Company lists · Data refreshed September 2026
Top 25 Advertising music licensing companies worldwide
RevenueBase identified 2,106 advertising music licensing companies worldwide as of September 2026 and tracks 18,501 professional contacts across them, including 4,931 with verified work emails. The United States is the largest market and London the largest hub.
This list covers advertising music licensing companies worldwide, 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 19, 2026. Country and city lists for advertising music licensing companies follow the table.
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 music licensing companies worldwide
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1,177 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Founded in 2008, BMG reimagined the relationship between music companies, songwriters, and artists by offering fairer contracts, greater creative freedom, and unparalleled…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 958 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “K7 Music is a multi-faceted music company based in Berlin, London and New York.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 826 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “CONCORD is the world’s leading independent music company.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 698 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Epidemic Sound is the soundtracking partner for global brands, platforms, and professional creators.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 441 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “ICE Services is a music technology company built by rightsholders, for rightsholders.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 248 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Audio Network is the music company for broadcasters, brands and content creators, breaking down boundaries to deliver music seamlessly across the world.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 237 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Your music.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 204 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Warner Chappell Production Music (WCPM) is a global leader within the production and custom music industry with over 35 years of experience and success.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 196 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “HFA is the nation’s leading provider of rights management, licensing and royalty services for the music industry.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 163 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “APM Music is the premier production music library, offering an extensive catalog of high-quality tracks tailored for film, TV, video games, sports content, agencies, brands, and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 154 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 146 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Artist Partner is a modern label for forward thinking and entrepreneurial artists.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 145 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Extreme Music is an international production / library music business that forms part of Sony Music Publishing.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 142 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Songtradr is the world’s largest B2B music company, delivering the only full-stack solution for all business music needs.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 141 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Founded in 2006 by music industry veterans, Primary Wave is a full-service music shop with expertise in film, television, gaming, advertising, branding, licensing, special…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 126 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Global Music Rights represents today's greatest and most popular music creators in the public performance licensing of their catalogs.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 119 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “For the latest Position Music happenings -> https://linktr.ee/Position_Music Position Music is an independent company that works in this new era of the music industry.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 110 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Proudly independent since 2002, we have offices and production studios in 15 countries, 15 unique labels and a custom music division spearheaded by our team in Los Angeles.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 105 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Wise Music Group is one of the world’s leading independent music publishing companies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 89 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Since 2007, Cézame Music Agency has been a major player in the music library (production music) industry at the service audiovisual professionals.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 83 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Marmoset is a full-service music agency, representing a highly curated roster of diverse and rare artists, bands, record labels and vintage recordings for music licensing.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 80 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Nightlife Music is one of the largest employers in the Australian music industry.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 75 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “TAXI is an independent A&R company that connects industry clients with curated, on-target music from independent artists, songwriters, and composers.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 73 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Since being founded in 2016 by three Nashville-based musicians, Soundstripe has grown to be the industry’s premier commercial audio library.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 66 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “TONO eies og styres av opphavere (komponister og sangtekstforfattere) og musikkforlag, og forvalter de økonomiske opphavsrettighetene i musikken de har skapt.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 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 music licensing 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 music licensing companies.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of advertising music licensing companies, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name advertising music licensing 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 music licensing companies worldwide at a glance
As of Sep 19, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency is reported on each country list linked below.
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 music licensing 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.
- Coverage
- Every country. Country and city lists for advertising music licensing companies are linked below.
- What qualifies
- Companies worldwide whose own description of what they do matches “advertising music licensing 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 music licensing 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 music licensing companies, and records with no verified work email.
- 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, 4,931 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 19, 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 music licensing companies by location
12 lists · largest firstEvery Advertising music licensing companies list RevenueBase publishes, by country and city. Counts are matching companies in each list as of its own refresh date.
Countries
- Advertising music licensing companies based in the United States674
- Advertising music licensing companies based in the United Kingdom296
- Advertising music licensing companies based in Germany82
- Advertising music licensing companies based in France75
- Advertising music licensing companies based in Canada43
- Advertising music licensing companies based in Australia38
- Advertising music licensing companies based in the Netherlands35
- Advertising music licensing companies based in Brazil33
- Advertising music licensing companies based in Spain33
Cities
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 music licensing 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 music licensing companies are there worldwide?
RevenueBase identified 2,106 advertising music licensing companies worldwide 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?
BMG, headquartered in Berlin, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which country has the most advertising music licensing companies?
The United States leads with 674 companies, followed by the United Kingdom (296) and Germany (82). Every advertising music licensing companies list by country and city is linked on this page.
Which city has the most advertising music licensing companies?
London leads with 210 headquartered companies, followed by Los Angeles (172) and New York (97).
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 4,931 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 2,106 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 19, 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.