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Top 25 Paid advertising agencies based in San Francisco, United States
RevenueBase identified 88 paid advertising agencies headquartered in San Francisco, United States as of September 2026 and tracks 1,157 professional contacts across them, including 181 with verified work emails. New York is the largest hub.
This list covers paid advertising 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, how directly it supports the match, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 5, 2026.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase SmartSearch, 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 paid advertising agencies based in San Francisco, United States
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 63 | ||||
“Venables Bell & Partners is an internationally recognized independent San Francisco advertising agency founded on good intentions.” Source: company website · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 43 | ||||
“With JDM, you'll get radical transparency, an in-house partnership mentality, and unparalleled client services with strategic data integration that actually moves the needle for…” Source: company website · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 34 | ||||
“Demand Local empowers Advertising & Marketing agencies in the Automotive, Legal, Financial, & CPG industries to scale and grow their businesses.” Source: company website · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 28 | ||||
“With a decade of experience, we’re genuine digital marketing specialists, and our results speak for themselves.” Source: company website · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | RSO ConsultingIndirect evidence | 21 | |||
“At RSO Consulting, we help businesses navigate the digital landscape with confidence.” Source: company website · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 15 | ||||
“I’ve worked with six other digital marketing agencies in a similar capacity, and Blackbird is far and away the best, most trusted partner we’ve had.” - Jocelyn Woolsey-Strieter…” Source: company website · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | SUM DigitalPartial evidence | 15 | |||
“We specialize in ecommerce advertising, having worked extensively with brands like Lyft, Grammarly, Microsoft, Pura Vida Bracelets, Blenders Eyewear, UpWork, and Tatcha Beauty.” Source: company website · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 15 | ||||
“We help performance marketing teams solve the biggest bottleneck in paid social: knowing what to test next and getting those tests live quickly.” Source: company website · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 12 | ||||
“Paid Customer Acquisition for the Education Industry Our founders have built and led marketing at industry-defining education brands like Mindvalley, Udemy, and Coursera.” Source: company website · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 12 | ||||
“Metric Theory is a performance digital marketing agency with offices in San Francisco, New York City, Denver, Orange County, and Salt Lake City.” Source: company website · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | ANSELIndirect evidence | 11 | |||
“We help Sustainable companies scale their growth and minimize ad spend through data-driven Social Media Ad Campaigns and Online Marketing efforts, such as prospecting, unique…” Source: company website · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 8 | ||||
“Tungsten Advertising is a full-service advertising agency based in San Francisco.” Source: company website · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 6 | ||||
“Cyrusson is a top-rated marketing agency based in the San Francisco Bay Area.” Source: company website · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 6 | ||||
“Adsora is a pay-per-results only performance growth partner that runs paid acquisition on a pay-for-results basis for brands targeting consumers, prosumers, and SMBs.” Source: company website · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 5 | ||||
“What if you could rapidly grow your customers without having to be an expert in every marketing channel?” Source: company website · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | XUM Digital Agencia DE Marketing DigitalIndirect evidence | 5 | |||
“WHO ARE WE?” Source: company website · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 5 | ||||
“Closing Media is a small agency based out of Chicago, Illinois focused on generating marketing pipeline and closed revenue from paid social & paid search channels (which usually…” Source: company website · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 4 | ||||
“Concept, camera, campaign, ad creative, media buying.” Source: company website · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 4 | ||||
“We’re a best-in-class, technology-based digital advertising company.” Source: company website · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 4 | ||||
Source: company website · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 3 | ||||
“Paid media agency focused on driving revenue for B2B companies.” Source: company website · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | SAN Francisco Online MarketingIndirect evidence | 3 | |||
“San Francisco Online Marketing was established in 2010 with one focus in mind.” Source: company website · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 2 | ||||
“Moulton Digital is an award-winning growth and marketing agency founded in 2015.” Source: company website · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 1 | ||||
“2020systems is the leading provider of "MANAGED ONLINE MARKETING SERVICES" to businesses of all sizes.” Source: company website · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 1 | ||||
“A Specialty, Digital Advertising, Client Acquisition Agency” Source: company website · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
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Paid advertising agencies based in San Francisco, United States at a glance
As of Sep 5, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured across the whole United States list rather than this city, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for San Francisco, over 88 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 paid advertising agencies, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and evidence 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 SmartSearch, 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 “paid advertising agencies”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among paid advertising 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 an evidence 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, 181 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.
Paid advertising agencies by metro in the United States
- Paid advertising agencies in New York328
- Paid advertising agencies in Los Angeles204
- Paid advertising agencies in Miami182
- Paid advertising agencies in Austin134
- Paid advertising agencies in Houston124
- Paid advertising agencies in Dallas116
- Paid advertising agencies in Chicago115
- Paid advertising agencies in Atlanta107
- Paid advertising agencies in Denver102
- Paid advertising agencies in San Diego93
- Paid advertising agencies in Sheridan90
- Paid advertising agencies in San Francisco88
- Paid advertising agencies in Tampa87
- Paid advertising agencies in Las Vegas86
- Paid advertising agencies in Orlando76
- Paid advertising agencies in Phoenix72
- Paid advertising agencies in Seattle58
- Paid advertising agencies in Portland54
- Paid advertising agencies in Charlotte50
- Paid advertising agencies in Boston45
- Paid advertising agencies in Philadelphia45
- Paid advertising agencies in Scottsdale45
- Paid advertising agencies in San Antonio44
- Paid advertising agencies in Irvine43
- Paid advertising agencies in Minneapolis41
- Paid advertising agencies in Fort Lauderdale39
- Paid advertising agencies in Salt Lake City37
- Paid advertising agencies in Washington34
- Paid advertising agencies in Nashville33
- Paid advertising agencies in Raleigh32
- Paid advertising agencies in New York City30
- Paid advertising agencies in Pittsburgh30
- Paid advertising agencies in Boca Raton28
- Paid advertising agencies in Sacramento28
- Paid advertising agencies in Columbus27
- Paid advertising agencies in Wilmington27
- Paid advertising agencies in Colorado Springs26
- Paid advertising agencies in Cleveland25
- Paid advertising agencies in Jacksonville25
Frequently asked
How many paid advertising agencies are there based in San Francisco, United States?
RevenueBase identified 88 paid advertising 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?
Venables Bell And Partners, headquartered in San Francisco, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most paid advertising agencies?
New York leads with 328 headquartered companies, followed by Los Angeles (204) and Miami (182).
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 181 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 88 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 5, 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 SmartSearch, 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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