Company lists · Data refreshed September 2026
Top 25 Wire service companies worldwide
RevenueBase identified 331 wire service companies worldwide as of September 2026 and tracks 22,448 professional contacts across them, including 4,791 with verified work emails. The United States is the largest market and London the largest hub.
This list covers wire service 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 22, 2026. Country and city lists for wire service 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 wire service companies worldwide
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 5,216 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Dow Jones is a global provider of news and business information, delivering content to consumers and organizations around the world across multiple formats, including print…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 4,468 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “AFP is a leading global news agency providing fast, comprehensive and verified coverage of the events shaping our world and of the issues affecting our daily lives.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 1,307 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “TT Nyhetsbyrån (TT News Agency) is the national wire service in Sweden with a history dating back to the 1920's.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 1,136 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “PR Newswire, a Cision company, is the premier global provider of multimedia platforms and distribution that marketers, corporate communicators, sustainability officers, public…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 908 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Business Wire, a Berkshire Hathaway company, has been the global leader in press release distribution and regulatory disclosure for over 60 years.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 903 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “ANSA is the no.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 873 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “PA Media is the leading multimedia content provider and national news agency offering unrivalled content and digital media services.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 778 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The ANP is the largest independent B2B supplier of news and information to all Dutch media - internet, mobile, television, radio, newspapers, magazines - and to public and private…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 547 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Europa Press is the largest private news agency in Spain.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 241 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Télam es la agencia nacional pública de noticias de la República Argentina.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 222 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Since 1920, Belga has been covering all national and international news, 24 hours a day, seven days a week and 365 days a year.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 189 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “DEMİRÖREN HABER AJANSI Demirören Haber Ajansı (DHA), son aylarında Hürriyet Haber Ajansı (HHA) ile Milliyet Haber Ajansı’nın (MİLHA) birleşmesiyle kuruldu.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 180 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Il Gruppo Adnkronos è un sistema multimediale e multicanale di informazione e comunicazione, articolato su più canali di diffusione, formati di produzione e strumenti di…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 134 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Over fifty years of history.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 130 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Nasce nel 1994 su iniziativa di Marco Durante, ancora oggi Presidente, e del fratello Massimo.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 109 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “UPI is a digital news and photo provider with a legacy of over 100 years of objective global reporting.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 96 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Freelance News Reporter” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 95 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “askanews nata dall’integrazione di TMNews e Asca per dar vita ad un nuovo polo informativo, si pone sul mercato dell’informazione come una delle principali agenzie di stampa…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 82 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “6Medias is a independent general press agency, specializing in news content edition and management for online publishers and portals on any digital medium.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 73 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “AGERPRES este cea mai prestigioasa agentie de presa din Romania, care produce si furnizeaza stiri in timp real din toate domeniile, fotografii de presa, analize si monitorizari de…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 71 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Marketwired is now GlobeNewswire by Notified.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 64 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Diario de Mallorca ofrece toda la información local, nacional e internacional actualizada al minuto.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 63 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Founded in 2015 by a senior team of corporate communications, news and financial news services executives.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 59 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Splash News is the world's leading celebrity and breaking news agency, providing images, video and stories to top publishers across the globe.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 58 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “MTI delivers news from all areas, featuring important international and national political developments, business events, sports or lighter news pieces.” 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: wire service 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 wire service companies.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of wire service companies, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name wire service 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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Wire service companies 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 wire service 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 wire service companies are linked below.
- What qualifies
- Companies worldwide whose own description of what they do matches “wire service 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 wire service 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 wire service 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, 4,791 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.
Wire service companies by location
2 lists · largest firstEvery Wire service 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 wire service 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 wire service companies are there worldwide?
RevenueBase identified 331 wire service 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?
DOW Jones, headquartered in New York, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which country has the most wire service companies?
The United States leads with 72 companies, followed by the United Kingdom (31). Every wire service companies list by country and city is linked on this page.
Which city has the most wire service companies?
London leads with 16 headquartered companies, followed by New York (9) and New Delhi (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 4,791 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 331 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.