Marketing agencies in London ranked by employee growth
Ranked from each company's filed annual accounts. This list last changed on and was last checked against the data on . Showing the top 50 of 272 companies that qualified.
- Companies qualified
- 272 of 37,266
- Ranked first
- BLIS GLOBAL LTD
- Top headcount increase
- +60 employees
- Data as of
Summary
272 marketing agencies with a registered office in London grew their average employees between their latest two annual accounts and met the rules for this list.
BLIS GLOBAL LTD (opens in a new tab) ranks first, with average employees rising from 109 to 169 (+55.0%).
The median listed company was incorporated 10 years ago. The median change among the listed companies was +53.6%.
Top 10: before and after
- Rank 1 BLIS GLOBAL LTD (opens in a new tab) 109 (2023) to 169 (2024) +55.0%
- Rank 2 PERFORMANCE54 LIMITED (opens in a new tab) 68 (2023) to 100 (2024) +47.1%
- Rank 3 CT GROUP (UK) TRADING LIMITED (opens in a new tab) 51 (2023) to 77 (2024) +51.0%
- Rank 4 KNOW MEAN FEAT GROUP LTD (opens in a new tab) 30 (2023) to 55 (2024) +83.3%
- Rank 5 LUMEN RESEARCH LTD (opens in a new tab) 34 (2023) to 58 (2024) +70.6%
- Rank 6 HIGHJAM MARKETING LIMITED (opens in a new tab) 37 (2024) to 61 (2025) +64.9%
- Rank 7 FOLD 7 LIMITED (opens in a new tab) 53 (2023) to 68 (2024) +28.3%
- Rank 8 SHARED VOICE LTD (opens in a new tab) 9 (2024) to 23 (2025) +155.6%
- Rank 9 THE MEDIA PEOPLE LIMITED (opens in a new tab) 59 (2024) to 73 (2025) +23.7%
- Rank 10 THE WILFUL GROUP LTD (opens in a new tab) 5 (2023) to 18 (2024) +260.0%
The ranking
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50 rows, the same as the table. “–” means the figure was not filed.
How this list was made
- Industry
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Companies with any of these SIC codes on their Companies House record:
- 73110 – Advertising agencies
- 73120 – Media representation services
- 73200 – Market research and public opinion polling
- 70210 – Public relations and communications activities
- Location
- The post town of the registered office address is London.
- Periods compared
- Each company's latest annual accounts against its accounts for the year before. Companies whose two latest accounts are not for consecutive years are left out.
- Ranking
- Ranked by the increase in average employees between the latest two consecutive annual accounts, then by percentage increase. Companies must have started with at least 5 average employees.
- Exclusions
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Companies that are dissolved, in liquidation, in administration or proposed to be struck off; dormant companies; and companies whose latest accounts end more than 21 months before the newest accounts in the data (or are dated after it).
Figures that cannot be right, which are most likely filing errors, are also left out:
- headcount more than 10 times the year before
- an employee number identical to the net assets figure, or above 100,000
- more employees than the company's accounts category allows (micro: 50, small: 250, with a margin)
- less than £5,000 of turnover per employee, or a round number of thousands with no turnover to check it against
- Companies checked
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Companies with a matching SIC code in London37,266Not active−6,530Dormant−2,191Latest accounts too old or wrongly dated−18,885Figure missing for one of the two years−4,201Starting figure below the minimum−4,750No increase−436Figure too large or inconsistent to be reliable−1Qualified for this list272