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Top 25 Media buying agencies based in Canada
RevenueBase identified 82 media buying agencies headquartered in Canada as of September 2026 and tracks 343 professional contacts across them, including 142 with verified work emails. Toronto is the largest hub.
This list covers media buying agencies headquartered in Canada, 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 media buying agencies based in Canada
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 48 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Hotspex Media is the #1 ranked media buying and planning agency, as reviewed by clients on Clutch.co.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 17 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “At Genuine Media, we strive to use traditional media in non-traditional ways.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 16 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “M&K Media is a Canadian media planning and media buying agency, located in Toronto.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 15 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “A nimble group of digitally- and analytically-minded marketing specialists, working with great brands to deliver marketing & media Return On Investment (ROI) and Return on Effort…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 14 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Guru was founded in 2010 to provide expert media strategy and negotiation by experienced media professionals.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 12 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “H31 est une agence de publicité à services 360 depuis plus de 30 ans, basée à Québec, Montréal et Trois-Rivières.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 12 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “TUFF Media specializes in managing advertising campaigns on platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Bing, Youtube, Google, and more.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 11 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “ROC Media was founded on the professional opportunities encountered over 15 years of being in stride and pace within the ever-changing advertising landscape.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 9 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Kick Media is a stand-alone media planning and buying agency, with offices in Edmonton and Calgary, Alberta.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 8 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Vector Media Canada (no relation to Vector Media in New York) is a media planning and buying company that helps its clients take advantage of the rapidly expanding media universe.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 8 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Danijel & Co is a business & communication agency firm: This can involve partnerships with broadcasting networks, cable or satellite providers, publishing houses, online…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 6 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Creating Custom Marketing Solutions Roberts Marketing bridges the gap between traditional & digital media.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 6 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Mira Media is a Halifax-based full-service media planning and buying agency providing services to local and international markets which has been purpose built to meet our clients…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 6 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Empathy is a media agency built for a world shattered into infinite cultures.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 5 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Barlow Media is a wholly independent specialized full service media solutions provider focusing on strategic media planning, negotiation and execution.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 5 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Agence de publicité.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 4 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “CC Media Communications Media strategy and turnkey creative advertising.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 3 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Spécialistes en placement média, nous couvrons tous les aspects d'une stratégie publicitaire (étude, recherche, planification, négociation, achats).” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 3 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Agence de services média complets, incluant la planification, la recherche, la stratégie et les achats média.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 2 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “WTR Media Sales is a company specializing in traditional and new media advertising solutions throughout Western Canada.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 2 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Just Media Inc has its headquarters in the GTA region and is a comprehensive media advertising agency that primarily focuses on brand promotion services, integrated media…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 2 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We specialize in multicultural marketing, whether regional or national in scope, or targeting a single or multiple ethnic communities.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 2 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Welcome to Regalook.ca, your premier partner in transformative advertising solutions.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 2 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “A media buying company with over 25 years of experience in television, radio, print, out of home and digital platforms.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 2 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Agence de publicité de Laval, CMG Communications compte plusieurs experts qui vous guideront dans vos différents projets liés à la publicité, aux médias et à la création.” 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: media buying 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 media buying agencies.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of media buying agencies, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name media buying 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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Media buying agencies based in Canada at a glance
As of Sep 20, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for Canada, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for Canada, over 82 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 buying 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 Canada whose own description of what they do matches “media buying 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 media buying 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 media buying agencies, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside Canada 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, 142 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.
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 buying 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 media buying agencies are there based in Canada?
RevenueBase identified 82 media buying agencies headquartered in Canada 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?
Hotspex Media, headquartered in Toronto, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most media buying agencies?
Toronto leads with 19 headquartered companies, followed by Montreal (8) and Vancouver (8).
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 142 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 82 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.