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Top 25 Branding agencies based in San Francisco, United States
This directory lists 636 branding agencies based in San Francisco, United States, with business records that include 7,622 contacts and 1,435 email addresses. The directory is current as of August 2026. Across the United States, New York is the largest hub for this category (3,028 companies); San Francisco has 636.
Branding agencies are firms that develop and manage brand identities, including positioning, naming, visual systems, messaging, and related brand strategy. This list covers companies that provide branding strategy, identity development, brand design, naming, messaging, or related brand management services. Ranked by team size, largest first. Data current as of August 30, 2026.
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The 25 largest branding agencies based in San Francisco, United States
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
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| 1 | 206 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We are Wolff Olins, a global brand consultancy creating transformative brands that move businesses, people and the world forward.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 180 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Through cultural insight, strategy and creativity, Current Global helps brands connect with the people who matter most-meeting them where they are with what they value.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 167 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Padilla is a full-service agency that transforms brands and organizations through strategically creative communications.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 133 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We are a Digital Brand Strategy and UX Design agency.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 105 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We drive connections between products and people.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 96 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “FINE is a Brand-Led Business Building agency.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 79 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Hello!” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 79 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We design living brands.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 77 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Clay is a global UX design and branding agency headquartered in San Francisco.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 76 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “TRADEMARK is a global marketing agency that brings brands to life through extraordinary events.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 30, 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 Aug 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 64 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Venables Bell & Partners is an internationally recognized independent San Francisco advertising agency founded on good intentions.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 61 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Godfrey Dadich Partners (GDP) brings together designers, journalists, strategists, engineers, and more to help brands communicate.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 54 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We are a 360 hybrid agency that helps new and established businesses, launch new products, increase their sales and transform into Leading Brands.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 49 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Sequence creates connected experiences.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 48 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We’re Erich & Kallman and we make work that people love… no seriously, ask Ad Age.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 35 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Bonfire Labs is a creative studio moving brands further faster.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 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 Aug 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 25 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Gumas is a nationally recognized and award-winning full-service marketing agency specializing in integrated branding, advertising and digital marketing campaigns.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 23 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Havas San Francisco is one of the fastest growing full-service agencies on the West Coast.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 22 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Favoreat is an award-winning creative and production studio exploring new ways of perceiving the culinary world with radical design and an uncompromising lust for the fine.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 22 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Founded in 1995, DDW is an award-winning Bay Area based brand story and design agency with over 25 years' of experience helping clients of all sizes develop deep and meaningful…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 21 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Elixir is a San Francisco-based brand strategy firm specializing in strategy and design for memorable corporate identity, positioning, messaging, marketing collateral, direct…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 20 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The VAM Group is a full-service, independent marketing agency specializing in content, web design, growth, and performance marketing.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 14 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Born & Bred is a brand and design agency in San Francisco, California that specializes in brand strategy, brand identity, and brand execution.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 30, 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: branding 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 branding agencies.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of branding agencies, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name branding 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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Branding agencies based in San Francisco, United States at a glance
As of Aug 30, 2026Companies by employee count
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 branding 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 “branding 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 branding 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 branding 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, 1,435 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 August 30, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
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Branding agencies by metro in the United States
Frequently asked
How many branding agencies are listed based in San Francisco, United States?
The directory lists 636 branding agencies based in San Francisco, United States.
Which city in the United States has the most branding agencies?
New York leads the United States with 3,028 headquartered companies, followed by Los Angeles (2,020) and Chicago (911). San Francisco has 636.
How many contacts and email addresses are available for branding agencies?
The directory includes 7,622 contacts and 1,435 email addresses associated with the listed branding agencies.
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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.