OUR CAPABILITIES
City Square Associates is a full-service marketing research and consulting team that blends data rigor with human-centric insight. We go beyond numbers, applying best practices in consumer research, data storytelling, business strategy, and group facilitation to help our clients build meaningful connections with their customers, audiences, constituencies, and stakeholders. Our work is grounded in social-scientific expertise and real-world business needs, ensuring that data isn’t just collected—it’s transformed into meaning, and meaning into action.
Quantitative
Research
Surveys (including questionnaire design, programming, and hosting), Sample Acquisition and Management, Analytics Tracking and Dashboarding
Qualitative
Research
Focus Groups, In-depth Interviewing (Consumer and Executive-level), Ethnography, Ideation Sessions, User Experience Testing
Business Strategy
Consulting
Stakeholder Consultation, Program Evaluation, Strategic Facilitation and Planning, Strategic Communication
INDUSTRIES
We partner with major media companies, educational institutions, philanthropic organizations, and cultural institutions, offering in-depth research, strategic analysis, and tailored guidance that drives real impact. By designing bespoke studies with curiosity and collaboration at their core, we empower our clients to make informed decisions, implement effective strategies, and measure success with confidence.
Advertising, Marketing,
Public Relations
Consumer Financial
Services
Media, News,
Entertainment
Digital Media
Education, Not-For-Profit,
Human Services
Retail, Consumer
Products
Health Sciences
Public Service, Government
Agencies
Publishing
Telecommunications
WHO WE’VE WORKED WITH
We’ve worked with a diverse portfolio of organizations and companies across a number of industries. Here’s a partial list of our past and current clients.
ABC Disney • AMIT • BYU Broadcasting • Cascade Public Media • CNA Media Corp • Corporation for Public Broadcasting • Courageous Parents Network • Detroit PBS • Essex County Community Foundation • Endeavor Analytics • Feature Story News • Fessenden School • Global Online Academy • GBH • Geneoscopy • Harvard Business School • Harvard Graduate School of Education • Knight Foundation • Metrolink • Museum of Science • NBC Universal • One Mind Media • PBS • PBS NewsHour • PBS SoCal • Radiant Foundation • RDW • Rhode Island Department of Health • Rhode Island PBS • Thatcher+Co. • Town of Stratford • Unilever • Vegas PBS • Viacom • VPM • Westfield State University • WETA • WHUT • WNET • WTTV