Company lists · Data refreshed September 2026
Top 25 Publisher direct sales worldwide
RevenueBase identified 962 publisher direct sales worldwide as of September 2026 and tracks 20,520 professional contacts across them, including 6,227 with verified work emails. The United States is the largest market and New York the largest hub.
This list covers publisher direct sales 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 publisher direct sales 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 publisher direct sales worldwide
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 910 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We’re Magnite (NASDAQ: MGNI), the world’s largest independent sell-side advertising company.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 847 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Adform is the most powerful and safe media buying platform in the world.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 808 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Founded in 2014, Azerion (EURONEXT: AZRN) is one of Europe’s largest digital advertising and entertainment media platforms.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 705 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Equativ is a leading independent media platform that empowers advertisers and publishers to achieve real outcomes across the entire digital ecosystem.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 525 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Raptive provides higher revenue through superior ad tech, expert strategy, and best-in-class support.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 402 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “TripleLift is the Creative SSP that transforms digital advertising through creative technology and innovative ad formats.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 392 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Founded in WideOrbit helps media companies do more business by making it easier to sell advertising.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 372 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Vi is the largest operator of the advertising media market in Russia and Eastern Europe.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 357 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Innity is a leading online media company in Asia that offers best in class data-driven ad tech solutions that combines creative programmatic, ad-serving, data management, audience…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 249 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 213 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Mediavine powers monetization for independent publishers, delivering the technology, demand infrastructure, and revenue performance that digital businesses need to grow.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 174 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “AdPushup was formed in 2014 with a simple idea: While A/B testing was becoming popular, no one was using it to optimize publisher-side ad layouts.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 159 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At Choueiri Group, our love for media drives everything we do.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 158 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Ureka Media provides digital media solution for both advertisers and publishers.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 151 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “YourBow provides Ad Operations and Traffic Management services for Web Publishers and Ad Agencies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 139 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Sizmek by Amazon provides advertisers and agencies with solutions to create, distribute, measure, and optimize their messaging.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 128 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “AI, Data & Revenue Technology for the Intelligent Enterprise C1X is a Silicon Valley-based AI, Data, and Revenue Technology company helping organizations transform data into…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 127 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Playwire is a global revenue amplification company with the knowledge and technology content owners need to maximize revenue and grow their audiences.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 118 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Gazprom-media sales house offers a unique advertising ecosystem in an all-in-one-window format.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 113 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “M Publicité, la régie publicitaire du Groupe Le Monde, assure la commercialisation des marques Le Monde, M Le magazine du Monde, L'Obs, Télérama, Courrier International, Le…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 113 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Founded in 2018, SOMO Media Agency operates at the intersection of ad-tech, publisher monetization, and performance marketing, a rare vantage point that lets us see the ad…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 109 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “iq digital media marketing gmbh is one of the leading sales organisations for quality digital media and media brands.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 109 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “AdMaven is constantly building an engine which yields an increased revenue for publishers, while enabling advertisers to get high performance and vast distribution for their ad…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 101 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “MonetizeMore is a Google Certified Publishing Partner that has built an award-winning suite of AdTech to empower digital publishers.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 96 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Cannella Media: Drive Profitable Response.” 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: publisher direct sales. 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 publisher direct sales.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of publisher direct sales, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name publisher direct sales. 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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Publisher direct sales 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 publisher direct sales, 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 publisher direct sales are linked below.
- What qualifies
- Companies worldwide whose own description of what they do matches “publisher direct sales”. 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 publisher direct sales), 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 publisher direct sales, 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, 6,227 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.
Publisher direct sales by location
5 lists · largest firstEvery Publisher direct sales 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 publisher direct sales, 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 publisher direct sales are there worldwide?
RevenueBase identified 962 publisher direct sales 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?
Magnite, headquartered in Worldwide, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which country has the most publisher direct sales?
The United States leads with 212 companies, followed by India (71) and the United Kingdom (66). Every publisher direct sales list by country and city is linked on this page.
Which city has the most publisher direct sales?
New York leads with 43 headquartered companies, followed by London (42) and Paris (18).
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 6,227 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 962 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.