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Top 25 Marketing agencies based in Johannesburg, South Africa
This directory contains 1,184 marketing agencies based in Johannesburg, South Africa, with contact details for 6,201 people and 1,420 email addresses. As of September 2026, Johannesburg is the single most-represented city among the companies listed.
Marketing agencies provide services such as strategy, branding, advertising, content, market research, and campaign management to help organizations reach and engage customers. This list covers companies that provide marketing strategy, creative, advertising, digital marketing, public relations, content, or related marketing services to clients. Ranked by team size, largest first. Data current as of September 5, 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 marketing agencies based in Johannesburg, South Africa
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 225 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Hello Infantry is a Full-Service Digital Agency that brings together the power of Design, Development, Marketing, and Data to provide our customers with a comprehensive and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 166 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We are Clockwork – an award-winning, globally recognised, independent creative and communications agency with headquarters in Johannesburg, Cape Town and London.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 148 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “SimplyBlack” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 130 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We are youth market specialists.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 117 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “MetropolitanRepublic is a full service communications company, with a firm and highly valued Strategic and Behavioural Change reputation.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 95 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “We are a specialist below-the-line marketing and activations company with a national footprint.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 77 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Proudly South African Integrated Creative Agency | Financial Mail Agency of the year “22 | Johannesburg | Cape Town | Lagos” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 72 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “HKLM is a global agency specialising in branding, marketing, and communications to create impactful change through brands.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 71 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Retail Insight is a Johannesburg based company that has distinguished itself as a dynamic below the line Marketing Company.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 70 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “An integrated advertising agency group driven by the purpose of shared value through creativity.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 70 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Hello, we're Net#work BBDO, nice to meet you.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 64 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Level 1 B-BBEE status holder as a large entity.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 63 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The Up & Up Group (formerly M+C Saatchi Group South Africa) is one of the African continent’s leading independent creative group of companies and is 100% South African owned.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 54 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “United Stations is a specialist media sales house, boasting a national footprint of some of the top radio brands.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 54 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Brutal simplicity of thought is at the heart of everything we do and we use this to guarantee that our work is always simple, creative and impactful.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 49 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Duma Collective (PTY) Ltd is a creative communications agency that services FMCG brands, event productions, agencies, performing artists as well as government departments in South…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 48 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “TBWA\Hunt\Lascaris is a global Agency which provides full-service communication services to clients across the globe.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 47 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Experience the Power of Experiential Marketing with Digi Worx!” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 43 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “BLU Flamingo Africa is a Pan African technology led Integrated Marketing Communications Company with headquarters in South Africa, founding Office in Uganda, and branches in…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 42 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “T+W is a specialist sports and entertainment storytelling shop that makes culture-shaping content and creative campaigns for broadcasters, streamers, brands, teams, athletes…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 39 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Established in 2004, Habari Media is a dynamic and award-winning multi-media sales company with a core focus in digital, offering advertisers exclusive access to a wide selection…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 36 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Est.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 35 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 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 35 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Triple Eight is a leading through-the-line pan-African marketing agency in experiential marketing across activations, PR, Corporate Communicating and Digital.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 34 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “HelloYes Marketing is a global brand, creative, digital and technology-driven agency.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 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: 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 marketing agencies.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of marketing agencies, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name 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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Marketing agencies based in Johannesburg, South Africa at a glance
As of Sep 5, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured across the whole South Africa list rather than for Johannesburg, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for Johannesburg, over 1,184 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 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 Johannesburg, South Africa whose own description of what they do matches “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 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 marketing agencies, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside Johannesburg 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, 1,420 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 5, 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.
Marketing agencies by metro in South Africa
- Marketing agencies in Johannesburg1184
- Marketing agencies in Cape Town1084
- Marketing agencies in Pretoria328
- Marketing agencies in Durban190
- Marketing agencies in Sandton181
- Marketing agencies in Randburg83
- Marketing agencies in Port Elizabeth67
- Marketing agencies in Bryanston66
- Marketing agencies in Centurion57
- Marketing agencies in Midrand55
- Marketing agencies in Natal52
- Marketing agencies in City Of Tshwane50
- Marketing agencies in Gauteng32
- Marketing agencies in Somerset West32
- Marketing agencies in Roodepoort31
- Marketing agencies in George27
- Marketing agencies in Stellenbosch27
- Marketing agencies in Bloemfontein26
- Marketing agencies in Kempton Park26
- Marketing agencies in Benoni25
- Marketing agencies in Boksburg25
Frequently asked
How many marketing agencies are based in Johannesburg, South Africa?
The directory lists 1,184 marketing agencies based in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Where can I find contact information for marketing agencies?
This directory includes contact details for 6,201 people and 1,420 email addresses associated with the listed marketing agencies.
Which city has the most marketing agencies?
Johannesburg is the single most-represented city among the marketing agencies on the list.
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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.