Company lists · Data refreshed September 2026
Top 25 Adtech and martech companies based in South Africa
RevenueBase identified 130 adtech and martech companies headquartered in South Africa as of September 2026 and tracks 862 professional contacts across them, including 149 with verified work emails. Cape Town is the largest hub.
This list covers adtech and martech companies headquartered in South Africa, 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 27, 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 adtech and martech companies based in South Africa
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 37 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Nerdware is a leading software and marketing services company.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 29 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Aqua is an integrated marketing agency with strong entrepreneurial roots.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 28 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “SearchKings Africa is your revenue generation partner.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 28 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Wetpaint is a full-service, tech-driven marketing agency built to deliver measurable impact.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 27 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Introducing our new tag line - Bridging the Gap!” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 21 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “THE EFFECTIVE ROUTE TO MARKETING & SALES SUCCESS Bastion & Flowe provides unique marketing platforms developed specifically for emerging markets.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 21 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Welcome to Hive Digital Media, a dynamic force in the digital landscape born from the rich heritage of Caxton’s long-standing and locally entrenched publications.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 19 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Net Age is an online paid advertising agency and data products business that supplies services to a range of different businesses, as well as to online and offline agencies in…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 17 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We are a South African AdTech business, with a solution’s driven focus.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 14 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We believe that all businesses need specialist marketing solutions.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 14 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Adbot** is South Africa's award-winning AI platform for Google Ads management.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 10 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “In today's digital landscape, a strong online presence is non-negotiable.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 7 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Carbon1 is a specialist partner to brands and agencies, bringing the world’s leading Marketing and Advertising Technology solutions into the African market.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 7 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We work with companies who are frustrated with their marketing strategy not producing the results they need - be it leads or more sales.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 6 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Colocio's Marketing Automation Platform Transform your marketing operations with our intelligent automation suite.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 5 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “SocialPro provides superior experiences, value, and growth to and for its clients by concentrating on their most valuable asset: their customers.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 4 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Box Digital was founded in 2019, with the mission to provide agencies and brands with the tools, technology solutions, services, and local support; to allow them to be successful…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 4 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Let us help you make sense of your marketing, customer and business growth.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 3 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Thrive Online Group is a multinational digital, direct and performance marketing agency with offices in Cape Town South Africa and Nottingham UK.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 3 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Our core focus is to determine and actively measure ROI for all digital marketing campaigns to ensure you are capturing the correct leads and customers for your business.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 3 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “iClickMarketing is a boutique Media Agency born in 2013 out of the need to make highly specialised skills readily available.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 3 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We offer a broad range of online marketing services and solutions to help businesses achieve their business objectives.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 2 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At Web Footprint we are innovating faster more optimised ways to grow and market your business using online tools and technologies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 2 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Helping brands and agencies build better digital advertising experiences” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 2 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “PPC Media is a company focused on helping smaller businesses get into the pay-per-click advertising spaces.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 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: adtech and martech 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 adtech and martech companies.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of adtech and martech companies, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name adtech and martech 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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Adtech and martech companies based in South Africa at a glance
As of Sep 27, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for South Africa, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for South Africa, over 130 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 adtech and martech 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 South Africa whose own description of what they do matches “adtech and martech 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 adtech and martech 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 adtech and martech companies, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside South Africa 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, 149 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 27, 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.
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 adtech and martech 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 adtech and martech companies are there based in South Africa?
RevenueBase identified 130 adtech and martech companies headquartered in South Africa 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?
Nerdwaresa, headquartered in Johannesburg, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most adtech and martech companies?
Cape Town leads with 33 headquartered companies, followed by Johannesburg (30) and Pretoria (16).
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 149 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 130 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 27, 2026.
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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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