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Top 25 Earned media agencies based in Chicago, United States
RevenueBase identified 157 earned media agencies headquartered in Chicago, United States as of September 2026 and tracks 1,076 professional contacts across them, including 447 with verified work emails. Across the United States, New York is the largest hub for this category (717 companies); Chicago has 157.
This list covers earned media 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 28, 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 earned media agencies based in Chicago, United States
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 80 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Res Publica Group is an independently owned, full-service strategic communications agency.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 54 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Combining business sense and a 360-degree viewpoint of the current public relations, social media and graphic/video design worlds as well as each of their futures, All Points PR…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 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 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 42 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Carol Fox and Associates (CF & A) specializes in arts, entertainment and lifestyle marketing.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 41 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “L.C.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 28 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “H5 is an independent PR + marketing agency delivering unconventional ideas that amplify brand stories through earned media, influencer, experiential and digital.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 27 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Since its 1997 founding, Biz 3 has grown from a humble solo operation based out of owner Kathryn Frazier's Chicago apartment into one of the top taste-making companies in the…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 23 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Skirt PR is a full-service agency in Chicago dedicated to the practice of specialized personal public relations and concentrating on fashion, beauty and lifestyle.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 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 28, 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 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 18 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The Silverman Group, Inc.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 17 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Mekky Media Relations is a boutique public relations agency providing expert guidance in publicity and communications strategies based on trusted experience, innovative ideas and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 15 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “For more than four decades, Taylor Johnson has been 100% niched in the real estate industry, bringing a deep knowledge and understanding of our clients’ business to the work we do…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 15 contacts → | ||||
Partial 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 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 14 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 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 28, 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 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 11 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Strategies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 11 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “myWHY Agency is a Chicago-based, black-owned, all women-led global powerhouse that’s revolutionizing how purpose-driven brands and game-changing business leaders tell their…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 11 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “GoldStar Communications is a premier public relations and marketing agency that helps brands move their businesses forward with best practices programs that improve the quality of…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 10 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Kaye Publicity is a full service public relations agency specializing in all things literary.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 10 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “FORGE PR is a full service communications firm that creates socially responsible strategies for their clients aimed at giving back to the community.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 10 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Karrie Leung Public Relations (KLPR), founded by Karrie Leung in 2009, is a Chicago-based, full-service boutique public relations and marketing agency with clients ranging from…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 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 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 9 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We just turned 25!” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 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: earned media 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 earned media agencies.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of earned media agencies, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name earned media 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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Earned media agencies based in Chicago, United States at a glance
As of Sep 28, 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 157 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 earned media 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 “earned media 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 earned media 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 earned media 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, 447 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 28, 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.
Earned media agencies by metro in the United States
- Earned media agencies in New York717
- Earned media agencies in Los Angeles406
- Earned media agencies in Washington185
- Earned media agencies in Miami135
- Earned media agencies in Atlanta129
- Earned media agencies in San Francisco128
- Earned media agencies in Austin111
- Earned media agencies in Boston97
- Earned media agencies in Dallas92
- Earned media agencies in Houston77
- Earned media agencies in San Diego67
- Earned media agencies in Denver64
- Earned media agencies in Las Vegas63
- Earned media agencies in Philadelphia61
- Earned media agencies in Nashville58
- Earned media agencies in Seattle57
- Earned media agencies in Tampa51
- Earned media agencies in Minneapolis46
- Earned media agencies in New York City46
- Earned media agencies in Phoenix44
- Earned media agencies in Portland43
- Earned media agencies in Beverly Hills39
- Earned media agencies in Orlando35
- Earned media agencies in West Hollywood34
- Earned media agencies in Charlotte33
- Earned media agencies in Baltimore31
- Earned media agencies in Columbus31
- Earned media agencies in Fort Lauderdale31
- Earned media agencies in Scottsdale26
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 earned media 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 earned media agencies are there based in Chicago, United States?
RevenueBase identified 157 earned media 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?
RES Publica Group, headquartered in Chicago, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city in the United States has the most earned media agencies?
New York leads the United States with 717 headquartered companies, followed by Los Angeles (406) and Washington (185). Chicago has 157.
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 447 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 157 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 28, 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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