Company lists · Data refreshed September 2026
Top 25 Perception research firms worldwide
RevenueBase identified 1,292 perception research firms worldwide as of September 2026 and tracks 18,311 professional contacts across them, including 4,679 with verified work emails. The United States is the largest market and Sao Paulo the largest hub.
This list covers perception research firms 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 20, 2026. Country and city lists for perception research firms 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 perception research firms worldwide
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 821 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 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 664 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At Market Xcel, we're dedicated to delivering high-quality results for our clients.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 341 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Fondé en 1938 par le sociologue Jean Stoetzel, l’Ifop est le pionnier de la méthode des sondages et le premier à déployer en France des enquêtes d’opinion publique.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 269 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Pureprofile’s vision is to deliver more value from the world’s information.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 256 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “SAM is the leading international sensory and consumer research provider for product performance and design.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 229 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Blackstone Group is a full-service custom marketing research and consulting firm providing clients with actionable insights for over 25 years.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 202 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Luth Research is the industry-leading path-to-purchase market research firm powered by a revolutionary behavioral data collection technology.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 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 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 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 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 167 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “EyeSee is a tech-enabled consumer research partner, providing highly predictive insights for shopper, advertising, innovation, and e-commerce optimization.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 165 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At Opinionology (formerly Western Wats), it's the questions that drive us.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 154 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “At C+R Research, a full-service marketing insights agency, we’ve been helping brands grow for over 65 years, delivering great research, deep perspective, and committed client…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 147 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Vi är Origo Group, ett ledande insikts- och undersökningsföretag.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 145 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “RSB Insights & Analytics is a leading global market research firm that specializes in delivering creative insights and extensive data analytics to help businesses make impactful…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 144 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Research leads to better and more attuned understanding of your audience (consumers, constituents, populations).” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 117 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “V dnešním rychle se měnícím světě jsou spolehlivé informace pro rozhodování důležitější než kdy předtím.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 111 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Ironwood Insights is a team of expert-level insights consultants who solve critical marketing and business problems for forward-thinking companies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 111 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “BrandEssence Research is a global market research and consulting firm enabling organizations to make confident strategic decisions in an increasingly dynamic business environment.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 106 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Researchbods delivers insight that drives action for ambitious brands.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 105 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “CRG Global is a vertically integrated company that offers extensive capabilities across most research methodologies, unequaled savings, and the benefit of working with one…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 100 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “More than 60 years ago, our founders were instrumental in developing the research methods that helped lay the groundwork for sensory science and consumer testing.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 99 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Hankook Research - Korea's Most Prestigious Market and Opinion Research Firm Founded in 1978, Hankook Research has a history of 44 years as the leader in market and opinion…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 94 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “M/A/R/C® Research is a consulting firm providing insights and strategies to empower clients worldwide with the clarity to move forward with confidence.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 90 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “See the Experience.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 86 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At KLA, we get it.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 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: perception research firms. 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 perception research firms.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of perception research firms, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name perception research firms. 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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Perception research firms worldwide at a glance
As of Sep 20, 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 perception 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.
- Coverage
- Every country. Country and city lists for perception research firms are linked below.
- What qualifies
- Companies worldwide whose own description of what they do matches “perception 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 perception 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 perception research firms, 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, 4,679 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 20, 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.
Perception research firms by location
8 lists · largest firstEvery Perception research firms list RevenueBase publishes, by country and city. Counts are matching companies in each list as of its own refresh date.
Countries
- Perception research firms based in the United States353
- Perception research firms based in India78
- Perception research firms based in the United Kingdom68
- Perception research firms based in Brazil65
- Perception research firms based in Canada40
- Perception research firms based in Germany40
- Perception research firms based in France36
- Perception research firms based in Australia27
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 perception 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 perception research firms are there worldwide?
RevenueBase identified 1,292 perception research firms 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?
Ipsos In US, headquartered in New York, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which country has the most perception research firms?
The United States leads with 353 companies, followed by India (78) and the United Kingdom (68). Every perception research firms list by country and city is linked on this page.
Which city has the most perception research firms?
Sao Paulo leads with 30 headquartered companies, followed by London (25) and New York (18).
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 4,679 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 1,292 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 20, 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.