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Top 25 Media buying agencies based in the United Kingdom
RevenueBase identified 188 media buying agencies headquartered in the United Kingdom as of September 2026 and tracks 2,106 professional contacts across them, including 879 with verified work emails. London is the largest hub.
This list covers media buying 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 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 the United Kingdom
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 295 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “the7stars is the UK’s largest independent media agency, offering the best people, the best service and the best creative media campaigns.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 178 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “All Response Media is the leading performance media planning and buying agency.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 75 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “One Agency: Creating, Delivering and Connecting brands.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 57 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “MJ Media are a fully independent media planning & buying agency.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 51 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Adgenda Media International (AMI) was established in 2005 as an independent, strategic results-driven media agency.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 50 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “From our office in London & Leeds, we seamlessly plan and buy media across all channels: digital, TV, cinema, OOH, radio, print, social and search.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 48 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Media Agency Group is an advertising agency specialising in the purchasing and planning of all media formats across the spectrum of advertising.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 48 contacts → | ||||
Partial 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 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 44 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “As an independent media agency we think differently.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 38 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “CNS Media is an independent, award-winning, full-service marketing agency, combining exceptional media buying power with digital and creative expertise.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 37 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We are a UK-leading independent media agency that helps to partner your creativity with strategic media positioning.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 30 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Our portfolio includes traditional print news media, magazines, digital news media, inserts and unaddressed mail.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 28 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Established in 1992 Mirabelle is a London based full service international marketing and advertising agency.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 27 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “December19 is a media planning and buying agency.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 25 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “At Running Total, we strive to be the best independent full-service media agency.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 24 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We are leading experts in planning, booking and buying radio advertising on all analogue, digital and On Demand platforms.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 24 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Where people and creativity drive real results.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 23 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “At JWE Media, we take care of your marketing and advertising needs, from TV to Press, Out of Home to Digital, we manage the whole process ensuring we save you time and money.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 21 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Guerillascope is a full-service media agency, with serious chops across AV, out-of-home, publishers, digital, and partnerships.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 19 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Route offers advertisers and communication agencies media solutions to solve client and customer briefs.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 18 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “White Spider Media agency's name has been fraudulently used by third parties, often communicating via messaging services on unofficial websites and apps and targeting job seekers.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 18 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Mostly Media is an independent media buying agency based in Bath.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 18 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “RH Advertising is one of South West England's largest full service communications agencies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 18 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Ekstasy, founded in 2007, is a multi award winning Creative Advertising Agency.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 17 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Those great advertising campaigns you see in just the right place at just the right time?” 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 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 188 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 the United Kingdom 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 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, 879 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.
Media buying agencies by metro
- Media buying agencies in London76
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 the United Kingdom?
RevenueBase identified 188 media buying 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?
The7stars, headquartered in London, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most media buying agencies?
London leads with 76 headquartered companies, followed by Manchester (6) and Birmingham (5).
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 879 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 188 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.