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A complete list of the top marketing and advertising agencies in NYC.
Congrats! You are here because you’re ready to take the next step in growing your business.
Here in NYC, we’re surrounded by thousands of ambitious people building booming businesses. But underneath all that growth are a bunch of marketing and advertising agencies making much of the magic happen.
We’ve dug in deep and gotten the inside scoop about which of these ad agencies are crushing it for their clients.
Not all agencies are created equal and that’s why we put together this list — to give you a shortcut to getting the help you need to grow your business.
The marketing and advertising agencies listed below cover a wide range of offering such as digital marketing, growth hacking, PPC, campaign management, social media, SEO, content marketing, PR and anything else you can think of to get customers in the door.
In what follows, we sort these agencies into four distinct categories:
- Advertising/Full-Service
- SEO & Content
- Digital Marketing
- Public Relations
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Table of Contents
The Best Marketing and Advertising Agencies in NYC
Growth Marketing Pro
Type of agency: SEO, Growth Marketing, PPC, Content Generation
How We’re Different: We’re the search agency we wish we had 5 years ago. For startups and established businesses that want to grow their organic traffic and get customers. Schedule a free 25-minute Growth Strategy Session with us we give you a ton of upfront value by helping you identify your problems and work with you to craft a step-by-step game plan to hit your income goals. We work with SaaS, tech, finance and healthcare companies.
Philosophy: We rank on page 1 of Google for some of the most competitive keywords in the world. What would it mean if your company ranked #1 for keywords in your niche?
What we offer: SEO Strategy, Growth Strategy, Content Generation, Link Building, and Google Ads. We’ll also tell you which channels and tactics to prioritize based on our experience growing startups from $0 to Millions.
Mantra: No Fluff, Just Growth
Bloom Growth Studio
Type of Agency: Full-service SaaS agency
How are they different?
Bloom Growth Studio is a full-service agency started by Grant Cohen, an alumnus of startups, Zuora and Planet, as well as the venture capital firm, Andreessen Horowitz. They’ve built an agency focused on what they know best: outbound sales and full-funnel optimization.
Key Service Offerings: Outbound sales, conversion rate optimization, and demand generation.
Notable Clients: The portfolio companies of Khosla Ventures, A16Z, Box Group, Founders Fund, and Andreesen Horowitz.
SEO Inc.
Type of Agency: SEO
How are they different?
SEO Inc. is an award-winning SEO company that helps companies improve their online presence in search and social media to acquire new customers, generate revenue, and build their brand online.
Key Service Offerings: SEO, PPC, Social Media Management, Web Development, Reputation Management
Notable Clients: SC Johnson, IGN, PG&E, JotForm, Teleflora, Paul Mitchell
Disruptive Advertising
Type of Agency: PPC
How are they different?
After auditing over 3,000 companies’ digital marketing strategies, they’ve found that on average over 76% of digital marketing budgets are wasted. Their first step is to reallocate or save those wasted marketing dollars. Next, they set up the foundation for lasting growth with robust analytics that paints an accurate picture of how each marketing channel is performing. Finally, they are positioned to start scaling your marketing results and driving towards your business goals.
Key Service Offerings: Paid Search—Google & Bing Ads, Paid Social—Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter & Pinterest Ads, OTT—Hulu and YouTube Ads, Audio Ads—Spotify & Pandora Ads, Email Marketing, Conversion Rate and Website Optimization, Analytics and Business Intelligence
Notable Clients: Scott’s Miracle-Gro, Guitar Center, Sportsman’s Warehouse, Fandango, Adobe, Diesel Power Gear, KPMG
McCann
Type of Agency: Advertising/Full-Service Agency
How are they different?
Leading agency that focuses on a “Truth well told” philosophy dedicated to the belief that a brand’s truth can help to spark powerful ideas that connect with people.
Core Principles: Truth2meaning, understanding people and what moves them
Notable Clients: Verizon, MasterCard, Ikea
Mantra: Truth well told
BBDO Worldwide
Type of Agency: Advertising/Full-Service Agency
How are they different?
A full-service ad agency that focuses on marketing strategies relating to recruitment of talent and cultivating employee branding and EVP
Key Services: Branding and EVP development, Content optimization, recruitment marketing
Notable Clients: Bacardi, AT&T, Macy’s
Mantra- The Work. The Work. The Work.
Meredith
Type of Agency: Advertising/Full-Service Agency
How are they different?
They are on the pulse of pop culture, entertainment, food, fashion and lifestyle, news, business and finance, and sports.
Key Services: Target marketing, digital marketing, experiential marketing, video, sales guarantee, research, creative services and print production
Notable Clients: Time, People, Sports Illustrated
Mantra: We empower, inform, enrich, inspire, encourage, entertain.
Droga5
Type of Agency: Advertising/Full-Service Agency
How are they different?
Agency focuses on brand purpose at its core, strives to be bold and unique and focus on creative problem solving
Key services: Brand and growth strategy, experience design, campaign development, content production and implementation
Notable Clients: Under Armor, The New York Times, Google,
Mantra: Effectiveness through influence
Blue Fountain Media
Type of Agency: Digital Marketing Agency
How They’re Different: Digital Marketing agency that believes in the usage of data and technology to be at the forefront of innovation.
Key Services: Influencer marketing, App and website design, Technology architecture
Notable Clients: Engel and Volkers, Microsoft, Sony
Mantra: We merge imagination and technology to help brands grow in an age of digital transformation.
Forsman & Bodenfors
Type of Agency: Digital Marketing Agency
How They’re Different: Global digital marketing agency founded in Sweden that keeps creativity, technology and data analytics at its core
Key Services: Rebranding and positioning, App Development, Media production
Notable Clients: SK-II, Volvo, Goldman Sachs
Mantra: Our truly collaborative way of working has over the years unlocked continuous creative excellence and built unusually human brands.
Mcgarrybowen
Type of Agency: Advertising/Full-Service Agency
How They’re Different: Global advertising agency that focuses on change and the transformational effects that creativity has on communities, brands and consumers
Key Services: Innovation and production of content, branding and design
Notable Clients: Oscar Meyer, American Express, Brita
Mantra: IT’S NOT CREATIVE UNLESS IT WORKS
Big Fuel
Type of Agency: SEO/Content Marketing Agency
How They’re Different: Digital marketing agency that has a primary focus on social media platforms.
Key Services: Social media analytics, social media content creation
Notable Clients: Burger King, McDonalds, T Mobile
Mantra: Powered by a culture deep in diversity, passion, and education;
Hey Oxford
Type of Agency: Digital Marketing Agency
How They’re Different: Hey Oxford values community engagement. They’ll get you fast results, and help you build a long term growth strategy.
Key Services: Growth hacking, social media strategy, content marketing, branding, paid search
Notable Clients: Pfizer, Braun, Livekick Fitness
Mantra: We alleviate the daunting task of growing your business through digital marketing.
Ueno
Type of Agency: Advertising/Full-Service Agency
How they are different? Full-Service Creative agency focused heavily on client relations that do not believe in pitches. Focus on close collaboration to create to understand the client’s needs
Key Services: Branding, Apps, Websites, Advertising, Social
Notable Clients: Slack, Uber, Lonely Planet, Airbnb, Dropbox
Motto: All Work. All Play.
MANIFEST
Type of Agency: SEO/Content Marketing Agency
How They’re Different: Marketing agency that is focused primarily on content marketing informed by data and creativity.
Key Services: Branded Content, Journalist content, Digital Marketing, Performance Marketing
Notable Clients: BMW, The Ritz Carleton, Allstate
Mantra: We are a brand dialogue agency.
Story Worldwide
Type of Agency: SEO/Content Marketing Agency
How They’re Different: Marketing agency that focuses on story finding, making, and scoring to tell a brand’s story.
Key Services: Commercial ad production, Social Amplification
Notable Clients: FX, Beefeater, Country Crock
Mantra: We make ambitious brands matter.
StrawberryFrog
Type of Agency: SEO/Content Marketing Agency
How They’re Different: Marketing agency that revolves around movement marketing, advertising, and design.
Key Services: Strategy Purpose Branding, Design brand identity, create movement
Notable Clients: Pampers, Emirates, Jim Bean
Mantra: We make ambitious brands matter.
Attention Global
Type of Agency: SEO/Content Marketing Agency
How They’re Different: One of the pioneers of social media marketing that focuses on the usage of social platforms.
Key Services: Design & Animation, Content & Social Strategy, Editorial & Social Content
Notable Clients: BMW, Moet, Kayak
Mantra: We help brands explore what’s new to inspire what’s next.
Arcade Creative Group
Type of Agency: Advertising/Full-Service Agency
How They’re Different: Advertising Agency born out of Sony Productions
Key Services: Content creation and production specifically targeting millennials
Notable Clients: Ford, American Express, Corona
Mantra: Arcade doesn’t just understand culture, it creates it.
DiMassimo Goldstein
Type of Agency: Advertising/Full-Service Agency
How They’re Different: Advertising Agency specializing in behavior change marketing
Key Services: Website design, experiential marketing
Notable Clients: Weight Watches, Bronx Zoo
Mantra: Direct-model. Life-changing. Simple. Habit-forming.
PMX Digital
Type of Agency: Digital Marketing Agency
How They’re Different: PMX is a digital agency that believes in the methodology that beyond technologies, channels, devices or platforms, the customer continues to exist at the center of all strategy.
Key Services: Consumer and Market Research, Paid Social and CRM, Web and System development
Notable Clients: Boys and Girls Club of America, American Heart Association, Steven Madden
Mantra: Turning complexity into opportunity.
The Gate NY
Type of Agency: Advertising/Full-Service Agency
How they are different?
An international ad agency that specializes in marketing hard-to-explain services and products that require scrutiny before purchasing.
Key Services: Content production and creation, Print and digital Media
Notable Clients: Con Edison, NASDAQ, People’s united bank
Mantra- WE MAKE CONSIDERED PURCHASES WORTH CONSIDERING.
MKG – Experiential Marketing
Type of Agency: SEO/Content Marketing Agency
How They’re Different: MKG is an agency specializing in designing experiences for top brands.
Key Services: Experiential Marketing
Notable Clients: ShopBob, Absolut, Vidcon
Mantra: Brands are people too
Merkley + Partners
Type of Agency: SEO/Content Marketing Agency
How They’re Different: Mid-sized agency that focuses on content creation across all mediums to develop solutions for clients.
Key Services: Print and digital media production, Website and product package design
Notable Clients: BIC, Mercedes Benz, Nutella
Mantra: We never met a category we didn’t like. Ironically, we don’t fit into one ourselves.
Direct Agents
Type of Agency: Digital Marketing Agency
How They’re Different: Digital marketing agency focused on customer acquisition solutions.
Key Services: Predictive Analytics, Paid social and influencers, CRM, Design consulting
Notable Clients: Shutterstock, NBC Universal, BBC
Mantra: Powered by a culture deep in diversity, passion, and education;
PALIO
Type of Agency: Public Relations Agency
How They’re Different: Marketing and PR agency focused on “speaking people” to help companies expand their reach.
Key Services: Campaign creation, Brand development
Notable Clients: Gilead, Astra-Zeneca, Genetech
Mantra: Embracing human imperfection. Simplifying complex information.
Understanding the insights that motivate behavior. That’s how we speak people.
Bayard Advertising
How they are different?
A full-service ad agency that focuses on marketing strategies relating to recruitment of talent and cultivating employee branding and EVP
Key Services: Branding and EVP development, Content optimization, recruitment marketing
Notable Clients: Marriott, Walmart, LG
Mantra: Transforming Talent
Brand Connections
Type of Agency: Public Relations Agency
How They’re Different: Brand Connections specializes in creating elevated experiences designed to support complex product categories at retail
Key Services: Event Marketing, Retail Sampling, In-store experiences
Notable Clients: L’Oréal, Beauty Box, Nivea
Mantra: THE CHANGING WORLD OF SHOPPING REQUIRES NEW THINKING AND NEW MARKETING STRATEGIES
Vox Profero
Type of Agency: Digital Marketing Agency
How They’re Different: Vox Profero specializes in experience- led transformations that focus on the integration of cutting edge technology
Key Services: Customer metrics and modelling, Ai generated personalization, Website and mobile app design
Notable Clients: Peninsula Hotels, Gordons Gin, Harley Davidson
Mantra: We deliver transformation, not just words.
Berlin Cameron United
Type of Agency: SEO/Content Marketing Agency
How They’re Different: Boutique advertising agency that has mastered the art of finding the intersection where brands and cultures meet.
Key Services: Design & Animation, Content & Social Strategy, Editorial & Social Content
Notable Clients: Lexus, Capital One, Hulu
Mantra: WE ARE AGENTS OF CULTURAL CHANGE
Stein IAS
Type of Agency: Digital Marketing Agency
How They’re Different: Full service digital agency that emphasizes B2B marketing strategy and creativity
Key Services: Go-to-Market strategy, Video and Campaign production, Martech Strategy
Notable Clients: Samsung, Merck, Western Union
Mantra: The post-modern marketing agency
Concept Farm
Type of Agency: SEO/Content Marketing Agency
How They’re Different: Boutique marketing agency offers a full suite of in-house production and post-production capabilities and facilities.
Key Services: Content production, Data reporting and strategy,
Notable Clients: Disney, ESPN, Century 21
Mantra: Ensure the organic, human element always stays present in the digital ecosystem.
United Entertainment Group, a DJE Company
Type of Agency: SEO/Content Marketing Agency
How They’re Different: Marketing agency with the exclusive focus on entertainment, sports and lifestyle brands.
Key Services: Product marketing and design, Ad production, content creation
Notable Clients: The North Face, Adobe, KFC
Mantra: WE ARE AGENTS OF CULTURAL CHANGE.
The Food Group
Type of Agency: Advertising/Full-Service Agency
How they are different?
Full service agency focused exclusively on food and beverage industry
Key Services: Food Service Marketing, Retail Store Design , Culinary R&D
Notable Clients: Kraft Heinz, Tabasco, Dannon
Mantra: We live for the work
Engine Shop
Type of Agency: SEO/Content Marketing Agency
How They’re Different: Engine Shop is a marketing agency focused on customer engagement and consulting alongside content creation.
Key Services: Social Amplification, live experiential marketing
Notable Clients: Budweiser, Universal, Motorola
Mantra: A millennial minded agency that specializes in helping brands engage with consumers
Patients & Purpose
Type of Agency: Digital Marketing Agency
How They’re Different: Full service healthcare digital marketing agency that targets patients, doctors, and key players in the industry.
Key Services: Cognitive computing, VR and live streaming marketing, integrated web design
Notable Clients: JDRF, FARE (Food Allergy Research & Education)
Mantra: Our purpose is to make patients better—better communicators with their doctors, better managers of their treatments, and better advocates for their health.
True North Inc.
Type of Agency: Advertising/Full-Service Agency
How They’re Different: Mid-sized full service agency that is able to deliver full range of services with the efficiency of a smaller sized enterprise
Key Services: Media planning, Fullstack Development, Multi-channel testing
Notable Clients: Make a Wish, LA times, Doctors without Borders
Mantra: Getting people and brands on the same page.
Heartbeat Ideas
Type of Agency: Digital Marketing Agency
How They’re Different: Full service digital agency specialized in the healthcare industry targeted at helping industry leaders to bring products to market and commercializing brands.
Key Services: Medical Advisory, Point of Care & HCP Workflow Solutions, Audience Engagement
Notable Clients: Allergan, Johnson & Johnson, Sanofi
Mantra: We are thinkers and doers with deep healthcare roots and an appetite for fresh perspective
iFuel Interactive
Type of Agency: Digital Marketing Agency
How They’re Different: An independent, 360° advertising and web development agency that specializes in the blend of creativity and technical execution.
Key Services: IOS/ Android app development, VR and trade show rooms, Logo design and creation
Notable Clients: UniLever, Royce, Amazon
Mantra: It’s difficult to see the picture when you are inside the frame
Launchpad Advertising
Type of Agency: Advertising/Full-Service Agency
How they are different?
A full-service ad Agency that focuses on providing what the client needs without any arrogance or typical agency agendas
Key Services: Strategic planning, UX/UI development, Web Development
Notable Clients: Wall Street Journal, PNC, American red Cross
Mantra: Work with a purpose
Quinn Fable Advertising Inc
Type of Agency: Advertising/Full-Service Agency
How They’re Different: Full service boutique agency that prides itself on delivering “uncommon” success
Key Services: Brand building and strategy, software and campaign development
Notable Clients:
Mantra: Delivering uncommon success since 1988.
Daggerwing Group Inc
Type of Agency: Public Relations Agency
How They’re Different: A Marketing Agency that focuses on accelerating business growth by understanding and changing customer-employee behavior
Key Services: Customer experience consulting, employee engagement
Notable Clients: CITI, Mercedes Benz, Hertz
Mantra: We help Clients remove every barrier to customer and employee behavior change.
Marke Communications
Type of Agency: Advertising/Full-Service Agency
How They’re Different: Agency that is driven, creatively-inspired, and process-oriented that has a focus on both traditional and digital marketing
Key Services: Digital Marketing, Direct Marketing, Data analytics
Notable Clients: Burberry, Godiva, Cushman and Wakefield
Mantra: Remarkable Results.
Agency212
Type of Agency: Advertising/Full-Service Agency
How They’re Different: Full service agency dedicated to the idea of bucking trends and instead creating their own categories to compete in
Key Services: Media planning and buying, Packaging design, Product placement
Notable Clients: Loews, Cavit Wines, Random House
Mantra: Don’t Compete, Create your own category
Karlen Williams Graybill Advertising
Type of Agency: Advertising/Full-Service Agency
How they are different?
Agency dedicated on ROI and focused on consumer touch points and communication.
Key Services: Brand Repositioning, national ad campaigns, Pharmaceutical product launches
Notable Clients: Allegra, Gold Bond, French’s
Mantra: Work that works.
Biolumina
Type of Agency: Advertising/Full-Service Agency
How They’re Different: Specialized full service agency for the pharmaceutical industry
Key Services: brand strategy, consumer insights, customer experience research
Notable Clients: AstraZeneca, Novartis
Mantra: Open Mind, Brave Heart, Brave Hands
Neon – An FCB Health Company
How They’re Different: Award-winning health care advertising agency
Key Services: Medical and pharmaceutical advertising
Notable Clients: Abbvie, Pfizer, Exact Sciences
Mantra: Only the sickest ads survive
Itrends, LLC
Type of Agency: Digital Marketing Agency
How They’re Different: Digital Marketing agency that is exclusively focused on providing digital solutions only.
Key Services: Interactive and web design, UX and mobile app design
Notable Clients: NFL, Broward Health, BrokerExec
Mantra: Expect the re-invention of innovation
Walter Thompson INSIDE
Type of Agency: Advertising/Full-Service Agency
How They’re Different: Full service advertising agency focus on human resources consulting and employee branding to recruit talent
Key Services: Employee branding, Culture Assessment, Experience Strategy
Notable Clients: T Mobile, Comcast, LF USA
Mantra: Every great company has a great INSIDE story.
Conclusion
Given the many excellent options that we have listed above, it’s most important that you choose the agency that best suits your needs.
While this is definitely not a full comprehensive list of agencies in NYC, hopefully this article has left you more equipped to help you make the right decision.
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