Market Research Associations

The American Marketing Association focuses on marketing research, best practices and articles.

ESOMAR is an association made up of research professionals,approximately 4000 strong consisting of users and providers of opinion and market research. They are active in 100 countries and this enables better research into markets, consumers and societies worldwide.

International Marketing Research Institute consists of a database and worldwide directory of market research agencies, professionals and publishers.

MRIA is a Canadian not-for-profit association representing all aspects of market intelligence and survey research industry, including social research, competitive intelligence, data mining, insight, and knowledge management.

The Marketing Research Association was formed in 1954 as an outgrowth of the Trade Problem Discussion Group of the American Marketing Association’s (AMA) New York Chapter. They currently have 3,000 members internationally.

MRS is the world’s largest association serving all those with professional equity in provision or use of market, social and opinion research, and in business intelligence, market analysis, customer insight and consultancy. Currently the society has over 8,000 members in more than 50 countries. It is known as the world's largest international membership organization for professional researchers.