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Top 19 Trend agencies based in Chicago, United States
RevenueBase identified 47 trend agencies headquartered in Chicago, United States as of September 2026 and tracks 488 professional contacts across them, including 243 with verified work emails. New York is the largest hub.
This list covers trend agencies headquartered in Chicago, United States, 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.
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The 19 largest trend agencies based in Chicago, United States
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 154 contacts → | ||||
Indirect 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 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 100 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Shapiro+Raj is the sixth-largest independent insights and inspiration company in North America.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 48 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The Sound is a Global Consumer Exploration, Brand Strategy and Product Innovation agency, applying leading edge market research techniques, technologies and marketing models to…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 42 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Brandtrust is a brand consultancy offering a more human way to build brands and create meaningful change.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 21 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We find inspiration in culture to advance the way brands connect with consumers.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 13 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “For over 25 years, RealityCheck has specialized in understanding how people use brands to tell themselves stories about who they are and who they want to be.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 8 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Freedom to Create - We empower brands to be authentic trendsetters, co-creators, and dynamic players in the ever-evolving rhythm of culture, media, tech, sports, and fashion.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 5 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Brady Intel is a boutique consulting firm dedicated to helping companies predict and control business outcomes.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 5 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “MDC is a marketing research and strategy planning boutique based in Chicago.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 4 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The Connell Group was started in by Sean Connell in order to bring more cognitive empathy to market research.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 4 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “SA Market Insights (affectionately known as SAMI) is a full-service market research agency, with a twist.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 3 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Linkage Research is passionate about partnering with brands to uncover consumer truths, data, and trends that drive action and unlock business growth.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 3 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Morning Light Strategy is a boutique insights and strategy firm that helps brands, agencies, and organizations understand what’s shifting - and what to do about it.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 2 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Global Mosaic® is a cultural consultancy that helps entities understand the cultural insights, movements and tensions shaping our world and their categories.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 1 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “AUBRY RESEARCH is a company based out of 1624 W DIVISION ST, CHICAGO, Illinois, United States.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 1 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The work of The Planning Practice is translating insights about people, products, and brands into profitable marketing strategies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 1 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Market research consulting with a strategic focus.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 1 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At Ready About, we use curiosity and empathy to better connect you with the humans behind the marketing data.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 1 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At Erickson Research, we uncover and evaluate market opportunities that work for your business.” 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: trend agencies. 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 trend agencies.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of trend agencies, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name trend agencies. 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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Trend agencies based in Chicago, United States at a glance
As of Sep 21, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured across the whole United States list rather than for Chicago, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for Chicago, over 47 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 trend 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.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in Chicago, United States whose own description of what they do matches “trend 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 trend 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 trend agencies, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside Chicago 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, 243 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.
Trend agencies by metro in the United States
- Trend agencies in New York246
- Trend agencies in Los Angeles100
- Trend agencies in Chicago47
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 trend 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 trend agencies are there based in Chicago, United States?
RevenueBase identified 47 trend agencies headquartered in Chicago, United States 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?
C R Research, headquartered in Chicago, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most trend agencies?
New York leads with 246 headquartered companies, followed by Los Angeles (100) and Chicago (47).
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 243 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 47 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.