Vantage Research
Social intelligence & primary research

The market is already talking. The experts will answer.

Vantage Research is a human-led research partner with two disciplines under one roof: social listening and brand monitoring that read the conversation you don't control, and expert network recruitment that puts you in front of the people who know what the data can't say.

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Listen

When the answer is publicMillions of posts, reviews, forums and articles already describe how people feel about your brand and your competitors. We find the pattern in it.

Ask

When the answer isn'tPricing logic, procurement politics, clinical practice, supply chains. Nobody posts this. So we recruit the person who lives it and get you on the call.

Both

Usually, it's bothListening tells you where to look. Expert interviews tell you what it means. Most of our programmes run the two together.

40+Markets covered
25+Languages, native analysts
48hTypical expert shortlist
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What we do

Two research services. One team that knows which one you actually need.

Most vendors sell you the method they happen to own. We start from your question, then decide whether the evidence should come from the open web, from a screened expert, or from both.

Service 01 — Social intelligence

Social listening & brand monitoring

Social media monitoring tells you what happened. Social listening tells you why, and what to do next. We run both as a managed service — no dashboard licence to babysit, no analyst you have to hire.

  • Brand monitoring & brand health trackingShare of voice, sentiment drivers, message pull-through and reputation risk, benchmarked against competitors.
  • Media monitoring & coverage analysisNews, broadcast, trade press and online publishers monitored alongside social.
  • Competitor intelligenceReal-user feedback on rival products, launch reception, pricing complaints and winning narratives.
  • Audience segmentation & personasWho is actually talking, what they care about, and which segments are growing.
  • Influencer & KOL identificationThe voices that move your category, scored on relevance and genuine audience overlap.
  • Crisis & reputation monitoringEarly-warning alerting with a human triage layer.
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Service 02 — Primary research

Expert network & research recruitment

Knowledge on demand, without the bloat of a legacy expert network. We recruit the specific people your study needs, screen them properly, and hand you a clean, compliant, ready-to-field sample.

  • Expert network calls & knowledge on demandScreened, conflict-checked practitioners for one-hour consultations. Shortlists typically inside 48 hours.
  • Custom research recruitmentRecruited fresh for your screener, never pulled from a tired panel.
  • B2B & healthcare respondentsCIOs, procurement leads, specifiers, clinicians and caregivers — the profiles panels quietly fail to deliver.
  • Primary research data collectionSurvey programming, fielding, quality control and delivery — quant and qual.
  • IDIs, focus groups & ethnographyScheduling, hosting, incentives, moderation support and transcript delivery.
  • White-label delivery for agenciesWork under your brand, in your template, or entirely invisibly.
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How we work

A short, honest sequence — with a real answer at the end of it.

Every project runs on the same four beats, whether it's a one-off competitor scan or a year-long tracking programme.

Frame the question

We push past the brief to the decision behind it and propose the method that can actually answer it.

Design the evidence

Query architecture and source coverage, or screener and quota logic. You approve before anything runs.

Collect and clean

Native-language analysts code the data by hand. Recruiters verify credentials by voice.

Deliver the decision

Findings, implications and a recommendation — a debrief your stakeholders can act on.

Why Vantage Research

Bought separately, these two services never talk to each other.

We built the practice so the same team does both — and so one informs the other.

Human-led, not tool-led

Platforms return volume. Our analysts return meaning, in-language, with cultural context.

Listening finds who to ask

Social data surfaces the practitioners already talking. Our recruiters then bring them to the table.

Quotas we can actually hit

We model incidence before we quote. You get a realistic timeline at the start.

Compliance built in

GDPR-aligned handling, documented consent, conflict-of-interest and adverse event protocols.

Agency-friendly

Unbranded decks, your template, your client. We don't compete with you.

Scoped to your budget

From a two-week competitor scan to a global always-on programme.

Sectors

Where we already know the vocabulary.

Category fluency shortens everything — the query design, the screener, the debrief.

Pharma & life sciences Healthcare & medtech Technology & SaaS Financial services Private equity FMCG & retail Beauty & personal care Automotive & mobility Energy & industrials Telecoms Media & entertainment Public sector & policy
Questions

The things clients ask before they brief us.

What's the difference between social listening and social media monitoring?

Monitoring tracks mentions of your brand right now — volume, sentiment, spikes, who's saying it. Listening interprets why the conversation looks that way: cultural drivers, unmet needs and competitor narratives. We run both.

How fast can you recruit experts for a research project?

For expert network calls in sectors we cover, we typically return a screened shortlist within 24 to 48 hours. Custom recruitment for low-incidence profiles usually takes three to ten working days.

Do you work with agencies and consultancies on a white-label basis?

Yes. Insight agencies, communications agencies and consultancies use us as an unbranded delivery partner. We can deliver in your template or stay entirely behind the scenes.

Which languages and markets do you cover?

We analyse and recruit across North America, Europe, the Middle East, South Asia and APAC, working with native-language analysts rather than machine translation.

How do you handle data privacy and research compliance?

Social data is collected from publicly available sources and reported in aggregate. Recruitment runs on documented consent and screener-level compliance checks.

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Vantage Research

Human-led social intelligence and primary research. We listen where the market talks, and we ask the people who know.

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