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Top 25 Direct response advertising agencies based in the United States
RevenueBase identified 6,166 direct response advertising agencies headquartered in the United States as of September 2026 and tracks 90,232 professional contacts across them, including 27,870 with verified work emails and 34,061 with mobile numbers. New York is the largest hub.
This list covers direct response advertising agencies headquartered in the 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 1, 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 direct response advertising agencies based in the United States
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3,247 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Hello.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 2,354 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Horizon Media is a leader in driving business-based outcomes for marketers.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 1,149 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Founded in 1895, Hakuhodo Inc.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 941 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Welcome to dentsu X.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 741 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Six decades in retail taught us something most agencies never learn.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 610 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Welcome to the machine.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 580 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Stream Companies is a full service advertising agency that specializes in launching, positioning, and long term management of brands on full service contracts and a…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 519 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We make memories that move markets.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 503 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “We are a full-service agency with capabilities in advertising, strategic planning, direct response, digital, data analytics, design and branded content.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 491 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Tombras is a 450+ person, full-service agency with a digital mindset.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 449 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Mic check.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 449 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “For over 100 years, 22squared has helped complex businesses solve their toughest challenges through insight-driven media and creative.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 448 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Arnold is an independent-minded integrated advertising agency that believes creativity should always be a lever for growth.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 413 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We are a creatively driven full-service agency committed to always being a challenger.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 378 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Deutsch is a data-inspired, culturally shaped, creative studio based in Los Angeles, California.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 377 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Money Mailer is recognized as a leader in the direct marketing industry, delivering local deals to neighborhoods since 1979.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 351 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Horizon Next is one of the industry's most innovative and data-driven marketing organizations and sits at the intersection of three constantly changing landscapes: people, data…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 351 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “TMA pushes past relevance to create true cultural resonance for brands.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 322 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “This page is being closed.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 296 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Cramer-Krasselt is one of the largest independent agencies in the US with nearly $50 million revenue, with more than 80% of that revenue coming from digital and social.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 277 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Headquartered in Columbus, OH and San Diego, CA, The Shipyard brings together talented individuals and organizations across the creative, communications, media, and digital…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 267 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “With AbelsonTaylor Group, ROI is what you’ll get.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 250 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Great marketing takes so much more than just delivering the right message at the right time - it’s about making real connections with real people.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 247 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At Hill Holliday, we help our clients fight the daily share battle with ideas that win.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 246 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “ENPOINTE works with some of the most impactful brands across industries helping them create marketing solutions that drive results and solve business problems.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 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: direct response advertising 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 direct response advertising agencies.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of direct response advertising agencies, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name direct response advertising 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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Direct response advertising agencies based in the United States at a glance
As of Sep 1, 2026Companies by employee count
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 direct response advertising 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 the United States whose own description of what they do matches “direct response advertising 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 direct response advertising 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 direct response advertising agencies, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside United States 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, 27,870 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 1, 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.
Direct response advertising agencies by metro
- Direct response advertising agencies in New York345
- Direct response advertising agencies in Los Angeles240
- Direct response advertising agencies in Chicago137
- Direct response advertising agencies in Miami111
- Direct response advertising agencies in Atlanta107
- Direct response advertising agencies in Dallas102
- Direct response advertising agencies in Austin88
- Direct response advertising agencies in Houston72
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 direct response advertising 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 direct response advertising agencies are there based in the United States?
RevenueBase identified 6,166 direct response advertising agencies headquartered in the 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?
Mediacom, headquartered in New York, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most direct response advertising agencies?
New York leads with 345 headquartered companies, followed by Los Angeles (240) and Chicago (137).
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 27,870 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 6,166 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 1, 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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