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Top 25 Industry database publishers based in the United Kingdom
RevenueBase identified 146 industry database publishers headquartered in the United Kingdom as of September 2026 and tracks 2,238 professional contacts across them, including 596 with verified work emails. London is the largest hub.
This list covers industry database publishers 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 20, 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 industry database publishers based in the United Kingdom
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
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| 1 | 136 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “For over 25 years, Finelight Media’s Industry leading B2B publications have delivered cutting edge insights, interviews, and features from premium brands.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 131 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “EMIS, an ISI Markets product line, is the leading provider of reliable industry and company intelligence on fast-growing markets.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 91 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Your company could be our next big story.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 82 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Exile group is a parent company that comprises TXF, Proximo, Tagmydeals, Kujenga and Uxolo as its sister brands.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 79 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Based in London, Newsquest Specialist Media operates both online and in print, providing tailored business-to-business information to support and collaborate with specific…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 78 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Russell Publishing provides industry-led insight for the Rail, Transport, Pharmaceutical, Drug Discovery, Food Manufacturing and Airport sectors, through cutting-edge…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 70 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “C21Media is the market-leading B2B information provider to the international content business, combing a portfolio of publishing brands with an events business and powerful online…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 63 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Newton Media Group, holding company for Newton Media Limited, is a leading business to business publisher and full service media house serving the needs of senior professionals…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 63 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “iGaming Business is the most respected and established source of information for the regulated gaming industry.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 62 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Dynamis PLC is a leading online publisher focused upon delivering exciting web titles and technologies within the classifieds marketplace.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 47 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Business Link Magazine Group have been publishing magazines for over 30 years.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 45 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “MA Business manages a wide portfolio of business-to-business brands.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 39 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Media Business Insight (MBI) owns a unique portfolio of leading multichannel subscription-based brands, offering content and insight to key decision-makers and creatives in the…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 37 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Informed by tradition.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 37 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We are experts in the field of company and industry financial analysis.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 35 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Gold Key Media was established in 2001 and is now clearly positioned as the world’s most pro-active distributor of publications to the hospitality industry as well as reaching…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 31 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Juniper Research provides market sizing and forecasting, competitive analysis, strategic assessment, and business modelling to the world’s leading organisations and innovators…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 27 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Perendale Publishers Limited, publishers of Milling and Grain magazine (formerly Grain & Feed Milling Technology), International Aquafeed magazine, The International Milling…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 26 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “TSP Media is a B2B publisher of magazines and online platforms for the Architectural, Building, Construction, Landscaping and Amenity Sectors.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 25 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Research In Finance is an award winning market research and business information provider that specialises in the financial services market.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 24 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “MoodieDavittReport.com is published by London-based independent company Moodie International Ltd, one of the world’s most successful multi-media business-to-business publishers…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 20 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Press Gazette started in 1965 as a trade journal for journalists and editors across the UK but has evolved into an online source for media leaders covering all sectors of the…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 19 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Formed in February 2012 by John Lewis and his wife, Elizabeth Lewis, Lewis Business Media Ltd (LBM) is multi-platform media business, based on the four areas which John has over…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 19 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Western Business Media are the publishers of 9 UK Business to Business magazines - Health & Safety Matters, Industrial Plant & Equipment, Logistics Matters, Controls, Drives &…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 16 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The QMJ Group is a privately owned publishing and exhibition business that serves the quarrying, recycling and dimensional stone industries.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 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: industry database 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 industry database publishers.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of industry database publishers, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name industry database 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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Industry database publishers based in the United Kingdom at a glance
As of Sep 20, 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 146 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 industry database 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 the United Kingdom whose own description of what they do matches “industry database 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 industry database 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 industry database publishers, 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, 596 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 20, 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.
Industry database publishers by metro
- Industry database publishers in London66
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 industry database 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 industry database publishers are there based in the United Kingdom?
RevenueBase identified 146 industry database publishers 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?
Finelight Media, headquartered in Norwich, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most industry database publishers?
London leads with 66 headquartered companies, followed by Norwich (8) and Dartford (2).
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 596 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 146 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 20, 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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