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Top 25 Advocacy marketing agencies based in San Francisco, United States
RevenueBase identified 177 advocacy marketing agencies headquartered in San Francisco, United States as of September 2026 and tracks 2,912 professional contacts across them, including 945 with verified work emails. Across the United States, New York is the largest hub for this category (822 companies); San Francisco has 177.
This list covers advocacy marketing 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 27, 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 advocacy marketing 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 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 152 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “A strategic communications agency, Inkhouse partners with innovators who are creating new markets or disrupting old ones-crafting stories and meeting audiences where they are.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 142 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “LaunchSquad is a communications and creative agency that helps ambitious brands shape what’s next.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 107 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Outcast is an integrated marketing agency specializing in communications, digital, and creative.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 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 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 97 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Fight skyrocketing paid media costs by turning your customers into a primary vehicle for acquisition, awareness, and activation with Extole.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 96 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We help category-defining brands make their mark through hard-working, creative campaigns that change perceptions and spark action.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 83 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Moving Brands Inc.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 76 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “For 25 years, we’ve helped companies access new audiences in new ways.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 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 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 70 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Media Cause is a mission-driven marketing and creative agency that helps nonprofits grow and accelerate their impact.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 62 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Godfrey Dadich Partners (GDP) brings together designers, journalists, strategists, engineers, and more to help brands communicate.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 39 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “MSR Communications is an award-winning, results-driven public relations and marketing communications agency with more than 27 years of global experience.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 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 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 36 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “D&A Communications (D&A) is an equity-first, full-service integrated communications and public relations agency with over 30 years of expertise.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 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 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 30 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Sutherlandgold is a full-service integrated communications agency creating inspired stories for standout brands.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 28 contacts → | ||||
Partial 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 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 27 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “At Mortar, we don’t just create marketing-we deliver “A-ha” moments that make brands unforgettable.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 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 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 24 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Double Forte is an independent strategic communications and digital media agency representing beloved brands making positive change in the consumer lifestyle, technology, digital…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 24 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Mission Minded is a strategy and creative firm that helps good causes have greater impact.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 23 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Founded in 2003, Civic Edge is a WBE/SBE/LBE/DBE-certified firm providing award-winning strategic communications, authentic community engagement, and responsive public relations…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 21 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “A strategic communications agency built from the ground up equally committed to hitting strict diversity metrics and providing full financial and salary transparency to all.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 21 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The Bulleit Group is a different kind of communications agency.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 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: advocacy marketing 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 advocacy marketing agencies.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of advocacy marketing agencies, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name advocacy marketing 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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Advocacy marketing agencies based in San Francisco, United States at a glance
As of Sep 27, 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 177 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 advocacy marketing 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 “advocacy marketing 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 advocacy marketing 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 advocacy marketing 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, 945 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 27, 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.
Advocacy marketing agencies by metro in the United States
- Advocacy marketing agencies in New York822
- Advocacy marketing agencies in Los Angeles541
- Advocacy marketing agencies in Washington506
- Advocacy marketing agencies in Chicago295
- Advocacy marketing agencies in Atlanta227
- Advocacy marketing agencies in Miami200
- Advocacy marketing agencies in Austin171
- Advocacy marketing agencies in Denver166
- Advocacy marketing agencies in Dallas153
- Advocacy marketing agencies in Boston147
- Advocacy marketing agencies in Houston146
- Advocacy marketing agencies in Seattle143
- Advocacy marketing agencies in Portland140
- Advocacy marketing agencies in San Diego136
- Advocacy marketing agencies in Minneapolis109
- Advocacy marketing agencies in Philadelphia106
- Advocacy marketing agencies in Phoenix98
- Advocacy marketing agencies in Nashville85
- Advocacy marketing agencies in Brooklyn77
- Advocacy marketing agencies in Orlando74
- Advocacy marketing agencies in Charlotte72
- Advocacy marketing agencies in Columbus71
- Advocacy marketing agencies in Indianapolis69
- Advocacy marketing agencies in Sacramento68
- Advocacy marketing agencies in New York City66
- Advocacy marketing agencies in Alexandria65
- Advocacy marketing agencies in Las Vegas63
- Advocacy marketing agencies in Raleigh62
- Advocacy marketing agencies in Detroit61
- Advocacy marketing agencies in Tampa58
- Advocacy marketing agencies in Pittsburgh56
- Advocacy marketing agencies in Baltimore52
- Advocacy marketing agencies in Arlington49
- Advocacy marketing agencies in Milwaukee49
- Advocacy marketing agencies in San Antonio49
- Advocacy marketing agencies in Kansas City47
- Advocacy marketing agencies in Richmond46
- Advocacy marketing agencies in Cincinnati44
- Advocacy marketing agencies in New Orleans44
- Advocacy marketing agencies in Oakland44
- Advocacy marketing agencies in Fort Lauderdale39
- Advocacy marketing agencies in Jacksonville38
- Advocacy marketing agencies in Salt Lake City38
- Advocacy marketing agencies in Cleveland37
- Advocacy marketing agencies in Birmingham36
- Advocacy marketing agencies in St. Louis35
- Advocacy marketing agencies in Louisville33
- Advocacy marketing agencies in Greenville32
- Advocacy marketing agencies in Santa Monica32
- Advocacy marketing agencies in Fort Worth31
- Advocacy marketing agencies in Boulder30
- Advocacy marketing agencies in Madison30
- Advocacy marketing agencies in Scottsdale30
- Advocacy marketing agencies in Columbia29
- Advocacy marketing agencies in Oklahoma City29
- Advocacy marketing agencies in Charleston28
- Advocacy marketing agencies in Irvine28
- Advocacy marketing agencies in San Jose28
- Advocacy marketing agencies in Tulsa27
- Advocacy marketing agencies in Wilmington27
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 advocacy marketing 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 advocacy marketing agencies are there based in San Francisco, United States?
RevenueBase identified 177 advocacy marketing 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 in the United States has the most advocacy marketing agencies?
New York leads the United States with 822 headquartered companies, followed by Los Angeles (541) and Washington (506). San Francisco has 177.
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 945 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 177 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 27, 2026.
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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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