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Top 25 Corporate messaging agencies based in Chicago, United States
RevenueBase identified 202 corporate messaging agencies headquartered in Chicago, United States as of September 2026 and tracks 1,296 professional contacts across them, including 460 with verified work emails. New York is the largest hub.
This list covers corporate messaging agencies 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 corporate messaging agencies based in Chicago, United States
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 97 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “August Jackson is a U.S-based event and experience marketing agency that helps communities of purpose engage their most important audiences, moving the mission forward for leading…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 80 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Res Publica Group is an independently owned, full-service strategic communications agency.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 54 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We believe our strength is in helping clients direct-rather than react to-the ongoing conversations about them in the marketplace.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 41 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “L.C.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 32 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Tom, Dick & Harry Creative Co is Chicago’s craft agency.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 25 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “M.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 23 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We are brand experts who care about place and people and help them to tell their story through the marketing communications we create for them.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 22 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We shape narratives, launch brands, engage audiences, and drive policy outcomes.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 20 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Rise Strategy Group is a high stakes public strategy firm.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 19 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Reputation Partners (RP) is a national strategic communications and public relations firm exclusively focused on building, protecting and restoring organizational and leadership…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 17 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Heron is an award-winning, premier lifestyle communications agency.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 15 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “O’Malley Hansen Communications is a brand-building agency with core competencies in consumer public relations, cause marketing, social media, issues & crisis management and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 14 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 14 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We don’t build brands.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 12 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Mac Strategies Group is an award-winning strategic communications, public affairs, and government relations firm with offices in Chicago and Springfield, Illinois.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 12 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The Branded Agency brings a unique mindset to strategic communications, founded on the principle of providing senior-level integrated agency services, which are otherwise…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 12 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “For more than two decades, Serafin & Associates, Inc,(Serafin) has delivered cutting-edge, full-service communications and public affairs strategies to clients seeking a trusted…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 11 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The Dover Group is more than a political direct mail and digital advertising firm.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 11 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “989Group is a marketing communications agency based in Chicago and New York City.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 11 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Communication.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 11 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Big things move slow.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 10 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Jeff Winton Associates is a full-service team of seasoned and proven corporate affairs and communications strategists with extensive global experience in highly diverse industries.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 10 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “What's your story?” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 10 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “TC Public Relations is a dynamic team of communications professionals with a mission to provide excellence in public relations services.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 9 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “RCG is a corporate communications consulting firm.” 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: corporate messaging agencies. 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 corporate messaging agencies.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of corporate messaging agencies, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name corporate messaging agencies. 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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Corporate messaging agencies 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 202 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 corporate messaging agencies, 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 “corporate messaging agencies”. 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 corporate messaging agencies), 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 corporate messaging agencies, 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, 460 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.
Corporate messaging agencies by metro in the United States
- Corporate messaging agencies in New York619
- Corporate messaging agencies in Los Angeles233
- Corporate messaging agencies in Washington224
- Corporate messaging agencies in Chicago202
- Corporate messaging agencies in San Francisco142
- Corporate messaging agencies in Atlanta132
- Corporate messaging agencies in Austin109
- Corporate messaging agencies in Boston107
- Corporate messaging agencies in Miami107
- Corporate messaging agencies in Dallas104
- Corporate messaging agencies in Denver98
- Corporate messaging agencies in Houston90
- Corporate messaging agencies in Seattle78
- Corporate messaging agencies in Minneapolis75
- Corporate messaging agencies in Portland71
- Corporate messaging agencies in Philadelphia68
- Corporate messaging agencies in San Diego54
- Corporate messaging agencies in Columbus47
- Corporate messaging agencies in Nashville47
- Corporate messaging agencies in New York City47
- Corporate messaging agencies in Phoenix47
- Corporate messaging agencies in Charlotte43
- Corporate messaging agencies in Orlando43
- Corporate messaging agencies in Tampa43
- Corporate messaging agencies in Las Vegas41
- Corporate messaging agencies in Baltimore37
- Corporate messaging agencies in Raleigh37
- Corporate messaging agencies in Cincinnati34
- Corporate messaging agencies in Alexandria32
- Corporate messaging agencies in Brooklyn30
- Corporate messaging agencies in Detroit28
- Corporate messaging agencies in Milwaukee27
- Corporate messaging agencies in Pittsburgh27
- Corporate messaging agencies in San Antonio27
- Corporate messaging agencies in Birmingham26
- Corporate messaging agencies in Kansas City26
- Corporate messaging agencies in Sacramento25
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 corporate messaging agencies, 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 corporate messaging agencies are there based in Chicago, United States?
RevenueBase identified 202 corporate messaging agencies 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?
August Jackson, headquartered in Chicago, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most corporate messaging agencies?
New York leads with 619 headquartered companies, followed by Los Angeles (233) and Washington (224).
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 460 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 202 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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