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Top 25 Ghostwriting and editing services worldwide
RevenueBase identified 4,566 ghostwriting and editing services worldwide as of September 2026 and tracks 13,996 professional contacts across them, including 1,035 with verified work emails. The United States is the largest market and London the largest hub.
This list covers ghostwriting and editing services 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 ghostwriting and editing services 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 ghostwriting and editing services worldwide
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 220 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Proofed is the world’s leading editing agency, outfitting businesses with hand-picked teams of professional proofreaders and editors-for less than the cost of one in-house editor.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 119 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Founded in 1997, Scribendi is a pioneering internet-based language company that offers document revision services to clients in all sectors, including business, academia, and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 119 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Denso is a ghostwriter, a ghost that writes.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 118 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Editor Group provides expert writing, editing and proofreading services for business and government clients.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 56 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Bad writing costs businesses over £300 billion a year.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 54 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Reseapro Scientific Services Private Limited, a company limited by shares, founded according to the Companies Act 1956 and incorporated in February 9, 2009 with its head office…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 29 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Comma Copywriters offers best-in-class editing, writing, and strategy services.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 27 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “ProofreadingServices.com is an award-winning proofreading and editing service.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 24 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Empowering writers and promoting ideas, Flatpage is an editorial agency and publishing house that helps you connect with audiences.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 22 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “nSight®, formerly Editorial Services of New England (ESNE), was founded in 1982 to meet the need for exceptional writing and editing services.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 22 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Professional Proofreading Services ProofreadingPal is your source for professional business, resume, academic, student, essay, and book/manuscript proofreading services, 24 hours…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 22 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We specialize in providing you with timely, reliable, and high-quality scientific editing services.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 20 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The Editorial Department is one of publishing's oldest authors' services firms with a 44-year track record of helping good manuscripts become great books.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 20 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The Literary Consultancy is the UK's first and leading editorial and manuscript assessment service, working nationally and internationally since 1996.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 19 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Edioak is a leading book editing, ghostwriting, and marketing agency that partners with bestselling authors, first-time writers, and global publishers to transform manuscripts…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 18 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Content Cucumber is an on-demand writing service.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 16 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Writing services” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 15 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We are committed to making your book a best seller.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 15 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Rehoboth Academic Services specializes in academic writing, data analysis, copyediting and proofreading.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 14 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We help industry leaders turn their personal stories into brand assets so they can; tap into boundless creativity and monetize their expertise, build a legacy brand with relevance…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 13 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Publications Professionals LLC (Pubs Pros) is a small, woman-owned, veteran-owned editorial services company that takes pride in the caliber of its staff members and freelance…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 13 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The most powerful AI study app.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 12 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Freelance journalist” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 11 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Open Boat Editing provides services to nonfiction and fiction authors from inception to publication.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 11 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Lex Academic are the secret weapon of hundreds of published academics.” 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: ghostwriting and editing services. 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 ghostwriting and editing services.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of ghostwriting and editing services, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name ghostwriting and editing services. 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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Ghostwriting and editing services 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 ghostwriting and editing services, 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 ghostwriting and editing services are linked below.
- What qualifies
- Companies worldwide whose own description of what they do matches “ghostwriting and editing services”. 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 ghostwriting and editing services), 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 ghostwriting and editing services, 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, 1,035 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.
Ghostwriting and editing services by location
6 lists · largest firstEvery Ghostwriting and editing services list RevenueBase publishes, by country and city. Counts are matching companies in each list as of its own refresh date.
Countries
- Ghostwriting and editing services based in the United States1,278
- Ghostwriting and editing services based in the United Kingdom343
- Ghostwriting and editing services based in India184
- Ghostwriting and editing services based in Canada174
- Ghostwriting and editing services based in the Netherlands162
- Ghostwriting and editing services based in Australia160
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 ghostwriting and editing services, 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 ghostwriting and editing services are there worldwide?
RevenueBase identified 4,566 ghostwriting and editing services 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?
Proofed, headquartered in New York, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which country has the most ghostwriting and editing services?
The United States leads with 1,278 companies, followed by the United Kingdom (343) and India (184). Every ghostwriting and editing services list by country and city is linked on this page.
Which city has the most ghostwriting and editing services?
London leads with 98 headquartered companies, followed by New York (43) and Los Angeles (34).
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 1,035 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 4,566 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.