Advertising agency in Austria: trade licences by state
Austria has 23,859 trade licences for Advertising agency at a main location, 2.5% of all 956,831 licences.
Most are in Vienna (7,600).
6,431 of them are held by companies and other legal persons, 0 are reported dormant.
Of the licences valid today, 2,711 took effect in 2025 and 1,996 in 2024.
Kind according to GISA: freies Gewerbe. GISA key 500398. What this means
By state
| Vienna | 7,600 |
| Upper Austria | 3,268 |
| Lower Austria | 3,093 |
| Styria | 2,782 |
| Salzburg | 2,462 |
| Tyrol | 2,194 |
| Carinthia | 1,166 |
| Vorarlberg | 768 |
| Burgenland | 526 |
The ten districts with the most licences
| Graz | 1,189 |
| Salzburg | 984 |
| Salzburg-Umgebung | 714 |
| Linz | 658 |
| Innsbruck | 642 |
| Innsbruck-Land | 490 |
| Mödling | 426 |
| Klagenfurt am Wörthersee | 361 |
| Graz-Umgebung | 339 |
| Vöcklabruck | 335 |
Took effect, by year
| 2026 | 3,485 |
| 2025 | 2,711 |
| 2024 | 1,996 |
| 2023 | 1,699 |
| 2022 | 1,262 |
| 2021 | 1,214 |
| 2020 | 1,150 |
| 2019 | 1,000 |
| 2018 | 820 |
| 2017 | 676 |
| 2016 | 691 |
Only licences valid today; ended ones are not in the dataset.
More trades
- Building caretaking: 17,031
- Direct selling: 15,424
- Life and social counselling: 14,447
Source: GISA (Austrian trade information system), Federal Ministry of Economy, Energy and Tourism, dataset "Gewerbe in Österreich" on data.gv.at, CC BY 4.0, as of November 2026. Counted are valid trade licences at main locations. data.gv.at. As of November 2026.
Source: Austrian company register (Firmenbuch), Republic of Austria, represented by the BMJ, open data under CC BY 4.0.