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Top 25 Account advertising agencies based in San Francisco, United States
RevenueBase identified 173 account advertising agencies headquartered in San Francisco, United States as of September 2026 and tracks 3,364 professional contacts across them, including 826 with verified work emails. New York is the largest hub.
This list covers account advertising agencies headquartered in San Francisco, United States, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 22, 2026.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest account advertising agencies based in San Francisco, United States
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 782 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Formerly Essence, we are now EssenceMediacom.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 263 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We are a fiercely entrepreneurial agency that blends creativity and performance to build great brands.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 209 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Note: Grand no longer exists.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 119 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Pereira O'Dell is an independent creative agency at the intersection of technology, advertising, and entertainment-where these worlds collide, remarkable things happen.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 107 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Outcast is an integrated marketing agency specializing in communications, digital, and creative.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 103 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Hi, we're Tractor, a San Francisco based agency that doesn't shy away from big challenges.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 83 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Moving Brands Inc.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 81 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Hello!” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 70 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Eleven develops category-defining ideas that are unconstrained by medium.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 63 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Venables Bell & Partners is an internationally recognized independent San Francisco advertising agency founded on good intentions.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 50 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We’re Erich & Kallman and we make work that people love… no seriously, ask Ad Age.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 38 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At Cutwater, we hone and sharpen a brand into something more distinctive so it has a better chance of cutting through, being heard, and standing apart.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 36 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We're the biggest small agency in the world.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 36 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Our services include Consumer Insights, Research, Brand Strategy, Creative, and Global Media Planning & Buying (where we leverage our long-term partner Initiative Media’s $40…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 35 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Bonfire Labs is a creative studio moving brands further faster.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 30 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We're a creatively driven, strategically whip smart ad agency headquartered in San Francisco’s Presidio and Chicago.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 28 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “If a small-ish agency is to be truly adept at integrated marketing, that means they'd have to hire creatives that can work in all mediums.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 27 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At Mortar, we don’t just create marketing-we deliver “A-ha” moments that make brands unforgettable.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 25 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Welcome to Cannonball, a nimble team of big agency veterans who are dedicated to helping you leave a mark on your audience.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 24 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “WE ARE NOT AD PEOPLE (although we do advertising).” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 23 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Havas San Francisco is one of the fastest growing full-service agencies on the West Coast.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 21 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Designerds is a full-service agency here to revolutionize the creative services industry by fostering genuine client partnerships and delivering agile solutions that get the job…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 17 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We built the media agency that brands actually need.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 14 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At Next Steps Marketing, we solve audience-building challenges in a creative and customized way.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 13 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “A dynamic and collaborative marketing communications agency creating big ideas by telling powerful brand stories that inspire belief through unexpected thinking.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: account advertising agencies. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names account advertising agencies.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of account advertising agencies, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name account advertising agencies. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Account advertising agencies based in San Francisco, United States at a glance
As of Sep 22, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured across the whole United States list rather than for San Francisco, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for San Francisco, over 173 companies.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among account advertising agencies, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in San Francisco, United States whose own description of what they do matches “account advertising agencies”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names account advertising agencies), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among account advertising agencies, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside San Francisco are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 826 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 22, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Account advertising agencies by metro in the United States
- Account advertising agencies in New York1052
- Account advertising agencies in Los Angeles721
- Account advertising agencies in Miami371
- Account advertising agencies in Chicago357
- Account advertising agencies in Atlanta339
- Account advertising agencies in Houston260
- Account advertising agencies in Dallas257
- Account advertising agencies in Austin235
- Account advertising agencies in Denver194
- Account advertising agencies in San Francisco173
- Account advertising agencies in San Diego165
- Account advertising agencies in Portland151
- Account advertising agencies in Orlando145
- Account advertising agencies in Boston135
- Account advertising agencies in Las Vegas135
- Account advertising agencies in Seattle132
- Account advertising agencies in Minneapolis131
- Account advertising agencies in Phoenix131
- Account advertising agencies in Charlotte130
- Account advertising agencies in Tampa127
- Account advertising agencies in Washington124
- Account advertising agencies in Philadelphia121
- Account advertising agencies in Nashville118
- Account advertising agencies in Brooklyn88
- Account advertising agencies in San Antonio84
- Account advertising agencies in Columbus83
- Account advertising agencies in Indianapolis81
- Account advertising agencies in Fort Lauderdale79
- Account advertising agencies in New York City75
- Account advertising agencies in Pittsburgh75
- Account advertising agencies in Jacksonville72
- Account advertising agencies in Raleigh72
- Account advertising agencies in Irvine71
- Account advertising agencies in Scottsdale65
- Account advertising agencies in Richmond64
- Account advertising agencies in Cincinnati63
- Account advertising agencies in Louisville63
- Account advertising agencies in Wilmington62
- Account advertising agencies in Detroit61
- Account advertising agencies in Salt Lake City61
- Account advertising agencies in Cleveland60
- Account advertising agencies in St. Louis58
- Account advertising agencies in Milwaukee57
- Account advertising agencies in Kansas City55
- Account advertising agencies in Birmingham54
- Account advertising agencies in Greenville54
- Account advertising agencies in Sacramento53
- Account advertising agencies in Tulsa51
- Account advertising agencies in Buffalo48
- Account advertising agencies in New Orleans48
- Account advertising agencies in Sheridan48
- Account advertising agencies in Fort Worth47
- Account advertising agencies in Springfield47
- Account advertising agencies in Grand Rapids46
- Account advertising agencies in Baltimore44
- Account advertising agencies in Boca Raton43
- Account advertising agencies in Madison43
- Account advertising agencies in Charleston41
- Account advertising agencies in Plano41
- Account advertising agencies in Rochester41
- Account advertising agencies in Santa Monica41
- Account advertising agencies in Newport Beach39
- Account advertising agencies in Columbia38
- Account advertising agencies in Knoxville38
- Account advertising agencies in West Palm Beach38
- Account advertising agencies in San Jose37
- Account advertising agencies in Oklahoma City35
- Account advertising agencies in Long Beach34
- Account advertising agencies in Omaha34
- Account advertising agencies in St Louis34
- Account advertising agencies in Little Rock33
- Account advertising agencies in Boulder32
- Account advertising agencies in Colorado Springs32
- Account advertising agencies in Dayton32
- Account advertising agencies in Miami Beach32
- Account advertising agencies in Tucson32
- Account advertising agencies in Naples31
- Account advertising agencies in Baton Rouge30
- Account advertising agencies in Beverly Hills30
- Account advertising agencies in Burbank30
- Account advertising agencies in Coral Gables30
- Account advertising agencies in El Segundo30
- Account advertising agencies in Lexington30
- Account advertising agencies in Hollywood29
- Account advertising agencies in Pasadena29
- Account advertising agencies in Sarasota29
- Account advertising agencies in Alexandria28
- Account advertising agencies in Roswell28
- Account advertising agencies in Savannah28
- Account advertising agencies in Costa Mesa27
- Account advertising agencies in Memphis27
- Account advertising agencies in Tempe27
- Account advertising agencies in Carlsbad26
- Account advertising agencies in El Paso26
- Account advertising agencies in Reno26
- Account advertising agencies in Honolulu25
- Account advertising agencies in Newark25
- Account advertising agencies in Spokane25
- Account advertising agencies in Virginia Beach25
- Account advertising agencies in York25
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names account advertising agencies, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many account advertising agencies are there based in San Francisco, United States?
RevenueBase identified 173 account advertising agencies headquartered in San Francisco, United States as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
Essence, headquartered in San Francisco, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most account advertising agencies?
New York leads with 1052 headquartered companies, followed by Los Angeles (721) and Miami (371).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 826 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 173 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 22, 2026.
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About this data
RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.
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