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Top 25 Focus group companies based in the United Kingdom
RevenueBase identified 81 focus group companies headquartered in the United Kingdom as of September 2026 and tracks 382 professional contacts across them, including 176 with verified work emails. London is the largest hub.
This list covers focus group 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 20, 2026.
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The 25 largest focus group companies based in the United Kingdom
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 54 contacts → | ||||
Indirect 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 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 35 contacts → | ||||
Indirect 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 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 29 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Accent is a full service market research consultancy delivering innovative, tailored and targeted insight.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 18 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “LAUNCHPAD RESEARCH An independent, full service research & insights agency.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 18 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Humans need emotion.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 8 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Market research is a competitive activity.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 8 contacts → | ||||
Indirect 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 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 8 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The Small Big Research & Insight Agency River specialises in generating consumer insights that inspires great marketing.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 7 contacts → | ||||
Indirect 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 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 7 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Tangible is a consumer research and brand consulting business specialising in improving brand performance.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 7 contacts → | ||||
Indirect 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 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 7 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Ink Research is a full service market research agency specialising in NPD, Shopper and Communications Effectiveness research.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 6 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Community Research is a UK-based market research agency, specialising in qualitative, deliberative and quantitative research.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 6 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 5 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Prescient is an internationally capable brand and research company.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 5 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Massive Wave Research is a UK based market research fieldwork and recruitment partner supporting agencies, consultancies and insight teams across consumer, healthcare and B2B…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 5 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Qualitative market research recruitment - consumer and business, online and offline • Online blogs & diaries, panels & communities • Focus groups, mini-groups, depths • Free find…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 5 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We are now part of Rila Global Consulting.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 4 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Good research should do more than answer questions.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 3 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Most teams use focus groups to explore ideas, and surveys to validate them.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 3 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Skyblue Research Ltd is a Market Research company located in Suite C, 2nd Floor, The Lodge, 21 Front Street, York, York, United Kingdom.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 2 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We’re a market research agency delivering illuminating insights that create impact.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 2 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Untangled Insight is a consumer research consultancy delivering strategic and directional insight through the most efficient research methodologies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 1 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At the heart of what we do is our custom market research.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 1 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We're experts at speaking to your target market, finding answers to the questions you wish you had the answers to, and helping you put these insights into action.” 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: focus group 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 focus group companies.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of focus group companies, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name focus group 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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Focus group companies based in the United Kingdom at a glance
As of Sep 20, 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 81 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 focus group 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 “focus group 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 focus group 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 focus group 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, 176 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.
Focus group companies by metro
- Focus group companies in London27
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 focus group 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 focus group companies are there based in the United Kingdom?
RevenueBase identified 81 focus group 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?
Explain Market Research, headquartered in Newcastle Upon Tyne, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most focus group companies?
London leads with 27 headquartered companies, followed by Manchester (5) and London London (3).
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 176 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 81 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.