Top Illinois Digital Media Startups (154)

Built In is helps professionals discover companies, understand what it’s like to work there, and find their next opportunity. For candidates, we bring together company information, workplace insights and open roles to provide a balanced view of the employee experience, including both the strengths and challenges of working at a company. For employers, Built In provides intelligence and tools to...

At AdAction, we’re revolutionizing how brands connect with audiences through the power of mobile technology. As leaders in performance-driven marketing, we create innovative solutions that merge supply, loyalty, and rewards into seamless, mobile-first strategies. Our platform empowers brands and app developers to drive engagement, boost retention, and achieve sustainable growth by delivering personalized, reward-based experiences that foster genuine connections. With cutting-edge...

Ragan Communications is a leading publisher and resource providing training, news, networking, and events for communicators, marketers, and HR professionals worldwide.

We are building a faith-based meditation app. Think Headspace or Calm, but for prayer & catholic spirituality. We believe that we're all looking for peace, and that there is no surer way to find it than by learning to sit in silence with God: “Come to me, all you that are weary and are carrying heavy burdens, and I will...

We are an award-winning, independent media agency specializing in planning, buying and providing analytics on media performance. Three key benefits set us apart from most agencies: 1. We maximize your dollars and minimize waste. Our conviction is that since business situations and business needs differ greatly by geography, “cookie cutter” plans don’t cut it. We minimize waste by 15-25% on...

MarketerHire’s mission is to make expert marketing accessible to everyone. Our platform gives companies on-demand access to a global network of amazing, pre-vetted marketing talent and it is used by early-stage startups, billion-dollar unicorns, and Fortune 100 companies alike. By giving all companies access to amazing marketers - entrepreneurs and enterprises can focus on building great products. We are also contributing...

Marcel Digital is an award-winning website development and digital marketing agency. Founded in March 2003, Marcel remains one of the original and most well established digital marketing firms in the United States. Our mission is to change the idea of what an agency is and what it can be. Our vision is striving to be a close-knit, integrated team of...

We believe in the wisdom of the crowd, where the opinion of millions is more relevant (and far more predictive) than the opinion of one writer or critic. Visitors to Ranker have now cast over one billion votes shaping our pop culture rankings. This voting data powers a predictive insights platform with multiple applications for brands and studios.

Teads Studio (formerly Brainient) gives clients the tools to create rich, engaging and interactive video formats which can be delivered across a range of devices and reported on in real time. Teads Studio’s tools are used globally across the video ecosystem and it has integrated its solution into platforms such as Adap.tv, Videology and Brightroll. Teads, founded in 2011, are the...

Filmless is a full-service video production company and animation studio working with the world’s biggest brands – like Google, Amazon, and Apple – to create high-quality videos anywhere on the planet. Since 2015, we’ve provided over 1,200+ companies with video production services in over 70+ countries and 160+ cities across a range of categories including promo videos, animated videos, TV commercials,...

The Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning (CMAP) is a regional government planning agency that works on behalf of the 7 counties, 284 municipalities, and 8.6 million residents of northeastern Illinois. CMAP is the state-authorized regional planning agency and federally designated metropolitan planning organization (MPO). State law gives CMAP the responsibility to effectively address development and transportation challenges in northeastern Illinois through...

Zefr is the leading data and technology company that enables responsible marketing for brands, agencies and platforms. The company leverages a patented AI and machine learning engine, called Cognition AI, to offer brands and agencies more accurate and transparent activation and measurement solutions on scaled video platforms.

Accelerated Digital Media is a bootstrapped company that has recruited some of the top talent in digital marketing. We're on a mission to create one of the country's top digital marketing firms. ADM is a team of performance marketers specializing in paid media management for high-growth Digital Health and e-commerce companies. We work with our clients to manage their investments on...

Since 2009, SCUBE has worked with ecommerce brands selling technical products where performance is dictated by data accuracy, not traffic volume. The work concentrates around Google Shopping, paid search, SEO, and GTM-based tracking. The focus is spec-driven ecommerce. Auto parts, marine and boating components, heavy equipment, construction supplies, and industrial products where compatibility, attributes, and technical accuracy determine whether demand converts...

We are Chicago’s NPR news station, one of the largest and most respected public media stations in the country. Our mission is at the heart of WBEZ Chicago. We fulfill our mission at WBEZ by serving as a cornerstone of the public conversation; as a central pillar of our civic community; and by reasserting ourselves as the heart of innovation...

Praytell is a creative communications agency made by teams with strategic minds and spirited hearts. We create timely, integrated, headline-worthy campaigns across social, earned, digital, and more. After 10 years of cooking up award-winning work, we know one thing for sure - we’re just warming up.

Highdive is an independently owned, EMMY-nominated, full-service creative advertising agency based in Chicago and New York City. Founded in 2016, it specializes in the strategy, development, and delivery of high-profile marketing campaigns for prominent brands. The agency's mission is to create the healthiest client + agency relationships in the world, delivering integrated services across digital, TV, print, and earned activations.

We're a digital marketing agency with both Fortune 500 and local Chicago clients. We are passionate about working with clients to create engaging, meaningful campaigns that drive qualified traffic to their business. Our services include SEO, SEM, Content Marketing, Web Dev, and Social Media.

Gameday Radio is an internet radio broadcasting company that delivers realistic, near real-time, system-generated play-by-play of baseball games and other sporting events.  Our professional broadcasts are created from the scoring data coaches and managers capture with mobile scorekeeping applications.     Gameday Radio enables parents and fans to:LISTEN on your phone to the games you can't attendFOLLOW every pitch while away...

We're a Design and Animation startup focused on creatively achieving your goals through animation and motion graphics while keeping things fun in the process. After years of corporate and freelance work, we've decided to team up and create our own company. We create everything from logo animations to promotional, explainer, or social media videos