Global market research, fieldwork, and respondent recruitment

Global research. Local expertise. Reliable insights.

Yamada Research is a Thailand-based global market research company delivering high-quality research, respondent recruitment, and fieldwork solutions across markets worldwide.

One accountable partner, for global research services.

From our headquarters in Thailand, we coordinate research programmes across Asia Pacific, Europe, the Middle East, North America, and South America, combining local market expertise with centralized project management and quality control. Whether the requirement is a single-country study or a complex multi-market programme, our teams and trusted research partners provide the local knowledge, recruitment expertise, and operational capabilities needed to deliver reliable research at scale.

We work with global research agencies, consulting firms, healthcare and life-science organizations, corporations, and insight teams, supporting projects from feasibility and respondent recruitment through fieldwork, validation, quality control, and final delivery.

Coverage across every major global region.

Yamada Research provides research coverage across every major global region, with established capabilities across both developed and emerging markets.

Asia Pacific

Thailand, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam, Philippines, Japan, South Korea, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Australia, New Zealand, and other APAC markets.

Europe

United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland, Austria, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, Ireland, Poland, Portugal, Greece, and other European markets.

Middle East & Africa

Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, Oman, Israel, South Africa, Egypt, and other Middle Eastern and African markets.

North America

United States, Canada, and Mexico.

South & Central America

Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Peru, and other Latin American markets.

Our global model combines local teams, specialist recruiters, fieldwork specialists, and trusted partners, coordinated through centralized Yamada project management and quality control. This enables us to maintain consistent research standards while adapting recruitment and fieldwork to local languages, cultures, audiences, and market conditions.

Qualitative and quantitative, matched to the study.

Yamada Research supports both qualitative and quantitative research, providing flexible methodologies based on the objectives, target audience, market, and complexity of each study.

Quantitative Research

  • Online surveys / CAWI
  • Telephone interviews / CATI
  • Computer-assisted personal interviews / CAPI
  • Face-to-face interviews
  • In-person quantitative fieldwork
  • Central Location Tests (CLT)
  • Product and sensory testing
  • Intercept studies
  • Shopper and retail research
  • Customer and user surveys
  • Multi-market quantitative studies
  • Panel-based research
  • Niche and low-incidence recruitment

Qualitative Research

  • In-depth interviews (IDIs)
  • Focus groups
  • Online focus groups
  • Expert interviews
  • Executive interviews
  • Ethnographic research
  • Shop-alongs
  • In-home interviews and research
  • Online communities and bulletin boards
  • Usability and user-experience research
  • Accompanied visits and observational research
  • Intercepts and in-market qualitative research

We also support hybrid and multi-method research programmes, combining online, telephone, face-to-face, and in-person methodologies according to the needs of each project. Our consumer capabilities, for example, extend from online surveys and interviews to focus groups, CLTs, ethnography, shop-alongs, in-home usage tests, intercepts, and mystery shopping.

Audiences and industries we recruit and field.

Our recruitment and fieldwork capabilities span a broad range of audiences and industries, with screening and validation tailored to each study.

Healthcare & Life Sciences

  • Physicians and specialist physicians
  • General practitioners
  • Nurses and nurse managers
  • Pharmacists
  • Allied healthcare professionals
  • Hospital and healthcare decision-makers
  • Patients and caregivers
  • Healthcare executives and specialists

We provide healthcare recruitment with study-specific screening, profile validation, scheduling, and online and offline fieldwork.

B2B & Professional Research

  • C-suite and senior executives
  • Business owners
  • Decision-makers
  • Procurement professionals
  • IT and technology professionals
  • Industry specialists
  • Engineers and technical professionals
  • Channel partners and distributors
  • SME and enterprise decision-makers
  • Industry experts

Our B2B capabilities support buyer-journey studies, technology adoption, procurement research, pricing research, market-entry studies, customer experience, expert interviews, and channel research.

Consumer & B2C Research

  • General population
  • Product and category users
  • Brand users
  • Competitor-brand users
  • Lapsed customers
  • Prospective customers
  • Parents and household decision-makers
  • Students and young adults
  • Affluent consumers
  • Digital-service and app users
  • Lifestyle and attitudinal segments
  • Niche and low-incidence audiences

Automotive & Mobility

  • Vehicle owners
  • Drivers
  • EV and PHEV owners
  • Prospective buyers
  • Fleet users
  • Dealers
  • Automotive professionals
  • Mobility users

Sensory & Product Research

  • Product testing
  • Sensory evaluation
  • Central Location Tests
  • In-home usage tests
  • Packaging evaluation
  • Concept testing
  • Product experience research

Specialist & Hard-to-Reach Audiences

Our recruitment capabilities extend beyond mainstream samples to specialist, niche, low-incidence, professional, clinical, and hard-to-reach audiences, with screening and validation tailored to the requirements of each study.

Quality built in, not bolted on.

At Yamada Research, quality is built into the research process rather than treated as a final checkpoint.

Every project follows a structured workflow covering feasibility, recruitment, screening, fieldwork monitoring, validation, quality control, and final delivery. Respondents can be assessed through eligibility screening, profile and identity checks, duplicate detection, response-quality checks, consistency reviews, and manual validation where required.

For multi-market projects, our centralized approach ensures that the same study specifications, quota requirements, screening standards, and quality expectations are maintained across markets while allowing local teams to execute according to market-specific conditions.

A single, accountable partner for your research fieldwork.

Whether you need 50 specialist physicians in Thailand, 1,000 consumers across multiple countries, senior B2B decision-makers across Europe and North America, or a complex qualitative programme spanning several continents, Yamada Research provides a single, accountable partner for your research fieldwork.

Local expertise. Global reach. Rigorous quality. One accountable research partner.

Yamada Research — Global research, delivered locally.

Credentialed research operations with responsible data handling.

Memberships, certifications, and operating practices that support reliable research delivery.

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Send us your project brief

Share your target markets, audience, methodology, sample or quota, timeline, and any online, offline, language, or validation requirements. Our team will review feasibility and respond with a practical recruitment approach.

Address

Yamada Research Co., Ltd.
209 Comet Building, 35/5-7 Krungthonburi Road,
Klongtonsai, Klongsan, Bangkok 10600, Thailand
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