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Top 25 Sound design agencies based in the United States
RevenueBase identified 1,748 sound design agencies headquartered in the United States as of September 2026 and tracks 9,107 professional contacts across them, including 2,805 with verified work emails. Los Angeles is the largest hub.
This list covers sound design 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 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 sound design agencies based in the United States
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
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| 1 | 394 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Formosa Group, is a full-service post-production sound company composed of award-winning talent.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 207 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Established in 1967, Studio Center is a nationally acclaimed and award-winning firm that specializes in the creation, distribution, and measurement of media.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 161 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Founded in 2004, AV Squad is a creative advertising agency specializing in all forms of audio/visual and print advertising including theatrical trailers, television spots…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 157 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Optimus is a collective of award winning filmmakers, storytellers, and artists working with agencies and brands to develop and produce engaging and effective creative content.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 146 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The pulsating hum of a lightsaber.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 93 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “ARM is a full-service agency that specializes in audio media.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 86 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Since 2016, our team of rule-breakers and design geeks has partnered with some of the world’s most ambitious architects and designers to create stunning spaces that sound great.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 72 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Cutters Studios is a collaboration of creative elements that work together to develop the solution for your production and post production needs.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 71 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Born from entertainment, Made Music Studio, is a global sonic branding and design studio dedicated to serving all audiences by creating iconic and enduring music and sound.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 66 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Jingle Punks is an Audio Creative Agency and is one of the largest providers of music for media in the world.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 60 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “WSDG is an award-winning international firm specializing in Acoustics and AV Technology consulting and design.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 57 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We are Elias.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 55 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “ALIBI makes every kind of music for any kind of media.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 54 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Igloo Music specializes in multi-channel film mixes, live music production, voice-over, ADR and sound design.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 53 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Score a Score is a music company bringing harmony to creative collaborators.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 50 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Sound Lounge is an Emmy® award winning audio post-production studio.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 48 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Yessian Music is a full service sound company specializing in original music, sound design, music licensing/negotiations, audio post and surround mixing for film, commercials…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 47 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “With over a decade of experience in visual communication, BigStar blends design, animation, and live action in order to create compelling narratives and deliver branded content…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 45 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Chicago Recording Company has been a leader in audio excellence for over 50 years.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 44 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “JSM Music is the preeminent global commercial music production and sound design leader for the world’s most influential and compelling brands across all digital, broadcast, film…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 43 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Great stories are being told in commercials and videos with a wider potential audience than ever before.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 42 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Antfood is a global sonic studio shaping how the world sounds.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 42 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “By merging a creative advertising agency and a full-service production company, Tilt brings a more effective-and efficient-approach to content creation for brands.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 42 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “iV is an audio agency, focused on providing strategic audio branding for a wide range of global agencies and brands.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 41 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We are your creatively-tuned, one-stop shop for holistic music & sound solutions.” 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: sound design 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 sound design agencies.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of sound design agencies, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name sound design 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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Sound design agencies based in the United States at a glance
As of Sep 21, 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 1,748 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 sound design 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 “sound design 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 sound design 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 sound design 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, 2,805 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
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Sound design agencies by metro
- Sound design agencies in Los Angeles263
- Sound design agencies in New York185
- Sound design agencies in Chicago49
- Sound design agencies in Burbank48
- Sound design agencies in Atlanta43
- Sound design agencies in Miami42
- Sound design agencies in San Francisco35
- Sound design agencies in Brooklyn33
- Sound design agencies in Seattle27
- Sound design agencies in Nashville25
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 sound design 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 sound design agencies are there based in the United States?
RevenueBase identified 1,748 sound design 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?
Formosa Group, headquartered in Los Angeles, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most sound design agencies?
Los Angeles leads with 263 headquartered companies, followed by New York (185) and Chicago (49).
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 2,805 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 1,748 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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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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