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Top 25 Editorial agencies based in the United Kingdom
RevenueBase identified 1,064 editorial agencies headquartered in the United Kingdom as of September 2026 and tracks 5,408 professional contacts across them, including 1,340 with verified work emails. London is the largest hub.
This list covers editorial agencies headquartered in the United Kingdom, 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 editorial agencies based in the United Kingdom
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
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| 1 | 136 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The Drum covers modern marketing, agency business, creativity & the future of media.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 130 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Final Cut is a creative editorial company, working across advertising, film and television.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 128 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Redactive is a London-based content and publishing agency that focuses on the core professional body membership sector and has unrivalled experience in this field.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 83 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Halpern is an agency powerhouse.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 64 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We are a media production agency based in Soho, est 1972.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 63 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Beast is a flexible, forward-thinking production partner to agencies & brands based in central London.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 55 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “YBM is a multiple award-winning content marketing agency.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 52 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Hurst group comprises of: Hurst Media Company – the UK’s trusted media publisher We are a contract publishing house that publishes positive content in print and online titles that…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 48 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “TV ADVERTISING, TV COMMERCIALS, VIDEO & CONTENT PRODUCTION, ADVERTISING, SOCIAL MEDIA MARKETING AND BRAND CONSULTING FOR THE MOST AMBITIOUS BRANDS, BUSINESSES AND STARTUPS ON THE…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 45 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “ma makes brands impossible to ignore.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 44 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “For over 25 years, Crosby Associates Media has been providing efficient, quality publishing and marketing solutions.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 44 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Liberty PR is a national PR agency based in Leicestershire.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 42 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Offline Video Editing” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 42 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “An independent creative company obsessed with using the POWER OF CREATIVITY to drive change and BUILD BRANDS Our strategy-led creative polymaths have a stunning record of shaping…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 34 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “PA EDitorial Ltd has been proudly providing prestigious editorial services since the late 1990's.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 32 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “PharmaReview, an IQVIA business, provides copy review services to the life science industry, with the aim of rapid throughput to approval and certification.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 32 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At emc we understand content.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 29 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Reviewed & Cleared is a specialist media law practice that provides expert pre-publication and pre-broadcast, business affairs, employment, trademark, drama clearances including…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 29 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We are content specialists, dedicated to the world of finance and business.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 28 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “SHOW was founded by Peter Howarth, formerly editor-in-chief of Arena and Esquire magazines, Ian Pendleton (Royal College of Art and Esquire) and Joanne Glasbey (The Economist and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 27 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “December19 is a media planning and buying agency.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 27 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We’re a team of senior strategists, writers, designers and client service professionals who know what is worth knowing, are exposed to global best practice and value craft and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 26 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We’re a passionate team of media buyers, copywriters, strategists, animators, designers, analysts, techies & more.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 26 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The World Media Group is an alliance of leading, global media organisations united in providing trusted and renowned journalism.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 25 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Network London is an independent creative production agency specialising in the delivery of highly-crafted print and digital content.” 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: editorial 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 editorial agencies.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of editorial agencies, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name editorial 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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Editorial agencies based in the United Kingdom at a glance
As of Sep 19, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for United Kingdom, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for United Kingdom, over 1,064 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 editorial 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 Kingdom whose own description of what they do matches “editorial 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 editorial 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 editorial agencies, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside United Kingdom 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, 1,340 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.
Editorial agencies by metro
- Editorial agencies in London401
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 editorial 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 editorial agencies are there based in the United Kingdom?
RevenueBase identified 1,064 editorial agencies headquartered in the United Kingdom 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?
The Drum, headquartered in London, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most editorial agencies?
London leads with 401 headquartered companies, followed by Manchester (21) and Birmingham (19).
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 1,340 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 1,064 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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