Top 100 Media Buyer Agencies
March 2023Looking for a top software developer?
Media buying can create memorable and impactful impressions on target audiences, producing better results, and achieving high ROI for your business. Achieve optimal results and avoid the headache that comes with personally handling the media buying responsibility with a reliable partner.
The Manifest has rounded up the leading media buying agencies ready to help you secure your desired timeslot. Browse through their profiles, reviews, and portfolio so you can match with the right partner.
List of the Best Media Buying Companies
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1
- Undisclosed
- 50 - 249 employees
- San Francisco, CA
Founded in 2005, Media Matters Worldwide is a media planning & analytics agency. Headquartered in San Francisco, they have 70 employees that specialize in media planning & buying, advertising, and digital strategy.
Clients
- SAP
- Sierra Nevada Brewing Company
- Glassdoor
- Proactiv
Industries
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Media Matters Worldwide provides media planning, strategy, and implementation for a SaaS company. They help with content syndication, demand-based display, display retargeting, and LinkedIn advertising.
“They can think full funnel about our campaigns.”
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2
- $1,000+
- 2 - 9 employees
- Los Angeles, CA
WEBITMD is a growth marketing and sales agency that delivers an engineered approach by combining marketing strategies with sales technology and automation. They were founded in 2008 in Los Angeles and have offices in New York City and Dallas. They specialize in digital strategy, inbound marketing, SEO, and paid media.
Clients
- Hyatt Hotels
- AMAN Resorts
- Josie Maran Cosmetics
- Instyler
Industries
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WEBITMD is currently working on organic search engine optimization campaigns with the client to build online leads that will turn into mobile development projects.
"We are satisfied with WEBITMD."
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3
- $25,000+
- 10 - 49 employees
- Toronto, Canada
Hotspex Media is a marketing agency founded in 2013 with over 10 professionals. Based in Toronto, Canada, they specialize in media planning and buying, digital strategy, and social media marketing solutions for clients in the fields of financial services, education, and more.
Clients
- Midea
- Centennial College
- Sunstar GUM
- Telus
Industries
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Hotspex Media is developing a digital and out-of-home marketing campaign for a PR company’s client. They work within a small budget to manage ad spending on social media and post physical ads across provinces.
“I would 100% work with Hotspex Media on other projects going forward.”
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4
- $75,000+
- 2 - 9 employees
- Incline Village, NV
EXL Media has experience in planning, negotiating, tracking, analyzing, and adjusting campaigns through media channels, including digital, broadcast, out-of-home, and print. Their team helps create campaigns by leveraging industry data and tools and providing timely performance measurements. They were founded in 1994 in Incline Village, Nev.
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EXL Media provides SEO and marketing services for a winery. The team has collaborated on keyword research, helped the client set up Google Analytics, and launched a marketing campaign to increase traffic.
"The whole team has gone above and beyond the task at hand."
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5
- $25,000+
- 10 - 49 employees
- New York, NY
Colormatics is a studio founded in 2014 in Jersey City, N.J. with no more than 10 employees. They specialize in video production, advertising, and content marketing services for clients in the fields of consumer products and business services.
Clients
- Macy's
- Providence
- FTX
- Vanguard
Industries
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Colormatics helped a loss support services organization produce a three-minute explainer video (and two shorter edits) for their care team. The project included preproduction, photography, and postproduction.
“Colormatics made our care team feel comfortable and bring their best selves.”
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6
- $50,000+
- 10 - 49 employees
- Westlake Village, CA
Wingman Media is a media planning and media buying agency in Los Angeles. Founded in 2003, Wingman's 50+ employees are growth marketing experts who create responsive marketing campaigns for companies. Their services include strategic planning, creative development, media planning and buying across all forms of television, programmatic media, and social media channels.
Clients
- Sit 'n Sleep
- UFC
- Jacuzzi
- Tempurpedic
Industries
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Wingman Media provided a media buying strategy and management for a dental clinic. After discussing the project needs, the team handled the broadcast, ad purchases, scheduling, landing pages, and CallRail.
"What really impressed us about Wingman Media was the all-hands-on-deck approach to working with a client."
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7
- Undisclosed
- 10 - 49 employees
- Toronto, Canada
Kingstar Media is a Toronto-based media buying agency. Founded in 2003, they have since grown their team to 38 employees. They provide media planning and buying services to their clients.
Clients
- Trivago
- Zip Recruiter
- Match.com
- Sleep Country
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Kingstar Media provides digital campaign support in Canada for a US-based media agency. They place campaign content via direct response television and other digital media.
"Their passion is most impressive. Kingstar Media works harder and smarter than the rest."
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8
- $25,000+
- 2 - 9 employees
- Chicago, IL
Effective Marketing is a Chicago-based marketing agency founded in 2009 with more than two members. They specialize in market research, social media marketing, and media planning and buying for clients in the fields of arts, business services, and consumer products.
Clients
- AMA
- Amlactin
- Banfield Pet Hospital
- Bob Evans
Industries
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Effective Marketing serves as the agency of record of a national dentist association. They provide market analysis, channel strategy, and campaign executions. They also support branding and retention efforts.
"They execute beautifully and are highly strategic in the process, plus we enjoy working with them."
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9
- $5,000+
- 50 - 249 employees
- London, United Kingdom
Spin Brands is the go-to social media agency in London, delivering impact and expertise from day one. Founded in 2016, they have about 40 employees that can assist you if you're looking for better organic content, help scaling your performance marketing, or brand-loving ambassadors.
Clients
- Moët & Chandon
- Google Cloud
- ASUS
- MUJI
Industries
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A kids' clothing brand has hired Spin Brands to manage their paid social campaigns on Facebook and Instagram. The company has sought help with boosting brand awareness and increasing new customers.
"I find working with them refreshing and easy."
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10
- $10,000+
- 10 - 49 employees
- Calgary, Canada
CAYK Marketing Inc. Is an advertising company located in Calgary, Canada; Vancouver, Canada and Phoenix, Arizona. The small team provides advertising, digital strategy, pay per click, search engine optimization, and more. The agency was established in 2011.
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CAYK Marketing Inc. provides digital marketing services to a tank truck company, focusing on recruitment. These services have included SEO, keyword research, SMM, content creation, and website development.
“They’re always eager to show me results and pride themselves on backing up their performance with data.”
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11
- $10,000+
- 50 - 249 employees
- Denver, CO
Located in Denver, CO, Booyah Advertising is a full-service digital agency. Since 2001, the team of 100+ has helped companies with pay-per-click advertising (PPC), social media marketing, search engine optimization (SEO), digital strategy, and video production.
Clients
- Western Union
- Unilever
- Dish
- Discover Card
Industries
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Booyah Advertising helps a consumer packaged goods company with their paid media efforts. This includes PPC campaigns on Google, paid social media ads on Facebook and Instagram, national TV spots, and more.
“Booyah is very knowledgeable and experienced about the type of media that they’re running.”
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12
- $25,000+
- 250 - 999 employees
- Los Angeles, CA
MuteSix is a digital creative studio located in Los Angeles. Their team of over 150 employees offers media planning and buying, video production, social media marketing, and advertising services. They were founded in 2014.
Clients
- MeUndies
- Goop
- NHL
- Parachute Home
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MuteSix provides a jewelry company with paid media and SEO services. They craft paid media strategies focused on long-term growth; MuteSix is focused on creatives that target customers in each engagement stage.
“They’re great at developing responsible and profitable strategies for long-term growth.”
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13
- $10,000+
- 10 - 49 employees
- Miami, FL
Anderson Collaborative is a data-driven digital agency based in Miami. The agency, founded in 2019, has a team of less than ten that provides branding, market research, digital strategy, BI & big data consulting & SI, and web development services to midmarket and other-sized companies in various industries.
Clients
- Mattel
- Phase 10
- Sotheby's
- Berkshire Hathaway
Industries
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A marketing agency has hired Anderson Collaborative to help their end clients. They’ve run programmatic, Facebook, Google, and TikTok ad campaigns. The team also provides WordPress and Shopify web development.
“They’re organized and on top of their work, which makes our lives easy.”
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14
- $25,000+
- 50 - 249 employees
- Berlin, Germany
Phiture is a mobile growth consultancy in Berlin, Germany. Founded in 2016, they have about 145 employees who use their renowned frameworks and tools to help apps grow. Phiture's services are specialized in ASO, CRM and retention, Performance Marketing, Subscription Optimization, and growth consulting.
Clients
- Soundcloud
- Adobe
- GoDaddy
- Headspace
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An AI-based tech company hired Phiture to provide CRM campaigns. The goal had been to create CRM campaigns via in-app messages to improve the client's in-app user engagement.
"Despite our office being located in South Korea, we perceived the communication as very quick and well organized."
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15
- $1,000+
- 2 - 9 employees
- Warszawa, Poland
Small PR firm Rocket Science Communications, is in Warszawa, Poland. They focus on public relations, media planning & buying, and branding and were established in 2005.
Clients
- Infinix - PR media relations & Social Media for Poland&Czech&Slovakia
- SentiOne - PR for AI chatbots and social listening platform
- ClickMeeting - PR&expert positioning for global webinar platform Poland&Germany&Austria&Swuterzland
- Evolution Engineering - PR and EB promotion
Industries
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Looking to improve awareness and reputation, an AI company hired Rocket Science Communications for their PR services. After a thorough discovery phase, they helped come up with relevant topics for articles.
"Whenever I had a question or had to ask something, I could always reach them."
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16
- $25,000+
- 2 - 9 employees
- San Diego, CA
Big Day the Agency, an advertising company, was founded in 2021. Their small team is based in San Diego, California. Their services include advertising, branding, social media marketing, web design, and more.
Clients
- Royal Caribbean International
- Celebrity Cruises
- Casper
- HexClad
Industries
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Big Day the Agency created marketing content and social media assets for a tech company. They storyboarded concepts, produced videos, created templates, drafted copy, and automated email flows using Klaviyo.
“They created concepts for and developed some really impressive, visually engaging videos for us.”
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17
- $10,000+
- 2 - 9 employees
- San Francisco, CA
Most Likely To is an advertising agency from San Francisco. It was founded in 2017 and now has a team of 6 that works on advertising, branding, digital strategy, media planning & buying, content marketing, and video production for companies of varying sizes.
Clients
- Click Therapeutics
- Milliman
- Ariel Investments
- End Ageism
Industries
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Most Likely To helped the client form a strategy for a new business venture. They came up with a strategic overview of the client's goals and how to meet them. Afterward, they delivered branding and identity.
"Most Likely To provided exceptional value and didn’t waste our time."
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18
- $100,000+
- 10 - 49 employees
- San Francisco, CA
Based in San Francisco, Cutwater is a full-service advertising agency whose name derives from their vision – they help clients find their cutwater, or the clearest manifestation of their company's vision. Founded in 2007, its team of nearly 50 specializes in advertising, SEO, and social media marketing services among other marketing efforts.
Clients
- Hartz
- Harvest Snaps
- Discover Boating / National Marine Manufacturers Association
- DermapenWorld
Industries
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Cutwater helped a search engine craft a B2B marketing strategy about the shift to mobile advertising. They had a discovery phase, helped the client get ethnographic-type research, and created a concept.
"Cutwater jumped right in to help us."
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19
- Undisclosed
- 50 - 249 employees
- San Francisco, CA
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.
Clients
- Upwork
- Sephora
- DanoneWave
- Craft Brew Alliance
Industries
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Duncan Shannon has provided a full-range of advertising services for a state-wide anti-tobacco campaign. Their work, spanning strategy and creative, has included TV, digital videos, radio, out of home, social media, and media buying.
"Their level of strategic thinking and their creativity makes them stand out."
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20
- $5,000+
- 10 - 49 employees
- Singapore
AJ Marketing is a small social media marketing agency. Founded in 2019, the firm is located in Singapore, Singapore; Minato City, Japan; Bangkok, Thailand and Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Their team specializes in social media marketing, advertising, content marketing, mobile & app marketing, and more.
Clients
- TikTok, Microsoft, Adobe, AMD, MINI, Philips, Codapayments, Alibaba Group, AliExpress, Zayed Sustainability Prize
Industries
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A food and beverage enterprise worked with AJ Marketing to create a tailored campaign for Indonesian and Malaysian audiences during the Ramadan season. They worked with six influencers for Instagram marketing.
"They are a great marketing agency."
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21
- $10,000+
- 10 - 49 employees
- Leeds, United Kingdom
We Are Boutique is a digital strategy company. Founded in 1986, the small agency is in Leeds, United Kingdom. Their team focuses on digital strategy, media planning & buying, and public relations.
Clients
- Limitless Digital
Industries
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BOUTIQUE provides PPC and media buying services to a manufacturing company. Their scope includes managing Google and Microsoft ad campaigns for the client and social media campaigns for end customers.
“BOUTIQUE’s efficiency is impressive; they work like a well-oiled machine.”
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22
- $5,000+
- 50 - 249 employees
- San Francisco, CA
Metric Theory is a San Francisco-based digital marketing agency. Since founding in 2012, they've grown to over 60 employees with experience working with over 230 clients. They have experience with every type of marketing issue for clients that range from small business to large e-commerce firms. They specialize in PPC, digital strategy, social media marketing, conversion optimization, and mobile marketing.
Clients
- GoFundMe
- Zenefits
- Optimizely
- Tradesy
Industries
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Metric Theory managed digital marketing efforts for an e-commerce shop, which involved performing a paid search account review, restructuring the account, testing creative assets, and providing weekly reports.
"The entire team had very strong strategic and tactical knowledge of the google channels."
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23
- $5,000+
- 2 - 9 employees
- Vilnius, Lithuania
KISS Agency is a pay per click agency launched in 2020. The agency specializes in pay per click, advertising, direct marketing, and media planning & buying and has a small team.Industries
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KISS Agency handles a brokerage company's Google Ads campaigns. They've developed and executed a strategy and manage the client's Google Analytics and Tag Manager accounts.
"We're impressed with their excellent communication."
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24
- $100,000+
- 50 - 249 employees
- Rochester, MI
Daniel Brian Advertising is a digital advertising agency based in Rochester, Mich. Founded in 1992, the team of about 40 provides advertising, branding, and marketing strategy services. Their experience spans the healthcare, retail, energy, and financial industries.
Clients
- Consumers Energy
- SVS Vision
- Fathead
- Michigan Medicine
Industries
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Daniel Brian Advertising served as a pizza chain’s agency of record, handling traditional and digital advertising as well as logo design. Deliverables included digital, print, and broadcast materials.
“DBA does a great job building brands that result in increased sales.”
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25
- $5,000+
- 10 - 49 employees
- Doral, FL
Small advertising company ARSENL Agency, is based in Doral, Florida. Founded in 2015, the team offers advertising, e-commerce development, media planning & buying, social media marketing, and more.
Industries
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A beauty and skincare company was looking to grow their digital presence, so they engaged with ARSENL for their PPC and social media marketing services, as well as digital campaign strategies.
"We’re averaging a high value of return and engagement since partnering with ARSENL."
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26
- $50,000+
- 10 - 49 employees
- St. Charles, IL
The Remnant Agency is an advertising and media planning & buying agency. They provide advertising and media planning & buying and have over 30 years of experience. Their small team is headquartered in St. Charles, Illinois.
Clients
- TRS Ballistic Luggage
- Club Glove
- Andro 400
- Bouqs Co
Industries
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The Remnant Agency was tasked with executing a three-month marketing campaign for a veterinary clinic. The agency created a TV commercial, radio advertisement, and billboard design.
"They were communicative and did not shy away from issues that rose from new initiatives."
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27
- $5,000+
- 10 - 49 employees
- New York, NY
Jungle Media is a media agency based in New York with over 10 members. Since their founding in 2010, they have provided media planning and buying, market research, and digital strategy solutions for small and mid-market firms alike.
Clients
- Nike
- IKEA
- Hendrick's Gin
Industries
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Jungle Media consults on digital marketing strategy. Their efforts include testing campaigns across different channels and markets as well as analyzing the results.
"They do what needs to be done in order for us to achieve our goals."
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28
- $5,000+
- 50 - 249 employees
- Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
INFLUASIA is a digital media group and influencer agency based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The agency, founded in 2016, has more than 50 employees and provides digital strategy, social media marketing, content marketing, video production, advertising, and media planning & buying services. INFLUASIA serves enterprise and smaller-sized companies in various industries.
Clients
- Lazada
- Air Asia
- Grab
- Maybank
Industries
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INFLUASIA wrote and published articles for a marketing agency to increase brand awareness. They assisted on the PR side of the business, running campaigns on media websites.
"INFLUASIA cares about their client’s success."
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29
- $10,000+
- 50 - 249 employees
- Houston, TX
9thWonder is a strategic marketing, media, and idea company founded in 2018. With headquarters in Houston and offices across the US, Argentina, and Vietnam, the team of about 140 employees offers media planning and buying, advertising, branding, PR, and market research services. Their enterprise, midmarket, and small business clients are in the IT, consumer products, and healthcare industries, amongst others.
Clients
- Coleman Natural Foods
- Adam's Camp
- Samsung
- Phillips 66
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9thWonder was hired by a software consulting agency to provide rebranding and web dev services. After providing new brand messaging and other collateral, the team revamped the site and worked on SEO.
"9thWonder was committed to our budget and goals — they’re very results-oriented."
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- Undisclosed
- 250 - 999 employees
- New York,
Tinuiti (formerly Elite SEM) is a digital and search marketing agency based in New York and founded in 2004. With over 400 employees, they have additional offices in Philadelphia, Atlanta, Los Angeles, Boston, San Francisco, Fort Lauderdale, Fla., Chattanooga, Tenn., and San Rafael, Calif. They specialize in conversion optimization, media planning and buying, and SEO.
Clients
- Tommy Bahama
- Jet.com
- Etsy
- Terminix
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Elite SEM helped make the transition to direct B2C eCommerce sales. Their work includes multiple advertising strategies including paid search, product listing management, and conversion rate optimization.
“They immediately doubled, if not tripled, our return on ad spend soon after the engagement started.”
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