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Top 25 Activation companies based in the United States
RevenueBase identified 8,973 activation companies headquartered in the United States as of September 2026 and tracks 176,700 professional contacts across them, including 49,367 with verified work emails. New York is the largest hub.
This list covers activation companies headquartered in the United States, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 21, 2026.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest activation companies based in the United States
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 9,567 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Quad (NYSE: QUAD) is a global marketing experience company that helps brands make direct consumer connections, from household to in-store to online.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 3,587 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “SGK, part of the Propelis Group, is a global brand and content production agency.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 2,654 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Digitas is the Networked Experience Agency, built on the vision that we create magnetic experiences that earn the right for brands to exist in human networks.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 2,648 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Grey’s mission is to create Famously Effective ideas that move people, business, and the world forward-harnessing the power of creativity to solve business problems and deliver…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 2,463 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “2020 Companies is an award-winning retail sales, merchandising, and experiential marketing agency headquartered in Southlake, TX.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 2,182 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Marketing Werks has become Product Connections, a fully integrated engagement agency specializing in omnichannel solutions that build relationships between brands and consumers.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 1,727 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Omnicom is the world’s leading marketing and sales company, built for intelligent growth in the next era.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 1,605 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “GPJ is the world's leading strategic experience marketing agency.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 1,545 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “STAR is an all-in-one experiential marketing agency that builds captivating spaces for exhibits, events, corporate interiors, and retail stores.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 1,502 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “For over 20 years MKTG S+E has led some of the most transformative sponsorships in sports & entertainment.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 1,497 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We are the Experience Agency making unforgettable stories born of humanity.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 1,320 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “People are no longer satisfied with simply "hearing" a brand's message.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 1,305 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We are Octagon.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 1,274 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At Winston Retail, we are your one-stop shop for field execution, creative design, expert merchandising, and end-to-end project management.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 1,259 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “TEAM is dedicated to crafting brand experiences that are not just seen and heard but truly felt.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 1,229 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “TAIT is a trusted partner, delivering world-class, audience-centric experiences through continuous innovation.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 1,198 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Sparks, a Freeman Company, designs brand experiences that leave lasting impressions.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 1,127 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We’re a global agency focused on building experience brands.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 1,080 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “FCB is a global creative powerhouse committed to transforming brands, businesses, and lives through the economic power of creativity.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 1,064 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “GTB is a global performance marketing agency, creating ideas that inspire people to act.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 1,031 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “FIRST is a leading global brand experience agency providing Content, Creative, Digital Technology, Management & Delivery, and Data & Insights services.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 933 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Czarnowski Collective unites four specialized studios to deliver brand-defining experiences, built with wonder.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 868 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “ITA Group helps leading brands around the world take action with confidence, resulting in increased sales, purchases, retention, referrals and alignment.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 849 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “160over90 is an award-winning global marketing agency which forges stronger human connections and creates shared moments where people feel something real.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 849 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We’re WongDoody, the creative technology agency.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: activation companies. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names activation companies.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of activation companies, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name activation companies. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Activation companies based in the United States at a glance
As of Sep 21, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for United States, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for United States, over 8,973 companies.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among activation companies, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in the United States whose own description of what they do matches “activation companies”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names activation companies), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among activation companies, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside United States are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 49,367 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 21, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Activation companies by metro
- Activation companies in New York830
- Activation companies in Los Angeles593
- Activation companies in Chicago259
- Activation companies in Miami244
- Activation companies in Atlanta227
- Activation companies in Dallas162
- Activation companies in Austin137
- Activation companies in San Francisco134
- Activation companies in Houston123
- Activation companies in Denver115
- Activation companies in Las Vegas114
- Activation companies in San Diego100
- Activation companies in Portland88
- Activation companies in Orlando87
- Activation companies in Charlotte86
- Activation companies in Minneapolis78
- Activation companies in Boston74
- Activation companies in Philadelphia69
- Activation companies in Nashville68
- Activation companies in Brooklyn66
- Activation companies in Tampa66
- Activation companies in Washington66
- Activation companies in Seattle64
- Activation companies in Columbus57
- Activation companies in New York City55
- Activation companies in Phoenix54
- Activation companies in Indianapolis53
- Activation companies in Cincinnati50
- Activation companies in San Antonio42
- Activation companies in Santa Monica39
- Activation companies in Salt Lake City37
- Activation companies in Fort Lauderdale34
- Activation companies in Irvine34
- Activation companies in Pittsburgh34
- Activation companies in Raleigh32
- Activation companies in Scottsdale32
- Activation companies in Kansas City31
- Activation companies in Boca Raton29
- Activation companies in Detroit29
- Activation companies in Jacksonville29
- Activation companies in Louisville29
- Activation companies in Miami Beach29
- Activation companies in Milwaukee27
- Activation companies in Fort Worth26
- Activation companies in St. Louis26
- Activation companies in Costa Mesa25
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names activation companies, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many activation companies are there based in the United States?
RevenueBase identified 8,973 activation companies headquartered in the United States as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
QUAD, headquartered in Sussex, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most activation companies?
New York leads with 830 headquartered companies, followed by Los Angeles (593) and Chicago (259).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 49,367 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 8,973 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 21, 2026.
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About this data
RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.
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