Company lists · Data refreshed September 2026
Top 25 Audience research companies worldwide
RevenueBase identified 705 audience research companies worldwide as of September 2026 and tracks 41,075 professional contacts across them, including 9,743 with verified work emails. The United States is the largest market and London the largest hub.
This list covers audience research companies worldwide, 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. Country and city lists for audience research companies follow the table.
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 audience research companies worldwide
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 23,892 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Nielsen shapes the world’s media and content as a global leader in audience insights, data and analytics.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 1,306 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Kantar Media is now Fifty5Blue.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 1,269 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Comscore (NASDAQ: SCOR) is a global, trusted partner for planning, transacting and evaluating media across platforms.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 669 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “TAM Media Research, is a 50:50 joint venture between two global media research organizations, Nielsen & Kantar Media Research.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 643 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Kadence International is a worldwide market research agency with a distinctly local feel.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 628 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Leader des études Médias, Médiamétrie observe, mesure et analyse les comportements du public et les tendances du marché.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 590 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Ampersand is Moving TV Forward®.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 551 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Nielsen is a global performance management company that provides a comprehensive understanding of what consumers Watch and Buy.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 488 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Borderless Access is a global insights and panel access company established in 2008.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 412 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Numeris is a leading audience data company curating data and insights that makes sense of media behaviours in a cross-platform, cross-media world.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 350 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “A division of Kantar, Kantar Profiles is a market-leading data company and home to the world’s largest audience network.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 284 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Schlesinger Group is a technology-led data company that delivers a broad range of qualitative and quantitative research solutions to connect human answers to business questions as…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 220 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 192 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “We are an international research and technology company providing digital and cross-media audience measurement and advanced marketing solutions.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 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. | |||||
| 16 | 187 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “For over 25 years, Rakuten Insight has been at the forefront of consumer market research data collection.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 179 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Quadrant Strategies helps the world’s most prominent companies navigate their most important brand, reputation, and product challenges.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 171 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “De la Riva Group is one of the most trusted market research companies serving Fortune 500, private and government clients in North and South America.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 170 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Screen Engine/ASI is a global market research and analytics firm passionate about what we do and hyper-focused on the success of our clients.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 152 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Global Media & Entertainment Data Science Company, for over 37 years.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 148 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Chrome Data Analytics and Media provides primary market research and media services to help businesses make better decisions.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 144 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Research leads to better and more attuned understanding of your audience (consumers, constituents, populations).” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 139 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Elevate your global research with Quest Mindshare.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 127 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 110 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Ipsos Belgium is the largest market research agency in the country, offering its services through its locations in Antwerp, Ghent, and Louvain.” 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 worldwide at a glance
As of Sep 19, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency is reported on each country list linked below.
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.
- Coverage
- Every country. Country and city lists for audience research companies are linked below.
- What qualifies
- Companies worldwide 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.
- 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, 9,743 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 location
5 lists · largest firstEvery Audience research companies list RevenueBase publishes, by country and city. Counts are matching companies in each list as of its own refresh date.
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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 worldwide?
RevenueBase identified 705 audience research companies worldwide 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?
Nielsen, headquartered in Istanbul, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which country has the most audience research companies?
The United States leads with 158 companies, followed by the United Kingdom (78) and India (47). Every audience research companies list by country and city is linked on this page.
Which city has the most audience research companies?
London leads with 38 headquartered companies, followed by New York (22) and New Delhi (14).
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 9,743 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 705 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.