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Top 25 Athlete image rights companies worldwide
RevenueBase identified 1,244 athlete image rights companies worldwide as of September 2026 and tracks 15,814 professional contacts across them, including 4,526 with verified work emails. The United States is the largest market and London the largest hub.
This list covers athlete image rights 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 athlete image rights 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 athlete image rights companies worldwide
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3,953 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “IMG is a leading global sports marketing agency, powering growth of revenues, fanbases and IP for more than 250 rightsholders.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 1,305 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We are Octagon.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 703 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Excel Sports Management is an industry-leading management and marketing agency that represents top-tier talent, blue-chip brands and marquee properties.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 515 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Playfly Sports is the leading REVENUE MAXIMIZER in the sports industry.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 322 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “You First is a global talent agency specializing in sports and entertainment, empowering the world's top athletes, entertainers, brands and rights holders.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 234 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “54 is a sports and entertainment agency operating across five regions and nine offices: United Kingdom (London), Europe (Sotogrande, Spain), MENA (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia & Abu…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 200 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “ICM Partners has been acquired by Creative Artists Agency (CAA), the leading entertainment and sports agency, with global expertise in filmed and live entertainment, digital…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 168 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Now part of Wasserman, CSM is a global sport and entertainment agency, offering our clients end-to-end marketing services.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 150 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Klutch Sports Group” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 144 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Athletes First is the premier sports representation and marketing agency, guiding the careers of elite athletes, coaches, executives, and broadcasters.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 115 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Premier is a full-service sports agency representing elite professional athletes.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 103 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Memento Exclusives is revolutionising the world of sports memorabilia and licensed product.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 96 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Raycom Sports is a national leader in video content production and distribution, sponsorship and media sales, event management and brand activation.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 95 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “VaynerSports is a full-service talent representation and sports marketing consulting agency with offices in New York, Los Angeles and Dallas.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 86 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Founded in 2004, Pitch International is an industry-leading sports marketing agency.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 86 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “OneTeam Partners aligns with world-class Players Associations and helps athletes maximize their name, image and likeness rights by focusing on four key areas: group licensing…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 79 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Formed in January 2019 following Gatemore Capital Management’s acquisition of TLA Worldwide’s US business, GSE Worldwide is an industry-leading, fully integrated sports and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 73 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Opendorse is the leading athlete marketplace and NIL technology company.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 62 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “ICARUS Sports is a leading full-service sports agency providing innovative content production, media distribution, commercial and events services to start-up and scale-up sports…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 60 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Sob o lema "Aqui só se trabalha por esporte!", a 213 Sports é uma agência de gestão e marketing esportivo focada na captação e ativação de patrocínios, na idealização e gestão de…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 58 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “WePlay is a global sports marketing agency, proudly part of the rEvolution family.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 52 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Established in early 2008, Cornerstone Sport & Entertainment Pvt.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 52 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Navy Blue Sports is a leading sports agency representing sportsmen & women and sports media talent.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 49 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Unique Sports Group is a world-leading sports management and representation company with over 15 years of market-leading experience.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 44 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We are a full-service, sports management agency with over 30 years of experience representing some of the top-ranked athletes in soccer, racing, golf and football, plus the next…” 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: athlete image rights 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 athlete image rights companies.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of athlete image rights companies, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name athlete image rights 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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Athlete image rights 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 athlete image rights 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 athlete image rights companies are linked below.
- What qualifies
- Companies worldwide whose own description of what they do matches “athlete image rights 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 athlete image rights 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 athlete image rights 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, 4,526 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.
Athlete image rights companies by location
6 lists · largest firstEvery Athlete image rights companies list RevenueBase publishes, by country and city. Counts are matching companies in each list as of its own refresh date.
Countries
- Athlete image rights companies based in the United States358
- Athlete image rights companies based in the United Kingdom136
- Athlete image rights companies based in France54
- Athlete image rights companies based in Brazil41
- Athlete image rights companies based in Australia40
- Athlete image rights companies based in Spain35
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 athlete image rights 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 athlete image rights companies are there worldwide?
RevenueBase identified 1,244 athlete image rights 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?
IMG, headquartered in London, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which country has the most athlete image rights companies?
The United States leads with 358 companies, followed by the United Kingdom (136) and France (54). Every athlete image rights companies list by country and city is linked on this page.
Which city has the most athlete image rights companies?
London leads with 83 headquartered companies, followed by New York (25) and Los Angeles (24).
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 4,526 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 1,244 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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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.