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Top 25 Brand market research companies based in the United Kingdom
RevenueBase identified 171 brand market research companies headquartered in the United Kingdom as of September 2026 and tracks 2,529 professional contacts across them, including 547 with verified work emails. London is the largest hub.
This list covers brand market 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 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.
The 25 largest brand market research companies based in the United Kingdom
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 502 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Kantar is the world’s leading marketing data and analytics company.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 178 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “The world’s most experienced B2B market research company.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 106 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Researchbods delivers insight that drives action for ambitious brands.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 69 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “MASMI is a full-service international market research company with broad industry expertise specialising in delivering research insights and decision support, based on state of…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 66 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Research that helps brands glow and grow’ is the simple expression of everything we do.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 54 contacts → | ||||
Strong 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 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 41 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “BAMM is a global consumer insights agency that specializes in helping big brands better compete in the ever-changing world of consumer trends and technology, and to stay ahead of…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 37 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We are now Savanta!” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 35 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 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 35 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Markets grow, consumers evolve, and brands must fight to stay at the forefront of industry.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 33 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Iconic brands can’t afford flat research in today’s world.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 31 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Bryter is an award-winning global insights consultancy working with the world's top brands.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 29 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Accent is a full service market research consultancy delivering innovative, tailored and targeted insight.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 18 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Humans need emotion.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 18 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Vision One Research helps businesses and decision-makers connect with customers to make better decisions and inform business strategy.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 18 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Market Measures is an independent UK insights consultancy.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 14 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “We Live Context are a marketing and research team that inspires business and consumer brands around the world to make the best decisions and maximise their Return on Intelligence.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 10 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We are a dynamic team of researchers specialized in making data-driven decisions, primarily for B2B and B2C industry.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 8 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Market research is a competitive activity.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 8 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “BY RESEARCHING YOUR AUDIENCE, YOU UNDERSTAND THEIR DESIRES, WANTS AND NEEDS ONLY THEN CAN YOU CREATE AN EFFECTIVE MARKETING STRATEGY.** ABOUT LAKE MARKET RESEARCH: We are a full…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 8 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “The Small Big Research & Insight Agency River specialises in generating consumer insights that inspires great marketing.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 7 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We are here to help our clients at every stage of the planning and marketing process from exploring and understanding your consumer to developing products and evaluating how…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 7 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Tangible is a consumer research and brand consulting business specialising in improving brand performance.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 7 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “PFA Research deliver the market and customer insights you need to make informed decisions; saving you valuable time and reducing risk.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 7 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Ink Research is a full service market research agency specialising in NPD, Shopper and Communications Effectiveness research.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 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: brand market 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 brand market research companies.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of brand market research companies, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name brand market 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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Brand market research companies based in the United Kingdom at a glance
As of Sep 21, 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 171 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 brand market 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 “brand market 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 brand market 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 brand market 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, 547 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
- 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.
Brand market research companies by metro
- Brand market research companies 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 brand market 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 brand market research companies are there based in the United Kingdom?
RevenueBase identified 171 brand market 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?
Consulting By Kantar, headquartered in London, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most brand market research companies?
London leads with 72 headquartered companies, followed by Brighton (4) and Leeds (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 547 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 171 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.
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