Company lists · Data refreshed September 2026
Top 25 Magazine publishers based in France
RevenueBase identified 195 magazine publishers headquartered in France as of September 2026 and tracks 3,647 professional contacts across them, including 794 with verified work emails. Paris is the largest hub.
This list covers magazine publishers headquartered in France, 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 magazine publishers based in France
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1,080 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Bayard has 120 press titles, 70 of which are in France, 5,500 books in the catalogues of its publishing houses, and publishes more than 800 new books every year.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 303 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Mondadori France a été créé en septembre 2006 suite à l’acquisition d’Emap France, l’un des éditeurs leaders de la presse magazine en France : chaque mois 20,95 millions de…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 260 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “REDACTION ET COMMERCIALISATION SUR LES 4 SUPPORTS CI-DESSOUS : OGC NICE.COM : 10 visites quotidiennes OGC NICE TV :+ de 500 vidéos dans l'année OGC Nice Mag : 19 éditions de 10…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 233 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “For its 60th anniversary,"Le Nouvel Obs" reinvents itself and launches a new version of its website, app and magazine.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 205 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “PLS est une régie de Presse Professionnelle qui compte aujourd'hui plus de 400 titres à 80% en régie exclusive ou accord commercial qui nous permettent de bâtir des plans adaptés…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 174 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Condé Nast est un groupe média international, propriétaire de marques emblématiques telles que Condé Nast Traveller, AD, Vogue, GQ, The New Yorker, Glamour, Vanity Fair ou encore…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 129 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Créé il y a près de 30 ans, le groupe Oracom est éditeur de contenu, sous la forme de magazines grand public, de magazines professionnels, de formations grand public et…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 111 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Acteur majeur de la distribution presse depuis 1945, MLP accompagne les éditeurs dans la diffusion de plus de parutions presse auprès de plus de points de vente et marchands de…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 41 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Diverto est porté par le GIE (Groupement d’Intérêt Économique) Diverto, fondé par six éditeurs majeurs de la Presse Quotidienne Régionale : Centre France, EBRA, Rossel, Sipa…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 29 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “France Média Groupe is a newspapers company based out of 6, rue d'Armaillé 75017 Paris” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 29 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Editeur majeur et leader dans les secteurs de l’art de vivre et des enquêtes, Burda Bleu s’appuie sur des marques fortes réparties sur 3 verticales - Gastronomie : la marque…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 23 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “PGP (Les Publications Grand Public) est une filiale du groupe Reworld Média qui édite notamment les revues Science & Vie, Auto Plus, Closer, Pleine Vie, Nous Deux, Dr Good……” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 18 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Au Coeur des Villes est un éditeur indépendant de médias spécialisés dans différents univers de commerce de proximité.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 16 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “La Fédération Nationale de la Presse d'Information Spécialisée (FNPS), organisme professionnel patronal de la presse, représente près de 500 entreprises de presse éditant 1 750…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 15 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “De par sa marque Viapresse, Vialife est le leader français de la commercialisation de publications de presse (magazines, périodiques, journaux, etc.) sur Internet, par abonnement…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 14 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Casa éditions est une maison d'édition créée au sein du groupe Larivière, un groupe de presse, leader en France, dans les magazines au service des passions (moto, auto, vélo…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 10 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Mr & Mrs Media réalise des magazines haut de gamme et sur-mesure visant à mettre en lumière votre établissement et son art de vivre.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 9 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Upside Down Media est l'éditeur de L'Automobile Magazine print et digital, marque média de référence de l'automobile avec passion et expertise.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 9 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “PalaceScope est le city-club magazine préféré des Parisiens et des Trend-setters internationaux, avides de mode, de voyages et d'événements culturels.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 8 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Madmagz is a French startup based in Paris.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 8 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Maison d'édition créée en 2018.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 7 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Representing the best of independent magazines Holiday Blau international Luncheon Alphabet Useless Fighters Epoch The Plant Study A Magazine Curated By Interlope” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 4 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Toutabo is a company specialized in the distributions of magazine subscriptions off line and on line Toutabo distributes discounted magazine subsciption offers through diversified…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 4 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “MRJ PRESSE est éditeur de presse professionnelle.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 3 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “ZAP EDITIONS is a publishing company based out of ETAGE 3 RUE ALLUARD 38 PLACE DE JAUDE, CLERMONT FERRAND, France.” 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: magazine 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 magazine publishers.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of magazine publishers, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name magazine 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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Magazine publishers based in France at a glance
As of Sep 20, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for France, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for France, over 195 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 magazine 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 France whose own description of what they do matches “magazine 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 magazine 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 magazine publishers, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside France 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, 794 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.
Magazine publishers by metro
- Magazine publishers in Paris66
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 magazine 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 magazine publishers are there based in France?
RevenueBase identified 195 magazine publishers headquartered in France 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?
Bayard, headquartered in Malakoff, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most magazine publishers?
Paris leads with 66 headquartered companies, followed by Lyon (6) and Montpellier (4).
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 794 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 195 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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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.