1,100 new advertising and design companies
registered in the UK, August 2026.

13,730 over the last twelve months, and 79,856 advertising and design companies on the register today. The newest 50 are named below. That is about 38 a day, somewhere in the country. 621 registered in the last 30 days to 25 September 2026, 140 this week (provisional).

Snapshot 1 September 2026, monthly, not live. The register total counts live companies only, and a company with codes in two trades sits in both. How the counts are made.

Advertising & design · United KingdomAugust 2026
New in August
1,100
Down 12% on July 2026
Last 12 months
13,730
Sep 2025 – Aug 2026 · 1,144 a month
Share of all new companies
2.7%
13,730 of the 515,810 companies counted across all 39 trades in the last twelve months. That makes advertising and design the number 12 trade on the register.
Last 30 days to 25 September 2026, provisional
621
140 in the last 7 days · Provisional: from the Companies House API feed, limited companies only, before the monthly register file.
Source: Companies HouseSnapshot 1 September 2026
Digital and professional · The register

The 50 newest advertising and design companies registered in the UK.

Newest first across the towns in the source files. A town links to its full advertising and design list when that page exists, otherwise to the broader town page. Each company number links to its own Companies House record.

The 50 most recent of 13,494 advertising and design companies registered across 1,071 towns, Sep 2025 to Aug 2026.
Company Town Registered
AMANDA MARSHALL DESIGN LTD Hitchin 31 August 2026
BELLBEE LTD Birmingham 31 August 2026
CVRS GROUP LTD Nottingham 31 August 2026
DSK GLOBAL EXPORTS LIMITED Sunderland 31 August 2026
IJAZ RISING LTD Cheadle 31 August 2026
LEVERAGE OS LTD Nairn 31 August 2026
LIVSEY MEDIA MANAGEMENT LTD Preston 31 August 2026
NOSEYBOARD LTD Prestwick 31 August 2026
STUDIO FRESNEL LTD Horsham 31 August 2026
WONDERS AT WORK LTD London 31 August 2026
A&N HERITAGE GROUP LTD London 30 August 2026
GETADS LIMITED Middlesbrough 30 August 2026
KKOMPILE LTD Birmingham 30 August 2026
LIBERTYZONE LTD Gloucester 30 August 2026
MEHASI GROUP LTD Manchester 30 August 2026
NS23 SPORTS LTD Manchester 30 August 2026
ODD SOCIAL LTD Barrow-in-Furness 30 August 2026
RANK LINKS PRO LTD Leicester 30 August 2026
SJ LIFESTYLE GROUP LTD Retford 30 August 2026
STREAM AND STONES STUDIOS LTD Ely 30 August 2026
ZHEA FASHION WORLD LTD Leeds 30 August 2026
ACE 7 NETWORK LTD Sheerness 29 August 2026
ELLAMAKES LTD London 29 August 2026
FINEST MEADOW LTD London 29 August 2026
GALAXY BRANDS LIMITED Colchester 29 August 2026
HART & FORGE LTD Maidstone 29 August 2026
PENELOPE HARRISON LIMITED London 29 August 2026
SOLAR BRIDGE UK LIMITED Accrington 29 August 2026
TRADERISEUK LTD Bradford 29 August 2026
TRUE PEAK MEDIA LTD Bournemouth 29 August 2026
ALSAFE LIMITED Manchester 28 August 2026
AMMPLE LTD London 28 August 2026
ARIEXON DIGITAL LTD Manchester 28 August 2026
BBCOTV LTD London 28 August 2026
BLAZERS INTERIOR LTD Oldham 28 August 2026
BYTECREST SOLUTIONS LTD Grays 28 August 2026
CAM WIZARD LTD Swindon 28 August 2026
CIRCA77 LTD London 28 August 2026
CLEAR INSOLVENCY SOLUTIONS LTD Redruth 28 August 2026
CLEARVIEW GOODS LIMITED Manchester 28 August 2026
COOL FOX LABS LTD Leamington Spa 28 August 2026
DE GRUSSA LIMITED West Sussex 28 August 2026
DIGITAL MORSE LTD Wolverhampton 28 August 2026
DISCOVER VALE LTD Bath 28 August 2026
DJC INTERIORS LIMITED Liverpool 28 August 2026
ELEVATED VISUALS LTD Betchworth 28 August 2026
FAROLIS LTD Liverpool 28 August 2026
GLOBE PRINT SOLUTIONS LIMITED Harrow 28 August 2026
HOUSE OF LAUREN HELEN LTD Chelmsford 28 August 2026
KLAIM LIMITED Upminster 28 August 2026

Names, numbers and incorporation dates are free to reuse under the Open Government Licence. What the register does not carry is a way to contact any of them. That is the part we sell.

Digital and professional · Twelve months

March was the busiest month.

Monthly registrations of advertising and design companies across the UK. The busiest month was March on 1,287. The quietest was December on 851.

New advertising and design companies in the UK, by month

Sep 2025 – Aug 2026 · 13,730 in total

Previous months August 2026

Registrations dip over Christmas and pick up in the new year in almost every trade, so compare a month with the same month a year earlier rather than with the one before it.

2015 to 2026

How far back it goes.

Advertising & design companies on the register by year of incorporation, and this year measured against the same run of months last year.

New advertising and design companies in the UK, by year

2015 to 2026 · 2026 counts January to August only

Complete years 2026, part year
January to August 2026 9,377 New advertising and design companies so far this year
Same months, 2025 8,118 Up 16% year on year
2025, the last full year 12,471 Against 2,001 in 2015

Older years undercount. The register only holds companies that still exist. Anything formed in an earlier year and since dissolved has dropped off it, so the further back the chart goes the more it undercounts. That alone makes every trade look like it is growing. Some of the rise here is real growth and some of it is simply that recent companies have had less time to close. The long view of UK company formation works through it in full, across all 39 trades.

Sep 2025 – Aug 2026

Where they're starting up.

Every town with a page of its own for new advertising and design companies: 77 of them, covering 58% of the UK total for the trade. The rest are spread thinly across towns too small to count reliably.

New advertising and design company registrations by town. The bar shows the twelve-month figure relative to London, the largest. The mark and the bar carry the digital and professional family colour.
Town Aug 2026 Last 12 months Relative twelve-month volume
London 175 2,865
Birmingham 27 333
Manchester 29 309
Glasgow 13 165
Leeds 14 163
Liverpool 16 157
Bristol 12 153
Nottingham 15 147
Leicester 13 146
Ilford 11 103
Edinburgh 7 100
Milton Keynes 6 98
Newcastle upon Tyne 2 94
Sheffield 8 88
Harrow 6 87
Wolverhampton 38 86
Bolton 7 82
Norwich 19 82
Luton 4 79
Reading 8 77
Bradford 8 73
Oldham 5 70
Southampton 2 70
Brighton 3 69
Cardiff 6 68
Coventry 9 66
Northampton 3 66
Slough 6 64
Peterborough 3 62
Croydon 4 58
Derby 2 58
Preston 4 57
Stoke-on-Trent 3 56
Huddersfield 3 55
Romford 6 54
Salford 2 54
Cambridge 4 50
Wembley 6 49
Barking 8 48
Doncaster 6 47
Stockport 4 46
Hull 5 45
Watford 3 45
Cheltenham 2 44
Belfast 4 43
Hounslow 3 43
Bedford 5 42
Bournemouth 3 42
Bromley 1 42
Chelmsford 4 42
Dagenham 4 42
Maidstone 1 42
St Albans 2 40
York 2 39
Colchester 4 37
Swindon 6 37
High Wycombe 5 36
Walsall 0 36
Middlesbrough 5 35
Aberdeen 5 34
Enfield 3 34
Portsmouth 3 34
Uxbridge 5 34
Hayes 4 33
Warrington 2 33
Edgware 2 32
Oxford 2 32
Aylesbury 3 31
Exeter 1 31
Hemel Hempstead 1 31
Wakefield 5 31
Ashford 2 30
Crawley 3 30
Ipswich 3 30
Rochdale 3 30
Rotherham 1 30
Swansea 3 30
United Kingdom, all towns 1,100 13,730

Towns come from the post town on the registered office address, except where that office is a formation agent: those companies are counted in the town established from their directors' other companies, or not counted at all. A town needs at least 30 new advertising and design companies in twelve months before it gets a page, so the rows above do not add up to the national total. How towns are worked out.

The whole digital and professional family · All 39 trades nationally · Browse every town

Once a month, every new advertising and design company registered in the UK. The new month's count and the names behind it, by email. Nothing to buy, and one click to stop.