Company lists · Data refreshed September 2026
Top 25 Licensing and royalty firms worldwide
RevenueBase identified 861 licensing and royalty firms worldwide as of September 2026 and tracks 11,751 professional contacts across them, including 4,289 with verified work emails. The United States is the largest market and London the largest hub.
This list covers licensing and royalty firms 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 20, 2026. Country and city lists for licensing and royalty firms 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 licensing and royalty firms worldwide
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1,177 contacts → | ||||
Indirect 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 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 826 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “CONCORD is the world’s leading independent music company.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 666 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Musik bringt uns kleine Glücksmomente und große Gefühle.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 441 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “ICE Services is a music technology company built by rightsholders, for rightsholders.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 398 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Create.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 344 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Somos la Sociedad General de Autores y Editores (SGAE), una entidad privada dedicada a la defensa y gestión colectiva de los derechos de propiedad intelectual de nuestros más de…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 330 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The Southern African Music Rights Organisation (SAMRO) is a leading regional copyright administration business, dealing primarily with the administration of music Performing…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 321 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “SESAC Performing Rights drives efficiency in licensing for music users and enhances value for its affiliated writers, publishers, and composers by providing timely, efficient…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 241 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Born in Barcelona in 2006, BMAT was founded by engineers who believed that music and data should play in harmony.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 237 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Your music.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 211 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Leverage the only rights and royalties management software built to identify, manage, simplify, and monetize your IP effectively.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 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 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 186 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Gushcloud is a global creator and IP management and licensing company powered by AI.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 154 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 146 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Connor (also known as Connor Consulting)’s mission is to make a positive impact on our people, the clients we serve, and the communities we live in.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 141 contacts → | ||||
Partial 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 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 126 contacts → | ||||
Partial 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 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 121 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “A leading publishing industry innovator for over 30 years, PARS International is proud to be the official content and IP licensing agent for many of the world’s top media brands.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 109 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “As a not-for-profit company, we distribute our revenues back into the creative industries helping to ensure rights holders are fairly remunerated when their works are used.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 107 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “In its nearly 50-year history, Talent Partners has grown from a specialty payroll company focused on commercial talent to a powerhouse provider of essential services, including…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 105 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Wise Music Group is one of the world’s leading independent music publishing companies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 98 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “IPRS is to legitimize the use of copyrighted Music by Music users by issuing them Licenses and collect Royalties from Music Users, for and on behalf of IPRS members i.e.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 84 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We're a not-for-profit organisation that provides simple licensing solutions to copy and share copyright-protected words, images and plans.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 80 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Nightlife Music is one of the largest employers in the Australian music industry.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 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 20, 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: licensing and royalty 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 licensing and royalty firms.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of licensing and royalty firms, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name licensing and royalty 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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Licensing and royalty firms worldwide at a glance
As of Sep 20, 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 licensing and royalty 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.
- Coverage
- Every country. Country and city lists for licensing and royalty firms are linked below.
- What qualifies
- Companies worldwide whose own description of what they do matches “licensing and royalty 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 licensing and royalty 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 licensing and royalty firms, 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, 4,289 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 20, 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.
Licensing and royalty firms by location
3 lists · largest firstEvery Licensing and royalty firms list RevenueBase publishes, by country and city. Counts are matching companies in each list as of its own refresh date.
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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 licensing and royalty 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 licensing and royalty firms are there worldwide?
RevenueBase identified 861 licensing and royalty firms 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 licensing and royalty firms?
The United States leads with 283 companies, followed by the United Kingdom (102) and Germany (46). Every licensing and royalty firms list by country and city is linked on this page.
Which city has the most licensing and royalty firms?
London leads with 63 headquartered companies, followed by New York (49) and Los Angeles (38).
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 4,289 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 861 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 20, 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.