How many advertising and marketing agencies are in Makkah?
Advertising agencies, media buying and market research. Figures for Makkah, compared with the rest of the Kingdom.
2,637
active registrations in Makkah — 3rd among Saudi cities.
Ministry of Commerce data · Q3 2026 to 16 Sep
Makkah has 2,637 active commercial registrations listing advertising & marketing agencies activities as of 16 September 2026 — 6.3% of the Kingdom's total and the 3rd-most of any city.
Advertising & marketing agencies account for 3.7% of Makkah's classified registrations, 1.3× their share nationally — a city where the sector is unusually concentrated.
Across the Makkah region as a whole there are 11,378.
- Advertising & marketing agencies in Makkah
- 2,637
- 6.3% of the Kingdom
- City rank
- 3 of 69
- Cities with registrations in the sector
- Concentration
- 1.3×
- Above the national average
- Nationally
- 41,697
- 2.9% of classified registrations
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Common questions
How many advertising and marketing agencies are there in Makkah?
2,637 active commercial registrations in Makkah list advertising & marketing agencies activities as of 16 September 2026 (Ministry of Commerce data).
How does Makkah compare with other cities?
Makkah ranks 3rd of 69 cities for advertising and marketing agencies, with 6.3% of the national total.
How do I set up in advertising & marketing agencies in Makkah?
Confirm the activity code and its licence conditions, obtain a MISA investment licence (for foreign owners), register the company with the Ministry of Commerce, then get the municipal (Balady) licence for your premises in Makkah. Alpha Consultancy runs the whole sequence.
Figures are Alpha Consultancy's analysis of the Ministry of Commerce's open datasets on the Saudi Open Data Platform (open.data.gov.sa): the register of active commercial registrations (CRs) as of 16 September 2026.
Active CRsinclude main and branch registrations, as in the Ministry's own totals. Registered in a period counts CRs created in that period that were still active on 16 September 2026; registrations since cancelled are not in the source file, so older periods read lower than the number originally issued.
Partial quarter. The Ministry's Q3 2026 file is labelled as the quarter end but only contains registrations created up to 16 September 2026, so every figure here is as of that date and the latest quarter in the charts (marked *) is incomplete.
Sector figures cover the 1,443,322 active registrations (74.7%) that appear in the Ministry of Commerce's activity association file, which lists activities for registrations created up to 31 December 2025. Registrations created after that date are not yet classified. A registration counts once in each sector it is active in, so sectors overlap.
No individual business is identified on these pages; only aggregate counts are published.
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