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Top 25 Creative branding agencies based in San Francisco, United States
RevenueBase identified 339 creative branding agencies headquartered in San Francisco, United States as of September 2026 and tracks 6,817 professional contacts across them, including 1,393 with verified work emails. New York is the largest hub.
This list covers creative branding 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 24, 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 creative branding agencies based in San Francisco, United States
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2,259 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “MINE™ is a San Francisco-based design and brand communication firm.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 24, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 782 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Formerly Essence, we are now EssenceMediacom.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 24, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 751 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Setting the standard for the next generation of global agencies, Archetype partners with category creators and industry leaders to build the world’s most magnetic brands.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 24, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 263 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We are a fiercely entrepreneurial agency that blends creativity and performance to build great brands.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 24, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 133 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We are a Digital Brand Strategy and UX Design agency.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 24, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 107 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Outcast is an integrated marketing agency specializing in communications, digital, and creative.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 24, 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 24, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 99 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Turner Duckworth are behind the brand identities for some of the world’s most iconic brands; Coca-Cola, Amazon, McDonald’s, Samsung and Levi’s - to name a few.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 24, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 94 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Brick Design is a San Francisco-based firm that partners with clients to reframe their brand.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 24, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 89 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Brand Design Agency.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 24, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 83 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Moving Brands Inc.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 24, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 81 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Hello!” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 24, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 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 24, 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 24, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 49 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Sequence creates connected experiences.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 24, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 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 24, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 36 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “21CB is a global brand consultancy that partners with the world’s most brand-ambitious leaders who want to unleash brand as a driver of purposeful, profitable growth.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 24, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 35 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At Sköna, we transform complex B2B tech into brands people actually care about.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 24, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 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 24, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 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 Sep 24, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 22 contacts → | ||||
Partial 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 Sep 24, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 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 Sep 24, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 20 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We give brands a soul.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 24, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 17 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We built the media agency that brands actually need.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 24, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 13 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We close the gap between where companies are and where their brand needs to be.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 24, 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: creative 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 creative branding agencies.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of creative branding agencies, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name creative 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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Creative branding agencies based in San Francisco, United States at a glance
As of Sep 24, 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 339 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 creative 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 “creative 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 creative 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 creative 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, 1,393 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 24, 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.
Creative branding agencies by metro in the United States
- Creative branding agencies in New York1332
- Creative branding agencies in Los Angeles883
- Creative branding agencies in Chicago443
- Creative branding agencies in Atlanta403
- Creative branding agencies in Miami379
- Creative branding agencies in San Francisco339
- Creative branding agencies in Austin304
- Creative branding agencies in Houston289
- Creative branding agencies in Portland289
- Creative branding agencies in Denver285
- Creative branding agencies in Dallas272
- Creative branding agencies in Seattle240
- Creative branding agencies in San Diego229
- Creative branding agencies in Minneapolis217
- Creative branding agencies in Boston170
- Creative branding agencies in Orlando165
- Creative branding agencies in Philadelphia165
- Creative branding agencies in Brooklyn164
- Creative branding agencies in Washington156
- Creative branding agencies in Tampa147
- Creative branding agencies in Nashville137
- Creative branding agencies in Charlotte132
- Creative branding agencies in New York City126
- Creative branding agencies in Phoenix120
- Creative branding agencies in Cincinnati108
- Creative branding agencies in Las Vegas101
- Creative branding agencies in Raleigh97
- Creative branding agencies in Columbus94
- Creative branding agencies in San Antonio89
- Creative branding agencies in Detroit87
- Creative branding agencies in Kansas City86
- Creative branding agencies in Richmond86
- Creative branding agencies in Indianapolis85
- Creative branding agencies in Salt Lake City74
- Creative branding agencies in Pittsburgh69
- Creative branding agencies in Scottsdale67
- Creative branding agencies in Milwaukee66
- Creative branding agencies in Baltimore65
- Creative branding agencies in Cleveland65
- Creative branding agencies in Grand Rapids65
- Creative branding agencies in Jacksonville63
- Creative branding agencies in Charleston58
- Creative branding agencies in Irvine58
- Creative branding agencies in Oakland58
- Creative branding agencies in Omaha58
- Creative branding agencies in Santa Monica58
- Creative branding agencies in Wilmington57
- Creative branding agencies in Boulder56
- Creative branding agencies in Fort Lauderdale54
- Creative branding agencies in St. Louis54
- Creative branding agencies in Louisville52
- Creative branding agencies in New Orleans50
- Creative branding agencies in Sacramento50
- Creative branding agencies in Fort Worth48
- Creative branding agencies in Springfield48
- Creative branding agencies in Tulsa47
- Creative branding agencies in Colorado Springs46
- Creative branding agencies in Greenville46
- Creative branding agencies in Birmingham45
- Creative branding agencies in San Jose45
- Creative branding agencies in Bend44
- Creative branding agencies in Long Beach44
- Creative branding agencies in Buffalo43
- Creative branding agencies in Madison42
- Creative branding agencies in Miami Beach42
- Creative branding agencies in Rochester42
- Creative branding agencies in Columbia41
- Creative branding agencies in Oklahoma City41
- Creative branding agencies in Asheville40
- Creative branding agencies in Newport Beach39
- Creative branding agencies in Sheridan38
- Creative branding agencies in Honolulu37
- Creative branding agencies in Fort Collins35
- Creative branding agencies in Lexington35
- Creative branding agencies in Boise34
- Creative branding agencies in Knoxville34
- Creative branding agencies in Boca Raton33
- Creative branding agencies in Sarasota32
- Creative branding agencies in Costa Mesa30
- Creative branding agencies in Memphis30
- Creative branding agencies in Remote29
- Creative branding agencies in Venice29
- Creative branding agencies in Berkeley28
- Creative branding agencies in Burlington28
- Creative branding agencies in West Palm Beach28
- Creative branding agencies in Dayton27
- Creative branding agencies in Des Moines27
- Creative branding agencies in Franklin27
- Creative branding agencies in Newark27
- Creative branding agencies in Pasadena27
- Creative branding agencies in Vancouver27
- Creative branding agencies in Virginia Beach27
- Creative branding agencies in Arlington26
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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 creative branding 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 creative branding agencies are there based in San Francisco, United States?
RevenueBase identified 339 creative branding 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?
MINE, headquartered in San Francisco, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most creative branding agencies?
New York leads with 1332 headquartered companies, followed by Los Angeles (883) and Chicago (443).
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 1,393 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 339 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 24, 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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