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Top 25 Movie studio advertising agencies based in Chicago, United States
RevenueBase identified 101 movie studio advertising agencies headquartered in Chicago, United States as of September 2026 and tracks 951 professional contacts across them, including 301 with verified work emails. Across the United States, Los Angeles is the largest hub for this category (682 companies); Chicago has 101.
This list covers movie studio advertising agencies headquartered in Chicago, United States, 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 29, 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 movie studio advertising agencies based in Chicago, United States
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 157 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Optimus is a collective of award winning filmmakers, storytellers, and artists working with agencies and brands to develop and produce engaging and effective creative content.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 136 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Highdive (highdiveus.com) is an independently owned, EMMY-nominated, full-service creative agency located in Chicago (HQ) and New York City.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 47 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “LKH & S has joined forces with The Motion Agency!” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 32 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Director, creative director and designer Erin Sarofsky kick-started Sarofsky in 2009 and formed a group of extraordinarily talented makers who have been providing their services…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 20 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We are a group of creatives that believe we can achieve more collectively than individually.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 12 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Clients: EGO, SKIL POWER TOOLS, FLEX POWER TOOLS, FOX FACTORY We are an agency with big creatives, strategy-driven ideas, and clients that need to be on the pulse of what’s next.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 12 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Built on the foundations of a production studio, L Street Collaborative is an agency focused on creative strategy and design.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 10 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Beat Studios is an award-winning advertising production studio located in the heart of the River North neighborhood in downtown Chicago.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 8 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Chicago is an October sort of city even in spring.” - Nelson Algren October is a production & post-production studio in Chicago, IL that also has capabilities in graphics…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 7 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We’re an award winning full service creative video agency that focuses on commercials, social videos, documentary, and short films.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 6 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 5 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We make TV commercials, web content, animations, visual effects, commercial photography and some of the world's best startup videos.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 4 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Arch Advertising, creative and efficient marketing solutions that just make sense.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 4 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “A Chicago-based creative agency specializing in cinema, illustration, and design.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 4 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “RA IMAGING is passionate about teaming up with agencies, brands, and producers to engage their audiences.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 3 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Sparkfactor is a boutique advertising design and production firm located in Chicago.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 3 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At Northwoods, we are true filmmakers and story tellers at heart, and that passion crosses over into every aspect of our philosophy, even into our personal work.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 3 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “verytaste® is a New York and Chicago based, concept-to-delivery, full-service production and post-production squadron with affiliates across the globe.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 3 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Welcome to 2 East 8th Productions – your destination for standout creative content and fearless collaboration.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 3 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “TBD Creative is a full-service video production and creative agency specialized in producing engaging, turnkey video content for brands.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 3 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “All Day Breakfast is a fun and flexible production agency that offers a wealth of experience in all mediums and genres of video production.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 3 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Positive Space Media is a creative marketing agency specializing in Film Production, Animation, and other Marketing solutions.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 3 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We are a boutique postproduction studio specializing in commercial and short form branded content.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 2 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Triple 7 is a creative marketing studio intended to be the solution to the skip button.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 2 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Kevin Fermini is an Editor and Motion Graphics Artist based in Chicago, IL.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 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: movie studio advertising 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 movie studio advertising agencies.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of movie studio advertising agencies, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name movie studio advertising 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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Movie studio advertising agencies based in Chicago, United States at a glance
As of Sep 29, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured across the whole United States list rather than for Chicago, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for Chicago, over 101 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 movie studio advertising 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 Chicago, United States whose own description of what they do matches “movie studio advertising 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 movie studio advertising 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 movie studio advertising agencies, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside Chicago 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, 301 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 29, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
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Movie studio advertising agencies by metro in the United States
- Movie studio advertising agencies in Los Angeles682
- Movie studio advertising agencies in New York420
- Movie studio advertising agencies in Atlanta116
- Movie studio advertising agencies in Austin83
- Movie studio advertising agencies in Dallas77
- Movie studio advertising agencies in Miami75
- Movie studio advertising agencies in Brooklyn65
- Movie studio advertising agencies in Denver61
- Movie studio advertising agencies in San Francisco57
- Movie studio advertising agencies in Burbank55
- Movie studio advertising agencies in Santa Monica51
- Movie studio advertising agencies in Portland47
- Movie studio advertising agencies in Nashville41
- Movie studio advertising agencies in San Diego40
- Movie studio advertising agencies in Houston39
- Movie studio advertising agencies in Seattle39
- Movie studio advertising agencies in Beverly Hills37
- Movie studio advertising agencies in Philadelphia36
- Movie studio advertising agencies in Minneapolis33
- Movie studio advertising agencies in Hollywood31
- Movie studio advertising agencies in Phoenix29
- Movie studio advertising agencies in Washington28
- Movie studio advertising agencies in Boston26
- Movie studio advertising agencies in Charlotte26
- Movie studio advertising agencies in Las Vegas26
- Movie studio advertising agencies in Pittsburgh26
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 movie studio advertising 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 movie studio advertising agencies are there based in Chicago, United States?
RevenueBase identified 101 movie studio advertising agencies headquartered in Chicago, United States 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?
Optimus, headquartered in Chicago, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city in the United States has the most movie studio advertising agencies?
Los Angeles leads the United States with 682 headquartered companies, followed by New York (420) and Atlanta (116). Chicago has 101.
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 301 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 101 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 29, 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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