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Top 25 Photo licensing agencies based in the United States
RevenueBase identified 96 photo licensing agencies headquartered in the United States as of September 2026 and tracks 2,337 professional contacts across them, including 174 with verified work emails. New York is the largest hub.
This list covers photo licensing agencies headquartered in the 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 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 photo licensing agencies based in the United States
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
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| 1 | 766 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Magnum Photos is a collective of acclaimed, independent photographers who share an ongoing commitment to documenting world events, people, places, daily life and culture.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 297 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “ZUMA \'zü-mä\ n 1 : a really amazing picture agency 2 : Mayan for new day, solution, new vision 3 : Scott Mc Kiernan's loveable black lab.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 155 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 151 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 75 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Arcangel Images is a global leader in rights-managed, human-crafted photography and illustration for book publishing, entertainment, and premium creative industries.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 62 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Redux Pictures is an independent commercial, editorial and syndication photo agency based in New York with an international roster of photographers.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 53 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Privately-owned photographic agency, founded in 1935, representing photographers for corporate assignment photography, photojournalism, and stock photography.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 40 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “For over 50 years, SuperStock has been a creative partner to brands, agencies, and publishers around the world.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 40 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Established in by former Allsport and Getty Images veterans, Icon Sportswire is one of the leading photographic wire services and image licensing organizations in the business…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 34 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Created in 2002 and based in New York, Polaris has built a worldwide reputation in the editorial photography industry.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 31 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Esto photographers understand architecture from the inside out and make descriptive, engaging images of the built environment.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 24 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Trunk Archive is a full service image licensing agency representing the most engaging and sought after contemporary photographers.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 23 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The global leader in cinematic footage licensing.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 20 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Imagn, part of the USA TODAY NETWORK, captures once-in-a-lifetime, high impact moments in breaking news, sports and entertainment.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 16 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Gallery Stock represents thousands of established and emerging photographers, and illustrators who produce fresh, trend-driven, premium imagery for brands and agencies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 16 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 14 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We license Royalty-Free and Rights-Managed Medical, Science & History stock photos and videos to creative professionals in advertising, publishing & education.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 13 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “AUGUST is a unique agency model offering a boutique experience for clients worldwide.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 9 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Tetra's mission is to provide an authentic selection of dynamic, contemporary, conceptual, professional photography and footage to a discerning audience for creative content.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 6 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “As the licensing arm of The Saturday Evening Post, Curtis Licensing has been licensing the Post’s wide range of images to companies around the world for over 30 years.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 4 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “OTTO is dedicated to licensing design, architectural and interior imagery of preeminent architects and designers from around the world as captured by master contemporary…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 4 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “TONL transforms the idea of stock photography and visuals by creating content that displays diverse people and their stories around the world.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 4 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Save Time.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 3 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Revel Ink LLC provides quality original images for Advertising, Editorial, Licensing and Social Media.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 2 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Media Bakery is one of North America's largest independent traditional stock photography and footage agencies, with over 10 million rights managed and royalty free stock photos…” 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: photo licensing 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 photo licensing agencies.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of photo licensing agencies, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name photo licensing 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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Photo licensing agencies based in the United States at a glance
As of Sep 20, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for United States, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for United States, over 96 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 photo licensing 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 States whose own description of what they do matches “photo licensing 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 photo licensing 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 photo licensing agencies, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside United States 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, 174 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.
Photo licensing agencies by metro
- Photo licensing agencies in New York28
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 photo licensing 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 photo licensing agencies are there based in the United States?
RevenueBase identified 96 photo licensing agencies headquartered in the 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?
Magnum Photos, headquartered in New York, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most photo licensing agencies?
New York leads with 28 headquartered companies, followed by Brooklyn (2) and Culver City (2).
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 174 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 96 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.
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