The winners in the eight categories will be announced at a black tie dinner and ceremony to be held at Old Billingsgate on 2nd December. The winners of the other Market Research Society awards will also be announced on the night.

The finalists are:

Global agency of the year (sponsored by Globalexicon)

C Space
Firefish
Jigsaw Research
Kadence International
Northstar 
Opinium

Best in-house team (sponsored by Trinity McQueen)

Barclays UK
BBC World Service
Formula 1
NEC Group
Twitter UK
Unilever

Best innovation (sponsored by Quirk's)

Gemius
Happen
Lumen Research
System1 Group
Unilever

Best place to work (sponsored by Kogan Page)

Barclays UK
C Space
Censuswide
IFF Research
Kantar
Opinium

Breakthrough business of the year

B2B International
Differentology
Hotspex UK
Savanta

Business impact of the year – global (sponsored by MIS Group)

BBC World Service
Condé Nast
Formula 1 & Goodform
Shell & Kantar

Business impact of the year – UK (sponsored by the Marketing Society)

Basis & Dixons Carphone
Bonamy Finch
C Space
Formula 1 & Populus
Populus & BT
Walnut Unlimited

Young researcher of the year (sponsored by Aspire IFF Research)

Comuzi – Akil Benjamin
Hall & Partners – Sophie Menzies
Ipsos – Hannah Brown
Join the Dots | InSites Consulting – Sarah Grant
Kadence International – Carolina Starkhammar
Natives – Katherine Nicholls
Opinium – Jack Tadman
the7stars – Michelle Milner
YouGov – Chantel Le Carpentier