Company lists · Data refreshed September 2026
Top 25 Media firms based in France
RevenueBase identified 137 media firms headquartered in France as of September 2026 and tracks 16,611 professional contacts across them, including 1,701 with verified work emails. Paris is the largest hub.
This list covers media firms 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 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 25 largest media firms based in France
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1,080 contacts → | ||||
Indirect 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 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 657 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Reworld Media est un groupe média adtech international, premier groupe média thématique en France et le deuxième groupe média sur l’Open Web.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 389 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “L’Express est une marque média de référence depuis 1953 : un hebdomadaire, un site internet, des applications, des podcasts, des newsletters.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 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 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 224 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Acteur majeur de la presse en région depuis près d'un siècle, leader sur sa zone de diffusion, le groupe Centre France puise sa force dans un maillage fin du territoire français à…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 80 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “NEXTPROD is a broadcast media company based out of 2 rue du général Alain de Boissieu PARIS, France.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 65 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “CB News depuis plus de 20 ans le magazine hebdomadaire incontournable de la communication et des medias CBNewsletter la lettre quotidienne envoyée à 40 abonnés indispensable…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 64 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Humanoid publishes modern online media on French Market, driven by one ambition: to be leaders in their category.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 54 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “RADIO Tendance Ouest est créée en novembre 1982 par Benoit et Noëlle Leclerc de Sonis, sous le nom de Radio Manche.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 46 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Horyzon Media se simplifie et se renforce en devenant Horyzon … tout simplement.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 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 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 41 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “LINK est une agence de communication née de l'alliance de publicitaires et de producteurs de contenu on et off-line.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 41 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Télévista s’est imposé en moins de 3 ans comme l’un des seuls acteurs indépendants de l’édition télévisuelle en France ayant émergé aux côtés des historiques de l’audiovisuel.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 37 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Paramount Global (NASDAQ: PARA, PARAA) est un groupe mondial leader des médias et du divertissement, proposant des contenus et des expériences de qualité aux publics du monde…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 29 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “DMLS TV is a media company that produced and distributed multiplatform entertainment content such as La chanson secrète, La chanson challenge, Les 500 choristes ensemble, La…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 25 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Infopro Digital Media, la régie media B2B du groupe Infopro Digital.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 21 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “The media covering influential talents and events in the cultural and entertainment industries.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 19 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “MBB est l’agence leader du marché du financement média alternatif en France.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 18 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Radio France Publicité est la régie publicitaire du groupe Radio France, qui rassemble 14,7 millions d’auditeurs chaque jour* sur ses antennes France Inter, franceinfo, ICI…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 15 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Le Groupe Mont Blanc Médias est un groupe médias régional multi-plateformes avec ses 2 radios propriétaires; Radio Mont Blanc & Playlist Radio, sa plateforme sociale dédiée à la…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 15 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “EG ACTIVE, régie publicitaire d'ESPACE GROUP, un des acteurs majeurs du marché publicitaire français, dont le siège est à Lyon.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 11 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Teleparis Galaxie : producteur indépendant de contenus plurimedia Fondation & Vision: Sous l'impulsion visionnaire de Stéphane Simon, Teleparis Galaxie est né avec une mission…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 7 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 7 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Créée en 2016, Belinda Media a déjà fidélisé de grandes Marques, aussi exigeantes que Gifi, Tati, Etam, Undiz ou Mercedes… Son secret : Belinda Media propose une communication…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 7 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Groupe Cerise rassemble chaque mois plus de 15M de visiteurs uniques sur ses 2 médias pureplayers : Oh!” 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 firms. 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 firms.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of media firms, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name media firms. 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 firms based in France at a glance
As of Sep 21, 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 137 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 firms, 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 “media firms”. 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 firms), 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 firms, 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, 1,701 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 firms by metro
- Media firms in Paris51
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 firms, 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 firms are there based in France?
RevenueBase identified 137 media firms 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 media firms?
Paris leads with 51 headquartered companies, followed by Boulogne-Billancourt (6) and Neuilly-Sur-Seine (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 1,701 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 137 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.