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Top 25 Advertising companies based in Toronto, Canada
RevenueBase identified 1,037 advertising companies headquartered in Toronto, Canada as of September 2026 and tracks 11,312 professional contacts across them, including 2,666 with verified work emails. Toronto is the largest hub.
This list covers advertising companies headquartered in Toronto, Canada, 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 7, 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 advertising companies based in Toronto, Canada
Ranked by team size| # | Company | RevenueBase Smart Search | Contacts | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Indirect evidence | 2,671 contacts → | |||
“Other.™ is a modern integrated media agency built for marketers who need more from their agency partner.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | Indirect evidence | 355 contacts → | |||
“We develop strategic, creative solutions that aren’t afraid of challenging tradition, because the way we see it – great marketing shouldn’t have to feel like marketing.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | Indirect evidence | 250 contacts → | |||
“Diamond is an award-winning integrated creative agency headquartered in Toronto, Ontario.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | Indirect evidence | 248 contacts → | |||
Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | Strong evidence | 175 contacts → | |||
“Founded in 2009, INNOCEAN Canada is a full-service advertising agency based out of Toronto and Montreal.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | Indirect evidence | 167 contacts → | |||
“OMD combines innovation, creativity, empathy and evidence to make Better decisions, faster on behalf of our clients.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | Indirect evidence | 156 contacts → | |||
“For over 50 years, Saatchi & Saatchi has been where the world’s greatest brands have come for the biggest, world-changing ideas.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | Indirect evidence | 154 contacts → | |||
“Havas Canada’s mission is to make a meaningful difference to the brands, businesses and people we work with.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | Indirect evidence | 131 contacts → | |||
“BIMM is a Toronto-based agency that lives at the intersection of data, technology, and creativity to provide clients with high-performing campaigns and digital products that shape…” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | Indirect evidence | 125 contacts → | |||
“Community is a multidisciplinary marketing agency working on some of the world’s biggest brands and influential upstarts.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | Indirect evidence | 101 contacts → | |||
“Hello.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | Strong evidence | 98 contacts → | |||
“Bensimon Byrne was born from the vision of a strategist and creative partnership to challenge the traditional way of thinking about advertising.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | Indirect evidence | 89 contacts → | |||
“Little Black Book Top 10 Agency 2025.(Oh, and the #2 Agency in North America in 2025 according to Adforum's PHNX Awards, but y'know, who's counting.) Over the past 23+ years…” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | Strong evidence | 74 contacts → | |||
“Canada’s Premier OOH Shopping & Entertainment Advertising Network” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | Indirect evidence | 69 contacts → | |||
“Elite Digital is an award winning digital agency with headquarters in Toronto, Canada.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | Indirect evidence | 55 contacts → | |||
“Cundari is Canada’s most globally awarded independent agency.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | Indirect evidence | 54 contacts → | |||
“Context Creative (a Mod Op company) is a full-service agency that works hand-in-hand with clients to solve their toughest branding and communications challenges.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | Indirect evidence | 53 contacts → | |||
Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | Indirect evidence | 52 contacts → | |||
“GUT is a brave agency for brave clients.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | Indirect evidence | 51 contacts → | |||
“With DonerNorth you get the best of both worlds indie spirit & network muscle.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | Indirect evidence | 50 contacts → | |||
“We are where millions of Canadians look for answers and where they learn about what matters most to their lives.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | Indirect evidence | 49 contacts → | |||
“As a full-service marketing and development agency, we’re equipped to handle it all, and handle it well.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | Indirect evidence | 49 contacts → | |||
“Angry Butterfly is a proudly independent, full-service agency based in Toronto.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | Indirect evidence | 49 contacts → | |||
“Technology designed to put our clients in front of their audience with strategically defined locations, combined with the very best creative innovations & assets to fuel the…” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | Strong evidence | 47 contacts → | |||
“Reshift Media is a Toronto-based digital marketing company that works with businesses and their advertising agencies to provide a one-stop destination for cohesive social, search…” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 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: advertising 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 advertising companies.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of advertising companies, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name advertising 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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Advertising companies based in Toronto, Canada at a glance
As of Sep 7, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured across the whole Canada list rather than this city, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for Toronto, over 1,037 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 advertising 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 Toronto, Canada whose own description of what they do matches “advertising 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 advertising 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 advertising companies, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside Toronto 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, 2,666 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 7, 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.
Advertising companies by metro in Canada
- Advertising companies in Toronto1037
- Advertising companies in Montreal348
- Advertising companies in Vancouver336
- Advertising companies in Calgary224
- Advertising companies in Edmonton128
- Advertising companies in Ottawa118
- Advertising companies in Mississauga113
- Advertising companies in London60
- Advertising companies in Winnipeg56
- Advertising companies in Quebec55
- Advertising companies in Markham44
- Advertising companies in Halifax42
- Advertising companies in Oakville42
- Advertising companies in Victoria41
- Advertising companies in Vaughan33
- Advertising companies in Hamilton31
- Advertising companies in Kelowna31
- Advertising companies in Kitchener30
- Advertising companies in Brampton29
- Advertising companies in Burlington29
- Advertising companies in Richmond Hill29
- Advertising companies in Surrey27
- Advertising companies in Burnaby26
- Advertising companies in North Vancouver25
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 advertising 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 advertising companies are there based in Toronto, Canada?
RevenueBase identified 1,037 advertising companies headquartered in Toronto, Canada 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?
OTHER, headquartered in Toronto, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most advertising companies?
Toronto leads with 1037 headquartered companies, followed by Montreal (348) and Vancouver (336).
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 2,666 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 1,037 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 7, 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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