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Top 25 Pro bono advertising agencies based in Canada
RevenueBase identified 318 pro bono advertising agencies headquartered in Canada as of September 2026 and tracks 2,908 professional contacts across them, including 1,077 with verified work emails and 283 with mobile numbers. Toronto is the largest hub.
This list covers pro bono advertising agencies headquartered in Canada, 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 5, 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 pro bono advertising agencies based in Canada
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
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| 1 | 461 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “LG2 is a creative agency that firmly believes its work must serve progress.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 355 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We develop strategic, creative solutions that aren’t afraid of challenging tradition, because the way we see it – great marketing shouldn’t have to feel like marketing.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 248 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 166 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Running a company is a little like building a plane while flying it.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 156 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “For over 50 years, Saatchi & Saatchi has been where the world’s greatest brands have come for the biggest, world-changing ideas.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 89 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Little Black Book Top 10 Agency 2025.(Oh, and the #2 Agency in North America in 2025 according to Adforum's PHNX Awards, but y'know, who's counting.) Over the past 23+ years…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 58 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “UpHouse is an international, award-winning creative, marketing, PR and talent agency.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 42 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We’re a full-service agency helping transform brands through our expertise in strategy, media, and effective creative.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 36 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Berlin is an independent, owner-operated creative agency based in Edmonton, Alberta.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 29 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Briteweb is a B Corp certified, award-winning creative agency partner focused on enabling the change we wish to see in the world.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 28 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “From big ideas to business cards and billboards to SEO, we help our clients elevate and amplify their brands.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 28 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The Advertising Project is a student-run club organized out of Wilfrid Laurier University, created by students with a passion for advertising and design.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 27 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Sticks & Stones is one of Canada's leading creative marketing agencies that is based in Edmonton Alberta.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 26 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Forsman & Bodenfors Canada is now 72andSunny Toronto!” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 24 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Since 2014, AM/FM has offered marketing and brand development services across various industries.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 22 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “On vous renverse_ Sous forme collaborative, La boîte rend le monde du marketing accessible, autant par l’approche, l’expérience client et la centralisation des actions.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 21 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Enhancing your marketing initiatives defines what Sims Advertising is all about.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 20 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We create winning campaigns for good causes.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 20 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We are a full-service marketing and advertising agency working with clients in southwest Ontario and southeast Michigan.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 20 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At Growth Hacker, we understand that in today's competitive marketplace, brands need to do more than just exist - they need to thrive.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 19 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Arnold Street Media, Inc.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 17 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “PLG is a marketing agency specializing in digital marketing campaigns.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 16 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Gestion de portefeuilles publicitaires Stratégie publicitaire traditionnelle et numérique Création de contenus Design graphique Image de marque Gestion de communautés” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 16 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Calling all status quo defiers, innovators, and history-makers: we're here to help.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 16 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Barrett and Welsh is a branding & advertising agency that moves people with ideas in order to change the world.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 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: pro bono 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 pro bono advertising agencies.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of pro bono advertising agencies, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name pro bono 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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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 pro bono 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 Canada whose own description of what they do matches “pro bono 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 pro bono 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 pro bono advertising agencies, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside Canada 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, 1,077 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 5, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
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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 pro bono 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 pro bono advertising agencies are there based in Canada?
RevenueBase identified 318 pro bono advertising agencies headquartered in Canada 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?
Lg2, headquartered in Montreal, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most pro bono advertising agencies?
Toronto leads with 90 headquartered companies, followed by Montreal (29) and Vancouver (28).
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 1,077 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 318 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 5, 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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