Company Directories

Directories of Canadian Advertising Companies

AgencySearch.ca
The Institute of Canadian Advertising's website offers an excellent search engine containing a vast directory of Canadian advertising agencies.

Marketing North America
An excellent and comprehensive resource directory for marketing professionals.

The Research Buyer's Guide
A comprehensive directory, listing companies and organizations that provide marketing research services and products. This directory is provided by the Professional Marketing Research Association.

Mediastop
Contains an excellent database of Canadian ad agencies as well a variety of resources for media companies.

Canadian Companies Capabilities
Canadian Company Capabilities is Industry Canada's searchable online directory of Canadian companies.

SourceCAN
SourceCAN is an e-based marketplace of business opportunities. It enables Canadian companies to find business opportunities electronically, in Canada and in the international marketplace.

Other Directories and Sources of Ad Agency Information

Mind
Provides business profiles of more than 470 of the world's leading advertisers and advertising agencies, including history, up-to-date news, financial information and over 19,000 external consumer brand, corporate and worldwide links.

Adforum
Another pre-eminent provider of ad agency information is Adforum. This interactive database provides agency profiles and creative work with direct links to more than 18,000 agencies.

Adage.com
To keep up with sage advertising gurus adage.com offers marketing, advertising, interactive and international news feeds and media news, information and analysis on marketing across borders and offers a database of 400 advertisers, the agencies and 22 agency networks that handle the accounts. Site ranks the top 25 world brand advertisers and top agency networks.

Advertising Age's Agency Preview
Agency Preview is a commercial online database of 5464 advertising, media-buying, public relations, direct marketing and other marketing communications companies in the U.S.