Company lists · Data refreshed September 2026
Top 25 Photography licensing companies worldwide
RevenueBase identified 526 photography licensing companies worldwide as of September 2026 and tracks 5,637 professional contacts across them, including 620 with verified work emails. The United States is the largest market and New York the largest hub.
This list covers photography 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 20, 2026. Country and city lists for photography 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 photography licensing companies worldwide
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 833 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “A picture is worth a thousand words, but the memories are priceless.” At Canvera, we always strive to help you in cherishing those invaluable moments of your life.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 766 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Magnum Photos is a collective of acclaimed, independent photographers who share an ongoing commitment to documenting world events, people, places, daily life and culture.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 199 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Corbis is a creative resource for advertising, marketing and media professionals, providing a comprehensive selection of stock photography, illustration, footage, typefaces and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 182 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At EPA Images, we capture the world in its most compelling moments.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 174 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Colorvision International was founded in 1977 by Dick Simmons, the creator of the "heads on bodies" computerized image system.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 158 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Photographers Direct is a photographic portal to help picture buyers and researchers find suitable stock photos for any media.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 155 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 112 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We are IMAGO.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 75 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Arcangel Images is a global leader in rights-managed, human-crafted photography and illustration for book publishing, entertainment, and premium creative industries.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 62 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Redux Pictures is an independent commercial, editorial and syndication photo agency based in New York with an international roster of photographers.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 61 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Westend61.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 53 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Privately-owned photographic agency, founded in 1935, representing photographers for corporate assignment photography, photojournalism, and stock photography.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 48 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “A Fotoarena é uma agência de fotojornalismo e banco de imagens que licencia fotografias nacionais e internacionais, além de ilustrações, tiras e charges.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 44 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “picture alliance dpa Picture-Alliance GmbH based in Frankfurt/Main is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the German Press Agency dpa and as such one of the leading photo agencies in…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 44 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Camera Press is one of Britain's top independent picture agencies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 43 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We are one of the largest image stock banks catering to the needs of both Indian and International advertisers, publishing houses, marketing and media professionals and we offer…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 40 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “PIXSELL® is the leading photo and video agency in Croatia and the region.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 40 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “For over 50 years, SuperStock has been a creative partner to brands, agencies, and publishers around the world.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 40 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Established in by former Allsport and Getty Images veterans, Icon Sportswire is one of the leading photographic wire services and image licensing organizations in the business…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 37 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Vielseitige und kompetente Dienstleistungen zur Fotografie: Ein umfassendes Bildarchiv zur Lizensierung von mehr als 13 Millionen Bildmotiven, Beratung und Vermittlung von mehr…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 34 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We are Image Professionals.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 34 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Scanpix is Scandinavia's largest photo agency and offers access to over 20 million images - including the world's largest international archives.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 34 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Created in 2002 and based in New York, Polaris has built a worldwide reputation in the editorial photography industry.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 32 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The Mega Agency is a global editorial photo agency and publishing technology platform built for the speed of modern media.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 32 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Masterfile Corporation is a privately owned global visual content licensor, with a stellar collection of rights-managed and royalty-free stock images.” 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: photography 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 photography licensing companies.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of photography licensing companies, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name photography 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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Photography licensing companies 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 photography 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 photography licensing companies are linked below.
- What qualifies
- Companies worldwide whose own description of what they do matches “photography 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 photography 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 photography 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, 620 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.
Photography licensing companies by location
3 lists · largest firstEvery Photography licensing companies 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 photography 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 photography licensing companies are there worldwide?
RevenueBase identified 526 photography 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?
Canvera Digital Technologies PVT LTD, headquartered in Bangalore, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which country has the most photography licensing companies?
The United States leads with 127 companies, followed by the United Kingdom (48) and Germany (27). Every photography licensing companies list by country and city is linked on this page.
Which city has the most photography licensing companies?
New York leads with 27 headquartered companies, followed by London (22) and Hamburg (7).
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 620 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 526 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.