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Top 25 Commercial audio production companies based in Chicago, United States
RevenueBase identified 130 commercial audio production companies headquartered in Chicago, United States as of September 2026 and tracks 704 professional contacts across them, including 203 with verified work emails. Los Angeles is the largest hub.
This list covers commercial audio production companies headquartered in Chicago, United States, 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 19, 2026.
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 commercial audio production companies based in Chicago, United States
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 157 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Optimus is a collective of award winning filmmakers, storytellers, and artists working with agencies and brands to develop and produce engaging and effective creative content.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 72 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Cutters Studios is a collaboration of creative elements that work together to develop the solution for your production and post production needs.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 45 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Chicago Recording Company has been a leader in audio excellence for over 50 years.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 32 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Director, creative director and designer Erin Sarofsky kick-started Sarofsky in 2009 and formed a group of extraordinarily talented makers who have been providing their services…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 22 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Periscope Post and Audio is the Midwest’s premiere full service professional post production studio.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 14 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We are a facility entrenched in the Film, Television, Advertising, Gaming and Viral entertainment world.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 14 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “BAM Studios is a leading audio post-production company dedicated to delivering unrivaled sound and service to its clients.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 12 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Creative, production, and post.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 12 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Because sound is more than half the picture.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 10 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “ARU is a post-production company, located on bustling Michigan Avenue.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 8 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We're a Chicago-based, world-traveling high definition video production company.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 8 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Chicago is an October sort of city even in spring.” - Nelson Algren October is a production & post-production studio in Chicago, IL that also has capabilities in graphics…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 7 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “An earhole is an intelligence portal.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 7 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We provide experienced broadcast camera crews, full-service video production, and powerful turnkey broadcast studio solutions for all your in-house needs.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 7 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We’re an award winning full service creative video agency that focuses on commercials, social videos, documentary, and short films.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 7 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Plum Productions is a leading Chicago video production company.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 6 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Sonixphere is an award-winning music production company specializing in Original Music, Audio Branding, Library Music, TV Music, Branded Content, and Sound Design.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 5 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “RoboToaster, is a Chicago based Content studio, which has been making DOPE shit since 2012.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 5 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We make TV commercials, web content, animations, visual effects, commercial photography and some of the world's best startup videos.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 5 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Roc Star Studio is a Chicago based, full-service photo, video production and audio recording company delivering media solutions for clients nationwide.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 5 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “See Music Studios is a Chicago based boutique music and audio production company specializing in original composition, scoring, and music licensing for advertising, film, and TV.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 4 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Working with agencies and their clients,TV and Film producers and directors, and musicians creating their own work.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 4 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Rishi Productions LLC is a full-service media production company founded in 2020 and based in Chicago, IL.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 4 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “RA IMAGING is passionate about teaming up with agencies, brands, and producers to engage their audiences.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 3 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Indivio Media is a media production company specializing in post-production, animation, video editing, motion graphics, visual effects, art direction, audio and sound design for…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 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: commercial audio production 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 commercial audio production companies.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of commercial audio production companies, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name commercial audio production 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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Commercial audio production companies based in Chicago, United States at a glance
As of Sep 19, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured across the whole United States list rather than for Chicago, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for Chicago, over 130 companies.
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 commercial audio production 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.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in Chicago, United States whose own description of what they do matches “commercial audio production 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 commercial audio production 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 commercial audio production companies, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside Chicago are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- 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, 203 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 19, 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.
Commercial audio production companies by metro in the United States
- Commercial audio production companies in Los Angeles618
- Commercial audio production companies in New York477
- Commercial audio production companies in Atlanta162
- Commercial audio production companies in Chicago130
- Commercial audio production companies in Miami102
- Commercial audio production companies in Austin83
- Commercial audio production companies in Dallas77
- Commercial audio production companies in San Francisco77
- Commercial audio production companies in Portland75
- Commercial audio production companies in Burbank73
- Commercial audio production companies in Brooklyn72
- Commercial audio production companies in Houston70
- Commercial audio production companies in Nashville61
- Commercial audio production companies in Boston55
- Commercial audio production companies in San Diego55
- Commercial audio production companies in Minneapolis53
- Commercial audio production companies in Orlando53
- Commercial audio production companies in Seattle53
- Commercial audio production companies in Santa Monica51
- Commercial audio production companies in Philadelphia50
- Commercial audio production companies in Phoenix49
- Commercial audio production companies in Denver47
- Commercial audio production companies in Las Vegas47
- Commercial audio production companies in Charlotte44
- Commercial audio production companies in Washington35
- Commercial audio production companies in Baltimore30
- Commercial audio production companies in Pittsburgh30
- Commercial audio production companies in New York City29
- Commercial audio production companies in Kansas City27
- Commercial audio production companies in Salt Lake City27
- Commercial audio production companies in Richmond26
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 commercial audio production 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 commercial audio production companies are there based in Chicago, United States?
RevenueBase identified 130 commercial audio production companies headquartered in Chicago, United States 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?
Optimus, headquartered in Chicago, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most commercial audio production companies?
Los Angeles leads with 618 headquartered companies, followed by New York (477) and Atlanta (162).
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 203 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 130 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 19, 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.
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