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Top 25 Media startups based in France
RevenueBase identified 219 media startups headquartered in France as of September 2026 and tracks 8,523 professional contacts across them, including 2,197 with verified work emails. Paris is the largest hub.
This list covers media startups 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 19, 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 startups based in France
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2,272 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Webedia is one of the world's leading players in online entertainment.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 705 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Equativ is a leading independent media platform that empowers advertisers and publishers to achieve real outcomes across the entire digital ecosystem.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 657 contacts → | ||||
Partial 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 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 355 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 320 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “HiMedia is starting a new page and changes its name to embody its new positioning.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 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 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 253 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Groundbreaking digital media company, Konbini influenced and promoted creative journalism since 2008.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 181 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “My Little Paris is a media and e-commerce group with more than 130 employees, which addresses a community of 5 million people.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 108 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “2Empower est le groupe média des étudiants et des jeunes actifs.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 64 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Humanoid publishes modern online media on French Market, driven by one ambition: to be leaders in their category.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 48 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “AVRE, c’est le premier média d’explication en France.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 47 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Le média Booska-P s'articule aujourd'hui autour de trois principaux canaux de diffusion : son site web, ses réseaux sociaux et sa chaîne YouTube.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 44 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Marmeladz helps content creators and media to distribute and monetize their video catalog on social networks.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 44 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “IXI LIVE fédère les énergies, y associe des technologies de production de pointe et des formats novateurs.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 33 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “ZBO Media is part of FIGARO /CCM Benchmark Group (Leading FR media group with 36,6 M unique monthly visitors in France) We deliver performance driven advertising across digital…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 23 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “SOURDOREILLE est un collectif de journalistes et de vidéastes porté sur les musiques actuelles, les cultures alternatives, les nouveaux médias et la fête libérée.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 21 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “On produit des contenus frais pour rassembler devant tous les écrans!” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 16 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Bloom est le média de référence sur l’innovation pour le grand public.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 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 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 12 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “VideoClub Studio est né pour créer des contenus audiovisuels audacieux et inspirants dans un monde en révolution.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 11 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Orso Media, le groupe media smart content Business & Money.#Podcast #Finance #BusinessInsights #Investissement #Entrepreneuriat #Innovation #GestionDePatrimoine #Leadership…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 11 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Online french media about innovation at large : digital, high-tech, startups, smart city.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 11 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “YouBLive, fondée par Florent Peiffer (journaliste, ex-présentateur de la Matinale sur Itélé, présentateur BFM TV), est la première société spécialisée dans la création de contenus…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 9 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Chez Sunday Night Média, nous croyons que le sport est bien plus qu’une performance : c’est une histoire de passion, de résilience et d’émotion.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 9 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Tigersun est un groupe media pure-player indépendant présent dans 5 pays.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 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 startups. 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 startups.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of media startups, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name media startups. 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 startups based in France at a glance
As of Sep 19, 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 219 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 startups, 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 startups”. 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 startups), 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 startups, 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, 2,197 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 19, 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 startups by metro
- Media startups in Paris111
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 startups, 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 startups are there based in France?
RevenueBase identified 219 media startups 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?
Webedia, headquartered in France, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most media startups?
Paris leads with 111 headquartered companies, followed by Lyon (10) and Boulogne-Billancourt (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 2,197 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 219 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 19, 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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