Top Advertising Startups in 2026

Linqia combines the science and accountability of online media with award-winning service to deliver guaranteed influencer marketing results for our clients. Our AI-driven platform and team of experts are leading the transformation of influencer marketing into a scalable media channel. The Linqia platform also serves as a social content lab, where marketers can organically test and amplify the best performing influencer content to drive greater ROI from their paid, owned and earned media. Founded in 2012, Linqia works with over 300 leading national brands including Black & Decker, Gerber, Herdez, Kimberly-Clark, Mezzetta, McDonald’s, NBC, Nestle, Purina, Square, Unilever, Uniqlo, Viacom and Walmart. Linqia is headquartered in San Francisco, CA, with offices in New York, Chicago, and Bentonville.

TapClicks integrates with over 150 third-party APIs to provide digital agencies and their clients with a unified dashboard, saving them time, helping them to automate their report generation process, and allowing them to make better decisions. The platform has a very intuitive mapping process allowing agencies to connect to their third-party accounts in minutes. Here is a small sample of the services that we currently support: Advertising: - Google Adwords - Facebook Ads - Bing Ads - DoubleClick for Publishers - DoubleClick for Advertisers - AppNexus - The Trade Desk Social Media: - Facebook Insights - Twitter - Foursquare - LinkedIn Company Pages Email Marketing: - Constant Contact - MailChimp - ExactTarget - Data Dynamix Others - Google Analytics - Moz - YouTube - Marchex call tracking - CallCap call tracking

Did You Know: 90% of brand apps have less than 10,000 users (Source:ComScore) FanKave platform enables brands & teams to leverage their assets ( content, personnel & access) to build & enhance their fan community, by providing a platform to delivers an interactive experience. We work with sports teams, arena/stadiums, media companies & brands to deliver a compelling user experience on their mobile app and website. We have three distinct solution modules that can be utilized separately or combined for a complete in-depth experience. Engagement module: Live event hangout, Topics based interaction & AMA session #DeepSocia Modulel: Aggregated social content about the event or brand- Personalized and curated by machine learning to provide a social pulse based on Authority, Popularity & relevancy Gamification Module: create loyalty with points & rewards and competitions polls/predictions, contests & user generated content with leaderboards & status

Yieldmo is one of the world’s fastest-growing digital advertising and attention analytics companies. Agencies and brands use its premium marketplace to create, measure, model, and optimize their campaigns for unmatched scale and performance. Underpinned by AEROS Attention Analytics, advertisers can now truly understand how consumers are interacting with ads before the click, and after the initial view. Yieldmo ultimately delivers better results by harnessing the power of attention data to drive superior audience engagement and targeting.

Smartly.io automates every step of social advertising to unlock greater performance and creativity. We automate creative production and ad buying in one single platform. We are a global team of over 350 Smartlies with footholds in 16 cities, serving more than 650 brands worldwide, including eBay, Uber and TechStyle.

Amperity is a stealth-mode enterprise software company founded by repeat entrepreneurs Kabir Shahani and Derek Slager. After a successful exit of their prior venture in 2013, the two are back at it again to address one of the largest unmet needs in the marketing technology space, and are building a powerhouse team to do so. Through the use of functional programming, modern big data tools, and a machine learning- powered data stitching platform, our team of talented engineers and trusted advisors are building a one-of-a-kind data-first application for marketing. Amperity is backed by some of the most notable names in tech -- including Madrona Venture Group, Liquid 2 Ventures, Hyde Park Ventures, and top executives and founders from multi-billion dollar companies like Concur, ExactTarget, Microsoft, and Isilon Systems.

In an important time for truth in journalism — and in a world where readers find content in distributed ways — Chartbeat enables media organizations to understand and harness genuine audience engagement. As the analytics partner for more than 50,000 leading media sites around the globe, Chartbeat tracks what people are reading on a second-by-second, pixel-by-pixel basis on each site, article and page. Our content intelligence tools and quality metrics go beyond clicks and pageviews so you can understand reader engagement — the amount of time users spend actually reading content. This helps you value your best stories and ensure they thrive across platforms and devices.

Tubi is the future of movie and TV consumption, with the largest library of streaming movies and TV shows available for free! Scratch that—we're not just the future, we're the present, too. Tubi has partnered with leading Hollywood studios including Lionsgate, Paramount and MGM to curate an extensive programming guide available on mobile, web, and connected TV devices like iOS, Android, Roku, Xbox, Playstation, Amazon Fire TV, Apple TV and more. Check out New Releases, see What's Trending, make plans for Movie Night, or browse through our diverse array of categories to find something that fits your mood. We bring the world movies and TV while never charging a cent. Tubi TV: Now Playing, No Paying.

Founded in 2009, contentsquare is a digital experience insights platform that helps businesses understand how and why users are interacting with their app, mobile and web sites. we compute billions of touch and mouse movements, and transform this knowledge into profitable actions that increase engagement, reduce operational costs and maximize conversion rates. using behavioral data, artificial intelligence and big data to provide automatic recommendations, contentsquare empowers every member of the digital team to easily measure the impact of their actions, and make fast and productive data-driven decisions to optimize the customer journey.

Roku pioneered streaming to the TV. We connect users to the streaming content they love, enable content publishers to build and monetize large audiences, and provide advertisers with unique capabilities to engage consumers. Come join us at the forefront of media and technology.