Top Marketing Agencies
2026 National Marketing Awards
Updated July 8, 2026
This directory lists marketing agencies recognized in the 2026 National Marketing Awards evaluation. Each profile covers services, specialties, headquarters, national score, and links to deeper case-study and methodology detail.
Agencies are scored on the same four weighted criteria used on state awards pages: performance metrics, client results, innovation, and industry recognition. Use the list below to compare firms nationally, then open a profile or visit your state awards page when you need local market context.
Anderson Collaborative
Data-Driven Marketing That Delivers Measurable Growth
Anderson Collaborative is an award-winning full-service digital marketing agency headquartered in Miami, Florida, with additional offices in Dallas, T...
Nativz
Performance Marketing Built for Scalable Growth
Nativz is a performance-driven digital marketing agency headquartered in Dallas, Texas, dedicated to helping businesses achieve scalable growth throug...
Bondir
Brand Strategy That Connects With Modern Consumers
Bondir is a boutique brand strategy and creative marketing agency based in Portland, Oregon, recognized for crafting compelling brand narratives that ...
WebFX
Full-Service Digital Marketing Excellence
WebFX is a leading full-service digital marketing agency with over 25 years of industry experience and a team of 500+ digital experts dedicated to dri...
97th Floor
Digital marketing and SEO for growth-stage brands
97th Floor is a digital marketing agency founded in 2005 and headquartered in Lehi, Utah, serving mid-market and enterprise clients with SEO, content,...
Mekanism
Creative agency for branded entertainment and social
Mekanism is a creative agency founded in San Francisco in 2003 by Tommy Means, with an additional office in New York, and acquired by Plus Company in ...
The Martin Agency
Richmond creative agency for national brand campaigns
The Martin Agency is a Richmond, Virginia advertising agency founded in 1965 and part of Interpublic Group. It created 'Virginia is for Lovers' and th...
VML
WPP brand experience and commerce creative company
VML is WPP's largest creative company, formed in January 2024 by the merger of VMLY&R and Wunderman Thompson and headquartered in Kansas City, Missour...
Cactus
Independent full-service advertising agency in Denver
Cactus is a full-service independent advertising agency founded by Joe Conrad in Denver in 1990, with roughly $30 million in annual client billings. I...
Luckie & Company
Birmingham full-service agency for healthcare marketing
Luckie & Company is a full-service marketing agency founded in Birmingham, Alabama in 1953 by Robert Luckie Jr., with offices in Birmingham and Atlant...
Big Leap
SEO for regional and national clients
Big Leap is a digital marketing agency founded by Bryan Phelps in 2008 and headquartered in Lehi, Utah. It grew from a one-person SEO consultancy into...
Boostability
White-label SEO and small business SEO from Lehi
Boostability is an SEO company founded in 2009 and headquartered in Lehi, Utah, built on the premise of making SEO affordable for small businesses. It...
Hot Dish Advertising
Minneapolis-based franchise development marketing shop
Hot Dish Advertising is a Minneapolis agency founded in 1999 that specializes in franchise marketing, handling both franchise development (selling fra...
SimpleTiger
SaaS SEO and content marketing from Sarasota
SimpleTiger is a remote-first agency headquartered in Sarasota, Florida, co-founded by Jeremiah and Sean Smith, that has worked with SaaS companies si...
Duffy & Shanley
Digital marketing and integrated communications in Providence
Duffy & Shanley is a full-service communications agency founded in Providence, Rhode Island in 1973 by David Duffy, with Joe Shanley joining as partne...
Ignite Visibility
Award-Winning SEO & Digital Strategy
Ignite Visibility is an award-winning digital marketing agency recognized as a 6x Inc. 5000 company specializing in SEO, paid media management, and fu...
Cardinal Digital Marketing
Healthcare performance marketing and patient acquisition
Cardinal Digital Marketing is an Atlanta-based performance marketing agency founded in 2009 that specializes in patient acquisition for multi-location...
Saxum
Integrated marketing and public affairs in Oklahoma
Saxum is an integrated marketing and communications consultancy founded in 2003 and headquartered in Oklahoma City. The firm serves purpose-driven org...
Lawrence & Schiller
Marketing communications firm in Sioux Falls
Lawrence & Schiller is a marketing communications firm founded in 1976 by Craig Lawrence and Paul Schiller in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. It is one of ...
Fahlgren Mortine
Integrated communications firm headquartered in Columbus
Fahlgren Mortine is an integrated communications company headquartered in Columbus, Ohio, tracing its founding to 1962, with regional offices in Ohio,...
Copacino Fujikado
Seattle advertising agency for brand campaigns
Copacino Fujikado is a Seattle advertising agency founded in 1998 by Jim Copacino and Betti Fujikado, specializing in brand ideas and integrated campa...
SmartBug Media
Newport Beach-based inbound marketing shop
SmartBug Media is a full-service digital agency founded in 2007 and headquartered in Newport Beach, California, operating with a largely remote workfo...
Location3
Franchise Marketing for regional and national clients
Location3 is a Denver digital marketing agency founded in 1999 that specializes in enterprise strategy with local activation for franchise systems and...
Zambezi
Full-service advertising and sports & entertainment marketing from Culver City
Zambezi is an independent, female-owned full-service agency founded in Venice Beach in 2006 by former Wieden+Kennedy executives and now headquartered ...
BUNTIN
Digital marketing and full-service advertising in Nashville
BUNTIN is an independent, privately owned full-service agency founded in Nashville in 1972 by Jeffrey Buntin Sr. With more than $200 million in capita...
broadhead
Minneapolis, MN firm focused on agriculture & food marketing
broadhead is an independent, employee-owned full-service marketing agency founded in Minneapolis in 2001, with deep roots in agriculture, food, transp...
SmartSites
America's Top-Rated Web & Digital Agency
SmartSites is America's top-rated digital agency specializing in web design, SEO, and PPC management for businesses across every industry vertical. Th...
Fitzco
Creative advertising and brand campaigns from Atlanta
Fitzco is a full-service creative and marketing agency founded in Atlanta in 1983. The agency builds brand campaigns for national consumer brands and ...
iCrossing
Hearst-owned digital marketing for search and experience
iCrossing is a full-service digital marketing agency founded in 1998 and acquired by Hearst in 2010, now operating as a unit of Hearst Magazines from ...
Doe-Anderson
Louisville full-service advertising agency since 1915
Doe-Anderson is a full-service advertising agency founded in Louisville, Kentucky in 1915, making it one of the oldest independent agencies in the Uni...
Strategic America
Full-service marketing agency based in Iowa
Strategic America is a full-service marketing agency founded in 1980 and based in West Des Moines, Iowa, with roughly 170 employees. The employee-owne...
Inflow
Search and performance marketing in Denver
Inflow is a Denver-based ecommerce marketing agency founded by Mike Belasco, operating under the seOverflow name in its early years before rebranding....
On The Map Marketing
Digital marketing and SEO in Miami
On The Map Marketing is a full-service digital marketing agency founded by Rick Hoskins in Miami in 2009. The firm is particularly known for SEO and w...
Lounge Lizard
Web Design & Development for regional and national clients
Lounge Lizard is a web design and digital marketing agency founded in 1998 by Ken Braun and Sharon Sexton, headquartered in New York with satellite of...
Uproer
SEO agency based in St. Paul
Uproer is a search marketing agency founded by Griffin Roer in 2017 and based in St. Paul, Minnesota. The firm integrates SEO and paid search into uni...
TRG
Full-Service Advertising agency in Dallas, TX
TRG, formerly The Richards Group, is one of the largest independent advertising agencies in the United States, founded in Dallas in 1976 by Stan Richa...
LERMA/
Search and performance marketing in Dallas
LERMA/ is a Dallas agency founded by Pedro Lerma in 2009 as Richards/Lerma, the Hispanic marketing arm of The Richards Group, and spun off as a fully ...
Anomaly
Digital marketing and creative advertising in New York
Anomaly is a full-service creative agency founded in New York in 2004 by Carl Johnson, Jason DeLand, and partners, now operating within Stagwell while...
Unlock Health
Search and performance marketing in Nashville
Unlock Health is a Nashville-based growth platform founded in 2023 that focuses exclusively on U.S. healthcare providers and health services, formed b...
Channel Key
Amazon Channel Management for regional and national clients
Channel Key is a Las Vegas-based marketplace consulting and channel management agency founded in 2017 by operators of former Top 200 Amazon seller Tre...
Paradise Advertising & Marketing
Digital marketing and destination marketing in St. Petersburg
Paradise Advertising & Marketing is a travel, tourism, and hospitality agency founded in 2002 by Cedar Hames in St. Petersburg, Florida, now owned and...
Thrive Internet Marketing
Results-Driven Digital Marketing Agency
Thrive Internet Marketing is a results-driven digital marketing agency providing full solutions spanning SEO, PPC management, social media advertising...
Walker Sands
B2B integrated marketing and public relations agency
Walker Sands is a B2B integrated marketing and PR agency founded in 2001 and headquartered in Chicago, with offices in Boston and Seattle and roughly ...
GSD&M
Austin full-service advertising agency in Omnicom
GSD&M is an Austin, Texas advertising agency founded in 1971 by University of Texas graduates and part of Omnicom Group since 1998. Its long-running w...
Colle McVoy
Minneapolis creative agency for food and outdoor brands
Colle McVoy is a Minneapolis creative agency founded in 1935 and a Certified B Corp, serving food, agriculture, outdoor, and consumer brands. The agen...
Spawn Ideas
Employee-owned advertising agency in Anchorage Alaska
Spawn Ideas is a full-service, employee-owned advertising agency in Anchorage, Alaska, founded in 1975 as The Nerland Agency and renamed Spawn Ideas i...
Titan Growth
Digital marketing and SEO in San Diego
Titan Growth is a San Diego SEO and paid media agency founded by Danny Shepherd in 2004, originally as Titan SEO before rebranding in 2017. The agency...
SocialSEO
SEO agency based in Colorado Springs
SocialSEO is a digital marketing agency founded by Greg Walthour in 1996 and headquartered in Colorado Springs, making it one of the longer-running se...
Page One Power
Link building and SEO from Boise
Page One Power is a Boise, Idaho SEO firm founded in 2010 by brothers Jon and Zach Ball that specializes in manual, white-hat link building and search...
HawkSEM
Digital marketing and paid search in Los Angeles
HawkSEM is a digital marketing agency founded in 2006 by brothers Sam and Rambod Yadegar, headquartered in Los Angeles and operating with a distribute...
Moburst
New York-based mobile app marketing shop
Moburst is a mobile-first digital marketing agency founded in 2013 by Gilad Bechar and Lior Eldan, headquartered in New York with additional hubs in t...
Ironpaper
Search and performance marketing in New York
Ironpaper is a B2B growth agency founded by Jonathan Franchell in New York City in 2003. Its roughly 70-person team focuses on demand generation, ABM,...
Rain the Growth Agency
Direct-to-consumer marketing and performance tv from Portland
Rain the Growth Agency is an independent, women-led performance advertising agency founded in Portland, Oregon in 1998 by Michelle Cardinal and Tim O'...
Carmichael Lynch
Creative advertising and brand strategy from Minneapolis
Carmichael Lynch is a full-service creative agency founded in Minneapolis in 1962 and now part of Interpublic, operating under its own longstanding na...
Disruptive Advertising
Performance-Focused Paid Advertising Experts
Disruptive Advertising is a performance-focused digital advertising agency managing over $450 million in annual ad spend across Google Ads, Facebook/M...
Coalition Technologies
Los Angeles SEO web design and ecommerce marketing
Coalition Technologies is a Los Angeles-based SEO and web design agency founded by Joel Gross in 2009, with a distributed team of more than 250 people...
Scorpion
Marketing technology and services for local businesses
Scorpion is a marketing technology and services company founded in 2001 and headquartered in Valencia, California, serving local businesses in the leg...
R/GA
Digital innovation and design agency in New York
R/GA is a digital innovation and design agency founded in 1977 by Richard and Robert Greenberg, headquartered in New York with teams in ten countries....
GYK
Independent integrated marketing agency in New England
GYK (formerly GYK Antler) is a mid-size independent integrated marketing agency founded in 1975, headquartered in Manchester, New Hampshire with a Bos...
Flint Group
Full-service marketing agency founded in Fargo
Flint Group is a full-service marketing agency founded as Flint Communications in Fargo, North Dakota in 1946, with additional offices in Duluth and K...
Logical Position
Digital marketing and PPC management in Lake Oswego
Logical Position is a digital marketing agency co-founded by Michael Weinhouse, which grew from a small Beaverton, Oregon office into one of the large...
Sixth City Marketing
Westlake, OH firm focused on SEO
Sixth City Marketing is an Ohio digital marketing agency founded by John Sammon in December 2010, headquartered in the Cleveland area with satellite o...
Ologie
Branding agency in Columbus, OH
Ologie is a branding and marketing agency founded in Columbus, Ohio in 1987, focused on education, healthcare, and mission-driven organizations. The f...
Baldwin&
Creative Advertising agency in Raleigh, NC
Baldwin& is an independent creative agency founded in Raleigh, North Carolina in 2009 by former McKinney creative leader David Baldwin. In 2025 it mer...
LYFE Marketing
Social Media Growth Experts for Small Business
LYFE Marketing is a specialized social media marketing agency helping small businesses and growing companies establish and scale their social media pr...
McKinney
Full-service advertising agency based in Durham
McKinney is a full-service advertising agency founded in 1969 as McKinney & Silver, headquartered on the American Tobacco Campus in Durham, North Caro...
Mower
Integrated marketing advertising and PR in Syracuse
Mower is a full-service integrated marketing, advertising, and PR agency founded in Syracuse, New York in 1968 by Eric Mower, now operating across mul...
Brunner
Data-driven marketing agency based in Pittsburgh
Brunner is a data-driven marketing agency founded in Pittsburgh in 1989, with roughly 200 employees and an Atlanta office. The agency integrates creat...
Drake Cooper
Employee-owned full-service agency in Boise
Drake Cooper is a full-service advertising agency founded in Boise, Idaho in 1978 by Bill Drake, and 100% employee-owned since 2020. It is one of Idah...
Chernoff Newman
Integrated marketing communications agency in South Carolina
Chernoff Newman is an integrated marketing communications agency founded in 1971 and headquartered in Columbia, South Carolina, with additional Caroli...
Intero Digital
SEO agency based in Colorado Springs
Intero Digital is a full-service digital marketing agency headquartered in Colorado Springs with roots in the earliest days of the SEO industry, havin...
Direct Online Marketing
SEO agency based in Pittsburgh
Direct Online Marketing is a digital marketing agency founded by Justin Seibert in 2006, with offices in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and Wheeling, West V...
The Atkins Group
Full-Service Advertising programs from San Antonio, TX
The Atkins Group is a full-service advertising and brand communications agency founded in San Antonio, Texas in 1974 by Steve Atkins and his father Ch...
Love Communications
Digital marketing and full-service advertising in Salt Lake City
Love Communications is a full-service advertising, public relations, and digital marketing firm founded in Salt Lake City in 1999 by Tom Love. One of ...
Ten Adams
Healthcare Branding programs from Evansville, IN
Ten Adams is a healthcare branding and marketing agency founded in 1985 in Evansville, Indiana, named for its original office at 10 Adams Avenue. The ...
MGH
Owings Mills, MD firm focused on restaurant marketing
MGH is a full-service marketing agency founded in 1995 in Owings Mills, Maryland, with deep specialization in restaurants, franchises, tourism, and co...
Force Marketing
Search and performance marketing in Atlanta
Force Marketing is an Atlanta-based automotive marketing and technology company co-founded in 2006 by John Fitzpatrick, serving dealerships and OEMs. ...
Mad Genius
Digital marketing and branding in Ridgeland
Mad Genius is a creative agency founded in 2005 in Ridgeland, Mississippi, with in-house capabilities spanning branding, design, video production, ani...
Esparza Digital + Advertising
Search and performance marketing in Albuquerque
Esparza Digital + Advertising is a full-service strategic marketing agency founded in 2000 by Del Esparza in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The firm provide...
Noble Studios
Travel & tourism marketing and website design & development from
Noble Studios is a creative digital performance agency founded in 2003 by Jarrod and Season Lopiccolo, headquartered in Reno with offices in Las Vegas...
Straight North
B2B Digital Marketing & Lead Generation
Straight North is a specialized B2B digital marketing agency focused on generating qualified leads and driving customer acquisition for professional s...
NP Digital
Global performance marketing agency co-founded by Neil Patel
NP Digital is a global performance marketing agency co-founded by Neil Patel in 2017, headquartered in San Diego with a largely remote workforce of ro...
Goodby Silverstein & Partners
San Francisco creative agency behind national campaigns
Goodby Silverstein & Partners is a San Francisco advertising agency founded in 1983 by Jeff Goodby and Rich Silverstein, now part of Omnicom Group. It...
R&R Partners
Las Vegas agency for destination and public affairs
R&R Partners is an advertising, marketing, and public affairs firm founded in Las Vegas in 1974 by Sig Rogich, with multiple offices across North Amer...
Marcel Digital
SEO agency in Chicago, IL
Marcel Digital is a Chicago digital marketing and web development agency founded by Ben Swartz in March 2003. The agency executes SEO, paid media, ana...
David&Goliath
Creative Advertising agency based in El Segundo
David&Goliath is a Los Angeles area creative agency founded in 1999 by David Angelo, now part of Hyundai-affiliated Innocean while operating under its...
Battery
Los Angeles, CA firm focused on creative advertising
Battery is a Los Angeles creative agency founded in 2013 by Anson Sowby and Philip Khosid, known for applying gaming and streaming entertainment story...
CALLEN
Creative Advertising for regional and national clients
CALLEN is an Austin, Texas creative agency founded in 2017 by Craig Allen, the Wieden+Kennedy creative behind Old Spice's 'Smell Like a Man, Man' camp...
New Breed
SaaS Demand Generation agency based in Burlington
New Breed is a revenue performance agency founded in 2002 and headquartered in Burlington, Vermont, serving more than 200 B2B customers with demand ge...
Directive Consulting
B2B SaaS Marketing Specialists
Directive Consulting is a performance marketing agency exclusively dedicated to serving B2B SaaS and technology companies. The agency specializes in c...
Seer Interactive
Data-driven SEO and paid media from Philadelphia
Seer Interactive is a digital marketing agency founded by Wil Reynolds in Philadelphia, known for its data-warehouse-driven approach to SEO, paid medi...
Silverback Strategies
Digital performance marketing for search and content
Silverback Strategies is a digital performance marketing agency founded in 2007 and headquartered in Alexandria, Virginia. The agency specializes in d...
Fallon
Minneapolis creative agency owned by Publicis Groupe
Fallon is a full-service creative agency founded in Minneapolis in 1981 as Fallon McElligott Rice and owned by Publicis Groupe since 2000. The agency ...
Stone Ward
Little Rock full-service advertising and digital agency
Stone Ward is a full-service advertising agency founded in 1984 by Larry Stone and Millie Ward, headquartered in Little Rock, Arkansas with an office ...
OuterBox
Akron, OH firm focused on ecommerce SEO
OuterBox is an ecommerce-focused SEO, paid search, and web design agency founded in 2004 and headquartered in the Akron, Ohio area. The firm has grown...
Workshop Digital
Paid Media agency based in Richmond
Workshop Digital is a Richmond, Virginia digital marketing agency formed in 2015 through the merger of the founders' respective SEO and PPC practices....
Augurian
Paid media and SEO from Minneapolis
Augurian is a Minneapolis digital marketing agency founded in 2016 by Colin Hirdman and Zack Steven, focused on paid media, organic search, and analyt...
Zero Gravity Marketing
Madison, CT firm focused on SEO
Zero Gravity Marketing is a Connecticut digital marketing agency founded in 2013 and headquartered in Madison, with a team of more than 70. It builds ...
Venables Bell + Partners
San Francisco-based creative advertising shop
Venables Bell + Partners is an independent full-service creative agency founded in San Francisco in 2001 by former Goodby Silverstein creative directo...
GKV
Full-Service Advertising for regional and national clients
GKV (Gray Kirk VanSant Advertising) is an independent integrated communications agency founded in Baltimore in 1981 and ranks as Maryland's largest ma...
Envision Horizons
Digital marketing and amazon marketing in New York
Envision Horizons is an Amazon and marketplace agency founded in 2017 by former Amazon Media Group employee Laura Meyer in New York. Initially known f...
Signal Theory
Wichita-based food & agriculture marketing shop
Signal Theory is a brand and marketing firm founded in Wichita, Kansas in 1971 as Sullivan Higdon & Sink, rebranded in 2019. With offices in Wichita a...
The Wendt Agency
Full-Service Advertising agency based in Great Falls
The Wendt Agency is Montana's oldest advertising agency, founded in 1929 by R.M. Bird and L.W. Wendt in Great Falls, and it is now employee-owned. The...
Power Digital Marketing
Growth Marketing & Full-Funnel Revenue Growth
Power Digital Marketing is a growth-focused digital marketing firm combining strategic consulting, creative excellence, and performance media to deliv...
Victorious
San Francisco agency focused solely on search optimization
Victorious is a San Francisco-based agency founded in 2013 that focuses exclusively on search engine optimization, operating with a distributed US wor...
Huge
Digital design and technology for brand experience
Huge is a digital design and technology company founded in Brooklyn in 1999, acquired by AEA Investors in 2024 and combined with Hero Digital in 2025....
72andSunny
Cultural creative agency for major consumer brands
72andSunny is a global creative agency founded in 2004, headquartered in Los Angeles with offices in New York, Amsterdam, and Sydney, and part of Stag...
HigherVisibility
SEO and PPC from Memphis
HigherVisibility is a Memphis-based digital marketing agency started in 2009 by Adam Heitzman and David McElveen as the city's first firm dedicated so...
Searchbloom
South Jordan, UT firm focused on SEO
Searchbloom is a search engine marketing agency founded by Cody C. Jensen in 2014 and headquartered in South Jordan, Utah. The firm focuses on SEO and...
Sagefrog Marketing Group
B2B Marketing programs from Doylestown, PA
Sagefrog Marketing Group is a B2B marketing agency founded in 2002 by Mark Schmukler and Suzanne Morris, headquartered in Doylestown, Pennsylvania. Th...
JumpFly
PPC Management for regional and national clients
JumpFly is a PPC-focused digital advertising agency founded in 2003 and headquartered in Elgin, Illinois. The roughly 40-person firm manages paid sear...
Mighty Citizen
Nonprofit Marketing agency in Austin, TX
Mighty Citizen is an Austin-based branding and digital marketing agency founded in 1999 as TradeMark Media by Nick Weynand, rebranding in 2018 to focu...
Duncan Channon
Digital marketing and creative advertising in San Francisco
Duncan Channon is an independent creative agency founded in San Francisco in 1990 by Robert Duncan and Parker Channon, with an additional presence in ...
iLawyerMarketing
Legal Marketing agency based in San Diego
iLawyerMarketing is a San Diego agency founded in 2005 by Mike Perez that works exclusively with law firms on SEO, paid search, website design, and co...
Curious Jane
Search and performance marketing in Lakeland
Curious Jane is a woman-owned agency founded in 2003 by Lora Kellogg in Lakeland, Florida, that positions itself as an ad agency built specifically fo...
Kalungi
B2B SaaS Marketing programs from Seattle, WA
Kalungi is a Seattle agency founded in 2018 that provides full-service marketing exclusively for B2B SaaS companies, typically pairing a fractional CM...
C-4 Analytics
Wakefield-based automotive digital marketing shop
C-4 Analytics is an automotive digital marketing agency founded in 2008 and headquartered in Wakefield, Massachusetts, with roughly 290 employees. The...
Foodmix Marketing Communications
Food & Beverage Marketing agency based in Elmhurst
Foodmix Marketing Communications is an independent food and beverage branding agency founded in 2000 by Dan O'Connell in Elmhurst, Illinois. The agenc...
Wpromote
Independent Digital Marketing Agency
Wpromote is an independent digital marketing agency driving business growth through integrated media, content, and data strategies for mid-market and ...
Tombras
Independent full-service advertising agency in the Southeast
Tombras is a full-service, independent advertising agency founded in 1946 in Knoxville, Tennessee, with additional offices in Washington D.C., New Yor...
Siege Media
Content marketing and SEO with digital PR focus
Siege Media is a content marketing and SEO agency founded by Ross Hudgens in 2012, headquartered in San Diego with a hub in Austin and remote staff na...
Droga5
Creative agency for integrated brand campaigns
Droga5 is a creative agency founded by David Droga in New York in 2006 and acquired by Accenture in 2019, where it operates as part of Accenture Song....
Planit
Strategic creative agency for advertising and PR
Planit is a strategic creative agency in Baltimore, Maryland, co-founded by Matt Doud and Ed Callahan and partnering with brands since 1995. It has gr...
Doner
Full-service advertising agency in Southfield Michigan
Doner is a full-service advertising agency founded in 1937 by W.B. 'Brod' Doner, headquartered in Southfield, Michigan. One of the longest-running age...
Online Optimism
SEO programs from New Orleans, LA
Online Optimism is a digital marketing and design agency founded by Flynn Zaiger in New Orleans in 2012. The hybrid agency remains headquartered on th...
Terri & Sandy
Full-service advertising and brand strategy from New York
Terri & Sandy is an independent full-service advertising agency founded in New York in 2010 by longtime creative partners Terri Meyer and Sandy Greenb...
Horizon Media
Media Planning & Buying for regional and national clients
Horizon Media is the largest independent media agency in the United States, founded in New York in 1989 by Bill Koenigsberg. The agency manages more t...
Global Prairie
Kansas City, MO firm focused on purpose-driven marketing
Global Prairie is a purpose-driven, employee-owned marketing firm founded in Kansas City in 2008 by Anne St. Peter and Douglas Bell. A Certified B Cor...
Carnegie
Higher Education Marketing programs from Westford, MA
Carnegie is a higher education marketing and enrollment strategy firm founded in 1985 and headquartered in Westford, Massachusetts, with more than 400...
KSV
Burlington, VT firm focused on sustainability marketing
KSV (Kelliher Samets Volk) is a full-service advertising and marketing agency founded in Burlington, Vermont in 1977, now focused on sustainability an...
Digital Relativity
Digital Marketing for regional and national clients
Digital Relativity is a full-service marketing agency founded in 2011 by Pat Strader, headquartered in Fayetteville, West Virginia with a second offic...
The VIA Agency
Portland, ME firm focused on full-service advertising
The VIA Agency is a full-service advertising agency founded in 1993 by John Coleman in Portland, Maine, housed in the city's historic Baxter Library b...
Adams & Knight
Integrated Marketing for regional and national clients
Adams & Knight is an integrated marketing agency founded in 1988 by Jill Adams in Avon, Connecticut, serving regional and national clients with campai...
Haberman
Search and performance marketing in Minneapolis
Haberman is a full-service marketing and communications agency founded in 1994 by Fred and Sarah Haberman in Minneapolis, branding itself as modern st...
KlientBoost
PPC & Conversion Rate Optimization Experts
KlientBoost is a performance marketing agency specializing in PPC management, conversion rate optimization, and customer acquisition for e-commerce co...
Wieden+Kennedy
Independent creative agency behind global brand campaigns
Wieden+Kennedy is one of the largest independently owned advertising agencies in the world, founded in Portland, Oregon in 1982 by Dan Wieden and Davi...
Zion & Zion
Tempe marketing agency for strategy and research
Zion & Zion is a full-service marketing agency founded in 2002 and based in Tempe, Arizona, integrating strategy, creative, and marketing technology. ...
Solutions 8
Google Ads Management programs from Scottsdale, AZ
Solutions 8 is a Scottsdale, Arizona agency founded in 2006 that concentrates almost exclusively on Google Ads and YouTube advertising management. The...
Marketsmith
Cedar Knolls-based media planning & buying shop
Marketsmith is an independent, woman-owned media and marketing agency founded in 1999 by Monica C. Smith and headquartered in Cedar Knolls, New Jersey...
Single Grain
Growth Marketing for SaaS & Tech
Single Grain is a growth-focused marketing agency helping SaaS companies and technology businesses scale through integrated SEO, content marketing, an...
PMG
Independent digital media and marketing technology company
PMG is a global independent digital company headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas, founded in 2010, with more than 900 employees. It pairs media, strateg...
Bounteous
Digital experience consultancy for strategy and analytics
Bounteous is a digital experience consultancy founded in 2003 and headquartered in Chicago, with thousands of team members worldwide following its com...
Bailey Lauerman
Independent full-service advertising agency in Omaha
Bailey Lauerman is an independent advertising agency headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska, founded in 1970 as Bailey Lewis & Associates. The agency works ...
LaneTerralever
Full-service marketing and advertising agency in Phoenix
LaneTerralever is a full-service marketing and advertising agency headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona, with roots dating to 1962 and its current form cr...
Young & Laramore
Independent creative advertising agency in Indianapolis
Young & Laramore is an independent, creatively driven advertising agency founded in Indianapolis in 1983 by David Young and Jeff Laramore. Its full-se...
Aloysius Butler & Clark
Wilmington agency for healthcare and recruitment marketing
Aloysius Butler & Clark (AB&C) is a full-service agency founded in 1971 and headquartered in Wilmington, Delaware, with additional offices in Pennsylv...
TopSpot Internet Marketing
Search and performance marketing in Houston
TopSpot is a Houston-based search marketing and web design firm founded in 2003 that grew from five team members to more than 130 at its home office. ...
ROI Revolution
Ecommerce Marketing programs from Raleigh, NC
ROI Revolution is a Raleigh, North Carolina performance marketing agency founded in 2002 that serves several hundred ecommerce and consumer brands. Th...
Erich & Kallman
Creative Advertising for regional and national clients
Erich & Kallman is an independent creative agency founded in 2016 by Steven Erich, formerly president of Crispin Porter + Bogusky, and Eric Kallman, f...
Preacher
Digital marketing and creative advertising in Austin
Preacher is a full-service independent creative company founded in Austin, Texas in 2014 by Mother alumni Rob Baird, Krystle Loyland, and Seth Gaffney...
Mischief @ No Fixed Address
Creative Advertising agency based in New York
Mischief @ No Fixed Address is a New York creative agency founded in 2020 by former BBDO chief creative officer Greg Hahn as the US outpost of Canadia...
Crossmedia
New York-based media planning & buying shop
Crossmedia is an independent, minority-owned communications planning and media agency whose US operation was founded in New York in 2000, following th...
Quality Meats Creative
Creative Advertising programs from Chicago, IL
Quality Meats Creative is a Chicago creative agency founded in 2020 by Gordy Sang, Brian Siedband, and Kacey Hart, launching with local work for The W...
The Shipyard
Search and performance marketing in Columbus
The Shipyard is a marketing agency founded in Columbus, Ohio in 2013 by Rick Milenthal and Ben Clarke, built around an accountable, engineering-led ap...
Wray Ward
Home & Building Marketing programs from Charlotte, NC
Wray Ward is an independent full-service marketing agency founded in Charlotte, North Carolina in 1977 by Charles Wray and Bob Ward. The agency specia...
Rankings.io
Law firm SEO and legal content marketing from Marion
Rankings.io is a legal marketing agency founded by Chris Dreyer in 2013 and headquartered in Marion, Illinois, with more than 160 full-time employees....
Warehouse Twenty One
Branding and media buying from Cheyenne
Warehouse Twenty One is a full-service integrated advertising agency founded in 2007 in Cheyenne, Wyoming, co-founded and led by Dave Teubner. The age...
Sociallyin
Creative Social Media Marketing Agency
Sociallyin is a creative social media agency delivering full social strategy, professional content production, community management, and influencer ma...
BVK
Milwaukee agency for healthcare travel and education
BVK is an independent full-service advertising agency founded in Milwaukee in 1984, with a roughly 150-person team. It is best known for its work in t...
Ethos
Maine branding and integrated marketing agency
Ethos is a multiplatform branding and marketing agency founded in 1999 in Westbrook, Maine, operating alongside its digital marketing arm VONT. The ag...
First Page Sage
Search and performance marketing in San Francisco
First Page Sage is a San Francisco-based SEO and thought leadership agency founded in 2009 by author and entrepreneur Evan Bailyn. The firm specialize...
Gravitate
Web design & development and SEO from Vancouver
Gravitate is a digital marketing and web design agency founded in 1999 and headquartered in Vancouver, Washington. The roughly 35-person firm combines...
Butler, Shine, Stern & Partners
Search and performance marketing in Sausalito
Butler, Shine, Stern & Partners (BSSP) is an independent creative agency founded in 1993 in Sausalito, California, when John Butler and Mike Shine lef...
RPA
Full-Service Advertising programs from Santa Monica, CA
RPA (Rubin Postaer and Associates) is an independent full-service advertising agency founded in Santa Monica, California in 1986 by Gerry Rubin and La...
Johannes Leonardo
New York, NY firm focused on creative advertising
Johannes Leonardo is a New York creative agency founded in 2007 by Jan Jacobs and Leo Premutico, former executive creative directors at Saatchi & Saat...
Arts & Letters Creative Co.
Creative Advertising agency based in Richmond
Arts & Letters Creative Co. is an independent creative company founded in Richmond, Virginia in 2017 by former Google Creative Lab and Wieden+Kennedy ...
GS&F
Integrated Marketing for regional and national clients
GS&F is a fully integrated, employee-owned marketing and communications agency founded in Nashville in 1978. One of the city's longest-standing agenci...
Podean
New York, NY firm focused on amazon marketing
Podean is a marketplace marketing agency founded in New York in 2019 by Mark Power, covering strategy, retail operations, creative, and media on Amazo...
MVNP
Full-Service Advertising programs from Honolulu, HI
MVNP, formerly Milici Valenti Ng Pack, is an integrated advertising and public relations agency founded in Honolulu in 1946 by Ray Milici, making it o...
Viral Nation
Global Influencer Marketing & Creator Network
Viral Nation is a global influencer marketing and social media agency connecting Fortune 500 brands with influential creators to execute authentic, en...
BarkleyOKRP
Independent full-service agency from Kansas City merger
BarkleyOKRP is an independent advertising agency formed in 2024 by the merger of Kansas City's Barkley (founded 1964) and Chicago's OKRP, with more th...
Zehnder Communications
New Orleans full-service advertising and digital marketing
Zehnder Communications is a full-service agency founded in 1996 and headquartered in New Orleans, with additional offices in Baton Rouge and Nashville...
Nebo
Human-centered digital marketing from Atlanta
Nebo is a human-centered digital agency founded in Atlanta in 2004, offering SEO, paid media, design and development, and digital strategy. The indepe...
Connelly Partners
Independent integrated marketing agency founded in Boston
Connelly Partners is an independent integrated marketing agency founded by Steve Connelly in Boston in 1999, with offices in Boston, Dublin, and Vanco...
Bruce Clay Inc.
Simi Valley, CA firm focused on SEO
Bruce Clay Inc. is one of the original search engine optimization firms, founded in 1996 by Bruce Clay and headquartered in Southern California with i...
Highdive
Search and performance marketing in Chicago
Highdive is an independently owned, full-service creative agency founded in Chicago in 2016 by former DDB creative leaders. It has become one of the m...
BooneOakley
Creative Advertising agency based in Charlotte
BooneOakley is an independent creative agency founded in Charlotte, North Carolina in October 2000 by John Boone and David Oakley. The shop is known f...
RYNO Strategic Solutions
Home Services Marketing for regional and national clients
RYNO Strategic Solutions is a Phoenix-based digital marketing agency founded in 2007 that serves HVAC, plumbing, electrical, roofing, and other home s...
Tinuiti
Largest Independent Performance Marketing Firm
Tinuiti is the largest independent performance marketing firm managing advertising across streaming TV, Google, Meta, Amazon, and emerging channels fo...
Hawke Media
Customizable Marketing Solutions & Outsourced CMO
Hawke Media is a customizable marketing agency providing à la carte solutions and outsourced CMO services for growing companies and brands. The agency...
NoGood
Growth Consultancy & Rapid Experimentation
NoGood is a growth consultancy and marketing agency specializing in building rapid experimentation frameworks for startups, growth-stage companies, an...
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