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As of 4 November 2026, 157,266 media & content companies are based in United Kingdom: 1,416 with 51+ employees, 357 hiring right now, led by news & content portals and London.
As of 4 November 2026 · refreshed daily · counts move as websites, DNS and career sites are re-read.
- Companies, confident classification
- 157,266
- 51+ employees
- 1,416 · 1%
- Hiring now
- 357 · 152 new in 30 d
- Largest segment
- News & content portals · 80,275
- Top city
- London · 6,061
- Running cold outbound
- 48
Media & content in United Kingdom, by segment
Click a segment for its own map. Second column: companies hiring right now.
| companies · hiring | |
|---|---|
| News & content portals | 80,275 · 218 |
| User content aggregator platforms | 20,573 · 76 |
| Visual art galleries & prints | 15,860 · 0 |
| Writers & independent publishing | 13,122 · 4 |
| Music & radio | 10,392 · 14 |
| Travel blogs guides | 9,700 · 15 |
| Creator channels & influencers | 8,578 · 3 |
| Books publishing & retail | 8,079 · 11 |
| Games development & publishing | 3,490 · 41 |
| Television broadcasting | 3,213 · 12 |
| Food recipe blogs | 3,024 · 5 |
| Academic & professional publishing | 2,160 · 26 |
| Digital assets & stock media | 648 · 0 |
| companies · hiring | |
|---|---|
| Self-employed | 125,499 · 60 |
| 2-10 employees | 15,552 · 83 |
| 11-50 employees | 14,799 · 100 |
| 51-200 employees | 1,012 · 59 |
| 201-500 employees | 240 · 31 |
| 501-1000 employees | 78 · 10 |
| 1001-5000 employees | 62 · 13 |
| 5001-10000 employees | 9 · 0 |
| 10,001+ employees | 15 · 1 |
| companies | share | |
|---|---|---|
| London | 6,061 | 4% |
| Somers Town | 2,497 | 2% |
| Fleet | 677 | 0% |
| Manchester | 582 | 0% |
| Hoxton | 470 | 0% |
| Glasgow | 436 | 0% |
| Bristol | 406 | 0% |
| Newington | 396 | 0% |
| Edinburgh | 351 | 0% |
| Birmingham | 345 | 0% |
| Aldgate East | 318 | 0% |
| Liverpool | 276 | 0% |
The biggest media & content companies in United Kingdom
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The stack of media & content in United Kingdom
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157,266 media & content companies are based in United Kingdom: 1,416 with 51 or more employees, 357 hiring right now (152 opened a role in the last 30 days), led by news & content portals and London. (Breaknorm, 4 November 2026, https://breaknorm.co/market/media_content/united-kingdom)
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- ClassificationEvery company is classified from its own website into vertical, sub-vertical and leaf with a confidence score; this page counts industry confidence ≥ 0.7 and country confidence ≥ 0.8.
- Company listRich profiles with a LinkedIn-known headcount only; job boards, directories, portals and non-organisations are left out.
- HiringOpen roles read hourly from the company's own career system.
- StackScripts and embeds on the company's pages plus SPF, DKIM, MX and CNAME records of its domain.
Media & content in United Kingdom: questions
How many media & content companies are there in United Kingdom?
157,266 with a confident industry and country classification, read from their own websites; 1,416 of them have 51 or more employees.
How do you know a company belongs to media & content?
We classify every company from its own website into a vertical, a sub-vertical and a leaf, each with a confidence score. This page counts companies with industry confidence of at least 0.7 and country confidence of at least 0.8; the company list shows only rich profiles with a LinkedIn-known headcount.
Which media & content companies in United Kingdom are hiring?
357 have an open role on their own career site today and 152 opened one in the last 30 days. The full list with the hiring manager is in the product; counting is free.
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