Company lists · Data refreshed September 2026
Top 25 Digital publishers based in Chicago, United States
RevenueBase identified 74 digital publishers headquartered in Chicago, United States as of September 2026 and tracks 574 professional contacts across them, including 99 with verified work emails. New York is the largest hub.
This list covers digital publishers 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 digital publishers based in Chicago, United States
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 139 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “OGAds is a best-in-class web content locker powering web publishers’ ability to monetize and grow their user base through opt-in and non-intrusive advertising.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 82 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “ePublishing is an AI-enabled, fully integrated modern media tech stack – driving revenue, improving productivity, and increasing engagement for publishers and media companies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 44 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “True Star is a media company and digital agency led by youth.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 26 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Local Labs, LLC is a leading publisher of community news and events information covering over communities across the country today.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 17 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Investing Media Solutions (IMS) is a premium financial media company reaching millions of influential, financially-fluent readers who are seeking out actionable editorial…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 15 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “FUNGI Media is the creative partner built for industrial B2B organizations.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 14 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “eMagazines is a software company that helps publishers of premium content create beautiful, mobile-optimized digital editions.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 12 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Hippo Media is a digital media company specializing in video production, content creation, and targeted advertising.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 8 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At Tessa, we bring exciting ideas to life – for agencies, brands, entertainment channels and sometimes.we do it just for fun.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 7 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We are a digital media company dedicated to developing and operating media brands across multiple B2B industries – and we believe B2B media should not be boring.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 6 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Chicago Star is a media company connecting people to resources and creating impactful content.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 5 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Rock Top Media is a branded-content studio, delivering magazine-quality content-by journalists, for brands.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 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. | |||||
| 14 | 4 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Steele Visuals is your dedicated partner in full-service content creation, designed to elevate your brand and connect meaningfully with your audience.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 3 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “ELEVATOR Magazine is a premier digital publication for for ahead-of-the-trend music, style and creative influencers.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 2 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Tinky Media creates videos and digital media for all kinds of people and businesses.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 2 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We’re trained journalists who know how to research, create, curate and edit great content for websites, newsletters, proposals, email campaigns, and social media.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 2 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Video Production & Post Production” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 2 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The Book Publisher For Entrepreneurs & Innovators Damn Gravity is for ambitious authors who care about quality, reach, and impact.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 2 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Mock Media creates awesome content to watch, read and, listen to!” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 1 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “ABOUT US: We build the online publications of the future - leveraging ai to create substantive thought leadership content that drives brand growth.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 1 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Here at Kaprice Marie, LLC, we are passionate about delivering nothing but the best when it comes to content creation.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 1 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “At Sinsheimer Digital Media, your online presence is our priority.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 1 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Amplify your sales with our all inclusive marketing firm.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 1 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Image Arcade is a a full-service creative production house driven to tell authentic stories through digital content based in Chicago, Colorado, and Los Angeles.” 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: digital 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 digital publishers.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of digital publishers, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name digital 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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Digital publishers 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 74 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 digital 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.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in Chicago, United States whose own description of what they do matches “digital 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 digital 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 digital publishers, 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, 99 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.
Digital publishers by metro in the United States
- Digital publishers in New York358
- Digital publishers in Los Angeles304
- Digital publishers in Miami95
- Digital publishers in Atlanta79
- Digital publishers in Chicago74
- Digital publishers in San Francisco68
- Digital publishers in Austin56
- Digital publishers in Houston46
- Digital publishers in Las Vegas43
- Digital publishers in Orlando38
- Digital publishers in Dallas37
- Digital publishers in Boston34
- Digital publishers in Brooklyn34
- Digital publishers in San Diego34
- Digital publishers in Nashville33
- Digital publishers in Denver31
- Digital publishers in Portland28
- Digital publishers in Santa Monica28
- Digital publishers in Philadelphia27
- Digital publishers in Seattle27
- Digital publishers in Phoenix25
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 digital 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 digital publishers are there based in Chicago, United States?
RevenueBase identified 74 digital publishers 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?
OGADS, headquartered in Chicago, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most digital publishers?
New York leads with 358 headquartered companies, followed by Los Angeles (304) and Miami (95).
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 99 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 74 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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