Marketing Directors Email List: Build One by Industry and Company Size
Cleanlist People Search returned 277,052 profiles in the United States at director level in marketing on September 22, 2026, and 722,751 worldwide. Search is free, so you can narrow the list by industry and company size before you enrich it.
Each record holds the person's name, title, employer, employer domain and location. A work email is verified when you enrich the record, through a waterfall of 25+ data providers that stops at the first verified hit, for 1 credit; a direct dial is 10 credits, and a lookup that finds nothing costs nothing. Starter is $79 a month for 1,500 credits, so 1,000 verified emails fit in one month of Starter.
By Victor Paraschiv, CMO at Cleanlist. Counted in Cleanlist People Search on September 22, 2026.
What is a marketing directors email list?
A marketing directors email list is a set of director-level marketing contacts, such as directors of marketing and heads of marketing, with verified work emails, filtered to your market.
The filter behind every count on this page: Department is Marketing and management level is Director. Search is free and unlimited on every plan, so you can reproduce any number below in the app at no cost.
Marketing directors by company size, United States
| Company headcount | Profiles | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1-10 | 28,715 | 13% |
| 11-50 | 41,378 | 19% |
| 51-200 | 37,386 | 17% |
| 201-500 | 21,838 | 10% |
| 501-1,000 | 14,238 | 7% |
| 1,001-5,000 | 26,781 | 12% |
| 5,001-10,000 | 10,903 | 5% |
| 10,001+ | 37,040 | 17% |
58,773 of the 277,052 US profiles have no headcount band on the employer, so they drop out as soon as you filter by size.
By industry, United States
| Company industry | Profiles |
|---|---|
| Software Development | 17,768 |
| Financial Services | 12,690 |
| Hospitals and Health Care | 12,630 |
| Advertising Services | 12,541 |
| Higher Education | 11,184 |
| Real Estate | 7,508 |
| Retail | 6,722 |
| IT Services and IT Consulting | 6,350 |
These industries account for 87,393 of the 277,052 US profiles (32%). Many employers carry a narrower industry label or none, so the rows do not add up to the total.
The marketing team, by level (US)
| Who | Profiles |
|---|---|
| Chief Marketing Officer or CMO, by title | 20,861 |
| VP level, Marketing department | 70,236 |
| Director level, Marketing department | 277,052 |
| Manager level, Marketing department | 393,100 |
By country
| Country | Profiles |
|---|---|
| United States | 277,052 |
| United Kingdom | 49,259 |
| Canada | 20,269 |
| Australia | 13,399 |
| Germany | 19,314 |
| India | 53,877 |
All countries: 722,751 profiles. The United States holds 38% of them.
How to read these numbers
This list is broad on purpose. Director level, as the search classifies it, takes in directors of marketing, heads of marketing and directors of single channels such as brand, digital or product marketing. If you sell to one channel, add a title keyword on top of the filter.
Marketing directors reach much further into large companies than CMOs do. 37,040 of the 218,279 US profiles with a headcount band (17%) are at companies over 10,000 employees, against 4% of US CMOs. The largest single band is 11 to 50, with 41,378.
Software Development leads the industries counted (17,768), with Financial Services (12,690), Hospitals and Health Care (12,630) and Advertising Services (12,541) close behind. Above this level sit 70,236 US marketing VPs and 20,861 CMOs; below it, 393,100 marketing managers.
What a record contains
A People Search result carries the person's name, current title, employer and employer domain, location, and the employer's headcount band and industry where they are known. Enrichment adds a verified work email for 1 credit and a direct dial for 10 credits, and each is charged only when it is found.
The waterfall behind enrichment queries 25+ data providers in sequence and stops at the first verified hit. It returns 98% verified work email and 85% direct dial on the Cleanlist 500-Lead Enrichment Benchmark, which is our own test run on a 500-lead sample. Results on your own list will differ.
Cleanlist does not own a database. People Search and enrichment query our data partners at request time, so the counts on this page move as their records change.
Build this list in Cleanlist
- Open People Search and set Department: Marketing; Management level: Director; Person's country: United States.
- Narrow it with the company headcount, industry and country rows above.
- Save the results to a list. Search is free.
- Enrich the list: 1 credit per verified work email, 10 per direct dial, nothing for a lookup that finds nothing.
- Export it, or sync it to HubSpot, Salesforce or Pipedrive.
New workspaces start on a 14-day Scale trial with 250 credits and 3 seats. Paid plans start at $79 a month with 2 seats included; the pricing page has the rest.
The same search over the Cleanlist API (Pro plan and above), as the request body:
{
"filters": {
"departments": [
"Marketing"
],
"management_levels": [
"Director"
],
"location_country": [
"United States"
]
},
"limit": 25
}How these counts were made
- Each figure is the total that Cleanlist People Search (Company Search for the funding table) reported for one filter set on September 22, 2026. Searching costs nothing, and no records were saved or enriched to make this page.
- They are counts of matching profiles. A work email or phone number is found, and verified, only when a record is enriched.
- Title filters are a near-exact string match, case-insensitive, and the titles in one filter are combined with OR. A variant we did not list is a person the count misses, so treat every title-based figure as a floor. Department and management level are the search's own classification of each title.
- Titles and employers are self-reported, so some profiles are out of date. Check a sample of any segment before you send to it.
Compliance
In the United States, CAN-SPAM allows B2B cold email when it has accurate headers, a valid physical postal address and an opt-out you honor within 10 business days. In the UK and the EU, B2B outreach generally rests on legitimate interest under the GDPR, and UK rules treat sole traders and some partnerships like individuals. Canada's CASL requires consent before commercial email in most cases, so keep Canadian contacts in their own segment. This summary is general information and does not replace legal advice for your own campaigns.
Frequently asked questions
How many marketing directors are there in the United States?
People Search returned 277,052 US profiles at director level in marketing on September 22, 2026, and 722,751 worldwide. That level includes heads of marketing and channel directors as well as directors of marketing.
Does the list include marketing agencies?
It includes directors at agencies along with everyone else. Advertising Services, the industry label most agencies carry, returns 12,541 US profiles. Exclude that industry if you only want in-house marketing teams, or filter to it if agencies are your market.
Should I email the CMO or the marketing director?
It depends on the size of company you sell to. 51% of banded US CMO profiles are at companies of 50 or fewer employees, while 17% of banded US marketing director profiles are at companies over 10,000, against 4% of CMOs. For large companies, the director list reaches further.
How much does a marketing directors email list cost to build?
Search is free. You pay 1 credit for each verified work email found, 10 for each direct dial found, and nothing when a lookup comes back empty.
Is it legal to email marketing directors cold?
In the US, B2B cold email is legal under CAN-SPAM when it has accurate headers, a physical address and a working opt-out. The UK, EU and Canada have stricter rules, summarized in the compliance section on this page.
Is it legal to buy an email list?
In the United States, buying a B2B email list is legal, and CAN-SPAM governs how you use it: accurate headers, a valid physical postal address and an opt-out you honor within 10 business days. In the UK and the EU the GDPR covers the personal data in the list, so you need a lawful basis such as legitimate interest, and you must tell each person where you got their data, at the latest in your first email. Many bought lists cannot show where their data came from. Canada's CASL requires consent for most commercial email, which a bought list rarely gives you. Many email platforms also ban purchased lists in their terms. Cleanlist does not sell lists: you build one from search and verify each email when you enrich it. This is general information, not legal advice.