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Top 25 Audiobook publishers worldwide
RevenueBase identified 1,199 audiobook publishers worldwide as of September 2026 and tracks 23,003 professional contacts across them, including 4,374 with verified work emails. The United States is the largest market and London the largest hub.
This list covers audiobook publishers 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 21, 2026. Country and city lists for audiobook publishers 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 audiobook publishers worldwide
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3,337 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Stories are transformative.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 2,248 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We deeply believe in the power of books to connect people, amplify diverse voices, create meaningful change, and make a lasting impact in the world.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 2,079 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Simon & Schuster is a global leader in the field of general interest publishing, providing consumers worldwide with a diverse range of quality books across a wide variety of…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 555 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We are a storytelling company.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 411 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “I 95 butiker och på nätet erbjuder Akademibokhandeln ett stort och väl sammansatt sortiment av böcker samt inspirerande varor för alla som vill planera och förvara, skriva och…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 372 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Ingram Book Group is a wholesale distributor of books, periodicals and audio books to booksellers, librarians, and specialty retailers.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 365 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Founded in Copenhagen in 2019, Podimo is a platform for podcast and audiobook lovers as well as audio content creators.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 318 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Tantor Media is an RBmedia company.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 288 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Penguin Random House Canada, the country’s largest book publisher, aims to nourish a universal passion for reading by connecting authors and their writing with readers everywhere.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 249 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “A history stretching back over 200 years, HarperCollins is the second largest consumer book publisher in the world.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 224 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Publishing great books by talented writers and forging connections with readers for the long-term.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 190 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Die Bastei Lübbe AG ist der größte unabhängige Publikumsverlag Deutschlands.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 162 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Founded in 1995, John Marshall Media is a multi-Grammy winning, full-service, audio production, digital distribution, and marketing services specializing in audiobooks, podcasts…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 149 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Spines: Revolutionizing Publishing with AI At Spines, we're redefining the publishing journey, Our mission?” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 144 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Recorded Books is RBmedia’s flagship audio brand for bestselling authors and content spanning all high-demand fiction and nonfiction genres.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 135 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Saga is a publishing house under the parent company Lindhardt & Ringhof – the second largest publishing house in Denmark and digital market leaders.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 126 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We are part of global publisher Simon & Schuster.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 125 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Nextory is one of Europe's largest streaming services for audiobooks, ebooks and digital magazines.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 111 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Our mission at Hachette Australia is to make it easy for everyone to discover new worlds of ideas, learning, entertainment, and opportunity.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 111 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Há 20 anos compartilhando as melhores histórias.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 100 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Bookwire GmbH was founded in Frankfurt in 2010 as a service provider for the distribution of e-books and digital content.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 94 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Bolinda is a world-leading audiobook and technology company.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 91 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Audioteka was founded in 2008, becoming a pioneer of the audiobook industry in Poland.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 85 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Meulenhoff Boekerij, gevestigd in de Mondriaantoren te Amsterdam, is een van de grootste boekenuitgeverijen (marktleider in e-books) van Nederland en publiceert onder twee merken…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 74 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Presença is an independent trade publisher of fiction and non-fiction books.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 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: audiobook publishers. 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 audiobook publishers.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of audiobook publishers, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name audiobook publishers. 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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Audiobook publishers worldwide at a glance
As of Sep 21, 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 audiobook publishers, 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 audiobook publishers are linked below.
- What qualifies
- Companies worldwide whose own description of what they do matches “audiobook publishers”. 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 audiobook publishers), 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 audiobook publishers, 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, 4,374 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 21, 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.
Audiobook publishers by location
5 lists · largest firstEvery Audiobook publishers list RevenueBase publishes, by country and city. Counts are matching companies in each list as of its own refresh date.
Countries
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 audiobook publishers, 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 audiobook publishers are there worldwide?
RevenueBase identified 1,199 audiobook publishers 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?
Audible, headquartered in Newark, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which country has the most audiobook publishers?
The United States leads with 289 companies, followed by the United Kingdom (87) and Germany (78). Every audiobook publishers list by country and city is linked on this page.
Which city has the most audiobook publishers?
London leads with 28 headquartered companies, followed by Paris (20) and Berlin (19).
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 4,374 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 1,199 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 21, 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.