Top 100 Creative Agencies in California

Duncan Channon is an advertising and media company with creative expertise in branding, design, print, video, and digital marketing. They also provide business strategy and media planning and buying. Founded in 1990, the San Francisco-based team is made up of nearly 100 employees.

Studio B Films Inc. is a creative and video production agency based in Berkeley, Calif. With a team of 20 employees, they have provided video production, broadcast video, and advertising for midmarket and enterprise businesses since 1992. They work with clients in the IT, consumer products, and advertising industries.
 

School of Thought is an advertising firm based in San Francisco. Founded in 2008, their team of 25 serves clients in the nonprofit sector. Services include marketing strategy and SMM.

Lucid Theory is a branding company. Their small team is based in Los Angeles, California. Their services include branding, public relations, marketing strategy, video production, and more.

ParkerWhite Brand Interactive is a branding and digital marketing agency located in Cardiff-by-the-Sea, Calif. Founded in 1997, they have 14 employees specializing in brand strategy, digital marketing, social media, website design, creative strategy, and video content. They work predominantly with clients in the health industry, from fitness centers to health product companies. 

Located in San Diego, Coe Design is a branding and design firm. Their team of fewer than 10 also offers advertising, product design, and packaging design services.

UNINCORPORATED is a design and branding agency based in Alhambra, Calif. Founded in 2003, this company has 27 employees. Services offered by UNINCORPORATED include advertising, graphic design, and marketing strategy.

barrettSF is an advertising agency based in San Francisco. Founded in 2012, their team of about 30 employees provides advertising, video production, branding, and broadcast video services. 

Sköna is a San Francisco based B2B creative agency. They were founded in 2003 and have a team of 17 employees who specialize in advertising, branding, and media planning for clients of all sizes in the entertainment, healthcare, and IT industries. 

Founded in 2011, HelpGood is a digital agency based in New York with an office in Los Angeles. The agency and its team of about 10 specialize in content marketing, digital strategy, and social media marketing. HelpGood works with nonprofits and government services.

Based in Los Angeles, Dunclyde is a branding and web agency with a small team of 2. Since 2018, they've specialized in branding, web design, digital strategy, and more for a variety of clients. 

Kobe Digital is a programmatic marketing agency based in Los Angeles. It was founded in 2016 and currently has a team of 10 employees. Kobe Digital provides PPC, web design, and SEO services.

Launched in 2019, Marketing Empire Group is a branding firm. They are in Corona, California; Temecula, California and Carson City, Nevada and have a small team. The company focuses on branding, digital strategy, search engine optimization, pay per click, and more.

EC Marketing For ALL, a small advertising company, is located in Oceanside, California. Established in 2013, the team offers advertising, social media marketing, print design, logo, and more.

Directive Consulting is a performance marketing agency headquartered in Irvine, California. Founded in 2014, the team of about 75 employees specializes in Paid Media, SEO, Performance Creative, GTM Strategy, and Revenue Operations.

CSTMR is a digital marketing firm that is located in Austin, Texas. The team of about 6 employees has been specializing in web design and development since the firm was founded in 2014. CSTMR also offers UI/UX design services to its clients.  

Alaniz is a marketing company based just outside San Francisco in Novato, CA. They were founded in 2008 with the goal of helping businesses navigate the choppy waters of the digital ocean, and today fulfill this ideal with transparency, sound strategy, and marketing expertise. Their team of 11 provide services like advertising, web design, SEO, social media, PR, branding, and content marketing.

HypeLife is a brand development and precision marketing agency based in San Diego, CA. It focuses mainly on small businesses, with some midmarket and enterprise clients. Established in 2001, HypeLife maintains a small team of fewer than 10 employees.

Small web design company SLIQ (formerly Hoshaymi) is headquartered in San Jose, California. Launched in 2020, the team offers web design, branding, digital strategy, search engine optimization, and more.

Advertising company Yourhouse Marketing was launched in 2022. The small Los Angeles, California-based team offers advertising.

A Los Angeles-based digital marketing firm, Nimbus Marketing was founded in 2007. Their team of fewer than 10 employees offers advertising, branding, digital strategy, SEO, and web design services. They cater to small and midmarket businesses in the business services and consumer products industries.

Video production company LaGuardiaBrothers is located in New York, New York and Burbank, California. The small team provides video production, advertising, social media marketing, branding, and more and was founded in 2021.

San Francisco-based Palmer Ad Agency brings more than 30 years of digital and traditional marketing experience to the frontiers of modern advertising. With a core team of 12 employees, Palmer has served clients of varying sizes and aims by developing a collaborative approach to marketing strategy and development. The agency's ability to deliver complex solutions in graphic design, social media, branding, and corporate identity with a relatively small, skilled team is what sets them apart.

Maverick is a small advertising company. They focus on advertising, branding, event marketing & planning, and video production and were established in 2017. The firm is located in Los Angeles, California.

Traction is a full-service marketing agency located in San Francisco. With a team of nearly 250 employees, Traction provides web design, advertising, UI/UX design, and branding services to enterprise and midmarket clients.

Rainfactory is a full-service digital marketing agency based in Oakland, Calif., with a secondary location in Seattle. Founded in 2014, this company has 22 employees. Services offered by Rainfactory include social media marketing, PPC, and advertising for small to mid-sized businesses.

Elevate My Brand(EMB), founded in 2010, works with B2B and B2C businesses using strategies that help the client achieve advertising and marketing goals. With a focus on event marketing, digital strategy, and social media marketing, a team of 9 at EMB works with clients in the business, IT, social media, and healthcare spaces.

JUMBOshrimp is a San Francisco-based marketing agency. Founded in 2001, the agency employs a team of 11 specialists. JUMBOshrimp provides advertising, branding, content marketing, video production, and web design services. Their clients include companies of all sizes.

Established in 2015, Starke Marketing is a web design agency. The small Pasadena, California-based team specializes in web design, social media marketing, branding, digital strategy, and more.

Davel Creative Agency is located in the Republic of Armenia. With about 10 employees, they provide branding, advertising, and social media marketing services.