Top Market Research Companies

Northbound is a Seattle-based brand and design company founded in 2010, providing market research services — including competitive analysis, audience research, and brand positioning studies — as a strategic foundation for brand identity and logo design work. With a 10–49-person team and 100% positive client feedback, Northbound integrates market research into its creative process to ensure brand strategies are grounded in genuine audience insight and competitive understanding. Clients value the team for creative enthusiasm, responsive project management, and market research that directly informs and strengthens the brand identity work it supports — producing positioning and design solutions that are both creatively compelling and commercially relevant.

The Yard Creative was established in 2006 by Steve and Sian James-Royle, operating in a unique way based on their "evidental design" philosophy with research and insight informing each and every creative decision. The team offers market research services such as ethnographic customer research, competitor and market sizing analysis and startup lead identification to validate opportunities before clients invest in building their strategy or design. Proven to be 2nd in the UK in market research by Clutch in 2019 and ranked one of the top 101 most disruptive companies in the UK, The Yard Creative is trusted by clients including leading technical consulting companies to provide timely information in a presented manner

Upcall is a contact center firm established in 2012 that offers market research solutions such as telephonic surveys, prospect and customer interviews, and voice-based data collection, to companies that want to collect market intelligence and customer insight with a professional outbound calling campaign. Upcall's market research offering extends its outbound call center, lead generation expertise, and wraps the same professional calling discipline and project management around research calls from a 10–49 person team, to an hourly rate of $100–149, to about 80% positive client reviews. Clients appreciate the company for good communication, delivery, and research that creates market insights and actionable items by directly contacting target audiences via professionally managed phone calls.

Established in 2015, Brighter Click is a digital marketing agency based in Raleigh, North Carolina, that serves clients by providing market research services as a foundation for advertising and social media marketing. Brighter Click's audience insight gathering, competitive analysis and data-driven campaign planning are all part of its market research services. Having a team of 2–9 people and almost all positive feedback from the clients, Brighter Click's data-driven approach incorporates market research, which means that each campaign strategy is based on real knowledge and understanding of the clients' target audiences and competition. Clients appreciate the agency for their strategic creativity, outstanding communication skills and market research that directly impacts campaigns that generate higher revenue and lower acquisition costs.

The Influencer Marketing Factory, founded in 2018, is an influencer marketing agency based in Miami, FL, that offers a suite of market research solutions that help brands know which influencers to select or which audiences to target for brand awareness campaigns. The agency's research-driven methodology fuels creativity and successful campaign communications, leading to considerable leads and engagement with a 50-249 person team, $200-$300 hourly rates and a 66% positive feedback. Clients with niche market segments will find approximately 17% of the reviews say there is room for improvement when it comes to the research of niche audience and influencers.