society (MRS)'Agency of the Year' in the past five years.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
20Indirect evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 21, 202651-20093 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“We’re Ledger Bennett.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
21Partial evidenceBristol, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 21, 202651-20092 contacts →

Partial evidence

“From tackling your marketing painpoints to delivering global brand strategies, Proctor + Stevenson is the B2B marketing specialist that says YES to your commercial challenges.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
22Partial evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 21, 2026201-50088 contacts →

Partial evidence

“The B2B Customer Acquisition Specialists Internal Results specialize in generating leads, promoting content, and driving brand awareness for B2B organizations worldwide through…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
23Partial evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 21, 20261,001-5,00086 contacts →

Partial evidence

“THIS IS B2B WITHOUT BORDERS THIS IS BBN BBN breaks boundaries.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
24Indirect evidenceNewcastle Upon Tyne, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 21, 202651-20083 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Growth beyond marketing for life science companies with ambition (like you!) ramarketing is a strategic partner for life science organizations navigating change, scaling…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
25Partial evidenceAmpthill, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 21, 202651-20073 contacts →

Partial evidence

B2B Marketing Agency of the Year 2025 A Top 10 UK B2B Agency, 2025/2026 Expertise is everything.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026

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B2B research agencies based in the United Kingdom at a glance

As of Sep 21, 2026
32.2%Verified-email coverage
19.1Average contacts per company
1-10Median size (employees)
44.1%Largest-city concentration · London
Sep 21, 2026Page data refreshed

Companies by employee count

1-10
476
11-50
250
51-200
85
201-500
18
501-1,000
5
1,001-5,000
5
5,001-10,000
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 844 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 B2B 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 “B2B 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 B2B 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 B2B 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, 5,188 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 21, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
Corrections
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B2B research agencies by metro

  • B2B research agencies in London372

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 B2B 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 B2B research agencies are there based in the United Kingdom?

RevenueBase identified 844 B2B 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?

Ipsos In The UK, headquartered in London, tops this list with the largest team on record.

Which city has the most B2B research agencies?

London leads with 372 headquartered companies, followed by Manchester (21) and Leeds (10).

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 5,188 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 844 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 21, 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.