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Top 20 Animation advertising agencies based in Santa Monica, United States
RevenueBase identified 46 animation advertising agencies headquartered in Santa Monica, United States as of September 2026 and tracks 1,064 professional contacts across them, including 302 with verified work emails. Los Angeles is the largest hub.
This list covers animation advertising agencies headquartered in Santa Monica, 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 21, 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 20 largest animation advertising agencies based in Santa Monica, United States
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 316 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Method Studios is a global content creation studio known for photorealistic product development and seamless VFX.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 110 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Cut + Run is an award-winning creative editorial company and a global leader in post production since 1997, providing top-tier services for broadcast commercials, branded and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 85 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Panay Films is a full-service film production company and creative agency.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 63 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Los York is a creative company dissolving the boundary between concept and creation.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 55 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Leroy & Rose is an international full service agency - print, digital/social, A/V - specializing in entertainment.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 24 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Steelworks is a creative partner for brands and agencies specializing in CGI, Motion, Animation, and Post Production delivering compelling work across industries in the global…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 23 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “With headquarters in Los Angeles and New York, Shepherd VFX (fka SHAPE + LIGHT) is a sophisticated creative studio specializing in visual effects creation + finishing for…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 21 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Creative motion design agency | Theatrical, streaming and broadcast advertising | Logos, branding, identity | Title design and sequences | Design-centric VFX | Music supervision” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 7 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Tool of North America is a creative production partner that concepts, creates and executes award-winning advertising and marketing for the world’s bravest brands and advertising…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 5 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Since launching Untitled in 2001, Founders/Executive Producers Kristin Evans and Jim Evans have created a dynamic media group recognized for its talent, creative diversity, and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 5 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Hummingbird is a female-owned and operated creative studio and production company.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 5 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Yard Dog is a Los Angeles based production company focused on broadcast commercials, advertising content and brand-integrated entertainment.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 5 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Belief is a full service creative studio with over 25 years of experience specializing in a wide variety of content from commercials and short films to websites and motion…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 4 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Swipemarket is an award-winning creative agency focused on helping businesses develop targeted video content portfolios that drive sales, downloads, product usage, employee…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 4 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “SGS is quickly becoming an industry leader in 2D and 3D animation, known for its high-quality content and legendary animation staff.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 4 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Where taste reigns supreme, and directors become legends.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 3 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Monster is a creative advertising agency with a focus on entertainment.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 3 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We tell stories.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 2 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Zillion” is more than just our name – it’s a mantra embodying the countless ways in which we support, evolve, and maximize the creative results in every detail of the process.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 2 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Content creation” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 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: animation 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 animation advertising agencies.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of animation advertising agencies, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name animation 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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Animation advertising agencies based in Santa Monica, United States at a glance
As of Sep 21, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured across the whole United States list rather than for Santa Monica, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for Santa Monica, over 46 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 animation 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 Santa Monica, United States whose own description of what they do matches “animation 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 animation 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 animation advertising agencies, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside Santa Monica 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, 302 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 21, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
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Animation advertising agencies by metro in the United States
- Animation advertising agencies in Los Angeles548
- Animation advertising agencies in New York475
- Animation advertising agencies in Chicago130
- Animation advertising agencies in Atlanta118
- Animation advertising agencies in San Francisco110
- Animation advertising agencies in Miami101
- Animation advertising agencies in Austin81
- Animation advertising agencies in Portland77
- Animation advertising agencies in Brooklyn76
- Animation advertising agencies in Dallas66
- Animation advertising agencies in Seattle63
- Animation advertising agencies in Denver53
- Animation advertising agencies in Minneapolis46
- Animation advertising agencies in Santa Monica46
- Animation advertising agencies in Orlando42
- Animation advertising agencies in Houston41
- Animation advertising agencies in San Diego41
- Animation advertising agencies in Burbank39
- Animation advertising agencies in Boston37
- Animation advertising agencies in Philadelphia35
- Animation advertising agencies in Nashville33
- Animation advertising agencies in Phoenix27
- Animation advertising agencies in Pittsburgh27
- Animation advertising agencies in Washington26
- Animation advertising agencies in Charlotte25
- Animation advertising agencies in Tampa25
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 animation 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 animation advertising agencies are there based in Santa Monica, United States?
RevenueBase identified 46 animation advertising agencies headquartered in Santa Monica, 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?
Method Studios, headquartered in Santa Monica, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most animation advertising agencies?
Los Angeles leads with 548 headquartered companies, followed by New York (475) and Chicago (130).
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 302 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 46 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 21, 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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