Best Video & Creative Agencies in the US (2026)

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, Missouri, with over 30,000 employees across 60+ markets. It combines brand experience, customer experience, and commerce capabilities.

Cactus is a full-service independent advertising agency founded by Joe Conrad in Denver in 1990, with roughly $30 million in annual client billings. It serves healthcare, retail, financial services, travel, and higher-education clients.

Copacino Fujikado is a Seattle advertising agency founded in 1998 by Jim Copacino and Betti Fujikado, specializing in brand ideas and integrated campaigns for Pacific Northwest institutions and national brands.

BUNTIN is an independent, privately owned full-service agency founded in Nashville in 1972 by Jeffrey Buntin Sr. With more than $200 million in capitalized billings, it ranks among the larger independent agencies in the Southeast and serves national retail and consumer brands from its Railyard District headquarters.

Fitzco is a full-service creative and marketing agency founded in Atlanta in 1983. The agency builds brand campaigns for national consumer brands and was acquired by Burrell Communications in 2025 while continuing to operate under the Fitzco name.

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 website work for law firms and other local service businesses across the US.

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 offices in several US cities. The family-run firm has delivered websites, branding, and marketing campaigns for more than 1,000 clients.

TRG, formerly The Richards Group, is one of the largest independent advertising agencies in the United States, founded in Dallas in 1976 by Stan Richards. The agency rebranded to TRG in 2022 and relocated to Deep Ellum, continuing full-service brand, creative, and media work for national accounts.

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 independent agency in 2019. It has grown from a Hispanic-focused shop into a cross-cultural lead agency for national brands.

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 keeping its own brand. It runs talent hubs in Los Angeles, New York, Toronto, London, Berlin, and Shanghai and works across advertising, product, and brand ventures.

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 170 employees. The firm specializes in outcome-based marketing for B2B technology and professional services companies.

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 work includes the 'Don't Mess With Texas' anti-littering campaign and decades of brand work for national accounts.

Colle McVoy is a Minneapolis creative agency founded in 1935 and a Certified B Corp, serving food, agriculture, outdoor, and consumer brands. The agency offers advertising, brand strategy, design, digital, PR, and media services.

SocialSEO is a digital marketing agency founded by Greg Walthour in 1996 and headquartered in Colorado Springs, making it one of the longer-running search marketing firms in the country. It provides SEO, paid search, and social media services for small and mid-market businesses from offices across several states.

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-focused content. The agency reports building more than 15,000 links per year for clients ranging from mid-market companies to national brands.

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 the US, Europe, and Israel. It specializes in app marketing, ASO, and growth campaigns for both startups and large consumer technology brands.

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, content, and website programs measured against qualified-lead and pipeline outcomes.

Rain the Growth Agency is an independent, women-led performance advertising agency founded in Portland, Oregon in 1998 by Michelle Cardinal and Tim O'Leary, originally as direct-response specialist R2C Group. The agency built its reputation scaling direct-to-consumer brands through performance television and integrated media.

Carmichael Lynch is a full-service creative agency founded in Minneapolis in 1962 and now part of Interpublic, operating under its own longstanding name. The agency is best known for decades of brand-defining work for Subaru of America.

GYK (formerly GYK Antler) is a mid-size independent integrated marketing agency founded in 1975, headquartered in Manchester, New Hampshire with a Boston office. The agency provides full-service brand, creative, and media work for evolving consumer brands.

Sixth City Marketing is an Ohio digital marketing agency founded by John Sammon in December 2010, headquartered in the Cleveland area with satellite offices in several Midwest cities. The firm delivers SEO, PPC, and web design in-house, with a client base weighted toward manufacturing, healthcare, and professional services.

Ologie is a branding and marketing agency founded in Columbus, Ohio in 1987, focused on education, healthcare, and mission-driven organizations. The firm became 100 percent employee-owned through an ESOP in 2023 and has partnered with hundreds of colleges and universities.

Baldwin& is an independent creative agency founded in Raleigh, North Carolina in 2009 by former McKinney creative leader David Baldwin. In 2025 it merged with Portland agency North to form a bi-coastal independent shop that continues to operate under the Baldwin& name.

LYFE Marketing

2026 Regional Honoree

Manchester, CT

LYFE Marketing is a specialized social media marketing agency helping small businesses and growing companies establish and scale their social media presence. The agency provides organic social content strategy, paid social advertising, email marketing integration, and short-form video production services designed specifically for businesses building direct customer relationships.

McKinney is a full-service advertising agency founded in 1969 as McKinney & Silver, headquartered on the American Tobacco Campus in Durham, North Carolina, and part of Cheil Worldwide since 2012. It maintains offices in New York, Dallas, Los Angeles, and Phoenix.

Intero Digital is a full-service digital marketing agency headquartered in Colorado Springs with roots in the earliest days of the SEO industry, having operated since 1996. The firm rebranded from its prior identity in 2023 and now runs SEO, paid media, content, PR, and creative programs for mid-market and enterprise clients with a team of several hundred.

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 firm serves hospitals, health systems, and B2B healthcare technology companies with brand strategy, digital experience, and performance marketing.

Mad Genius is a creative agency founded in 2005 in Ridgeland, Mississippi, with in-house capabilities spanning branding, design, video production, animation, and web development. The agency expanded with a second Mississippi office in Ocean Springs to serve the Gulf Coast.

Noble Studios is a creative digital performance agency founded in 2003 by Jarrod and Season Lopiccolo, headquartered in Reno with offices in Las Vegas and Bristol, England. It specializes in travel and tourism, B2B, health tech, and higher education marketing with a team of 65+.

Goodby Silverstein & Partners is a San Francisco advertising agency founded in 1983 by Jeff Goodby and Rich Silverstein, now part of Omnicom Group. It created the iconic 'Got Milk?' campaign and has produced landmark work for numerous national brands.

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 own name. The agency launched with the Kia Motors America account and builds challenger-brand campaigns for automotive, entertainment, and consumer clients.

Battery is a Los Angeles creative agency founded in 2013 by Anson Sowby and Philip Khosid, known for applying gaming and streaming entertainment storytelling to brand campaigns. Havas Group acquired a majority stake in 2019, and the agency continues to operate under the Battery name with additional offices in Chicago and Toronto.

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' campaign, with backing from Wieden+Kennedy under the condition that it never be sold. The shop creates comedy-forward brand campaigns for national advertisers.

New Breed is a revenue performance agency founded in 2002 and headquartered in Burlington, Vermont, serving more than 200 B2B customers with demand generation, RevOps, and CRM services on the HubSpot platform. It is an Elite HubSpot Solutions Partner and a three-time HubSpot Top Partner in North America.

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 built its reputation on outsmarting rather than outspending competitors for blue-chip brands.

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 to a team of well over 200 specialists serving online retailers and B2B ecommerce companies nationwide.

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 integrated SEO, paid media, web, and creative programs for ecommerce brands, higher education institutions, and mid-market companies.

Venables Bell + Partners is an independent full-service creative agency founded in San Francisco in 2001 by former Goodby Silverstein creative directors Paul Venables and Greg Bell. The agency develops national brand campaigns for large consumer and technology advertisers.

72andSunny is a global creative agency founded in 2004, headquartered in Los Angeles with offices in New York, Amsterdam, and Sydney, and part of Stagwell. The agency is known for culturally-led brand campaigns for major consumer and technology brands.

HigherVisibility is a Memphis-based digital marketing agency started in 2009 by Adam Heitzman and David McElveen as the city's first firm dedicated solely to online marketing. It now serves hundreds of clients nationally with SEO, paid search, and social advertising built around its data-led Targeted Growth System.

Sagefrog Marketing Group is a B2B marketing agency founded in 2002 by Mark Schmukler and Suzanne Morris, headquartered in Doylestown, Pennsylvania. The HubSpot partner agency serves healthcare, technology, industrial, and business-services companies through its JumpStart onboarding process.

Mighty Citizen is an Austin-based branding and digital marketing agency founded in 1999 as TradeMark Media by Nick Weynand, rebranding in 2018 to focus on mission-driven organizations. Its 50-plus-person team serves nonprofits, associations, universities, and government agencies.

Duncan Channon is an independent creative agency founded in San Francisco in 1990 by Robert Duncan and Parker Channon, with an additional presence in Los Angeles. The agency builds emotionally driven brand campaigns and pairs creative with in-house media and design capabilities.

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 content. It was acquired by EverService in 2023 and continues to operate under its own brand.

C-4 Analytics is an automotive digital marketing agency founded in 2008 and headquartered in Wakefield, Massachusetts, with roughly 290 employees. The firm provides paid media, SEO, social, and creative services built specifically for car dealerships and dealer groups.

Foodmix Marketing Communications is an independent food and beverage branding agency founded in 2000 by Dan O'Connell in Elmhurst, Illinois. The agency runs integrated B2B, B2C, and foodservice campaigns for CPG and food industry brands, and transitioned to a women-led leadership team in 2025.

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. It remains one of the most awarded creative shops of its era, with offices in New York, London, Dublin, Tokyo, and Sao Paulo.

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 grown into one of the largest independent agencies in Maryland.

Doner is a full-service advertising agency founded in 1937 by W.B. 'Brod' Doner, headquartered in Southfield, Michigan. One of the longest-running agencies in the Detroit area, it serves national consumer and automotive-adjacent brands.

Online Optimism is a digital marketing and design agency founded by Flynn Zaiger in New Orleans in 2012. The hybrid agency remains headquartered on the Gulf Coast while operating additional offices, serving regional and national clients with SEO, ads, social, and creative work.

Terri & Sandy is an independent full-service advertising agency founded in New York in 2010 by longtime creative partners Terri Meyer and Sandy Greenberg. The agency serves national food, beverage, and family brands with a compact senior team model.

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 building. The independent, employee-owned shop handles national consumer accounts from northern New England.

Wieden+Kennedy is one of the largest independently owned advertising agencies in the world, founded in Portland, Oregon in 1982 by Dan Wieden and David Kennedy. The agency is best known for its decades-long Nike partnership, including coining 'Just Do It' in 1988.

PMG is a global independent digital company headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas, founded in 2010, with more than 900 employees. It pairs media, strategy, and creative services with its proprietary Alli marketing technology platform for enterprise brands.

Young & Laramore is an independent, creatively driven advertising agency founded in Indianapolis in 1983 by David Young and Jeff Laramore. Its full-service offering includes proprietary research, media through its EchoPoint Media division, and creative across platforms.

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. It focuses heavily on industrial, manufacturing, and B2B service companies.

Erich & Kallman is an independent creative agency founded in 2016 by Steven Erich, formerly president of Crispin Porter + Bogusky, and Eric Kallman, former executive creative director at Goodby Silverstein & Partners. The agency operates from San Francisco with a second office in Austin and creates campaigns for national consumer brands.

Preacher is a full-service independent creative company founded in Austin, Texas in 2014 by Mother alumni Rob Baird, Krystle Loyland, and Seth Gaffney. Alongside brand campaigns, the agency operates its own recording studio, goods and apparel line, and publishing projects.

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 Canadian independent No Fixed Address. Known for attention-grabbing, earned-media-driven work, it quickly became one of the most talked-about young agencies in the country.

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 Wiener's Circle hot dog stand. The agency has since built a national roster with humor-led campaigns.

The Shipyard is a marketing agency founded in Columbus, Ohio in 2013 by Rick Milenthal and Ben Clarke, built around an accountable, engineering-led approach to brand building. The agency has grown through acquisitions, including integrated communications firm Fahlgren Mortine in 2024, and maintains a major West Coast hub in San Diego.

Wray Ward is an independent full-service marketing agency founded in Charlotte, North Carolina in 1977 by Charles Wray and Bob Ward. The agency specializes in brands serving the home and building category, from building products to home furnishings.

Warehouse Twenty One is a full-service integrated advertising agency founded in 2007 in Cheyenne, Wyoming, co-founded and led by Dave Teubner. The agency offers branding, strategy, media buying, video production, and digital signage work from its office and production facility in downtown Cheyenne.

Sociallyin

2026 Regional Honoree

New York, NY

Sociallyin is a creative social media agency delivering full social strategy, professional content production, community management, and influencer marketing for consumer brands, technology companies, and growing organizations. The agency brings together strategic planning with creative execution and community engagement to build authentic social media presence.

Ethos is a multiplatform branding and marketing agency founded in 1999 in Westbrook, Maine, operating alongside its digital marketing arm VONT. The agency is 100% employee-owned.

Gravitate is a digital marketing and web design agency founded in 1999 and headquartered in Vancouver, Washington. The roughly 35-person firm combines research-driven strategy, design, and development with ongoing SEO and paid media programs.

Butler, Shine, Stern & Partners (BSSP) is an independent creative agency founded in 1993 in Sausalito, California, when John Butler and Mike Shine left Goodby Silverstein & Partners to open their own shop. It remains one of the longest-standing independent agencies on the West Coast, offering creative, media, design, and brand consulting services.

Johannes Leonardo is a New York creative agency founded in 2007 by Jan Jacobs and Leo Premutico, former executive creative directors at Saatchi & Saatchi. Built on the philosophy that the consumer is the medium, the agency is known for its long-running adidas Originals and Volkswagen work.

Arts & Letters Creative Co. is an independent creative company founded in Richmond, Virginia in 2017 by former Google Creative Lab and Wieden+Kennedy creative Charles Hodges, launching with Google as its first client. It has grown into one of the fastest-growing agencies in the country while staying headquartered in Richmond.

GS&F is a fully integrated, employee-owned marketing and communications agency founded in Nashville in 1978. One of the city's longest-standing agencies, it operates on an ESOP model and serves national and regional brands across automotive, healthcare, and sports.

Podean is a marketplace marketing agency founded in New York in 2019 by Mark Power, covering strategy, retail operations, creative, and media on Amazon and other marketplaces. The independent firm has roughly 180 people globally with teams across North America, South America, Asia Pacific, and the Middle East.

Viral Nation

2026 Regional Honoree

Toronto, ON

Viral Nation is a global influencer marketing and social media agency connecting Fortune 500 brands with influential creators to execute authentic, engaging campaigns that drive brand awareness and customer acquisition. The agency brings together vast creator networks, sophisticated campaign management, and performance tracking to deliver measurable influencer marketing results.

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 than 650 employees across five US offices. The combined agency provides integrated creative, media, and brand strategy services.

Connelly Partners is an independent integrated marketing agency founded by Steve Connelly in Boston in 1999, with offices in Boston, Dublin, and Vancouver and a team of about 150. It is among the largest independent agencies in New England.

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 most decorated Super Bowl shops of recent years, topping the USA Today Ad Meter multiple times.

BooneOakley is an independent creative agency founded in Charlotte, North Carolina in October 2000 by John Boone and David Oakley. The shop is known for irreverent, attention-getting creative, including the long-running 'It's Bo Time' platform for Bojangles.

RYNO Strategic Solutions is a Phoenix-based digital marketing agency founded in 2007 that serves HVAC, plumbing, electrical, roofing, and other home services contractors. Now part of EverService Holdings, it merged with Blue Corona in late 2024, continuing under the RYNO brand as one of the largest home services marketing shops in the country.