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Top 25 Advertising agency services based in San Francisco, United States
RevenueBase identified 176 advertising agency services headquartered in San Francisco, United States as of September 2026 and tracks 3,511 professional contacts across them, including 881 with verified work emails. New York is the largest hub.
This list covers advertising agency services 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 advertising agency services 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 | 290 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Merkle | DWA is a global media and marketing agency for technology companies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 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. | |||||
| 4 | 209 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Note: Grand no longer exists.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 119 contacts → | ||||
Strong 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. | |||||
| 6 | 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. | |||||
| 7 | 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. | |||||
| 8 | 83 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Moving Brands Inc.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 83 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “KKBC is a B2B marketing agency, with the singular mission to maximize the value of multinational B2B companies' marketing investments.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 81 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Hello!” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 71 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “A four-time Ad Age Small Agency of the Year, Duncan Channon is a full-service creative shop with a 360º offering including social, experiential and influencer.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 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. | |||||
| 13 | 63 contacts → | ||||
Strong 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. | |||||
| 14 | 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. | |||||
| 15 | 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. | |||||
| 16 | 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. | |||||
| 17 | 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. | |||||
| 18 | 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. | |||||
| 19 | 34 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Demand Local empowers Advertising & Marketing agencies in the Automotive, Legal, Financial, & CPG industries to scale and grow their businesses.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 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. | |||||
| 21 | 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. | |||||
| 22 | 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. | |||||
| 23 | 24 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “WE ARE NOT AD PEOPLE (although we do advertising).” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 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. | |||||
| 25 | 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. | |||||
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: advertising agency services. 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 advertising agency services.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of advertising agency services, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name advertising agency services. 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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Advertising agency services 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 176 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 advertising agency services, 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 “advertising agency services”. 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 advertising agency services), 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 advertising agency services, 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, 881 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.
Advertising agency services by metro in the United States
- Advertising agency services in New York958
- Advertising agency services in Los Angeles633
- Advertising agency services in Miami365
- Advertising agency services in Chicago315
- Advertising agency services in Atlanta295
- Advertising agency services in Dallas250
- Advertising agency services in Houston223
- Advertising agency services in Austin214
- Advertising agency services in Denver177
- Advertising agency services in San Francisco176
- Advertising agency services in San Diego164
- Advertising agency services in Portland140
- Advertising agency services in Las Vegas138
- Advertising agency services in Orlando132
- Advertising agency services in Tampa123
- Advertising agency services in Minneapolis120
- Advertising agency services in Phoenix115
- Advertising agency services in Seattle115
- Advertising agency services in Washington112
- Advertising agency services in Boston111
- Advertising agency services in Philadelphia111
- Advertising agency services in Charlotte110
- Advertising agency services in Nashville107
- Advertising agency services in San Antonio88
- Advertising agency services in Fort Lauderdale81
- Advertising agency services in Columbus80
- Advertising agency services in Pittsburgh74
- Advertising agency services in Scottsdale73
- Advertising agency services in Brooklyn71
- Advertising agency services in Indianapolis70
- Advertising agency services in Irvine69
- Advertising agency services in Jacksonville65
- Advertising agency services in Wilmington65
- Advertising agency services in Raleigh63
- Advertising agency services in New York City62
- Advertising agency services in Sheridan59
- Advertising agency services in Cincinnati56
- Advertising agency services in Louisville56
- Advertising agency services in Cleveland55
- Advertising agency services in Detroit54
- Advertising agency services in Richmond54
- Advertising agency services in Greenville53
- Advertising agency services in Kansas City52
- Advertising agency services in Milwaukee52
- Advertising agency services in Sacramento52
- Advertising agency services in Salt Lake City51
- Advertising agency services in Fort Worth50
- Advertising agency services in St. Louis50
- Advertising agency services in Birmingham48
- Advertising agency services in Boca Raton48
- Advertising agency services in Tulsa47
- Advertising agency services in New Orleans44
- Advertising agency services in Springfield43
- Advertising agency services in Buffalo42
- Advertising agency services in Rochester42
- Advertising agency services in Santa Monica42
- Advertising agency services in West Palm Beach42
- Advertising agency services in Baltimore40
- Advertising agency services in Columbia39
- Advertising agency services in Grand Rapids39
- Advertising agency services in Plano39
- Advertising agency services in Knoxville38
- Advertising agency services in Long Beach38
- Advertising agency services in Omaha38
- Advertising agency services in Little Rock36
- Advertising agency services in Madison36
- Advertising agency services in Newport Beach35
- Advertising agency services in Beverly Hills33
- Advertising agency services in Charleston32
- Advertising agency services in San Jose32
- Advertising agency services in Baton Rouge31
- Advertising agency services in Miami Beach31
- Advertising agency services in Tucson31
- Advertising agency services in Naples30
- Advertising agency services in Colorado Springs29
- Advertising agency services in Coral Gables29
- Advertising agency services in Oklahoma City29
- Advertising agency services in Spokane29
- Advertising agency services in Tempe29
- Advertising agency services in Burbank28
- Advertising agency services in Honolulu28
- Advertising agency services in Sarasota28
- Advertising agency services in Hollywood27
- Advertising agency services in Marietta27
- Advertising agency services in Roswell27
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- Advertising agency services in Dayton26
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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 advertising agency services, 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 advertising agency services are there based in San Francisco, United States?
RevenueBase identified 176 advertising agency services 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 advertising agency services?
New York leads with 958 headquartered companies, followed by Los Angeles (633) and Miami (365).
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 881 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 176 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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