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Top 25 Advertising consulting firms based in Canada
RevenueBase identified 2,578 advertising consulting firms headquartered in Canada as of August 2026 and tracks 14,115 professional contacts across them, including 4,106 with verified work emails and 1,602 with mobile numbers. Toronto is the largest hub.
This list covers advertising consulting firms headquartered in 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 August 30, 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 consulting firms based in Canada
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 327 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “McKinney is a full-service creative agency that generates unfair attention for brands.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 241 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The Hive is a proudly independent, 100% Canadian-owned creative agency.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 241 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 176 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We fight sameness.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 175 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Founded in 2009, INNOCEAN Canada is a full-service advertising agency based out of Toronto and Montreal.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 166 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Running a company is a little like building a plane while flying it.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 158 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “For over 50 years, Saatchi & Saatchi has been where the world’s greatest brands have come for the biggest, world-changing ideas.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 158 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Havas Canada’s mission is to make a meaningful difference to the brands, businesses and people we work with.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 157 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “3X AD AGE AGENCY OF THE YEAR | 2025 CAMPAIGN AGENCY OF THE YEAR Battery is a full service creative advertising agency headquartered in Los Angeles with offices in Toronto, Chicago…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 123 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We are strategic copilots who drive business growth and advertising effectiveness by giving Canadian brands A Head Start.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 110 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Evans Hunt is a full-service agency that combines strategy, creativity, and technology to give our clients an unfair advantage.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 106 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Brad is an integrated advertising agency offering communications, marketing, strategic planning, creative, design, interactive, promotional, media, and social media services.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 100 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Hello.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 86 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Agence Cartier Cartier est une agence de communication marketing basée à Montréal, qui offre des solutions inventives à ses clients.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 56 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Cundari is Canada’s most globally awarded independent agency.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 53 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 49 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Hi.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 42 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We’re a full-service agency helping transform brands through our expertise in strategy, media, and effective creative.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 42 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Zia, an agency that is passionate and enthusiastic about the world of advertising & marketing, what's current and how we can make a difference through innovative thinking, client…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 40 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “One Core Media is a leading full-service online digital media agency and marketing consulting firm.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 37 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “LeverageIT kicked off its journey in 2013, driven by an exciting blend of creativity and technology aimed at turbocharging marketing efforts, captivating consumers, and using tech…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 31 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At OKD we continually improve our capabilities and offering, and we are proud to announce our acquisition of MJM Media.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 29 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “From big ideas to business cards and billboards to SEO, we help our clients elevate and amplify their brands.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 20 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Each day at BBDO we set out to deliver the world's most compelling advertising.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 14 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “In a landscape full of promise and peril, how do you make the right decision again and again?” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 30, 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 consulting firms. 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 consulting firms.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of advertising consulting firms, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name advertising consulting firms. 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 consulting firms based in Canada at a glance
As of Aug 30, 2026Companies by employee count
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 consulting firms, 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 Canada whose own description of what they do matches “advertising consulting firms”. 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 consulting firms), 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 consulting firms, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside Canada 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, 4,106 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 August 30, 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 consulting firms by metro
- Advertising consulting firms in Toronto631
- Advertising consulting firms in Vancouver200
- Advertising consulting firms in Montreal200
- Advertising consulting firms in Calgary160
- Advertising consulting firms in Edmonton79
- Advertising consulting firms in Ottawa68
- Advertising consulting firms in Mississauga55
- Advertising consulting firms in Quebec43
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 consulting firms, 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 consulting firms are there based in Canada?
RevenueBase identified 2,578 advertising consulting firms headquartered in Canada as of August 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?
Mckinney, headquartered in Canada, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most advertising consulting firms?
Toronto leads with 631 headquartered companies, followed by Vancouver (200) and Montreal (200).
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 4,106 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 2,578 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on August 30, 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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