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Top 25 University athletics branding agencies based in the United States
RevenueBase identified 596 university athletics branding agencies headquartered in the United States as of September 2026 and tracks 8,103 professional contacts across them, including 1,467 with verified work emails. New York is the largest hub.
This list covers university athletics branding 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 29, 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 university athletics branding agencies based in the United States
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 378 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Van Wagner has been connecting brands to sports for over twenty years.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 273 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “rEvolution is an independent, global and fully integrated sports marketing agency comprised of industry experts in consulting and business strategy alongside marketing and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 191 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Mission Our mission is to foster a culture in which our student-athletes have every opportunity to reach their maximum potential academically, athletically, mentally and socially…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 153 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “From custom apparel and uniforms to enterprise recognition systems, Business Impact Group is a leading brand management company that brings creative solutions to your business…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 114 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Peak Sports MGMT is a 3rd Party Multi-Marketing company partnered with a number of Division 1 and high-impact Division 2 universities across the country to oversee their…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 87 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “SomethingInked is a full service marketing and promotions company located in Nashville, Tennessee.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 80 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Playfly Sports Properties is the marketing and multimedia rights holder for some of the most prestigious collegiate teams, high school state associations and sports venues across…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 76 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Meet your new brand champions.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 76 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The Specialized Marketing Group, Inc.(TSMGI) is a leading national and international sports, promotional and event marketing agency, specializing in brand-enhancing programs that…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 75 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Troika is a brand and communications consultancy with deep expertise in entertainment, media, and sports.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 53 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Position Sports is a premium brand marketing firm that specializes in sports integration strategy, event operations, activation development, media relations and digital engagement.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 50 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We build brands & products that rethink sports.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 41 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “For 30 years, idegy has been the powerhouse behind the world’s biggest brands-turning fans into superfans and moments into memories that last.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 37 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Bradley and Montgomery (our clients call us BaM) is an independent creative agency that believes the power of a brand can shorten and even turn the customer journey into a loop.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 36 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Georgia Bulldogs Sports Marketing, a joint venture between LEARFIELD and JMI Sports, is the exclusive multimedia rights holder for the University of Georgia Athletic Association.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 34 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “CLC is the nation’s leading collegiate trademark licensing company with a mission to elevate college brands through insight and innovation.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 34 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Bob Lilly Promotions (BLP) is a premier promotional merchandise and marketing agency dedicated to crafting impactful and inventive solutions that add significant value and surpass…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 34 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 32 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Tom, Dick & Harry Creative Co is Chicago’s craft agency.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 31 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Sooner Sports Properties, LLC (SSP), is the multimedia rights holder for athletics at the University of Oklahoma.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 29 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At HYVE, we transcend conventional marketing services; we are your Brand Concierge, overseeing each critical detail of marketing logistics for consistent brand growth.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 29 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Artisan Graphics specializes in creatively marketing your brand.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 26 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “ESM is the premier sports marketing agency in the country.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 26 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “About BrandRPM: You’re looking to outfit and market your company.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 25 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Integrity 9 is an industry-leading firm prioritizing first-class work for our clients, athletes, and fans.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 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: university athletics branding 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 university athletics branding agencies.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of university athletics branding agencies, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name university athletics branding 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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University athletics branding agencies based in the United States at a glance
As of Sep 29, 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 596 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 university athletics branding 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 “university athletics branding 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 university athletics branding 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 university athletics branding 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, 1,467 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 29, 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 university athletics branding 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 university athletics branding agencies are there based in the United States?
RevenueBase identified 596 university athletics branding 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?
VAN Wagner, headquartered in Waukegan, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most university athletics branding agencies?
New York leads with 20 headquartered companies, followed by Los Angeles (18) and Atlanta (14).
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 1,467 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 596 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 29, 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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