This year’s initial round of judging was tougher than ever, thanks to a record number of entries. Below is the full list of nominees:

Best Agency with a turnover over £20million:

• BDRC Group
• BrainJuicer
• GfK NOP
• Hall & Partners
• Ipsos MORI
• Kantar Worldpanel UK

Best Agency with a turnover under £20million:

• ABA Market Research
• B2B International
• Firefish
• Join the Dots
• MMR Research Worldwide
• Truth

Best New Agency:

• BritainThinks
• Bryter
• CrowdLab
• MTM
• The Pineapple Lounge
• ResearchBods

Best In-house Team:

• BBC Audiences
• Channel 4 – Audience, Technologies & Insight
• eBay European Customer Insights
• Guardian News and Media, Audience Team
• Scottish Water Customer Strategy and Insight
• Sainsbury’s Customer Insight Team

Best Place to Work:

• The Big Picture
• Bonamy Finch
• BrainJuicer
• Flamingo
• MESH Planning
• Wine Intelligence

Client of the Year:

• Boots UK
• Diageo
• Passenger Focus

Best Innovation:

• CrowdLab for Maximising mobile: The truly smart survey
• Dubit for The Clickroom – Powered by Dubit Platform
• Flamingo for Flamingo Field Notes
• Ipsos MORI and Everything Everywhere for Real-time geolocation harnessing a mobile operator’s database
• MEC Analytics and Insight for Next Generation Social Insight
• Truth for Cosmologies

The Research Awards are part of the MRS Awards. A complete list of finalists is available here.

Winners will be announced on 10 December at the Park Plaza, Westminster Bridge, London. Click here to book your tickets.