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Top 25 Paid media agencies based in Chicago, United States
RevenueBase identified 79 paid media agencies headquartered in Chicago, United States as of September 2026 and tracks 829 professional contacts across them, including 274 with verified work emails. New York is the largest hub.
This list covers paid media 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 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 paid media agencies based in Chicago, United States
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 161 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Strike Social’s machine learning technology is an end-to-end YouTube, Meta, TikTok, and all-biddable social execution platform built to generate savings for agencies and deliver…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 137 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Galactic Fed is a full-service digital marketing agency focused on one thing: HELPING BUSINESSES GROW THEIR REVENUE.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 126 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Architects of Growth; Optimizers of Outcomes.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 35 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Radio Advertising was established in 1963 specializing in broadcast advertising for small to mid-size businesses.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 31 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We’re an independent, full-service Chicago-based media planning and buying agency delivering smart insights, precision and impeccable service to our clients.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 24 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Since 2016, we’ve been your trusted partner in cutting-edge digital marketing and performance-driven success.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 19 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “SEO Design Chicago works with companies looking to increase their brand presence and grow their business through online digital advertising.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 19 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Perfect Search Media is a top-rated, Chicago-based digital marketing agency.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 18 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “For more than 50 years, Fox Associates, Inc.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 18 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Accuen is Omnicom Media Group’s programmatic agency, operating the industry’s first open and flexible platform for programmatic media buying for the world's leading marketers.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 17 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “DS & P is an digital marketing agency offering SEO, PPC, Social Media Management, Crowd-Funding, Website Development and Branding Solutions.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 11 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Tower Media Advertising is a full-service Direct Response media buying agency dedicated to making advertising dollars count.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 9 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “MBuy is the leading everychannel media partner.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 9 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We just turned 25!” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 9 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “NAF Digital is a digital media agency and targets accounts across multiple verticals.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 8 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Integrated Search Solutions | Cross-Platform Social Solutions | E-Commerce Campaign Solutions Allied Digital Strategies connects agencies and brands with the industry’s leading…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 7 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Launch ad campaigns or an entire agency in less than a minute.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 7 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Paid Advertising for ecommerce businesses - The Profitable Way.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 5 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Why HK Digital-Free paid media audits to show our strategy upfront before signing anything-Risk-free, month-to-month contracts with no long-term commitments-Guaranteed performance…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 4 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Effective Marketing is a full-service provider of innovative and creative data-driven paid media research, media planning, media buying and paid media analytics and media…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 3 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At Scaled Reach, we're passionate about helping our clients achieve extraordinary results through targeted digital marketing.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 3 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “WHO WE ARE: We are a team of former Meta Marketing Science Partners who use data science to measure, experiment, optimize, and improve your paid media performance.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 3 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Profitable, sustainable growth.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 2 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “SAVAGE Media Group is a Chicago-based Digital Marketing Agency specializing in media production, paid media management & digital analytics.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 2 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Paid search is all we do!” 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: paid media 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 paid media agencies.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of paid media agencies, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name paid media 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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Paid media agencies based in Chicago, United States at a glance
As of Sep 21, 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 79 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 paid media 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 “paid media 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 paid media 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 paid media 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, 274 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.
Paid media agencies by metro in the United States
- Paid media agencies in New York256
- Paid media agencies in Los Angeles155
- Paid media agencies in Miami106
- Paid media agencies in Chicago79
- Paid media agencies in Austin77
- Paid media agencies in Dallas70
- Paid media agencies in Atlanta69
- Paid media agencies in Houston66
- Paid media agencies in San Francisco60
- Paid media agencies in Tampa59
- Paid media agencies in Sheridan55
- Paid media agencies in Denver53
- Paid media agencies in Las Vegas50
- Paid media agencies in San Diego48
- Paid media agencies in Phoenix39
- Paid media agencies in Orlando36
- Paid media agencies in Portland36
- Paid media agencies in Scottsdale36
- Paid media agencies in Seattle33
- Paid media agencies in Minneapolis30
- Paid media agencies in Boston27
- Paid media agencies in Charlotte27
- Paid media agencies in Philadelphia27
- Paid media agencies in Washington26
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 paid media 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 paid media agencies are there based in Chicago, United States?
RevenueBase identified 79 paid media 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?
Strike Social, headquartered in Chicago, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most paid media agencies?
New York leads with 256 headquartered companies, followed by Los Angeles (155) and Miami (106).
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 274 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 79 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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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.
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