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Top 12 Media businesses based in Nigeria
RevenueBase identified 114 media businesses headquartered in Nigeria as of September 2026 and tracks 1,728 professional contacts across them, including 68 with verified work emails. Lagos is the largest hub.
This list covers media businesses headquartered in Nigeria, 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 21, 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 12 largest media businesses based in Nigeria
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 696 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “DAAR Communications Plc is one of Africa's leading media and entertainment companies in the development, production, and marketing of entertainment news, and information to a…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 311 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At TVC Communications we are all about our audience Millions of viewers, listeners and readers every day all around Nigeria.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 54 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “MEDIA TRUST LIMITED is a media company engaged in Consultancy, Printing and Publishing.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 36 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Anakle is a media marketing and services development company, based in Lagos, Nigeria, with core business interests including digital media sales, application development and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 16 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Article8 Media is an agile media organisation focused on the Digital, Print, Broadcast & Outdoor Media.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 8 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Sidomex Universal is a 360-degree entertainment company driven by expertise and cutting-edge technology.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 5 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Tenth Code operates at the intersection of Connection, Innovation and Result.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 5 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Content creation, content aggregation and distribution” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 4 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Zero Degrees is a TV and radio content production company based in Lagos, Nigeria.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 4 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Welcome to D’Gallery TV, where stories meet technology to inspire, connect, and uplift.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 1 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “At OVG MEDIA, we create entertainment content from scripted drama series, documentaries to film and tv show reviews.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 1 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We are a full fledge TV, Film, and Documentary production company based in Lagos, Nigeria.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 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: media businesses. 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 media businesses.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of media businesses, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name media businesses. 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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Media businesses based in Nigeria at a glance
As of Sep 21, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for Nigeria, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for Nigeria, over 114 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 media businesses, 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 Nigeria whose own description of what they do matches “media businesses”. 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 media businesses), 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 media businesses, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside Nigeria 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, 68 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 21, 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.
Media businesses by metro
- Media businesses in Lagos37
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 media businesses, 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 media businesses are there based in Nigeria?
RevenueBase identified 114 media businesses headquartered in Nigeria 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?
Daar Communications PLC, headquartered in Abuja Fct, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most media businesses?
Lagos leads with 37 headquartered companies, followed by Ibadan (7) and Lagos State (7).
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 68 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 114 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 21, 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.
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