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2026 AWARD FINALISTS

Title sponsor: GetWhy

B2B Research Project

Sponsored by: High Beam Global

  • C Space and DAFgiving360™

  • The Business Advantage Group

  • Truth Consulting

  • L3Harris Technologies, Inc. and Verve

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Best Client-Side Team

Sponsored by: Arbor

  • BBC Studios Direct to Consumer

  • Molson Coors Beverage Company, U.K. and Ireland

  • Molson Coors Beverage Company, U.S. and Canada Commercial Insights

  • Samworth Brothers

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Best New Product/Service Innovation

        Sponsored by: Rodeo13

  • Escalent

  • KL Communications

  • Simpson Carpenter

  • Spate

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Best Place to Work 

  • Listen Labs

  • Opinium

  • Potentia Insight

  • PureSpectrum

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Client/Supplier Collaboration

  • Hall & Partners and Novartis

  • PA Consulting and The Trade Desk

  • Redblue and VMO2

  • Vital Findings and MetLife

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Courageous Leader

Sponsored by: Tracksuit

  • Hayley Dawson-Owens, Wingstop Restaurants, Inc.

  • Brandon Gredler, Material

  • Maureen Parish, CSAA Insurance Group

  • Mansi Patney, Symrise

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Global Marketing Research Project

  • Dexcom and Vital Findings

  • DVJ Insights and NIVEA CONNECT

  • GetWhy

  • Kantar (Global Consumer Access, Greater China)

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Groundbreaking Research Project

  • DVJ Insights and VodafoneThree

  • Human8 and The Coca-Cola Company

  • Latenta

  • MMR Research

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Healthcare/Pharmaceutical Research Project

  • C+R Research

  • Darwin Research Group

  • Day One Strategy and Sanofi

  • West Monroe and Johnson & Johnson Vision

​​​MR Supplier of the Year (at or above $5 million)

Sponsored by: TestSet

  • buzzback LLC

  • DVJ Insights

  • Nailbiter

  • Opinium

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MR Supplier of the Year (below $5 million)

Sponsored by: AdAction

  • Darwin Research Group

  • INJ Partners

  • Latenta

  • Tendance Research Insights

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Nonprofit/Social Enterprise Project

  • C+C

  • C+R Research

  • Integro Health

  • The Good Side and Movember

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Outstanding Executive

Sponsored by: Bolt Insight

  • Torbjörn Andersson, Qualtrics

  • James Endersby, Opinium

  • Kai K. Fuentes, Ebony Marketing Systems

  • Katherine Hardwick, Pentacle Insight

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Outstanding Young Researcher

Sponsored by: Ideally

  • Isla Griffin, Curion

  • Regina Heeyoung Ma, One Minute to Midnight

  • Mia Medojević, Latenta

  • Odette Schwartz, The Good Side

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Qualitative Research Impact

  • Dig Insights

  • Perrigo and Acacia Avenue

  • Trybes Agency

  • West Monroe

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Researcher of the Year

Sponsored by: Datashake

  • James Forr, Olson Zaltman

  • Melis Gul, Critical Mass

  • Keri Hughes, Voya Financial

  • Andrew Hunt, The Link Group

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Technology Impact

Sponsored by: Merciv​

  • Electric Twin and The Times

  • OvationMR – EthOS

  • Spate

  • Stravito and Lavazza Group

2026 AWARD WINNER

Quirk’s Lifetime Achievement

  • Nancy Cox, Founder of Research Story Consulting​​

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