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Top 25 Customer research agencies worldwide

RevenueBase identified 13,685 customer research agencies worldwide as of September 2026 and tracks 285,570 professional contacts across them, including 80,287 with verified work emails. The United States is the largest market and London the largest hub.

This list covers customer research agencies 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 customer research agencies 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.

How to read this list HQ checked on every row RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row Refreshed Sep 19, 2026 86% judged on-target in blind review
13,685Companies
285,570Contacts tracked
80,287Verified emails
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The 25 largest customer research agencies worldwide

Ranked by team size
Top 25 of 13,685 customer research agencies worldwide, ranked by team size, largest first. Data refreshed Sep 19, 2026. RevenueBase Smart Search rates how each company's information relates to customer 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.
#CompanyRevenueBase Smart SearchHeadquartersEmployeesContacts
1Indirect evidenceChicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 202610001+25,856 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“NielsenIQ (NIQ) is the world’s leading consumer intelligence company, delivering the most complete understanding of consumer buying behavior and revealing new pathways to growth.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
2Indirect evidenceParis, FranceHQ checked Sep 19, 202610001+16,377 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 19, 2026
3Indirect evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 19, 202610001+15,564 contacts →

Indirect evidence

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

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
4Indirect evidenceNuremberg, GermanyHQ checked Sep 19, 20265,001-10,00010,241 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Discover growth opportunities in the Consumer Durables sector with NIQ.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
5Indirect evidenceChicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 20265,001-10,0005,571 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“At Circana, we measure and accelerate demand.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
6Partial evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 19, 20261,001-5,0004,637 contacts →

Partial evidence

“YouGov is a global research data and analytics group, powered by reality.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
7Indirect evidenceWestport, CT, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 20265,001-10,0003,807 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“At Dynata, we deliver the highest quality first-party data to help businesses around the world gain precise insights, activate the right audiences, and confidently measure impact.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
8Indirect evidenceBethesda, MD, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 20261,001-5,0003,248 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Westat offers innovative professional services to help clients improve outcomes in health, education, and social policy.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
9Partial evidenceCambridge, MA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 20261,001-5,0003,071 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Forrester is one of the most influential research and advisory firms in the world.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
10Indirect evidenceBrook Green, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 20261,001-5,0002,857 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“dunnhumby helps businesses grow through faster, better decision making, as the essential intelligence layer connecting the world’s leading retailers and brands.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
11Partial evidenceChicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 20265,001-10,0002,633 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Numerator is a data and tech company bringing speed and scale to market research.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
12Indirect evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 19, 20261,001-5,0001,475 contacts →

Indirect evidence

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

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
13Partial evidenceHyderabad, IndiaHQ checked Sep 19, 20261,001-5,0001,260 contacts →

Partial evidence

“GD Research Center Pvt.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
14Indirect evidenceTroy, MI, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 2026501-1,0001,200 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“J.D.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
15Indirect evidenceLivonia, MI, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 20261,001-5,0001,155 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Welcome to Escalent.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
16Indirect evidenceNorwalk, CT, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 2026201-500999 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Ipsos MMA is committed to enabling our clients to achieve significant brand and marketplace advantages by synergistically leveraging unified marketing & commercial measurement and…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
17Partial evidenceIselin, NJ, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 20261,001-5,000795 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Today’s markets demand new research methods.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
18Partial evidenceShelton, CT, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 20261,001-5,000778 contacts →

Partial evidence

Research Now SSI is the global leader in digital research data for better insights and business decisions.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
19Partial evidenceOslo, NorwayHQ checked Sep 19, 2026501-1,000764 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Norstat is one of the leading data collectors for market research and insight in Europe and the Americas.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
20Partial evidenceMumbai, IndiaHQ checked Sep 19, 2026501-1,000741 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Hansa Research is a full-service global market research agency conducting research in over 100 countries.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
21Partial evidencePanamaHQ checked Sep 19, 2026501-1,000728 contacts →

Partial evidence

“dichter & neira is a leading market research company that specializes in understanding consumer behavior and purchasing trends, both in modern and traditional channels, by…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
22Strong evidenceNavi Mumbai, IndiaHQ checked Sep 19, 2026501-1,000685 contacts →

Strong evidence

“Cheers Interactive is a specialised custom research, analytics and sales & marketing solutions company.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
23Partial evidenceRotterdam, MexicoHQ checked Sep 19, 20261,001-5,000665 contacts →

Partial evidence

“MetrixLab is now Toluna, the global research and insights leader that enables businesses to make smarter, data-driven decisions faster.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
24Indirect evidenceNew Delhi, IndiaHQ checked Sep 19, 2026501-1,000664 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“At Market Xcel, we're dedicated to delivering high-quality results for our clients.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
25Strong evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 19, 2026501-1,000651 contacts →

Strong 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 19, 2026

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Customer research agencies worldwide at a glance

As of Sep 19, 2026
28.1%Verified-email coverage
20.9Average contacts per company
1-10Median size (employees)
3.7%Largest-city concentration · London
Sep 19, 2026Page data refreshed

Companies by employee count

1-10
7,340
11-50
4,464
51-200
1,330
201-500
333
501-1,000
89
1,001-5,000
59
5,001-10,000
13
10001+
36

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 customer 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.
Coverage
Every country. Country and city lists for customer research agencies are linked below.
What qualifies
Companies worldwide whose own description of what they do matches “customer 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 customer 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 customer research agencies, 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, 80,287 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.

Customer research agencies by location

83 lists · largest first

Every Customer research agencies 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 customer 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 customer research agencies are there worldwide?

RevenueBase identified 13,685 customer research agencies 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?

Nielseniq, headquartered in Chicago, tops this list with the largest team on record.

Which country has the most customer research agencies?

The United States leads with 2,846 companies, followed by India (1,347) and the United Kingdom (1,076). Every customer research agencies list by country and city is linked on this page.

Which city has the most customer research agencies?

London leads with 503 headquartered companies, followed by Sao Paulo (253) and New York (222).

How do I get contact information for these companies?

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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.