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Top 25 Publisher direct sales based in the United States
RevenueBase identified 212 publisher direct sales headquartered in the United States as of September 2026 and tracks 8,392 professional contacts across them, including 1,698 with verified work emails. New York is the largest hub.
This list covers publisher direct sales 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 publisher direct sales based in the United States
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 525 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Raptive provides higher revenue through superior ad tech, expert strategy, and best-in-class support.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 402 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “TripleLift is the Creative SSP that transforms digital advertising through creative technology and innovative ad formats.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 392 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Founded in WideOrbit helps media companies do more business by making it easier to sell advertising.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 213 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Mediavine powers monetization for independent publishers, delivering the technology, demand infrastructure, and revenue performance that digital businesses need to grow.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 174 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “AdPushup was formed in 2014 with a simple idea: While A/B testing was becoming popular, no one was using it to optimize publisher-side ad layouts.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 139 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Sizmek by Amazon provides advertisers and agencies with solutions to create, distribute, measure, and optimize their messaging.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 128 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “AI, Data & Revenue Technology for the Intelligent Enterprise C1X is a Silicon Valley-based AI, Data, and Revenue Technology company helping organizations transform data into…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 127 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Playwire is a global revenue amplification company with the knowledge and technology content owners need to maximize revenue and grow their audiences.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 96 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Cannella Media: Drive Profitable Response.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 61 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Marathon Ventures is a full service direct response advertising sales company.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 59 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Placements.io is the #1 omnichannel management platform for both sellers and buyers of digital advertising.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 55 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Founded in 2007, Infolinks utilizes our unique ad technology platform and publisher marketplace to provide global advertising solutions for publishers and advertisers worldwide.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 51 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Everything we do simplifies the way advertising works.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 50 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Sonobi is an independent, consumer-focused technology company that provides a fair and equitable media marketplace to connect advertisers directly with individuals.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 45 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Aditude is the unified ad tech platform that empowers app and web based publishers to maximize revenue, on any inventory, with complete control over their monetization strategy.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 33 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “FatTail, powered by Chartbeat, Inc, is a global enterprise advertising technology company.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 33 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “iMedia Audiences is trusted by Small Businesses, Brands, and Major Media Companies to manage their digital marketing, media services, media buying, outsourced ad operations, and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 31 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “OwnLocal partners with almost publishers globally to help manage digital advertising transformation.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 30 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Direct Digital Holdings (Nasdaq: DRCT) brings state-of-the-art sell- and buy-side advertising platforms together under one umbrella company.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 25 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Adipolo, founded in 2016 is the leading, one-stop-shop for all digital advertising solutions.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 21 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Broadstreet gives small publisher sales teams a reason to believe in their products-and themselves.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 21 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Wehaa specializes in turn-key online marketing and advertising solutions for the publishing industry.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 21 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Monumetric is your full-service ads partner to help publishers reach revenue goals.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 19 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Since 1968 Russell Johns has been the connection between publishers and advertisers.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 18 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Adnimation is an innovative monetization service and technology company.” 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: publisher direct sales. 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 publisher direct sales.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of publisher direct sales, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name publisher direct sales. 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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Publisher direct sales 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 212 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 publisher direct sales, 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 “publisher direct sales”. 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 publisher direct sales), 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 publisher direct sales, 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, 1,698 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.
Publisher direct sales by metro
- Publisher direct sales in New York43
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 publisher direct sales, 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 publisher direct sales are there based in the United States?
RevenueBase identified 212 publisher direct sales 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?
Raptive, headquartered in New York, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most publisher direct sales?
New York leads with 43 headquartered companies, followed by Miami (13) and Los Angeles (7).
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 1,698 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 212 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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