Company lists · Data refreshed September 2026
Top 25 Trade association publishers worldwide
RevenueBase identified 574 trade association publishers worldwide as of September 2026 and tracks 6,830 professional contacts across them, including 1,388 with verified work emails. The United States is the largest market and London the largest hub.
This list covers trade association 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 22, 2026. Country and city lists for trade association 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 trade association publishers worldwide
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 259 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Welcome to Publishers Weekly Group.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 153 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Gardner Business Media is the premier publisher for the heart of manufacturing in North America – providing unique, one-of-a-kind, relevant information of keen interest to the…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 147 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The Book Industry Study Group (BISG) is a membership organization made up of a diverse slate of publishers, manufacturers, wholesalers and distributors, libraries, retailers, and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 124 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Comag Marketing Group (CMG) provides publishers comprehensive business services that drive efficiencies and deliver value.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 107 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Sosland Publishing is home to the food industry's most trusted media resources.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 97 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Misset Uitgeverij is uitgever van de meest toonaangevende titels binnen de agrarische sector.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 93 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 86 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “TAPPI is the leading association for the worldwide pulp, paper, packaging, and converting industries and publisher of Paper360º and TAPPI JOURNAL.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 85 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Holzmann Medien ist ein Familienunternehmen mit starken Print- und Onlinemarken, die zum großen Teil über Jahrzehnte gewachsen sind.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 82 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “One Industry One Voice Mash Media Group Ltd.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 80 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Gruppo editoriale con oltre 30 riviste rivolte ad un pubblico B2B nei settori dell'agricoltura, Ict, architettura e design, ospitalità e ristorazione, retail e marketing…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 75 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Especializado em publicações editoriais” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 71 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Mediaforce represents the interests of the UK’s local and regional news media publishers to advertisers and their agencies through our offices in London, Manchester, Edinburgh…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 70 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Strategic Value Media (SVM) is a media publisher that specializes in addressing the unique needs of trade associations and advertisers who need to reach specialized trade…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 67 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Founded in 2002, Cahaba Media Group is a growing company with an entrepreneurial mindset.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 61 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Mission CCIR is committed to provide innovative solutions to public policies, while strengthening its members’ network and the welfare of the business community as a whole.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 61 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Now the News Media Alliance: like our new page:” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 47 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Business Link Magazine Group have been publishing magazines for over 30 years.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 46 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “For 35 years now, TeDo Verlag has specialized in the publication of specialist media for industry, trade and commerce.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 44 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Rapid News Group is a group of specialist international magazine publishing, trade event and digital media companies focused on business-to- business communications in the…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 44 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “IBPA, the Independent Book Publishers Association, is a trade association of independent publishers including traditional and hybrid publishers, author-publishers, university and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 44 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Simmons-Boardman Publishing Corporation is one of the oldest, most well-respected, privately held B2B publishers.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 42 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The Progressive Publishing family of publications includes Progressive Dairy, Progressive Dairy – Canada, Progressive Dairy – en français, Progressive Cattle, Progressive Forage…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 40 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Innovative Publishing has mastered association communications and non-dues revenue generation.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 39 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Wir verlegen eine Vielzahl an Titeln, die inhaltlich punktgenau an den Interessen der Entscheidungsträger in den jeweiligen Branchen ausgerichtet sind und daher als verlässliche…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 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: trade association 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 trade association publishers.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of trade association publishers, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name trade association 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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Trade association publishers worldwide at a glance
As of Sep 22, 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 trade association 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 trade association publishers are linked below.
- What qualifies
- Companies worldwide whose own description of what they do matches “trade association 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 trade association 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 trade association 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, 1,388 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 22, 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.
Trade association publishers by location
4 lists · largest firstEvery Trade association 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 trade association 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 trade association publishers are there worldwide?
RevenueBase identified 574 trade association 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?
Publishers Weekly, headquartered in New York, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which country has the most trade association publishers?
The United States leads with 136 companies, followed by the United Kingdom (58) and Germany (52). Every trade association publishers list by country and city is linked on this page.
Which city has the most trade association publishers?
London leads with 14 headquartered companies, followed by Berlin (9) and New York (8).
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 1,388 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 574 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 22, 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.