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Top 25 AI creative agencies based in South Africa

RevenueBase identified 1,111 AI creative agencies headquartered in South Africa as of September 2026 and tracks 6,252 professional contacts across them, including 1,720 with verified work emails and 354 with mobile numbers. Johannesburg is the largest hub.

This list covers AI creative agencies headquartered in South Africa, 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.

How to read this list HQ checked on every row RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row Refreshed Sep 27, 2026 86% judged on-target in blind review
1,111Companies
6,252Contacts tracked
1,720Verified emails
354Mobile numbers
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The 25 largest AI creative agencies based in South Africa

Ranked by team size
Top 25 of 1,111 AI creative agencies based in South Africa, ranked by team size, largest first. Data refreshed Sep 27, 2026. RevenueBase Smart Search rates how each company's information relates to AI creative agencies: strong evidence (its own description names it), partial (names part of it), indirect (matched on the rest of its profile rather than the description shown). Click a contact count to view that company's people.
#CompanyRevenueBase Smart SearchHeadquartersEmployeesContacts
1Indirect evidenceCape Town, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 27, 2026501-1,000543 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“In 1948, David Ogilvy founded the agency that would become Ogilvy & Mather.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026
2Indirect evidenceJohannesburg, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 27, 2026201-500260 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“TBWA\ is The Disruption® Company: the cultural engine for 21st century business.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026
3Indirect evidenceBryanston, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 27, 202651-20081 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“We established Promise with no clients or start-up capital in 2005.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026
4Partial evidenceJohannesburg, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 27, 202651-20077 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Proudly South African Integrated Creative Agency | Financial Mail Agency of the year “22 | Johannesburg | Cape Town | Lagos”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026
5Partial evidenceBedfordview, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 27, 202651-20077 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Sauce Advertising is a TTL agency with 35 years’ experience in integrating creativity, analytics, and technological innovation to create consistent brand messages and experiences.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026
6Indirect evidenceIllovo, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 27, 202611-5071 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“We don’t need to tell you we’re an award-winning agency.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026
7Partial evidenceJohannesburg, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 27, 202651-20070 contacts →

Partial evidence

“An integrated advertising agency group driven by the purpose of shared value through creativity.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026
8Indirect evidenceJohannesburg, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 27, 202651-20064 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Level 1 B-BBEE status holder as a large entity.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026
9Indirect evidenceSandton, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 27, 2026201-50058 contacts →

Indirect evidence

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026
10Indirect evidencePaulshof, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 27, 202651-20055 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Welcome to the house of Resonance™ - Mortimer Harvey.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026
11Indirect evidenceStellenbosch, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 27, 202611-5054 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Lumico is a digital execution agency that focuses on content, strategies, operations and building communities.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026
12Partial evidenceBryanston, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 27, 202651-20048 contacts →

Partial evidence

“We build brands that move people and markets through the radical creativity of Truth Well Told™.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026
13Indirect evidenceDurban And Johannesburg, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 27, 202611-5039 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Hi.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026
14Indirect evidenceJohannseburg, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 27, 202651-20038 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“We’re not just an agency.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026
15Indirect evidenceJohannesburg, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 27, 202611-5035 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“We have a challenger mindset and through this have made more brands ‘go viral’, globally, than any other agency in Africa.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026
16Partial evidenceIrene, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 27, 202611-5032 contacts →

Partial evidence

“LKDA is a dynamic and strategically driven creative agency with the core focus of assisting in the growth of our clients through powerful, insightful and innovative communication…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026
17Partial evidenceLonehill, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 27, 202611-5032 contacts →

Partial evidence

“We are a young & dynamic strategic creative agency, founded on the core values of visual and experiential storytelling, meticulous planning and flawless execution.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026
18Indirect evidenceJohannesburg, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 27, 202611-5031 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Halo.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026
19Indirect evidenceCape Town, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 27, 202611-5031 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“We're a Video Specialist Digital Agency.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026
20Partial evidenceJohannesburg, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 27, 202611-5029 contacts →

Partial evidence

“We believe in creative efficiency to provide agile solutions for every marketing need.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026
21Indirect evidenceBryanston, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 27, 202611-5028 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Wetpaint is a full-service, tech-driven marketing agency built to deliver measurable impact.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026
22Partial evidenceDurban, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 27, 202611-5028 contacts →

Partial evidence

“We’re a born-digital creative agency that aims to create meaningful conversations between people and brands.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026
23Partial evidenceJohannesburg, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 27, 202611-5028 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Publishared is a leading digital marketing agency in the business-to-business (B2B) space, that focuses on well-defined content creation, thought-leadership pieces, and direct…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026
24Partial evidenceJohannesburg, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 27, 202651-20026 contacts →

Partial evidence

“CSM Creative Space Media are expert content creators.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026
25Indirect evidenceGqeberha, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 27, 202611-5026 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“hoola is the modern agency where we find joy in solving remarkable challenges with incredible solutions.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026

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AI creative agencies based in South Africa at a glance

As of Sep 27, 2026
27.5%Verified-email coverage
5.7%Mobile-number coverage
5.6Average contacts per company
1-10Median size (employees)
25.7%Largest-city concentration · Johannesburg
Sep 27, 2026Page data refreshed

Companies by employee count

1-10
821
11-50
251
51-200
31
201-500
3
501-1,000
2
1,001-5,000
2
5,001-10,000
1

Freshness & accuracy

How recently the business emails were verified and the company information checked

Email last verified

Median 29.0d

Company record updated

Median 92.0d

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 AI creative 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 South Africa whose own description of what they do matches “AI creative 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 AI creative 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 AI creative agencies, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside South Africa 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, 1,720 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
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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 AI creative 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 AI creative agencies are there based in South Africa?

RevenueBase identified 1,111 AI creative agencies headquartered in South Africa 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?

Ogilvy South Africa, headquartered in Cape Town, tops this list with the largest team on record.

Which city has the most AI creative agencies?

Johannesburg leads with 285 headquartered companies, followed by Cape Town (259) and Pretoria (69).

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 1,720 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 1,111 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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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.