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Top 14 Media planning agencies based in San Francisco, United States
RevenueBase identified 30 media planning agencies headquartered in San Francisco, United States as of September 2026 and tracks 1,134 professional contacts across them, including 207 with verified work emails. New York is the largest hub.
This list covers media planning 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 20, 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 14 largest media planning agencies based in San Francisco, United States
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 782 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Formerly Essence, we are now EssenceMediacom.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 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 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 30 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We're a creatively driven, strategically whip smart ad agency headquartered in San Francisco’s Presidio and Chicago.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 23 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Havas San Francisco is one of the fastest growing full-service agencies on the West Coast.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 14 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At Next Steps Marketing, we solve audience-building challenges in a creative and customized way.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 11 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “With nearly four decades of experience, Palmer is a seasoned, trusted advertising and marketing agency that partners with companies to build brand stories, create impactful…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 10 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Brainchild is a next generation agile ad agency founded to meet the needs of companies and clients who are curious about new ways to win.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 8 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Tungsten Advertising is a full-service advertising agency based in San Francisco.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 6 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Yates Advertising is a full-service advertising agency.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 4 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Concept, camera, campaign, ad creative, media buying.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 4 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Founded in 2015, Theory SF is a multi-disciplinary marketing agency located in the heart of San Francisco.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 3 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Disclaimer: We are independently owned and not affiliated with Media Matters for America.* Media Matters Worldwide is an independent, women-owned media planning, buying, and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 1 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Creative Dilemma is a boutique marketing agency specializing in developing advertising strategies and solutions that merge technology and creativity in unprecedented ways.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 1 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Eeze Digital Marketing specializes in customized strategies tailored to your unique needs.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 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: media planning 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 media planning agencies.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of media planning agencies, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name media planning 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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Media planning agencies based in San Francisco, United States at a glance
As of Sep 20, 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 30 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 media planning 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 “media planning 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 media planning 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 media planning 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, 207 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 20, 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.
Media planning agencies by metro in the United States
- Media planning agencies in New York158
- Media planning agencies in Los Angeles107
- Media planning agencies in Atlanta57
- Media planning agencies in Austin57
- Media planning agencies in Dallas56
- Media planning agencies in Chicago55
- Media planning agencies in Houston45
- Media planning agencies in Miami45
- Media planning agencies in Denver38
- Media planning agencies in Charlotte33
- Media planning agencies in San Diego33
- Media planning agencies in San Francisco30
- Media planning agencies in Tampa30
- Media planning agencies in San Antonio27
- Media planning agencies in Phoenix25
- Media planning agencies in Washington25
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 media planning 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 media planning agencies are there based in San Francisco, United States?
RevenueBase identified 30 media planning 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?
Essence, headquartered in San Francisco, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most media planning agencies?
New York leads with 158 headquartered companies, followed by Los Angeles (107) and Atlanta (57).
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 207 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 30 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 20, 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.
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