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Top 25 Pop culture merchandise retailers based in the United States
RevenueBase identified 271 pop culture merchandise retailers headquartered in the United States as of September 2026 and tracks 14,251 professional contacts across them, including 2,803 with verified work emails. New York is the largest hub.
This list covers pop culture merchandise retailers 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.
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The 25 largest pop culture merchandise retailers based in the United States
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 7,083 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “At Hot Topic we pride ourselves on being the destination of pop culture and music merchandise.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 1,127 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “At BoxLunch, our fandom goes beyond pop culture.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 1,090 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Funko (NASDAQ: FNKO) is a leading pop culture lifestyle brand.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 706 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “A global brand growth platform helping partners of all sizes reach consumers in every channel.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 587 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Mad Engine specializes in products that reflect pop-culture creativity and individuality | Designs | 250+ Licenses | 12+ Global Offices | Employees” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 419 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “FYE is a leading specialty retailer of entertainment and pop culture merchandise stores in the United States and online at FYE.com.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 417 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “About Alliance Entertainment Alliance Entertainment is a leading global distributor and fulfillment partner at the center of the entertainment and collectibles ecosystem.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 232 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Dreams, Inc, a subsidiary of Fanatics, is a 30-year old vertically integrated sports memorabilia and licensed products firm.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 224 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “FOCO - our passion for passionate fans has never changed since our journey began in 1998.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 169 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Newbury Comics is an independently-owned music and pop culture company based in the northeast.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 123 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Ripple Junction began in 1992 with two guys selling t-shirts out of a van at a Grateful Dead show.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 120 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We focus on fun!” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 107 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 96 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 91 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “NECA (National Entertainment Collectibles Association) is a leading creator, marketer, and global distributor of licensed consumer products based on some of the world’s most…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 86 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “CultureFly is home to a team of pop-culture fanatics who strive to create amazing and original products for hardcore and casual fans alike.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 83 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “GTS Distribution is a leading wholesale distributor of everything gaming, toys, sports and entertainment collectibles since 1976.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 66 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Our mission to create and deliver high-quality merchandise for fans officially started in 2011, but the true origin of how our company started can be traced back to when our Chief…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 54 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 49 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “BigBadToyStore carries a massive selection of licensed action figures, collectibles, statues, and more from top companies and properties.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 45 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “There’s a serious demand for fun clothing based on sports and pop culture.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 44 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Loungefly is a consistent source of collectible fashion that allows you to express your fandom in your everyday life.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 34 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Toynk Toys has brought fans an ever-expanding array of geeky goods since its founding in 2001.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 30 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Mondo is an e-commerce collectibles company and art gallery devoted to a passionate love of film, art and music.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 29 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Webbed Sphere Inc is a network of companies and brands including: Troll & Toad, Six Hogs, Golden Groundhog, Ol Uncle Porkers, Solstice Tea Traders, Auldhome, Decorae, Cornucopia…” 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: pop culture merchandise retailers. 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 pop culture merchandise retailers.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of pop culture merchandise retailers, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name pop culture merchandise retailers. 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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Pop culture merchandise retailers 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 271 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 pop culture merchandise retailers, 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 “pop culture merchandise retailers”. 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 pop culture merchandise retailers), 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 pop culture merchandise retailers, 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, 2,803 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.
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 pop culture merchandise retailers, 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 pop culture merchandise retailers are there based in the United States?
RevenueBase identified 271 pop culture merchandise retailers 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?
HOT Topic, headquartered in City Of Industry, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most pop culture merchandise retailers?
New York leads with 8 headquartered companies, followed by Los Angeles (7) and Austin (6).
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 2,803 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 271 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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