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Top 25 Telecom media agencies based in South Africa
RevenueBase identified 1,036 telecom media agencies headquartered in South Africa as of September 2026 and tracks 7,575 professional contacts across them, including 2,089 with verified work emails and 370 with mobile numbers. Johannesburg is the largest hub.
This list covers telecom media agencies headquartered in South Africa, 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 6, 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 telecom media agencies based in South Africa
Ranked by team size| # | Company | RevenueBase Smart Search | Contacts | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Indirect evidence | 341 contacts → | |||
“A leading full-service communications agency, known for seamlessly delivering impactful solutions with unparalleled retail expertise.” Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | Indirect evidence | 302 contacts → | |||
“Founded in 1998 and growing into Joe Public in 2007, it is now one of the country’s leading brand and communications groups.” Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | Partial evidence | 168 contacts → | |||
“The MediaShop is a full service, innovative, pioneering, always evolving media agency.” Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | Indirect evidence | 164 contacts → | |||
“Most agencies keep brands comfortable.” Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | Indirect evidence | 148 contacts → | |||
“SimplyBlack” Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | Indirect evidence | 122 contacts → | |||
“2 Creative Agency in Africa.” Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | Indirect evidence | 117 contacts → | |||
“MetropolitanRepublic is a full service communications company, with a firm and highly valued Strategic and Behavioural Change reputation.” Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | Partial evidence | 95 contacts → | |||
“Don’t Look Down Production and Agency (Pty) Ltd is a multi-platform media production company and talent agency based in Johannesburg, South Africa.” Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | Indirect evidence | 91 contacts → | |||
“Across our 22+ years of retail and brand marketing, we know that it’s all about the message, medium, and moment where you capture your audience.” Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | Indirect evidence | 81 contacts → | |||
“We established Promise with no clients or start-up capital in 2005.” Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | Indirect evidence | 71 contacts → | |||
“We don’t need to tell you we’re an award-winning agency.” Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | Indirect evidence | 63 contacts → | |||
“The Up & Up Group (formerly M+C Saatchi Group South Africa) is one of the African continent’s leading independent creative group of companies and is 100% South African owned.” Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | Indirect evidence | 58 contacts → | |||
Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | Indirect evidence | 55 contacts → | |||
“Welcome to the house of Resonance™ - Mortimer Harvey.” Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | Indirect evidence | 54 contacts → | |||
“Hamiltons in Creative is a marketing and advertising company based out of Unit 25, Cornerstone Business Park, 24 London Circle, Brackengate Business Park.” Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | Partial evidence | 54 contacts → | |||
“United Stations is a specialist media sales house, boasting a national footprint of some of the top radio brands.” Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | Indirect evidence | 48 contacts → | |||
“TBWA\Hunt\Lascaris is a global Agency which provides full-service communication services to clients across the globe.” Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | Partial evidence | 36 contacts → | |||
“100 Degrees Online Marketing is a digital media specialist company and one of the leading South African media placement and online marketing agencies.” Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | Indirect evidence | 35 contacts → | |||
“We have a challenger mindset and through this have made more brands ‘go viral’, globally, than any other agency in Africa.” Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | Indirect evidence | 33 contacts → | |||
“Using radio, television and digital channels to develop holistic strategies that generate results.” Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | Indirect evidence | 32 contacts → | |||
“We are a groundbreaking digital agency re-imaging what the world believes to be mobile & digital marketing.” Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | Indirect evidence | 32 contacts → | |||
“LKDA is a dynamic and strategically driven creative agency with the core focus of assisting in the growth of our clients through powerful, insightful and innovative communication…” Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | Indirect evidence | 31 contacts → | |||
“BRAND et al is the lead advertising agency of the et al GROUP – the convergence of diverse talents, infrastructure and experience onto a single brand platform for all approved et…” Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | Indirect evidence | 30 contacts → | |||
“GREY is the advertising network of GREY Group.” Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | Indirect evidence | 29 contacts → | |||
“We believe in creative efficiency to provide agile solutions for every marketing need.” Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 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: telecom media 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 telecom media agencies.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of telecom media agencies, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name telecom media 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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Telecom media agencies based in South Africa at a glance
As of Sep 6, 2026Companies by employee count
Freshness & accuracy
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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 telecom media 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 South Africa whose own description of what they do matches “telecom media 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 telecom media 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 telecom media agencies, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside South Africa 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, 2,089 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 6, 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.
Telecom media agencies by metro
- Telecom media agencies in Johannesburg283
- Telecom media agencies in Cape Town175
- Telecom media agencies in Pretoria59
- Telecom media agencies in Durban52
- Telecom media agencies in Sandton45
- Telecom media agencies in Randburg26
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 telecom media 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 telecom media agencies are there based in South Africa?
RevenueBase identified 1,036 telecom media agencies headquartered in South Africa 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?
Ninety9cents, headquartered in Cape Town, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most telecom media agencies?
Johannesburg leads with 283 headquartered companies, followed by Cape Town (175) and Pretoria (59).
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 2,089 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 1,036 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 6, 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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