List of advertising agencies
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Below is a list of the major advertising agencies and marketing groups in the world, according to trade magazine Advertising Age.
[edit] By 2005 worldwide revenue
| Rank | Agency | Headquarters | Revenue |
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| 1 | Omnicom Group | New York City | 10,481.1 |
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| 2 | WPP Group | London | 10,032.2 |
| 3 | Interpublic Group of Companies | New York City | 6,274.3 |
| 4 | Publicis Groupe | Paris | 5,107.2 |
| 5 | Dentsu* | Tokyo | 2,887.8 |
| 6 | Havas | Suresnes, France | 1,808.0 |
| 7 | Aegis Group | London | 1,577.6 |
| 8 | Hakuhodo DY Holdings* | Tokyo | 1,364.0 |
| 9 | Asatsu-DK | Tokyo | 444.8 |
| 10 | MDC Partners | Toronto/New York City | 443.5 |
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| 11 | Carlson Marketing Group* | Minneapolis | 370.0 |
| 12 | Sapient Corp. | Cambridge, Massachusetts | 358.4 |
| 13 | Digitas | Boston | 340.5 |
| 14 | aQuantive | Seattle | 258.4 |
| 15 | Aspen Marketing Services | West Chicago, Illinois | 229.0 |
| 16 | Media Square* | London | 215.0 |
| 17 | HealthSTAR Communications* | Woodbridge, New Jersey | 213.0 |
| 18 | Cheil Communications | Seoul | 210.7 |
| 19 | George P. Johnson Co. | Auburn Hills, Michigan | 193.0 |
| 20 | Epsilon | Wakefield, Massachusetts | 184.4 |
| 21 | TBA Global Events | Woodland Hills, California | 175.0 |
| 22 | Monster Worldwide | New York City | 168.6 |
| 23 | Clemenger Communications | Melbourne | 166.0 |
| 24 | WB Doner & Company | Southfield, Michigan | 164.3 |
| 25 | Cossette Communication Group | Quebec City | 164.1 |
| 26 | Tokyu Agency | Tokyo | 154.1 |
| 27 | Media Consulta | Berlin | 152.2 |
| 28 | Alloy Media & Marketing | New York City | 151.8 |
| 29 | Richards Group | Dallas | 148.0 |
| 30 | Mosaic Sales Solutions | Irving, Texas | 146.1 |
| 31 | STW Group | Sydney | 134.0 |
| 32 | Bartle Bogle Hegarty* | London | 128.1 |
| 33 | M&C Saatchi | London | 123.3 |
| 34 | LB Icon | Stockholm/Amsterdam | 121.3 |
| 35 | InChord Communications | Westerville, Ohio | 118.0 |
| 36 | Chime Communications PLC | London | 114.2 |
| 37 | Marketing Store | Lombard, Illinois | 108.2 |
| 38 | Merkle | Lanham, Maryland | 108.0 |
| 39 | Wieden+Kennedy* | Portland, Oregon | 102.9 |
| 40 | RPA | Santa Monica | 102.2 |
| 41 | DVC Worldwide* | Morristown, New Jersey | 100.4 |
| 42 | Scholz & Friends Group | Hamburg | 99.0 |
| 43 | Armando Testa Group* | Turin | 98.0 |
| 44 | Cramer-Krasselt | Chicago | 96.2 |
| 45 | Serviceplan Agenturgruppe | Munich | 91.8 |
| 46 | ChoicePoint Precision Marketing | Alpharetta, Georgia | 91.5 |
| 47 | Harte-Hanks Direct | Langhorne, Pennsylvania | 88.5 |
| 48 | SourceLink | Elk Grove Village, Illinois | 86.6 |
| 49 | Protocol Integrated Direct Marketing* | Deerfield, Illinois | 84.0 |
| 50 | Asahi Advertising | Tokyo | 81.4 |
*estimate
[edit] Other notable agencies
Listed alphabetically. These agencies have won major national and international advertising awards for multimillion-dollar clients, or they were among the earliest agencies created.
- Ally & Gargano (1963-1991)
- Bozell Worldwide (founded in 1921)
- Catmandu Branded Entertainment
- Cordiant Communications Group
- Della Femina, Travisano and Partners
- D'Arcy Masius Benton & Bowles (1906-2002)
- FK3 - Communicating Innovation
- la comunidad
- MARC USA
- N.W. Ayer & Son (1869-2002)
- Lord & Thomas (founded 1873, became Foote, Cone & Belding in 1942)
- Neathawk Dubuque & Packett (founded in 1963)
- Scali, McCabe and Sloves (founded 1967, acquired by Lowe Worldwide in 1993)
